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Podcast Fanáticos Del DeporteFanáticos # 1120 – Este fin de semana se juega la última fecha de la Liga MX y ¡agárrense! porque hay más drama que en una telenovela: 🔥¡Sábado de infarto! Los Pumas tienen en sus garras el pase al Play-In, ¡pero tienen que ganarle a los Tigres en el mismísimo Volcán! 🌋 Las Chivas... ¡a ganar el Clásico Tapatío y rezar para que los felinos no sumen de a tres! 🙏 Y hablando del rebaño ¿Cambio de timón en puerta? 🐐 Suena fuerte el nombre de Pedro Caixinha.¡El acomodo de los lugares 2 al 6 va a estar de alarido! 🤯 La Máquina es sublíder con 32 puntos, seguidos de cerca por el América (31). Pero ojo, ¡Tigres y León están al acecho con 30...2025-04-1943 min
The Wonder CinemaEp 8: The Ritz, Belfast - LIVE with 88th birthday cake at the Belfast Film FestivalSend us a textIn this special episode of The Wonder Cinema Podcast, recorded live from the Black Box at the 2024 Belfast Film Festival, hosts Brian Henry Martin and Dr Sam Manning celebrate the 88th birthday of the Ritz, which first opened its doors on 9 November 1936. They discuss how the cinema quickly became a landmark in Belfast city centre and hosted stars such as Gracie Field, Cary Grant and even The Beatles. The cinema later faced more turbulent times during the Troubles, including a firebombing in 1977 and a reimagining of its identity, before finally closing in 1993. Brian...2024-12-2259 min
The Wonder CinemaBonus Episode: Mark Kermode shares his favourite cinemas in London, Cornwall and BelfastSend us a textIn this bonus edition of the podcast, Brian chats with old friend and the UK's No 1 film critic Mark Kermode at the Cinemagic Festival in Belfast. Mark shares his love for the Phoenix Cinema in London, the Plaza Cinema in Truro and the Queen's Film Theatre in Belfast. Mark also reveals the best place to sit in the cinema. Classic movies mentioned include Passport to Pimlico, The Man in the White Suit, The Exorcist, The Devils, Moon, 71 and The Life of Brian. This podcast was recorded at the Queens Fi...2024-10-2719 minThe Wonder CinemaRitz Day LIVE EVENT at the Belfast Film Festival 2024Send us a textJoin Brian Henry Martin and Dr. Sam Manning, hosts of The Wonder Cinema podcast, to celebrate the 88th anniversary of the Ritz, Belfast’s long-lost picture palace. If you have memories of the Ritz, come along and let us know. Enjoy a slice of birthday cake and join us for a discussion of the cinema’s history, where we will also unveil Stuart Marshall’s new model of the Ritz. Be there for the chance to win exclusive Ritz memorabilia and to see never-before-seen images from its storied past.The Black...2024-10-2101 min
Sound and VisionHenry WardEpisode 445 / Henry Ward is an artist, writer, and educator living in London.
He works primarily as a painter, but also makes drawings and small sculptures. He is interested in exploring the language of paint by investigating the threshold between abstraction and representation.
He was shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize in 2018, 2019 and 2022, and longlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2021. He was included in the inaugural “The Football Art Prize” in 2022. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions. The first substantial publication about his work, “Shed Paintings – Henry Ward”, was published in February 20...2024-10-171h 12The Wonder CinemaEp 6: The Ritz, Belfast - 1990s End Game, The Vanishing and Spielberg's FaxSend us a textIn the sixth episode of the Wonder Cinema podcast, we look at how the ABC reimagined and reinvented itself in the 1980s, before eventually shutting its doors for the final time in 1993.Following the 1977 firebomb, the ABC remained closed until 1980, when the original auditorium was subdivided into four screens and the exterior saw substantial renovation. The glitz and glamour of the 1930s was now long gone, giving way to a more functional space at a time when cinema exhibitors struggled to attract audiences away from the lure of home video. Later...2024-09-2931 min
Loose EndsNihal Arthanayke, Henry Normal, Donna Ashworth, Lisa Goodwin-Allen, Mike Harding, The Lovely EggsNihal Arthanayake presents Loose Ends from the third annual Morecambe Poetry Festival. He's joined by Henry Normal. Henry is a writer, poet, TV and film producer who has been involved with many of our most loved comedies, such as The Mrs Merton Show, The Royal Family, Gavin and Stacey and Alan Partridge. He's a prolific poet, and his latest collection is 'A Moonless Night'. He also presents the occasional 'A Normal...; series for Radio 4 combining stand-up, poetry and stories about his life and family. Henry explains how, prematurely old at 23 he turned his back on a traditional career path...2024-09-2834 minThe Wonder CinemaEp 5: The Ritz, Belfast - Cinema in flames! Jaws, The Exorcist and the Troubles.Send us a textIn the fifth episode of the Wonder Cinema podcast, we go back to the 1970s. This was a difficult decade for cinema exhibitors across Britain and Ireland, but especially so in Belfast, a city that also had to navigate the civil unrest of the Troubles. Despite the chaos, big American films such as The Godfather, The Exorcist and Jaws attracted large audiences and queues were seen outside the Ritz (now renamed the ABC) for the first time in several years. Billy Connolly even came to the cinema to provide much-needed comic r...2024-09-2230 minThe Wonder CinemaEp 4: The Ritz, Belfast - 1960s Pop Invasion, The Beatles and the Biblical FloodSend us a textIn the fourth episode of the Wonder Cinema podcast, we look at how the Ritz responded to the explosion of youth culture in the 1960s and hosted some of the world's biggest musical acts.As audiences continued to fall in the 1960s, cinema became more youth-oriented with The Young Ones, featuring Cliff Richard, breaking box-office records in 1962. In the following year, the Ritz changed to the ABC, a more functional name linking it to the chain which had operated the cinema since 1938. This decade also saw the cafe rebranded as The...2024-09-1530 min
What the Riff?!?1990 - October: Various Artists, Soundtrack for “Goodfellas"This week we are taking an opportunity to explore some songs which would normally be outside our time frame by following the soundtrack to the movie “Goodfellas.” This Martin Scorsese film is a mafia story told from the view of Henry Hill in his book “Wiseguy: Life In a Mafia Family.”The movie follows Henry Hill as he looks back on his life beginning during a time when he looked up to the Wise Guys and gangsters who ran his neighborhood. Hill starts his narrative as a child in 1955 and continues until 1980 when Hill becomes an FBI informant o...2024-09-0938 minThe Wonder CinemaEp 3: The Ritz, Belfast - 1950s Spectacle, Spectacles and Cary Grant's ShillelaghSend us a textIn the third episode of the Wonder Cinema podcast, we look at how the Ritz coped with the challenges of the 1950s using spectacle, spectacles and even a Shillelagh.Cinema attendance peaked after the Second World War, but the 1950s brought new challenges such as the arrival of television. The Ritz responded with widescreen and a short-lived experiment showing 3D films. And the continuation of Midnight Matinees, late-night screenings often featuring personal appearances and promotional stunts, helped reinforce the Ritz’s status as the ‘Wonder Cinema’. Belfast film fans still flocked to see...2024-09-0830 minThe Wonder CinemaEp 1: The Ritz, Belfast - 1930s Cinema Boom, the Grand Opening and Gracie FieldsSend us a textIn the first episode of the Wonder Cinema podcast we go back to the 1930s to discuss the cinema boom and the grand opening of the Ritz, Belfast’s largest and most upmarket cinema.Cinema attendance grew rapidly in the 1930s and the Ritz, opened by British chain Union Cinemas, was one of many venues built to serve a growing audience of film fans in Belfast. We discuss the Ritz’s architectural style, cultural impact and the concerns many people had about this new ‘super cinema’. We then go back to 9 November...2024-09-0130 minThe Wonder CinemaEp 2: The Ritz, Belfast - It's Showtime Folks! Cinema Food, WW2 and the Mighty OrganSend us a textIn the second episode of the Wonder Cinema podcast, we explore what it was like to go the Ritz during the height of cinema attendance in the 1930s and 1940s. How much did it cost and what awaited visitors when they moved from the pay boxes to the plush foyer and grand auditorium?While the Ritz offered entertainment and escapism and screened many of the era’s most iconic films, a trip to the ‘Wonder Cinema’ also provided the opportunity to see stage shows and performances at its mighty Compton organ. Food w...2024-09-0131 min