TV

How I Met Your Mother
3x04 Little Boys

Mastermind
for Children in Need [2009 special]
In which Mark Watson scored the highest (celebrity?) score ever... only to have it beaten within a few minutes by Lucy Porter. Poor Mark.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Misfits
1x02 Episode Two
Continues to be surprisingly good, applying a welcome sci-fi twist to any of the Skins-like drama it feels the need (or the budget constraints) to include.
[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]

Russell Howard's Good News
1x04 (12/11/09 edition, extended repeat)
[You can only see the shorter version on iPlayer.]

new reviews at 100 Films

Three reviews of the films in Channel 4's 3D Week, went up at 100 Films the other day. They were:

Flesh for Frankenstein (1973)

The best thing about the extra dimension is that it provides some genuinely impressive visuals throughout, and not in the gimmicky, thrust-stuff-into-the-audience way — naturally there are some of those shots, but… there are also shots that demonstrate why 3D could be genuinely valuable, to visuals if not necessarily to storytelling.

Read the full review at 100 Films.

Friday the 13th Part III (1982)

They have a whale of a time shoving stuff out into the audience for almost no reason — just like the stereotype of 3D films, of course. That’s part of the fun of trashy 3D movies so I’m not criticising it, but what sadly doesn’t work is the ColorCode 3D system chosen by C4.

Read the full review at 100 Films.

Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (2008)

The only real exception is the 3D — being a very recent production, that was flawless.

Read the full review at 100 Films.

There are currently 19 feature films and one short in the review pipeline at 100 Films. As ever, updates here as and when they're posted.