Sunday 30 November 2014

TV

Gotham
1x07 Penguin's Umbrella
[Watch it (again) on Demand 5.]

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
28x08 Episode 8
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Not Going Out
7x06 Alcohol
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
[#121 in 100 Films in a Year 2014]

this week on 100 Films

Two brand-new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...


The Secret of Kells (2009)
Based on the true story of the creation of the Book of Kells, albeit with a fantastical spin involving forest spirits, the film’s most striking element is its animation style: clean and modern, but inspired by the famed illustrations in the original illuminated manuscript. The result is endlessly beautiful.
Read more here.


Union Station (1950)
this isn’t some noir-era single-location-thriller, but a kidnap procedural with a significant role for trains and their locales. The best sequence isn’t even in the station: cops tail a suspect, get noticed, and the ensuing chase reaches a memorably grisly end.
Read more here.


Plus three were new to the new blog...


Diner (1982)
There are no big turning points or revelations or developments for any of these characters. One is in trouble thanks to deep gambling debts, but there’s the equivalent of a magic wand that wipes them all out; another is permanently drunk with serious family issues, but neither of those go anywhere
Read more here.


The Star Wars Series
Featuring reviews of all six episodes so far: The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi.
Read more here.


White Christmas (1954)
surprisingly un-Christmassy. Yes, it’s set at the right time of year, and the plot concerns itself with do-gooding and charity and other such vaguely seasonal themes; but, crucially, there’s a distinct absence of snow (until the very end) and little else actually inspires much Christmas feeling.
Read more here.


Starting tomorrow, it's the annual 100 Films Advent Calendar -- hooray! So, all being well, there should be a tonne of reviews to report on next Sunday.

Saturday 29 November 2014

TV

Have I Got News For You
48x07 (21/11/2014 edition; extended repeat)
[Watch the extended version (again) on iPlayer.]

Pointless Celebrities
6x26 Dance
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Collection Count

Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.

Said there'd be something this week. It's also the monthly running time update, which is always fun.

Number of titles in collection: 1,708 [up 3]
Of which DVDs: 1,204 [up 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 504 [up 2]

Number of discs in collection: 4,268 [up 17]
Number of films in collection: 1,844 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes in collection: 6,298 [up 44]
Number of short films in collection: 438 [no change]

Plus...

Total running time of collection (approx.):
307 days, 9 hours, and 47 minutes.
(Up 2 days, 2 hours and 22 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader.

Friday 28 November 2014

TV

Forever
1x08 The Ecstasy of Agony

Films

Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary (2010)
Not strictly a film, but as a filmed concert on DVD, where else does it belong?

The Thin Man (1934)
[#120 in 100 Films in a Year 2014]

Wednesday 26 November 2014

TV

Arrow
3x04 The Magician
Not sure "actor you won't recognise in non-iconic costume" counts as a big reveal. The character's a big deal, but as the aforementioned reveal is not of who he is (even if you know, as many/most/all will, no one even says his name or something when he turns round), the fact he's a big deal doesn't count toward it being a big reveal.
Rest of it was alright, at least.

Miranda
1x04 Holiday [4th watch]
Classic.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Puppy Love
1x02 Episode 2
Giving up on this. The characters are all unlikeable (all of them), most of them are incredibly irritating, and it's just not funny enough. There are cute dogs, but that's not enough to save it.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Rear Window (1954)
[#119 in 100 Films in a Year 2014]

What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...? 2014 #10

Tuesday 25 November 2014

TV

The Missing
Part 4 Gone Fishing
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Mock the Week
13x12 (21/11/14 edition)
The regular highlights-and-outtakes episode, for some reason divorced from the rest of the series and broadcast on a random November night.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
[#118 in 100 Films in a Year 2014]

Monday 24 November 2014

Sunday 23 November 2014

TV

Elementary
3x02 The Five Orange Pipz

The Flash
1x04 Going Rogue
Still often cheesy and daft, but easily the best episode yet -- but then, that's what Felicity Smoak does for you.

Live at the Apollo
10x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Star Trek: The Next Generation
3x17 Sins of the Father
5x25 The Inner Light
Anyone with a bizarrely exceptional memory may recall that, back in February, I made a start on the TNG sampler Blu-ray. Well, these are the other two episodes from that disc. Both are regarded as amongst the very best TNG (indeed, the entirety of Trek) ever produced, and rightly so -- they're magnificent. In fact, the second is so good you feel someone should have bought the rights and re-made it as a non-Trek film. More fool the guy who took that idea to the TNG production office rather than just getting it made as a movie...

this week on 100 Films

Five brand-new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...


Flirting with Disaster (1996)
adoptee Ben Stiller goes on a kerazee road trip to find his birth parents, accompanied by dissatisfied wife Patricia Arquette and kooky adoption agency psychologist Téa Leoni... Cue an almost-PG-13 sex comedy told among sketch-like encounters with quirky people who turn out to not be Stiller’s folks.
Read more here.


The Green Hornet (2011)
it’s pretty comical, sometimes in that man-child frat-boy way, sometimes with a leftfield quirkiness. The combination makes it unique in the world of superhero movies, but hasn’t gone down well with critics or many viewers. Well, screw them — The Green Hornet is brilliant.
Read more here.


The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
as Katniss finally rises into the arena, the aspect ratio subtly shifts from filmic 2.40:1 to IMAX-derived 1.78:1. It’s remarkable how much impact this has even on a TV screen; nothing like what it must have in a proper IMAX theatre, but striking nonetheless — it really feels like things have just gotten bigger
Read more here.


Local Hero (1983)
Gentle comedy in which Peter Riegert’s middle-management American oil exec has to persuade the residents of a Scottish village to sell up, unaware that they’re only too keen — for the right price. One of Quentin Tarantino’s Coolest Movies of All Time (seriously).
Read more here.


Mad City (1997)
a surprisingly nuanced performance from Travolta. Sam's the manHe plays against type as Sam, the nervous, naïve, childlike, and easily-manipulated hostage taker. It’s Travolta’s performance that makes Sam someone you care about, even if you don’t exactly root for him, so that the outcome is something you’re fully invested in.
Read more here.


Plus six were new to the new blog...


The Cable Guy (1996)
It's a comedy, though at times it seems to wish you’d forget that so it could be a psychological stalker thriller. Perhaps that’s what it had wanted to be... until someone realised the idea was too silly to be taken completely seriously.
Read more here.


Daylight (1996)
a fireball rips through the tunnel. It seems to destroy most cars and kill most people, except for about a dozen survivors. How are they not killed by the fireball? Well, it seems to be by the good fortune of Because We Need Some Characters. Should you ever get stuck in an exploding tunnel, pray you find yourself in a disaster movie and had been doing something mundane yet passably interesting earlier on
Read more here.


Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
the whole film rests on Al Pacino's shoulders, and he’s more than capable of bearing the weight. Some roles allow an actor to subtly be good throughout the film; others allow a few grandstanding set-pieces where they can Act; but Dog Day Afternoon gives Pacino both.
Read more here.


Hidden (Caché) (2005)
Empire’s 15th best film of 2006 is very European. “How so”, you may ask? Well, firstly, it is French; but it certainly feels it: it takes a very good concept/plot for a thriller and then stretches it out a little thin, with a notably slow pace, and a concentration on the dramatic impact on characters rather than plot movements.
Read more here.


Jonah Hex (2010)
Jonah Hex is not a good film. Let's just establish that, before I start being nice about it.
Read more here.


Lumet: Film Maker (1975)
This ten-minute documentary short is made up of behind-the-scenes footage of some of the filming of Dog Day Afternoon, with the occasional on-set interview with some (to be honest, minor) crew members, snippets of audio interview with Lumet himself, and a voiceover narration.
Read more here.


More next Sunday.

Saturday 22 November 2014

TV

Atlantis
2x01 A New Dawn Part One
2x02 A New Dawn Part Two
As the new season begins, Jason and friends seem to have been transformed from a gaggle of peasants who sometimes get into scrapes into a kind of Atlantean special-ops unit. The rest of this opener is all very epic and season-finale-y, which was Merlin's MO by the end too so I guess we shouldn't be surprised. Wonder where it's going from there over the next 11 weeks, though.
[Watch A New Dawn Parts One & Two (again) on iPlayer.]

Monty Python: The Meaning of Live
Feature-length documentary about the creation of Monty Python's farewell live shows, as well as the history of their live performances.

Collection Count

Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.

This week, absolutely no changes! Next week: some changes, guaranteed.

Number of titles in collection: 1,705 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 1,203 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 502 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 4,251 [no change]
Number of films in collection: 1,842 [no change]
Number of TV episodes in collection: 6,254 [no change]
Number of short films in collection: 438 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

Friday 21 November 2014

TV

Gotham
1x06 Spirit of the Goat
[Watch it (again) on Demand 5.]

Not Going Out
7x05 Pointless
In which Lee and Daisy appear on Pointless. Brilliant.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Green Hornet (2011)
[#117 in 100 Films in a Year 2014]

Thursday 20 November 2014

TV

Forever
1x07 New York Kids

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
28x07 Episode 7
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs
3x11 Episode 11 [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on ITV Player.]

Wednesday 19 November 2014

Tuesday 18 November 2014

Monday 17 November 2014

TV

Elementary
3x01 Enough Nemesis to Go Around

Have I Got News For You
48x06 (7/11/2014 edition; extended repeat)
[Watch the extended version (again) on iPlayer.]

Live at the Apollo
9x06 Episode 6 [season finale]
New run starts soon, figured I ought to finish this one.

Puppy Love
1x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Sunday 16 November 2014

TV

Grantchester
1x06 Episode 6 [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on ITV Player.]

Films

The Running Man (1987)
[#116 in 100 Films in a Year 2014]

this week on 100 Films

Three brand-new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...


Backfire (1950)
doesn’t seem to be very well regarded on the whole... This may be because at times it feels more like an Agatha Christie mystery than a film noir: a pair of clean-cut amateur sleuths bumble their way through a string of clues, learning more and more about the plot thanks to other characters’ flashbacks. I like a good Christie mystery though, so the pairing of styles isn’t a problem for me.
Read more here.


La Belle et la Bête (1946)
I imagine you know the story — it’s a tale as old as time, after all — but let’s recap anyway: in lieu of her father, Belle (Josette Day) goes to be the ‘guest’ of the animal-like Beast (Jean Marais) in his castle. Initially repulsed by him, Belle comes to realise there’s something there that wasn’t there before as she grows attracted to her captor. Meanwhile, Belle’s would-be suitor (Marais again) resolves to kill the Beast…
Read more here.


Chronicle (Extended Edition) (2012)
The obvious route for a found-footage superhero movie is surely in the Kick-Ass/Super mould: a wannabe dressing up in a funny costume and setting out to fight crime, in the real world. [Director Josh] Trank and screenwriter Max Landis have grander ambitions, however, setting their sights on characters who develop Superman-esque powers.
Read more here.


Plus four were new to the new blog...


Beauty and the Beast (Special Edition) (1991/2002)
Do you need me to tell you how great Beauty and the Beast is? I imagine not. If you’ve seen it, you’ll know. If you haven’t, you really should, and then you’ll know.
Read more here.


Hairspray (2007)
while the key to Hairspray’s success may be its positive attitude and memorable songs, perhaps the key to its quality -- and the eventual score of this review -- are the issues it tackles around those.
Read more here.


The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
It manages to avoid the sugary sentimentality that you might expect and in the process makes for a fair tale of the underdog succeeding.
Read more here.


Total Recall (1990)
For me, the joy of Total Recall is in discovering another ’80s blockbuster (ignore the fact it was released in 1990), the kind of thing I grew up watching on rented videos and BBC One Bank Holiday schedules... whose practical effects and general style and tone vividly recall that era for me
Read more here.


More next Sunday.

Saturday 15 November 2014

TV

Doctor Who Extra
1x12 Death in Heaven [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
28x06 Episode 6
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Pointless Celebrities
6x24 (15/11/14 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Collection Count

Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.

Number of titles in collection: 1,705 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,203 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 502 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 4,251 [up 1]
Number of films in collection: 1,842 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes in collection: 6,254 [no change]
Number of short films in collection: 438 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

Friday 14 November 2014

Thursday 13 November 2014

TV

Doctor Who
6x18 The Invasion Episode Eight
Hm. Not sure I liked this as much as the consensus would have it. The Cybermen are barely used, there's some weird writing/editing (it just skips over stuff), some terrible music (a jaunty tune that's both irritating and bizarrely played during exciting/tense moments)... There were good bits, including the unintentionally slightly-camp pair of human villains, but still, it's no Tomb.

Gotham
1x05 Viper
[Watch it (again) on Demand 5.]

Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs
3x10 Episode 10
[Watch it (again) on ITV Player.]

Films

Machete (2010)
[#114 in 100 Films in a Year 2014]

Wednesday 12 November 2014

TV

Doctor Who
6x17 The Invasion Episode Seven

Gareth Malone's All Star Choir
Part 2 (of 2)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Not Going Out
7x04 Anna
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Only Connect
Children in Need: Noggins v Curiosities
Last time I watched Only Connect, I also watched the animated X-Men's version of Days of Future Past, and today... well. That's one freaky coincidence.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
[#113 in 100 Films in a Year 2014]

Monday 10 November 2014

Sunday 9 November 2014

TV

Grantchester
1x05 Episode 5
[Watch it (again) on ITV Player.]

this week on 100 Films

Four brand-new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...


The 10th Kingdom (2000)
Said story takes place in both present-day (well, turn-of-the-millennium) New York and the fantasy world of the Nine Kingdoms... the place all our fairytales come from — the part of the narrative set there takes places “almost 200 years” after the “Golden Age”, when the events we know from stories actually happened.
Read more here.


John Dies at the End (2012)
Based on the cult novel by Cracked.com editor David Wong, John Dies at the End is a bizarre horror-fantasy that defies easy explanation or summary.
Read more here.


A Late Quartet (2012)
Set in the rarefied world of classical music performance, A Late Quartet charts the fallout among the members of a highly-acclaimed New York string quartet when their leader (Christopher Walken) announces his impending retirement.
Read more here.


Space Battleship Yamato (2010)
A live-action adaptation of the popular, influential and long-lasting anime franchise... Set in a future where Earth has been ravaged by alien assault, a nearly-defeated humanity... set off on a last-ditch mission to save mankind.
Read more here.


Plus three were new to the new blog...


Inception (2010)
about people who can get into dreams and steal ideas. Now they’re employed to get into a dream and plant an idea. This is either impossible or extremely hard, depending on which character you listen to. And that’s the setup — it’s really not as complicated as some would have you imagine.
Read more here.


The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
At times it feels like a collection of subplots linked only by the monthly book group meetings, with whichever plot thread is the focus of a scene becoming the de facto main story… until the next scene begins, of course. A working knowledge of Austen’s novels is helpful too.
Read more here.


March of the Penguins (2005)
I think March of the Penguins gained such popularity in America because they don’t have the rich history of wildlife documentaries that the BBC has bestowed upon us Brits. This is a solid documentary, but it has a narrow focus and isn’t a patch on something narrated by David Attenborough.
Read more here.


More next Sunday.

Saturday 8 November 2014

TV

Detectorists
1x06 Episode 6 [season finale]
Lovely. More please.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Doctor Who
34x12 Death in Heaven [season finale]
Hm. Kind of mixed, hard to know quite what to make of it. Some properly great stuff, some very weak bits, some that might be one or might be the other. Odd indeed. Loved the ending and the mid-credits tease, though.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)
Episode 5 (of 5)

Pointless Celebrities
6x23 Writers
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Collection Count

Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.

As is the way of the world, the two titles that didn't arrive last week turned up on Monday. Add a Monday new-release that arrived on Tuesday, and we have...

Number of titles in collection: 1,704 [up 3]
Of which DVDs: 1,203 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 501 [up 3]

Number of discs in collection: 4,250 [up 12]
Number of films in collection: 1,841 [up 7]
Number of TV episodes in collection: 6,254 [no change]
Number of short films in collection: 438 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

Friday 7 November 2014

TV

Detectorists
1x05 Episode 5
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Doctor Who Extra
1x11 Dark Water
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Have I Got News For You
48x05 (31/10/2014 edition; extended repeat)
[Watch the extended version (again) on iPlayer.]

Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)
Episode 2 (of 5)
Episode 3 (of 5)
Episode 4 (of 5)

Thursday 6 November 2014

TV

Doctor Who
6x14 The Invasion Episode Four
And the Cybermen finally turn up just in time for a cliffhanger-until-next-week. Which is kind of appropriate, really.

The Flash
1x02 Fastest Man Alive
This has some particularly brilliant examples of "we better recap episode one seamlessly in dialogue" dialogue. And by "brilliant" I mean "hilarious", and by "seamless" I mean "glaringly obvious".

Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs
3x09 Episode 9
[Watch it (again) on ITV Player.]

Wednesday 5 November 2014

Tuesday 4 November 2014

TV

Detectorists
1x03 Episode 3
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Doctor Who
6x12 The Invasion Episode Two

Gotham
1x04 Arkham
[Watch it (again) on Demand 5.]

Films

Flirting with Disaster (1996)
[#112 in 100 Films in a Year 2014]

Monday 3 November 2014

TV

Doctor Who
6x11 The Invasion Episode One
This is possibly the most blatant connection to Saturday's episode that I've done in this run of tie-in viewings, so if you don't know I'll leave you to look it up.
Also of note is that this is the first animated reconstruction of a missing episode that the DVD range ever did. I bought it on release back in 2006, to help support the notion of animating missing episodes, but this is the first time I've got round to watching it. Typical me. The animation is a little Flash-y, true, but a heckuva lot better than the mess that was The Reign of Terror.


Gilmore Girls
2x16 There's the Rub [2nd watch]


The Missing
Part 1 Eden
This was excellent. British drama often focuses on character at the expense of plot, so I was kind of expecting an hour of people moping around being miserable, but instead there was a good chunk of story, and plenty of mysteries set in motion -- which is good, because it's got to fuel another seven hours yet. If it can keep it up, it could be a future TV classic.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Woman in Green (1945)
[#111 in 100 Films in a Year 2014]

Sunday 2 November 2014

TV

Arrow
3x01 The Calm

Grantchester
1x04 Episode 4
[Watch it (again) on ITV Player.]

Films

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
[#109 in 100 Films in a Year 2014]

Show Boat (1951)
[#110 in 100 Films in a Year 2014]

this week on 100 Films

First up this week on 100 Films in a Year, it's a new month, meaning it's time to summarise the old one.

October's update (linked below) includes not only a list of what I watched last month, but also sections on reaching #100, reaching 900 reviews, a ponder on the best fairytale-inspired films, and more!




Before that, five brand-new reviews were published this week:


Inseparable (2011)
I’m a great advocate of tonally-mismatched films. When others are moaning that there’s too much darkness mixed in with their light fluffy film, I’m the one saying, “um, guys, have you ever lived in, y’know, real life?” Which probably explains why most of the internet reacts with anything between ambivalence and hatred towards Inseparable, whereas I really enjoyed it.
Read more here.


Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King (2014)
Set sometime after the end of Iron Man 3, we catch up with ‘villain’ Trevor Slattery (Sir Ben Kingsley) to see how his prison life is going. As you might imagine from the chosen lead character, it’s primarily a comedy.
Read more here.


Spanking the Monkey (1994)
Spottily entertaining, history has rendered Spanking the Monkey merely an early curio from a now-famous director.
Read more here.


The Sweeney (2012)
Despite a mediocre pedigree and TV-scale budget, this re-imagining of the iconic ’70s cop show is a solid thriller.
Read more here.


Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010)
Riffing on the “evil hillbillies” horror sub-genre, a pair of simple country folk on a fishin’ holiday encounter a gang of college kids who, through a series of unfortunate coincidences, mistake them for murderous psychos — and decide to fight back.
Read more here.


Finally, six reviews were new to the new blog...


Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
You can’t help but wonder if there’s a more faithful remake to be done, but how would that sit with those who idolise Hepburn’s take on Holly Golightly? Not well, I suspect. But faithfulness aside, in the hands of director Blake Edwards any grittiness disappears in a wave of pastel-coloured humour and frivolity.
Read more here.


Brief Encounter (1945)
a very British affair — all awkwardly repressed emotions, discussion of the weather, fear of society’s opinions, stolen passionate kisses, guilt, indecision, true love and endless cups of tea.
Read more here.


Grindhouse (2007)
a double-bill of exploitation movies, more-or-less with a horror bent, with grainy, dirty, decrepit prints that are missing shots, scenes, and even whole reels, and complete with trailers for similar films and ads for local restaurants.
Read more here.


Piglet's Big Movie (2003)
Mildly amusing at times and with a positive (if predictable) message about friendship and self-worth, this would undoubtedly entertain young children — which, to be fair, is its intended audience.
Read more here.


Traffic in Souls (1913)
Silent movie about white slavery in America. You don’t expect that from a 1913 film, eh? Of course, the issue is handled in a suitable way for the period: why the women are kidnapped is never alluded to (in reality it was for prostitution) and all the Bad Men are brought to justice.
Read more here.


Witchfinder General (1968)
what’s truly horrific is how real it is. I have no idea if the torture and execution methods are historically accurate, but the opening hanging is nasty due to the woman’s distress, the later burning tortuous because we know that, at some point in history, for whatever reason, this kind of death penalty was dolled out… If it’s horrific or scary it’s down to the threat of violence, or the cynical sadism with which people are tortured, rather than gory special effects
Read more here.


More next Sunday.

Saturday 1 November 2014

TV

Doctor Who
34x11 Dark Water
I thought that was excellent, and I always love seeing the Cybermen. If it has somewhere interesting to go in Part 2, could be a really great story all round. We'll see. I imagine some hated it though, especially the big reveal, so any shot at "all-time classic" is probably blown from the get-go... barring later reassessment by those less crazed than some of Who's current 'fans'.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Not Going Out
7x03 Donor
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Pointless Celebrities
6x22 Mixed Bag 2
There's an episode title that deserves to be used!
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Last Action Hero (1993)
[#108 in 100 Films in a Year 2014]

Collection Count

Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.

I was expecting four titles this week; two have arrived. Could be worse -- makes a change from none. Should be three more next week now, then.

Number of titles in collection: 1,701 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,203 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 498 [up 2]

Number of discs in collection: 4,238 [up 4]
Number of films in collection: 1,834 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes in collection: 6,254 [up 12]
Number of short films in collection: 438 [no change]

Also, running time update:

Total running time of collection (approx.):
305 days, 7 hours, and 25 minutes.
(Up 14 hours and 22 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader.