Films

Los Olvidados (1950)
[#20 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]
Blindspot 2022 #2

Tintin and the Temple of the Sun (1969)
[#19 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]
aka The Adventures of Tintin: The Prisoners of the Sun

Fiction

Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz
Chapters 8–11

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6 new reviews were published to 100Films.co.uk this week...


Knives Out (2019)

clearly built like an Agatha Christie story, though perhaps with a touch more satire and humour. That’s not to say it’s an outright comedy, but this is a heightened world we’re in; it’s the real world, but filtered through the lens of a genre. And rather than follow the familiar formula of a Poirot- or Marple-type case, the film is like one of Christie’s other novels; one of the ones where the broad shape is the same, but there’s some twist or variant in how it’s told.

Read more here.


Archive 5, Vol.5

Featuring...
- La Belle Époque (2019)
- The Awful Truth (1937)
- Coming to America (1988)
- Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2018)
- The Social Dilemma (2020)

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

Collection Count

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

Just a couple of new releases to keep things ticking over, this week. It's also time for a running time update, but I'm nowhere near having that ready, so I've bumped it to next week. Hopefully I won't just find myself next Saturday morning staring at still having to add a month's worth of new acquisitions to the total...

Number of titles in collection: 2,788 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,055 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,733 [up 2]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 154 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 6,980 [up 4]
Number of films: 3,320 [up 4]
Number of additional cuts: 252 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,237 [no change]
Number of short films: 949 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

Films

The Misfits (2021)
[#18 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]

TV

Peaky Blinders
5x03 Strategy
5x04 The Loop
[Watch series 1–5 (again) on iPlayer or Netflix.]

TV

Moriarty the Patriot
1x21 The Sign of Mary
[Watch it (again) on Funimation.]

Peaky Blinders
5x02 Black Cats
[Watch series 1–5 (again) on iPlayer or Netflix.]

Fiction

Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz
Chapters 6–7

TV

Peaky Blinders
5x01 Black Tuesday
With the sixth and final series imminent, it's long overdue that I catch up on series 5 (I mean, it did air 2½ years ago...)
[Watch series 1–5 (again) on iPlayer or Netflix.]

TV

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x85 Champions Week 1: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

A Room with a View (1985)
[2nd watch]
[#17 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]

this week on 100Films.co.uk

11 new reviews were published to 100Films.co.uk this week...


2022 | Weeks 4–6

Featuring...
- Voyage of Time: An IMAX Documentary (2016)
- L'avventura (1960)
- She's Gotta Have It (1986)
- Don't Look Up (2021)
- Jackass: The Movie (2002)
- Jackass Number Two (2006)

Read more here.


Archive 5, Vol.4

Featuring...
- Going My Way (1944)
- The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
- Zero Charisma (2013)
- Borat (2006)
- The Thin Red Line (1998)

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x83 Champions Week 1: Wednesday
5x84 Champions Week 1: Thursday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Courier (2020)

Ode to Joy (2019)

Collection Count

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

This week, two new releases (one from this week, The Story of Film: A New Generation, and one from next, The King's Man) and two on offer. One of the latter two should really count as an upgrade from DVD (The Shawshank Redemption), but the DVD set I've got is rather nice, so I'm hanging on to it, at least for the time being.

Number of titles in collection: 2,786 [up 4]
Of which DVDs: 1,055 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,731 [up 4]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 154 [up 3]

Number of discs in collection: 6,976 [up 7]
Number of films: 3,316 [up 4]
Number of additional cuts: 252 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,237 [no change]
Number of short films: 949 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x81 Champions Week 1: Monday
5x82 Champions Week 1: Tuesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Brits Are Coming (2018)

TV

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x78 Week 16: Wednesday
5x79 Week 16: Thursday
5x80 Week 16: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Shot in the Dark (1933)
[#16 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]

Fiction

Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz
Chapter 5

TV

Would I Lie To You?
15x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Jackass Number Two (2006)
[#15 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]

Fiction

Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz
Chapters 1–4

Finally reading the last James Bond novel (it's only been four years since it came out!) before the new one is released this summer. (This is exactly what I did last time.)

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2 new reviews were published to 100Films.co.uk this week...


Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

I don’t know if Afterlife’s detractors will come round to it with time. Frankly, I don’t really care — if they didn’t enjoy it, that’s their business. At worst, it’s their loss, because this is an appropriately fun and affectionate addition to the franchise.

Read more here.


Mass (2021)

The fact Mass been relegated to the status of a “Sky Original” in the UK might mislead you (not all their “original” acquisitions are bad, but the first few were dregs that distributors clearly didn’t want to send to cinemas and neither Netflix nor Amazon had any interest in, and they’ve not done much to turn that reputation around). This, however, is a blisteringly emotional gut-punch that definitely merits your time.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

The Wheel
2x11 Episode 11
2x12 Episode 12
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Collection Count

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

No new releases this week — which, if I were truly, properly trying to cut back on my new acquisitions, would mean there'd be nothing to report here. Of course, I'm a sucker for sales, offers, and general recommendations, and that's how I've still wound up with four additions this week (one an upgrade from regular BD to 4K).

Number of titles in collection: 2,782 [up 3]
Of which DVDs: 1,055 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,727 [up 3]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 151 [up 2]

Number of discs in collection: 6,969 [up 5]
Number of films: 3,312 [up 3]
Number of additional cuts: 252 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,237 [no change]
Number of short films: 949 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

Films

Jackass: The Movie (2002)

Films

The Hobbit (1977)
[#14 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]

Films

Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

this week on 100Films.co.uk

A new month began this week, and that now kicks off two types of post at 100Films.co.uk. First, my trusty monthly review...





And now, something that used to be a part of that review, but is now its own dedicated series: my failures. Yay!





As well as that, there were 6 new reviews published this week...


Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise (2007)

The singer Meat Loaf was very protective of his creative process, and apparently this documentary was the first time he’d allowed cameras behind the scenes to document it. Certainly, he’s frequently uncomfortable with or begrudging of their presence, although he seems to get used to them over time, allowing us some rare insights.

Read more here.


Archive 5, Vol.3

Featuring...
- Guinevere (1994)
- The Kid (1921/1972)
- Defending Your Life (1991)
- The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)
- Sherlock Jr. (1924)

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

Films

Don't Look Up (2021)
The first film I've watched this year that doesn't qualify towards my All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge. I feel like that should be a negative, but it's almost exciting. Like, this was part of the point of the new challenge — that not everything counts — and this is the first time that's swung into action.

Collection Count

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

Look, I'm not trying to keep having weeks that push close to all-time-record status, it just keeps happening! I really need to rein myself in... But, yes, another 13 new titles this week, one an upgrade, makes a total increase of 12 two weeks in a row.

Speaking of last week, I mentioned then that if all the 4Ks in the post had actually arrived, it would've been a record-breaker. Well, the remainder turned up this week (of course). It's no record-breaker, but it does see my 4K total stop just one shy of 150 titles — I thought it was going to be 150, but then I remembered one was an upgrade. How many (or, rather, few) of those 149 have I actually watched? I dread to think...

Number of titles in collection: 2,779 [up 12]
Of which DVDs: 1,055 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,724 [up 12]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 149 [up 2]

Number of discs in collection: 6,964 [up 31]
Number of films: 3,309 [up 26]
Number of additional cuts: 252 [up 4]
Number of TV episodes: 9,237 [no change]
Number of short films: 949 [up 12]

In case you missed it, those 12 titles brought a total of 26 films and 4 alternate cuts. Crikey. I really ought to watch more of my Blu-rays...

See you next week, faithful reader.

Films

She's Gotta Have It (1986)
[#13 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]
"What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...?" 2022 #2