Films

A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
[#81 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]
Blindspot 2022 #10

Films

Manhunter (1986)
[#80 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]
"What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...?" 2022 #10

Collection Count

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

Titles continue to filter in from that list of 15 — though they've not all turned up yet (the post is being weird at the minute, and not just because of strikes), and I'm ordering more stuff, plus more stuff I preordered is coming out, so it's getting diluted/increased. Anyway, there are four additions to report this week, including a couple of multi-film sets that make for some big increases...

Number of titles in collection: 2,965 [up 4]
Of which DVDs: 1,040 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,925 [up 4]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 212 [up 2]

Number of discs in collection: 7,332 [up 13]
Number of films: 3,575 [up 18]
Number of additional cuts: 294 [up 4]
Number of TV episodes: 9,432 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,019 [up 2]

Also, last week I pushed the monthly running time update back to this week. It still took me time to figure it all out, though, which is why this post is several days later than normal. For what it's worth, it still only counts as far as last Saturday, with stuff that turned up since being held back for the next count.

Total running time of collection (approx.):
523 days, 9 hours, and 43 minutes.
(Up 2 days, 10 hours, and 22 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader.

Films

Emma. (2020)
[2nd watch]

TV

Blankety Blank
2x07 Episode 7
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Richard Osman's House of Games
6x20 Week 4: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

The Rookie
4x12 The Knock
4x13 Fight or Flight

Films

Enola Holmes 2 (2022)
[2nd watch]
[#79 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]

It didn't count the first time because there was no category it qualified in, but this rewatch can count. Does this kind of thing mean my rules are too complicated now? Or is it just because I'm prone to finding ways to circumvent/use them cleverly? Not sure...

this week on 100Films.co.uk

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


2022 | Weeks 29–32

Featuring...
- 45 Years (2015)
- The Bucket List (2007)
- Tintin and the Lake of Sharks (1972)

Read more here.


More next Sunday, including the penultimate monthly review of 2022!

TV

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
1x07 The Eye
1x08 Alloyed [season finale]

Richard Osman's House of Games
6x18 Week 4: Wednesday
6x19 Week 4: Thursday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

The Rookie
4x11 End Game

Films

Disenchanted (2022)
Disappointing.

TV

Blankety Blank
2x06 Episode 6
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
1x06 Udûn

Richard Osman's House of Games
6x16 Week 4: Monday
6x17 Week 4: Tuesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

The Rookie
4x10 Heart Beat

TV

Blankety Blank
2x05 Episode 5
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
1x05 Partings

Richard Osman's House of Games
6x14 Week 3: Thursday
6x15 Week 3: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

The Rookie
4x09 Breakdown

TV

How I Met Your Father
1x06 Stacey

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
1x04 The Great Wave

Richard Osman's House of Games
6x13 Week 3: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

The Rookie
4x08 Hit and Run

TV

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
1x03 Adar

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
30x08 Episode 8

Richard Osman's House of Games
6x12 Week 3: Tuesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Blankety Blank
2x04 Episode 4
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
1x01 A Shadow of the Past
1x02 Adrift
Off to a promising start, I thought. And it certainly looks the part — the budget may be phenomenally huge, but it looks like it's all on screen.

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
30x07 Episode 7

Richard Osman's House of Games
6x11 Week 3: Monday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

The Rookie
4x07 Fire Fight

TV

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
30x06 Episode 6

The Rookie
4x06 Poetic Justice

Tim Minchin: So F**king Rock
[2nd watch]
I reckon Not Perfect might still be Minchin’s best song.

TV

Richard Osman's House of Games
6x09 Week 2: Thursday
6x10 Week 2: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Blues Brothers (1980)
[2nd watch]
[#78 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]

Collection Count

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

After zero new titles last week, there's something to report this time — although, as I also mentioned last week, exactly how much has been subject to manufacturers and retailers hitting release dates and/or shipping stock early. And so, out of a list of 15 titles that might've turned up in time for this update, I actually received... six. Hopefully the rest will be here in time for next week.

This was also supposed to be the monthly running time up date, but I just haven't had time to work that out, so that's bumped to next time too.

Number of titles in collection: 2,961 [up 5]
Of which DVDs: 1,040 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,921 [up 6]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 210 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 7,319 [up 9]
Number of films: 3,557 [up 7]
Number of additional cuts: 290 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,432 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,017 [up 4]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

House of the Dragon
1x09 The Green Council

TV

Doctor Who
Shada Episode Six [finale]
Picked up considerably as it went on. Maybe not quite the “lost classic” its reputation would have had us believe, but that seems to be an inevitable consequence for half of Who that goes unfinished or missing. On the bright side, it means we now have multiple competing versions of it to mess around with canon (always fun). It’s just a shame this version wasn’t fully animated, because then it would be that bit more official as another ‘visual’ McGann adventure to go alongside the TVM and Night of the Doctor. Oh well.

Have I Got News for You
64x07 (4/11/2022 edition; extended repeat) [season finale]
[Watch the extended episode (again) on iPlayer.]

Mock the Week
21x01 (23/9/2022 edition)
21x02 (30/9/2022 edition)
21x07 The History of... Part 2 [series finale]
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Killing (1956)
[#77 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]
Obviously this isn't how I run my challenge anymore, but still worth noting that this is the 100th new (to me) film I've seen in 2022.

Films

Killer's Kiss (1955)
[#76 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]
+ the extras on Criterion's Blu-ray: an original trailer, and a nine-minute analysis by Geoffrey O’Brien

Articles

‘We’ve forgotten how to be innocent’: Tim Minchin on comedy, music and the joy of Matilda
by Eva Wiseman (from The Guardian)

Thought this was a typically insightful interview with Minchin. Not much about Matilda in it, though I am looking forward to that very much.

TV

Doctor Who
Shada Episode Five

Films

Howard the Duck (1986)
[#75 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]
"What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...?" 2022 #9

this week on 100Films.co.uk

No new reviews on 100Films.co.uk this week, but I did finally start a series of posts I'd promised back in January. This first one takes a look at Sight & Sound's 2012 poll to find the 100 Greatest Films of All Time...





More next Sunday.

TV

Doctor Who
Shada Episode Four
For a story written in 1979 and designed to go out to general audiences on BBC One, all the stuff about Time Lord tech and history does feel remarkably fanwanky. It seems much more at home as a BBCi webcast from 2003.

Films

Enola Holmes 2 (2022)

Collection Count

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

In what regular readers will know is a rarity, there's nothing at all to report this week! Well, except that I noticed something in my collection actually had three short films where previously I'd counted none, so that stat goes up all by itself.

Number of titles in collection: 2,956 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 1,041 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,915 [no change]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 209 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 7,310 [no change]
Number of films: 3,550 [no change]
Number of additional cuts: 290 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,432 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,013 [up 3]

See you next week, faithful reader, when there should definitely be some new additions — although just how many is at the whims of distributors getting titles out on time...

Films

The Mindscape of Alan Moore (2003)
[#74 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]

Films

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
[#73 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]

TV

Doctor Who
Shada Episode Three

Films

Absence (2015)
Short film from the guys behind lockdown hit Host. I actually watched it twice, because it's so short (under 3 minutes), having read the director's notes in between, and I found it more interesting the second time with those in mind. Also, if you're going to watch it, do so on Vimeo rather than YouTube — the film has a very specific visual texture that the latter's heavyhanded compression absolutely wrecks.

Come and See (1985)
[#72 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]
Blindspot 2022 #9
+ the special feature on Criterion's Blu-ray where cinematographer Roger Deakins talks about the film's quality for ten minutes

Magazines

Doctor Who Magazine #584

I rarely bother to mention it (the last time was in 2016), but I buy DWM every month, and usually read at least some of it. This is a special issue, though, because it's packed with info about the forthcoming era — "forthcoming" as in "doesn't start for a whole year", and yet already we're learning about it. That's a level of marketing I can get behind.

Also of particular note: the comic strip this issue picks up directly where The Power of the Doctor left off, beginning a 13-part tale (which will unfurl monthly until the first 60th anniversary special airs, this time (ish) next year) that's the official first adventure for the 14th Doctor. The comic strip's never been allowed to do something so vital before. Exciting times.

TV

Doctor Who
Shada Episode Two

TV

Doctor Who
Shada Episode One

Being the 2003 BBCi webcast version starring Paul McGann, also known (retrospectively) as Return to Shada. Yes, it's taken me almost 20 years to get round to this. (20 years! Where does time go?)

It's always nice to hear McGann as the Doctor, but this first episode is a bit slow going, fuelled by too little plot and too few instances of Douglas Adams' brilliant wit (although there are, thankfully, a couple of examples). I hope things pick up in future episodes…

TV

Inside Man
Part 4 (of 4)
[Watch the whole series (again) on iPlayer.]

Louis Theroux Interviews
1x02 Dame Judi Dench
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Lost City (2022)

this week on 100Films.co.uk

It was a week of roundups on 100Films.co.uk this week, with the usual "new month" stuff plus a compilation of last week's Scream reviews.

We'll come to that in a minute, because first it's the overall review of October...





And that was accompanied by the usual overview of films I failed to watch last month...





Finally, as I mentioned at the start, that roundup of my Scream coverage...





More next Sunday.

Collection Count

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

Four new additions this week, although it really doesn't look like it. Yes, I've been upgrading again. This time it's Highlander, from Blu-ray to 4K. I also bought Arrow's red Giallo Essentials box set, from which I already owned one of the films, so the box set replaces that. Then Indicator's Universal Noir #1 set turned up several weeks earlier than expected, and that single-handedly accounts for most of the increases below.

Number of titles in collection: 2,956 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,041 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,915 [up 2]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 209 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 7,310 [up 10]
Number of films: 3,550 [up 9]
Number of additional cuts: 290 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,432 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,010 [up 3]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Blankety Blank
2x03 Episode 3
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

How I Met Your Father
1x05 The Good Mom

Inside Man
Part 2 (of 4)
Part 3 (of 4)
[Watch the whole series (again) on iPlayer.]

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
30x05 Episode 5

Richard Osman's House of Games
6x08 Week 2: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

The Rookie
4x05 A.C.H.

Films

See How They Run (2022)
[#71 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]

TV

Blankety Blank
2x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Inside Man
Part 1 (of 4)
[Watch the whole series (again) on iPlayer.]

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
30x04 Episode 4

TV

Doctor Who
39x09 The Power of the Doctor [2nd watch]
Posted some rewatch thoughts on Letterboxd.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Never Mind the Buzzcocks
30x03 Episode 3

Richard Osman's House of Games
6x07 Week 2: Tuesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Blankety Blank
2x01 Episode 1
Is this only series 2? It feels like it's been back longer than that...
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Richard Osman's House of Games
6x06 Week 2: Monday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Have I Got News for You
64x06 (28/10/2022 edition; extended repeat)
[Watch the extended episode (again) on iPlayer.]