Sunday, 29 May 2022

TV

Around the World in 80 Days
1x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x127 Week 22: Tuesday
5x128 Week 22: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Ten Percent
1x02 Episode 2

Films

On the Town (1949)
[2nd watch]
[#34 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]

this week on 100Films.co.uk

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


Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
It feels like they’ve gone out of their way to crossover with everything possible: the two previous Spider-Man film series; there’s something from spinoff Venom; and even the MCU Netflix series, which were previously of dubious canonicity (of course, now they’re on Disney+ so they’re allowed to count again). About all that’s missing is Into the Spider-Verse, and there’s even an oblique reference to that. With all of that in the mix, it plays kinda like Fan Service: The Movie. Normally that would be a criticism, but it does it so entertainingly — and it’s so much the movie’s very raison d’ĂȘtre — that I think it works, in its own way.
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2022 | Weeks 14–15
Featuring...
- Withnail & I (1987)
- Munich: The Edge of War (2021)
- tick, tick… BOOM! (2021)
- Move Over, Darling (1963)
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More next Sunday.