Sunday 3 March 2024

TV

The 1% Club
3x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on ITVX.]

The Wheel
4x08 Episode 8
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Games

Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
So, after yesterday's woes, I managed to play a proper chunk. Off to a promising start, though I'm not a fan of long conversations that just carry on without any player input, like a cutscene without actually cutting to a scene. Hope there's not too much of that going forward.

The Leaf Riders of Wrenwood
1–3 March 2024
Should I have separate posts for computer games and board games? I don't think I have before, but I also don't think it's come up before...

this week on 100Films.co.uk

A new month began this week, and so, as always, 100Films.co.uk looked back at the previous one. First, through all the films I did watch...





And then, all the ones I failed to...





Plus, 1 new review was published too...


Dune: Part One (2021)
Trying to write about a film like Dune in a critical context over two years after it was released feels a bit pointless... Of course, yay/nay recommendations are not the only reason for critical writing — far from it — but, if you’re looking to do more than that, you better have something to say. So I confess here and now, for the sake of any readers looking for that kind of article, that I don’t think I have a unique or revelatory or even particularly insightful take on Dune... All I can offer is how the film struck me personally, from my particular perspective; which is not nothing, but is what it is.
Read more here.


More next Sunday.