Blackadder: The Cavalier Years
It’s just a sketch for a charity telethon (they haven't even bothered to upscale it for the Blu-ray, just included it in SD), and yet it creates a whole era of Blackadder, has a proper plot, runs the length of half an episode, and features at least one of the best gags in the entire series (at the level of “gets used in retrospective documentaries to illustrate the Baldrick/Blackadder relationship”). Splendid.
Friends
4x16 The One with the Fake Party [5th or so watch]
4x17 The One with the Free Porn [5th or so watch]
The Rookie
5x22 Under Siege [season finale]
The Wheel
5x06 Episode 6
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Sunday, 22 December 2024
Comics
X-Men #3 by Jed MacKay & Ryan Stegman
I started with such good intentions, but — surprise surprise — I'm now in desperate need of catching up. Well, I'll try. (I'm enjoying these books a lot, it's just my general rubbishness at keeping at things!)
I started with such good intentions, but — surprise surprise — I'm now in desperate need of catching up. Well, I'll try. (I'm enjoying these books a lot, it's just my general rubbishness at keeping at things!)
Fiction
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes for Christmas by Derrick Belanger
December 22nd: The Christmas Ripper (Conclusion)
For some reason, Belanger seems to be almost obsessed with the word "missus" (as in the colloquialism for "wife"). Someone's clearly told him it's how Brits regularly refer to their/others' wives, and so he's applied it liberally — it's not just in the dialogue of coppers or urchins, but of respectable types, and he has Holmes use it; he uses it in his narrative text too, which is almost more egregious. I double-checked in case it was me who'd misunderstood, but I was right: the word "missus" appears in Conan Doyle's original works precisely zero times. (Is this the worst of Crimes for Christmas' sins? No, but it is a consistently grating niggle. Or a hilarously misguided quirk, depending on your point of view.)
December 22nd: The Christmas Ripper (Conclusion)
For some reason, Belanger seems to be almost obsessed with the word "missus" (as in the colloquialism for "wife"). Someone's clearly told him it's how Brits regularly refer to their/others' wives, and so he's applied it liberally — it's not just in the dialogue of coppers or urchins, but of respectable types, and he has Holmes use it; he uses it in his narrative text too, which is almost more egregious. I double-checked in case it was me who'd misunderstood, but I was right: the word "missus" appears in Conan Doyle's original works precisely zero times. (Is this the worst of Crimes for Christmas' sins? No, but it is a consistently grating niggle. Or a hilarously misguided quirk, depending on your point of view.)
this week on 100Films.co.uk
1 new review was published to 100Films.co.uk this week...
The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
There may or may not be more next Sunday, but there definitely will the week after, because then it will be time to get stuck in to my review of 2024!
The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
it was nominated for two BAFTAs, although it won neither: it was one of several still-acclaimed movies that lost Best Film from Any Source to a British film (Room at the Top) that also won Best British Film (do I smell bias?), and Samoilova lost Best Foreign Actress to the lead from that same film (hmm…) Next time someone tries to claim awards have become meaningless, maybe suggest they always have been.Read more here.
There may or may not be more next Sunday, but there definitely will the week after, because then it will be time to get stuck in to my review of 2024!
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