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Law & Order: UK6x03 Haunted[Watch it (again) on ITV Player.]Onion News Network1x07 The Real ObamaPointless5x48 (19/1/12 edition)5x49 (20/1/12 edition)

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Audio commentary by Bey Logan and Gordon Chan on 2000 ADSecond half.The Making of 2000 ADThe making of the above, which was rather lightweight and promotional, but hey-ho.

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Detective Comics #4 by Tony S. Daniel#5 by Tony S. Daniel & Szymon Kudranski#4 seems decent enough… until you realise that's supposed to be the end of the story, at which point it doesn't so much leave the odd thread hanging for the future as not resolve anything, which just highlights the bits that don't quite make sense.And as for #5… Two half-length stories don't help matters. The main one (by

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Pointless5x46 (17/1/12 edition)5x47 (18/1/12 edition)Went away, got two weeks behind. The Pointless catch-up starts here!

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Rango: Extended Cut (2011)[#10 in 100 Films in a Year 2012]

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Breaking the Rules: Making Animation HistoryThe Stage is SetNow We RideA pair of really interesting making-of featurettes from the Rango Blu-ray, taking almost 50 minutes total to detail the unusual process behind the making of the movie.

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All Star Western #4 by Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti & MoritatWell back on form this issue, kicking off a new story proper. It's funny how some of these 20-page comics feel brief, lightweight and not worth their cover price, while others pack so much in I'm counting the pages to check it's not a bumper-length edition. All Star Western slots into the latter more often than most, which is probably

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2000 AD (2000)[#9 in 100 Films in a Year 2012]

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Audio commentary by Bey Logan and Gordon Chan on 2000 ADLogan is an incredibly prolific commentator -- according to Wikipedia, he's recorded 123 to date! -- and I can rather see why even from just this, the first half of a single commentary. He's amiable and knowledgeable, and quite good at drawing out more information from his co-commentator, the film's director. Makes me appreciate/understand

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Six issues read today...All Star Western #3 by Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti & MoritatFunny issue, this one: the story from the first two is wrapped up quickly, but with bits apparently left hanging, then it picks up a new thing... which isn't new because it was in the beginning of #1 (I think, because I don't really remember it). Moritat's apparently scratchy, chunky, basic art is surprisingly

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2 new reviews were posted to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...Battle Los Angeles (2011)There is an even better film tucked away inside Battle Los Angeles. One brief dialogue scene discusses the similarities between the human soldiers and alien grunts, but the intriguing idea that they’re intelligent beings following orders just like us is sadly not built upon. There are obvious

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How I Met Your Mother7x12 Symphony of Illumination[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]Live at the Apollo7x08 Episode 8 [season finale]The Magicians2x03 Episode 3I enjoy the tricks and illusions on The Magicians -- the world-exclusive walking-on-fountains was particularly nice this week -- but the show itself feels like it's being put together by the work experience kids at times. This is prime time

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Nightwing#3 by Kyle Higgins, Eddy Barrows & Eduardo Pansica#4 by Kyle Higgins & Trevor McCarthy#5 by Kyle Higgins & Eddy BarrowsThe regular artist and on-going story takes a break (mostly) in issue 4 for a fairly fun one-and-done with Batgirl... then returns for another one-and-done. I like those, they make a change from modern comic's general long-form storytelling (even if these two take a

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The National Lottery: Who Dares Wins5x03 (21/1/12 edition)[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

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Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.This week, my Blu-rays have almost made it to 300. I've a few more on order -- most of which should have arrived, but TheHut Group companies aren't as efficient as Amazon or HMV, or even Play.com -- so next week might see it tip over. If the aforementioned retailers get their act together.Also this week, the

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Oscar Index: The Beginning of the Endby S.T. Vanairsdale (from Movieline)Movieline's weekly Oscar roundup has its first post-nominations-announcement look at how things are going and expected to go. It's full of graphs charting candidates' chances, and most interesting are the acting and directing categories -- look at all the previously-high lines that plummet out when they surprisingly don't

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Bad Rep – The War Against 35mmby David Jenkins (from Little White Lies)Or, why the future is grim for obscure old films.

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Masters Of Cinema Monthly February 2012 – Announcements, Le Silence De La Mer, Punishment Park, The Future Of DVD And An Interview With Monte Hellmanby Craig Skinner (from Bleeding Cool)Mainly including this for the full coverage of MoC's April/May/June titles, which were announced on twitter today. Here, BC have cover art and initial extras lists for all of them. Lots of very exciting stuff

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The One...1x03 Griff Rhys Jones

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In my quest to get caught up, I'm generally starting with series where I'm three or more issues behind.Batgirl #3 by Gail Simone & Ardian SyafI last read Batgirl nearly 14 weeks ago. A lot of people seem to be loving this book but I wasn't sold (only enough to commit myself to at least finish the current story arc), and this issue does little to change my mind. Nice cliffhanger-resolving action

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Russell T Davies creates new children’s BBC dramaby Jack Seale (from Radio Times)Co-created with Sarah Jane Adventures' head writer Phil Ford, it's called Aliens vs Wizards. Sounds cool.

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Ironclad (2011)[#8 in 100 Films in a Year 2012]Eight is the number I need to see in January to stay on perfect target, so that's a solid opening to the year. With nine days to spare, there's still time for it to turn in to a great one. We'll see.

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And that catching up continues apace...Daredevil #7 by Mark Waid & Paolo RiveraChristmassy one-and-done in which Daredevil has to save a bunch of blind kids after their school bus crashes in snowy mountains, killing the driver… except they end up rescuing him. How heartwarming. Didn't much care for it myself.Uncanny X-Men #2 by Kieron Gillen, Rodney Buchemi, Jorge Molina & Carlos PachecoA bit

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This week I forgot I'd snuck The Spider Woman in on Sunday, so not as many reviews as I'd intended. That said, there were still 2 new reviews posted to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...Hotel for Dogs (2009)Judged as simply a movie, on its story and its characters and all that regular palaver, I can see why Hotel for Dogs attracts so many poor scores. But as a kids' film I think it

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How I Met Your Mother7x11 The Rebound Girl[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]The Magicians2x02 Episode 2Pointless5x45 (16/1/12 edition)Including the most-pointlesses-scored round in Pointless history! Oo-ooh.[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

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With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story (2010)[#7 in 100 Films in a Year 2012]

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Daredevil #6 by Mark Waid & Marcos MartínMassively behind on masses of comics. Catching up time.

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'There is a clue everybody's missed': Sherlock writer Steven Moffat interviewedby Stuart Jeffries (from the Guardian)Moffat has lots of interesting things to say about Sherlock (and some other stuff too) in this surprisingly lengthy interview. He also mentions that series 3 might be on later this year! We can but hope.Another choice comment is on people's attitude to TV viewing:"I get irritated

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The Graham Norton Show10x11 (13/1/12 edition)Well, that wasn't as uncomfortable as it could have been.[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]Law & Order: UK6x02 Immune[Watch it (again) on ITV Player.]The Mentalist4x07 Blinking Red LightSkipped an episode again, but this time deliberately because my copy of ep6 wouldn't play. Don't worry, I've already acquired another. Anyway, this was a particularly

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Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.Number of titles in collection: 1,438 [up 5]Of which DVDs: 1,148 [no change]Of which Blu-rays: 290 [up 5]Number of discs in collection: 3,579 [up 10]Number of films in collection: 1,531 [up 4]Number of TV episodes in collection: 5,409 [up 21]See you next week, faithful reader.

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The Great Sport Relief Bake OffEpisode 3 (of 4)[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]Pointless5x44 (13/1/12 edition)[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

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Rush Hour 3 (2007)[#6 in 100 Films in a Year 2012]

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Eternal Law1x02 Episode 2That was a little better than the first one. Maybe. Maybe I've just got (massively) lowered expectations.[Watch it (again) on ITV Player.]The Great Sport Relief Bake OffEpisode 3 (of 4)[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]The One...1x02 Jasper Carrott[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]

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Magdalen Oxford gets rejection letter from student(from BBC News)A student has sent a rejection letter to the University of Oxford following her interview for a place there. Elly Nowell parodied the institution's own rejection letters, stating Magdalen College "did not quite meet the standard" of other universities.Hehe.US broadcaster CBS orders Sherlock Holmes TV pilotby Tom Cole (from Radio

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The Great Sport Relief Bake OffEpisode 2 (of 4)[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]Onion News Network1x06 Cyber Attack

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Tombstone (1993)[#5 in 100 Films in a Year 2012]

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Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock boosts Conan Doyle book salesby Paul Jones (from Radio Times)sales of Sherlock Holmes books increased by 53 per cent [from 2009 to 2010]...Weekly sales of Sherlock Holmes books took “a significant jump” when the series began, according to David Walter of Neilsen BookScan, which provided the figures... “If you compare sales for the first week of 2012 to an average

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Pointless5x43 (12/1/12 edition)[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]Tim Minchin: Ready for This?Mr Minchin live, as shown on TV, and so probably shorter than the version you can get on DVD & Blu-ray. Still brilliant though.

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Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)[#4 in 100 Films in a Year 2012]Having wrapped up the bulk of Underworld's dangling plot threads in the sequel, here the filmmakers desperately extend the franchise by going back in time the best part of a millennium to tell a story we've already mostly seen in flashbacks in the first two films. It's not a bad effort, but knowing everything that happens takes

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New image arrives from The Hobbitby George Wales (from Total Film)Also, at least as interestingly, some comments from director/co-writer Peter Jackson and co-writer Pippa Boyens.

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Perfect Couples1x13 Perfect Daughter [series finale]Perfect Couples comes to an end with one of its better episodes. Still not a great series, mind, but it did improve a bit as you got used to it.Sherlock2x03 The Reichenbach Fall [season finale]That was brilliant, though I wish they'd done the reveal at the end -- we knew he was going to die and then not be dead, of course, but how he did it is

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Underworld: Evolution (2006)[2nd watch]Last time I saw this was in cinemas, about six years ago, and I'd forgotten (or never realised) just how different it was to the first film.Whereas that's very much a modern urban-fantasy -- all blue-grey perma-night constant-rain Gothic cityscape with cars and leather coats and dripping sewers and guns and more guns -- here we're back in the traditional

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Universal 100th Anniversary Plansby Dave Foster (from Home Cinema @ The Digital Fix)Relevant to DVD and Blu-ray fans are the studio's efforts to restore thirteen films over the course of the centennial year... Universal Home Entertainment will be introducing a limited edition 100th Anniversary Collector’s Series featuring some of the aforementioned film restorations on Blu-ray in collectible,

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2 new reviews were posted to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...Centurion (2010)The story moves quickly, keeping the momentum up. Indeed, at times it moves so fast that some characters seem to be given short shrift. There’s a “who will survive?” element to the plot — Marshall’s horror roots showing through, perhaps — but you can largely guess which order they’ll be shuffled off in

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The Great Sport Relief Bake OffEpisode 1 (of 4)[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]The House of Rooms1x01 Episode 1 - PaulOr Milton Jones's House of Rooms, as the listings would have it. It's a pilot, but they called it Episode 1 on screen -- confidant. It was completely barmy, which you should expect from Jones really, and quite fun because of it. Go on C4, make a series.[Watch it (again) on 4oD

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Underworld: Extended Cut (2003)[3rd watch]Technically my second watch, for this version (the first being the theatrical cut, in the cinema right back in '03). Last time was just before the first sequel hit cinemas, so about six years ago.My opinion on it hasn't changed a great deal in that time, though I may have grown out of it a little more... but then I was always aware the dialogue was

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Black Mirror1x03 The Entire History of You [season finale]Another bloody good episode; possibly the best one, in fact. So that's three for three -- impressive stuff. I hope this gets a re-commission, because intelligent TV sci-fi is much needed and always welcome. [Watch it (again) on 4oD.]The Graham Norton Show10x10 (6/1/12 edition)[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]Perfect Couples1x12 Perfect

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Interview: Daniel Handlerby Tasha Robinson (from A.V. Club)A rather interesting and lengthy interview with the man behind Lemony Snicket about all kinds of things I found quite interesting. So there.

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Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.Y'see, this is the problem with January: there's all the stuff you didn't get for Christmas to buy, plus the new releases. Why are there so many new releases in January? I guess it's all the stuff they didn't think would sell in the pre-Christmas rush, saved up for the (alleged) post-Christmas lull.

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How I Met Your Mother7x10 Tick, Tick, Tick...[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]

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Outland (1981)[#3 in 100 Films in a Year 2012]

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Law & Order: UK6x01 Survivor's GuiltA tough subject matter, left over from last season's cliffhanger, but beautifully handled. Who knew before L&O that Bradley Walsh would turn out to be such a spectacularly good actor?[Watch it (again) on ITV Player.]No Ordinary Family1x16 No Ordinary Proposal1x17 No Ordinary Love"Actually, getting hit by that bullet saved his life.""The only thing that can beat

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Have I Got News For You42x11 2011 (extended repeat) [season finale]Being a best-of-the-year thingamy.[Watch the extended version (again) on iPlayer.]The National Lottery: Who Dares Wins5x01 (7/1/12 edition)Ah, Who Dares Wins -- rubbish really, but the format's fun for playing along.[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]Pointless5x39 (6/1/12 edition)[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

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EndeavourI never watched Inspector Morse, but this feature-length prequel was pretty good, and I'm assured it was faithful and fitting to its inspiration too. My guess about the solution was completely, epically wrong.The Mentalist4x05 Blood and SandThe One...1x01 Lenny HenryInspired by the rather good The One Ronnie special from last Christmas (well, the Christmas-before-last now, isn't it),

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Sherlock2x02 The Hounds of BaskervilleShame about the dodgy CG doggy turning up at the end. That aside, I enjoyed this, a solid modernising of a familiar story with nice nods to the original. The revelation about the morse code was a particularly amusing twist -- hound, dogging, hehehe, etc.[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]TV's 50 Greatest Magic TricksRegular readers will know I love a bit of

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Top Hat (1935)[2nd watch]

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J.J. Abrams Talks Star Trek 2; Says Filming Begins Thursday and 3D Tests on First Star Trek Convinced Him to Post-Convert Sequelby Christina Radish (from Collider.com)He also says that the 3D "was something that the studio wanted to do, and I didn’t want to do it." Ah. He goes on:And then, when I saw the first movie converted in sections, I thought that it actually looked really cool. So, I was

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No new reviews on 100 Films in a Year this week, but I have posted my two looks back at the previous year:The Full List, which lists every film I saw in viewing order, plus a stack of fascinating statistics (now with graphs!)andIn Retrospect, in which I list my five worst and ten best films of the year, as well as fifty I missed.And that's 2011 done with... apart from the pile of reviews I still

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8 Out of 10 Cats Countdown: The Channel 4 Mash UpBits of both shows jumbled together? Ah, a proper mash-up.[Watch some of it (again) on 4oD.]Charlie Brooker's 2011 WipeCharlie Brooker recaps and satirises the year that was "like an end of season finale for all of mankind".[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]Eternal Law1x01 Episode 1New supernatural/legal drama from the creators of Life on Mars. Also

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Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.It really ought to be a quiet time in January, post-Christmas, but it's not going to be completely silent -- look, I've started already!Number of titles in collection: 1,426 [up 3]Of which DVDs: 1,148 [no change]Of which Blu-rays: 278 [up 3]Number of discs in collection: 3,548 [up 11]Number of films in

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Absolutely Fabulous6x01 Identity [Christmas special]6x02 Job [New Year special]You assume these kind of revivals are going to be at best pretty weak and at worst hopelessly embarrassing, but I thought these two episodes were actually rather funny. Not sure the mooted movie is a good idea though.[Watch Identity and Job (again) in HD on iPlayer.]The Many Faces ofDame Judi DenchThe Mentalist4x03

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Outnumbered to return for fifth series? by Morgan Jeffery (from Digital Spy)Fingers crossed for this one. Though I agree the kids are getting a bit too old and they should probably wrap it up soon, I think they should wrap it up soon rather than just stop it, and doing a fifth series this year -- rather than in 2013 as mooted -- seems to the best way to do that.

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EarthflightPart 1 North America (of 6)[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]Black Mirror1x02 15 Million MeritsThat was a bit bleak and depressing... much like the reality TV & app cultures it was satirising, then. That's what all the best sci-fi does: comment on the here & now. Usually such things are more subtle, but where does subtlety get you these days? And I'm sure plenty of people are too dim

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Comic Relief 2011: What a CrackerA poorly-edited (every sketch was truncated! great stuff was missing!) set of highlights from last year's Comic Relief. Oh well.[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]Great ExpectationsPart 3 (of 3)I enjoyed that greatly. Makes me want to watch the David Lean film again to see if the bits I didn't remember were in it or not.[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]Misfits2x07

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Great ExpectationsPart 2 (of 3)[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]Little Crackers2x01 My First BrassiereQI9x15 Ice (XL edition) [Christmas special]Keeping track of QI has becoming a nightmare over Christmas, where they've shown a mix of old and new episodes in both regular and XL editions. Plus they've apparently put some brand-new stuff in those VG episodes, aside from all the best bits and

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Top Gear18x00 India SpecialThis year's Christmas special sees the boys "set off on an epic road trip across India", which doesn't sound quite as iconically Christmas as last year's baby Jesus-themed thing.[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)[2nd watch]This was #70 in 100 Films 2011, and why I watched it again today will become obvious imminently...Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)[#2 in 100 Films in a Year 2012]That's a little over four-and-a-half hours of Potter today. Epic.Also, last night...Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)[#1 in 100 Films in a Year 2012]

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Great ExpectationsPart 1 (of 3)Love a bit of Gothic, and this is marvellously so.[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]How I Met Your Mother7x08 The Slutty Pumpkin Returns[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]Little Crackers2x11 I Was a Teenage Santa!Sherlock2x01 A Scandal in BelgraviaGod that was good. I'd like to say which bits I liked, but they make Sherlock such a densely packed hour-and-a-half that it's

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Happy New Year!Anyway...Just 1 new review was posted to 100 Films in a Year this week... but there was also the December update, being the first in my annual triumvirate looking back at the year (the next two looking back at the year, rather than just the month-and-by-association-of-it-being-the-last-month,-the-year).Anyway, that review...Gambit (1966)Gambit is distinctly underrated. The huge

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The Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2011Last year I did massively well at this; this year, not so much... though 27 out of 38 was still respectable enough to land me second.[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]

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The A-Team: Explosive Extended Edition (2010)[#100 in 100 Films in a Year 2011]I did it, so I did! Hurrah!The Man from Earth (2007)[#98 in 100 Films in a Year 2011]Winnie the Pooh (2011)[#99 in 100 Films in a Year 2011]

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Featurettes on The Man from EarthFour short interview-based bits, coming to only a little over 12 minutes total, about life On the Set, discussing The Story of the Story, screenwriter Jerome Bixby's Sci Fi Legacy, and the process of taking the film From Script to Screen. Interesting, but it might be nice to have a little more detail on the themes of the piece, which are so central to a tale like

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Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.So, here's my Christmas haul, and a couple more too. And as it's now New Year's Eve, this is also the final tally for 2011! Whoo! Last year's equivalent post has allowed me to chart how the collection has increased in the past year, alongside the regular weekly increase.Number of titles in collection: 1,423 [

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Dara O Briain: This is the ShowThree stand-up shows in as many days! I guess it's not just the DVD market that likes to pump these out at Christmastime these days.Ironically, whereas the other two were English comedians filmed in Ireland, here we have an Irish comedian filmed in England! Well I never.[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]Felix & MurdoOne-off sitcom, and/or sitcom pilot, about two

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Faintheart (2008)[#97 in 100 Films in a Year 2011]24 hours to go; three films to go. It's not impossible...The Spider Woman (1944)[#96 in 100 Films in a Year 2011]

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Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mindroflysst[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]I've Never Seen Star Wars2x00 Stephen Fry [Christmas special]Two-and-a-half years since they last tried to bring this Radio 4 series to TV, it's back, with a new host, a new set, the same theme music, and only as a one-off. I enjoyed it first time round and I like it just as much now. More please.[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]Little

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Hotel for Dogs (2009)[#95 in 100 Films in a Year 2011]Right down to the wire. Doesn't look like I'll make 100 this year.

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Little Crackers2x06 Shappi 4 Todd2x07 My First Ton2x08 The DaltonsPoirot12x04 The Clocks [season finale]It seems daft to bung a season finale tag on Poirot, seeing as how ITV seem to show them in whatever order they fancy over the course of several years per series, but hey-ho, technically this is the last in the 12th run.[Watch it (again) on ITV Player.]Simon Amstell: Do Nothing LiveStand-up

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The Graham Norton Show10x09 Christmas SpecialFor some reason the BBC episode guide doesn't include this in the series' regular run, instead listing the next episode as number 9. Why? Yes, this edition was slightly longer and very mildly Christmas themed, but it was still mostly a regular episode with the regular kind of guests promoting their just-released/upcoming stuff. I don't care what you

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The BorrowersWasn't too sure what I'd make of this -- I loved the BBC series that was on when I was young, then read and enjoyed all the novels, but the American film that came out a few years afterwards was awful, and this new version looked uncertain. But I actually really enjoyed it. Sequel please.Now I just need to see Ghibli's Arrietty... which fortunately is out on DVD & BD here in a

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Doctor Who33x00 The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe [Christmas special]I enjoyed that -- particularly good performances by Matt Smith and Claire Skinner, and the bit with the Bill Bailey-led whatsits was most amusing -- but it wasn't a patch on last year's, in my opinion, which I adore.[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]The Gruffalo's Child (2011)[#94a in 100 Films in a Year 2011][Watch it (

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Nativity! (2009)[#94 in 100 Films in a Year 2011]Appropriate, no?

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2000 AD #2012The bumper-length Christmas Prog, because, as a weekly, 2000 AD stops publishing over Christmas. Plus this way we get four more pages of Thrill-power than we would in the three Progs it covers. Four!It also usurps the regular numbering to take next year's 'name'. I don't know quite what they'll do when they reach the real Prog 2000. I wouldn't be surprised if they don't either. Plus

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Merry Christmas!Anyway...3 new reviews were posted to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...Beyond the Pole (2009)Unfortunately it’s only mildly amusing rather than laugh-out-loud hilarious. Worse still, it’s occasionally a bit thumb-twiddly as the inevitable plot points inevitably happen. In fact, it goes a bit OTT with implausibility for my liking… On the bright side, it doesn’t go on

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Charley Boorman's Extreme FrontiersEpisode 4 (of 4)[Watch it (again) on Demand 5.]Life's Too Short1x07 Episode 7 [season finale]Well, that was that. Ricky Gervais says there'll be a second series. Not sure I can be bothered with it.[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]Lorraine's Last Minute ChristmasWhy they didn't keep up the branding and call this Christmas Made Easy I don't know.[Watch it (

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Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.A few last minute things here (as it were), most of which I didn't actually expect to turn up until after Christmas. So that's nice.Number of titles in collection: 1,414 [up 3]Of which DVDs: 1,144 [up 1]Of which Blu-rays: 270 [up 2]Number of discs in collection: 3,517 [up 9]Number of films in collection: 1,507

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Argumental4x08 Christmas SpecialA Christmas special? Those things get everywhere these days...The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff1x00 Christmas EpisodeDickens spoof. Most amusing. Look forward to the full (well, full-ish -- it's only three episodes) series next year.[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]Junior Bake OffEpisode 13 (of 13)Hooray!Lost ChristmasA one-off "urban fairytale" starring Eddie Izzard.

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ITV Cut Tim Minchin’s Christmas Song Amidst Fears Of Offending Christians And Right-Wing Pressby Hannah Shaw-William (from Bleeding Cool)This was due to air on the Christmas edition of The Jonathan Ross Show tonight on ITV1, but they seem to have had a last-minute wimp-out and cut it. (Lots more detail at the above link, including comments from Tim Minchin and Jonathan Ross.)Fortunately, Mr

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It's "catch up before all that Christmas telly begins" time!Black Mirror1x01 The National AnthemMedia-satirising anthology series from the brain of Charlie Brooker, which in fairly typical me fashion has already finished before I'm even starting it (still, at least this was only three episodes -- I'm a series behind with Misfits and I've not even got going on the 15-part Story of Film). Very dark

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The Impressions Show with Culshaw and Stephenson3x06 Episode 6Michael Bublé: Home for ChristmasMmm, cheese.[Watch it (again) on ITV Player.]Onion News Network1x04 Fifth AnniversaryRev.2x05 Episode 5[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]

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Digital Spy readers' awards 2011: The winners!by Mark Langshaw (from Digital Spy)I wouldn't bother mentioning this normally, but the final award prompted a laugh: in a Digital Spy poll for best entertainment news website, Digital Spy won! What a shocker.

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Argumental4x07 Episode 7Death in Paradise1x08 Episode 8That was good fun. I hope we get more.The Royal Variety Performance 2011Back to ITV and it gets worse. Well, there were some very good bits, but most of the singing (of which there was plenty) was appalling.[Watch it (again) on ITV Player.]

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Charley Boorman's Extreme FrontiersEpisode 3 (of 4)[Watch it (again) on Demand 5.]Never Mind the Buzzcocks25x11 Episode 11[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

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2 new reviews were posted to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...Cars (2006)it’s a bit predictable, kinda like Pixar/any kids’ movie by numbers. Pixar are usually better than that. There may be one or two slight surprises along the way — mostly in aid of a Good Strong Moral Message for the kiddies — but at times it’s a bit thumb-twiddly as you wait for characters to reach the point

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Strictly Come Dancing9x25 The Final Part 19x26 The Final Part 2 [season finale][Watch both parts (again) in HD on iPlayer.]

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The British Comedy Awards 2011Didn't agree with all the winners... but then there were a few that really exceptionally deserved it, and it was Good Fun All Round. Plus, a Harry Hill clip that actually made me laugh. First time for everything.[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]Have I Got News For You42x09 (16/12/11 edition)[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]Live at the Apollo7x06 Episode 6[Watch it (again) in

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Best And Worst Sci-Fi Movie Posters 2011 by Dave Golder(from SFX)You might not agree with every choices in either category (I certainly didn't), but it's a good reminder of the last year nonetheless.Doctor Who: Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill to leave next series by Daniel Sperling(from Digital Spy)I know no one really believed it when they left toward the end of the last series, but the thing is

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Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.This week, the number of films in my collection crosses the 1,500 mark. I dread to think how few of those I've actually watched...Number of titles in collection: 1,411 [up 3]Of which DVDs: 1,143 [up 1]Of which Blu-rays: 268 [up 2]Number of discs in collection: 3,508 [up 4]Number of films in collection: 1,501 [

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Enchanted (2007)[2nd watch]This was #80 on 100 Films way back in 2008, and obviously I hadn't watched it since. It's bloody great though.

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Doctor Who Magazine's Christmas tribute to Radio Times by Paul Jones(from Radio Times)The new DWM, out today, takes as its cover inspiration a Christmas RT from the '20s. See the original and the homage at the link.

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