Collection Count

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

Number of titles in collection: 1,811 [up 3]
Of which DVDs: 1,212 [up 2]
Of which Blu-rays: 599 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 4,545 [up 5]
Number of films in collection: 1,962 [up 3]
Number of TV episodes in collection: 6,805 [no change]
Number of short films in collection: 459 [up 2]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Frank Skinner On Demand With...
Lee Mack
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Come Drink with Me (1966)
[#178 in 100 Films in a Year 2015]

TV

Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
3x02 Thirty Five Quid For This...
[Watch it (again) on Dave OD.]

Arrow
4x03 Restoration

Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs
4x05 Episode 5
[Watch it (again) on ITV Player.]

TV

The Flash
2x03 Family of Rogues

Have I Got News For You
50x04 (23/10/2015 edition; extended repeat)
[Watch the extended version (again) on iPlayer.]

Live at the Apollo
11x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Articles

Lucky VII: Superfan J.J. Abrams on Directing The Force Awakens.
by Scott Dadich (from Wired)

Nice, detailed interview with the director of Star Wars Episode VII.

Films

Enchanted (2007)
[3rd watch]
This was #80 on 100 Films way back in 2008.

TV

Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
3x01 I've Been Fingered By Captain Kirk
[Watch it (again) on Dave OD.]

Films

The Little Mermaid (1989)
[4th or so watch]

this week on 100 Films

Three brand-new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...


Justice League: The New Frontier (2008)

there are too many characters, and the film doesn’t always seem to know what to do with all of them. The array of cameos in minor roles is fine, and sure to please thoroughly-versed comic book readers, but it’s the main characters who are sometimes sidelined. In some cases, literally: Wonder Woman disappears off to her island after two scenes; the Flash retires early on; Superman gets sunk in the ocean at the start of the climax.

Read more here.


Spooks: The Greater Good (2015)

you don’t need to have seen the TV series to follow the plot, which is standalone in every aspect that seriously matters... However, a familiarity might help manage your expectations: The Greater Good feels like a wider-screen, (slightly-)bigger-budgeted version of the show, for good or ill. “Good” because, well, it should really, otherwise why call it Spooks? “Ill” because anyone expecting an action-packed thriller to rival Bond, Bourne, or Mission: Impossible will come away disappointed.

Read more here.


The Thief of Bagdad (1924)

the film really comes alive for its final hour... Here’s where the film’s real adventure lies, as we whizz through multiple fantasy landscapes, the thief battling monsters as he goes... This is also where most of the film’s famed special effects are to be found. So groundbreaking that they were analysed in scientific magazines at the time, they still have the power to enchant viewers the best part of a century later.

Read more here.


Plus two archive posts recapping 100 Films Year 1...


2007 In Retrospect

Read on for my five least-favourite films I’ve seen this year, and (more interestingly, I’m sure) my top ten — in a lovely countdown and all!

Read more here.


2007: The Full List

And so the end is here. Yes, finally this time! ... as we’ve reached the end, here’s the full alphabetical list of everything I saw, followed by some intensely interesting statistical whatsits.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Doctor Who
35x08 The Zygon Inversion
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Lone Ranger (2013)
[#177 in 100 Films in a Year 2015]

Collection Count

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

Number of titles in collection: 1,808 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,210 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 598 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 4,540 [up 2]
Number of films in collection: 1,959 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes in collection: 6,805 [no change]
Number of short films in collection: 457 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

Films

Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
[#176 in 100 Films in a Year 2015]

Articles

John Lewis Christmas advert: who is Moon Hitler?
by Stuart Heritage (from the Guardian)

Perfectly skewering John Lewis' annual mawkishness-fest.

TV

Arrow
4x02 The Candidate

Have I Got News For You
50x03 (16/10/2015 edition; extended repeat)
[Watch the extended version (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

The Flash
2x02 Flash of Two Worlds

Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs
4x03 Episode 3
[Watch it (again) on ITV Player.]

Films

The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
[#175 in 100 Films in a Year 2015]

TV

Castle
5x12 Death Gone Crazy

Films

Force Majeure (2014)
[#174 in 100 Films in a Year 2015]