TV

Death in Paradise
9x08 Episode 8 [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Good Place
3x11 Chidi Sees the Time-Knife
3x12 Pandemonium [season finale]
[Watch the whole series (again) on Netflix.]

Lucifer
3x24 A Devil of My Word [season finale]
[Watch season 3 (again) on Prime Video.]

The Rookie
1x06 The Hawke

Articles

Candyman Director Bernard Rose Details His Unmade Sequel in More Depth Than Ever Before
by Jason Jenkins (from Bloody Disgusting)

The headline sums up the basis of this article pretty well, but it's worth a read for all the fascinating details. It sounds like a film with a lot of promise -- shame we'll never get to see it.

TV

Death in Paradise
9x07 Episode 7
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Flesh and Blood
1x04 Episode 4 [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]

Friday Night Dinner
5x06 Wilson [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

The Good Place
3x10 The Book of Dougs
[Watch the whole series (again) on Netflix.]

Lucifer
3x23 Quintessential Deckerstar
[Watch season 3 (again) on Prime Video.]

TV

Death in Paradise
9x06 Episode 6
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Flesh and Blood
1x02 Episode 2
1x03 Episode 3
[Watch episodes two and three (again) on the ITV Hub.]

The Good Place
3x08 Don't Let the Good Life Pass You By
3x09 Janet(s)
[Watch the whole series (again) on Netflix.]

Lucifer
3x21 Anything Pierce Can Do I Can Do Better
3x22 All Hands on Decker
[Watch season 3 (again) on Prime Video.]

TV

Death in Paradise
9x05 Episode 5
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Flesh and Blood
1x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]

The Good Place
3x06 A Fractured Inheritance
3x07 The Worst Possible Use of Free Will
[Watch the whole series (again) on Netflix.]

Lucifer
3x20 The Angel of San Bernardino
[Watch season 3 (again) on Prime Video.]

TV

The Good Place
3x04 Jeremy Bearimy
3x05 The Ballad of Donkey Doug
[Watch the whole series (again) on Netflix.]

McDonald & Dodds
1x01 The Fall of the House of Crockett
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]

this week on 100 Films

A new month began yesterday, which meant it was time to once again look the last one over at 100 Films in a Year...





Also this past week, 1 new review...


Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

Now, here’s a film I really need to see again. Not to affirm whether I liked it or not — in fact, I loved it; enough to rank it the #1 film I saw in 2019 — but to fully assess and analyse and process it. This admission is not the best way to begin a review — reviews are meant to be assessment and/or analysis, after all — but, nonetheless, it indicates the kind of effect I felt from the film. What is that effect? In my best-of-year piece I said it was “the kind of film that casts a spell”, by which I’m referring to how it sweeps you in; how it engages you in such a way that you’re just experiencing it

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Doctor Who
38x08 The Haunting of Villa Diodati [2nd watch]
38x09 Ascension of the Cybermen [2nd watch]
38x10 The Timeless Children [season finale]
[Watch season 38, aka series 12, (again) on iPlayer.]

The Rookie
1x05 The Roundup

Films

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)
[#30 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]

TV

The Twilight Zone
3x33 The Dummy

Films

Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
[#29 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]

Collection Count

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

It's a little late this week (only a few hours, not that anyone'd care whatever) because it's time for the monthly running time update, and I've been buying so much stuff recently that there was a lot I hadn't yet added. As for this week itself, there are only three new additions, which normally would be a kinda average number, but for recent times is on the low end. (Never fear, I've got loads on order.)

One other observation this week: I've landed on exactly 6,000 discs. 6,000! Crikey.

Number of titles in collection: 2,301 [up 3]
Of which DVDs: 1,114 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,187 [up 3]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 45 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 6,000 [up 5]
Number of films: 2,693 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 8,769 [no change]
Number of short films: 688 [no change]

Total running time of collection (approx.):
439 days, 7 hours, and 9 minutes.
(Up 2 days, 1 hour, and 15 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

The Twilight Zone
3x09 Deaths-Head Revisited
+ the audio commentary by Twilight Zone expert Marc Scott Zicree and author Neil Gaiman

Films

The Karate Kid (1984)
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2020 #8. I'm sure we rented this on video when I was a kid, but I don't remember any of it. No idea if I ever saw the sequels.

TV

The Twilight Zone
3x05 A Game of Pool

Films

Parasite (2019)
[#28 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]

TV

The Twilight Zone
2x17 Twenty Two
2x22 Long Distance Call

Films

Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
[#27 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]

TV

The Twilight Zone
1x27 The Big Tall Wish

Films

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
[#26 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Blindspot 2020 #2

+ the special features on the Blu-ray, which amount to a short introduction, a re-release trailer, and two of the featurettes Universal produced for their 100th anniversary, Restoring the Classics and Academy Award Winners

Seasons of War (2015)
A short Doctor Who-related fan film, made to promote a charity anthology book (which is no longer available). You can watch the film on YouTube here. Normally I'd count this kind of thing for 100 Films, but eh, I'm not sure I can be bothered.