TV

Castle
8x19 Dead Again

Celebrity Mastermind
2017/2018 Episode 10 (of 10)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Insert Name Here
3x08 Jack [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Blade Runner 2049 3D (2017)
[2nd watch]

Rewatchathon 2018 #5

this week on 100 Films

We're in to the second month of 2018 already, which meant it was time to look back on January over at 100 Films in a Year this week...





There were also 5 brand-new reviews published this week...


Comedy Review Roundup

Quick reviews of The Heat, In the Loop, and This is the End.

Read more here.


Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017)

Two of Japan’s most successful cultural exports meet for the first time here as the King of the Monsters, Godzilla, gets the anime treatment. Originally conceived as a TV series, the box office success of Shin Godzilla prompted studio Toho to restructure the project as a trilogy of movies and release them theatrically (in Japan, anyway — the rest of the world gets them via Netflix). Part 2 is due later in 2018 and Part 3 in early 2019.

Read more here.


King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)

we’re in familiar Guy Ritchie territory: lads up to criminal hijinks with a London accent, only now in medieval costumes. [And] if you approach Legend of the Sword less as a King Arthur film and more as a Guy Ritchie-flavoured fantasy movie, there are bits of it I think are really, really good. Some of it’s great, even

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Room 101
7x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Strike
1x02 The Cuckoo's Calling Part 2
1x03 The Cuckoo's Calling Part 3

Collection Count

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

A whopping nine new titles were added to my collection this week, a mix of new releases and sale purchases. They were also a mix of brand new additions, DVD-to-BD upgrades, and BD-to-BD upgrades too, meaning there's a scattering of different changes to the numbers below.

And all of that just in time for the monthly running time update, too!

Number of titles in collection: 2,082 [up 6]
Of which DVDs: 1,163 [down 2]
Of which Blu-rays: 919 [up 8]

Number of discs in collection: 5,337 [up 10]
Number of films: 2,323 [up 8]
Number of TV episodes: 8,005 [no change]
Number of short films: 602 [up 3]

Total running time of collection (approx.):
394 days, 11 hours, and 37 minutes.
(Up 17 hours and 57 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Celebrity Mastermind
2017/2018 Episode 9 (of 10)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Insert Name Here
3x07 Jane
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Strike
1x01 The Cuckoo's Calling Part 1

Films

Accomplice (1946)
[#16 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

Articles

Highsnobsiety: A Beginner’s Guide to the Yakuza
by Mark Edwards (from Team Yellow)

Stumbled across this while looking for something else, and learnt a lot of stuff I never knew.

TV

Castle
8x18 Backstabber

Insert Name Here
3x06 John
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Die Hard 2 (1990)
[2nd watch]

Rewatchathon 2018 #4

TV

Celebrity Mastermind
2017/2018 Episode 8 (of 10)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Vera
8x04 Darkwater [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]

Films

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword 3D (2017)
[#15 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

TV

Castle
8x17 Death Wish

Death in Paradise
7x04 The Healer
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Scarface (1983)
[#14 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...? 2018 #1

TV

Castle
8x16 Heartbreaker

Vera
8x03 Home
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]

Films

Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017)
[#13 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

this week on 100 Films

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


The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012)

Naturally it’s a tale not so much of derring-do as of humorous shenanigans, though in truth it’s not the studio’s most hysterical offering, ticking along with a level of gentle amusement rather than outright hilarity... Plus it’s all carried off with the ineffable charm of Aardman’s hand-crafted puppetry

Read more here.


Public Access (1993)

What secrets lurk beneath the surface of this pretty little town? Who is this stranger and what are his motives? How will the community react to the previously-secret complaints and possible revelations? Unfortunately, Public Access does very little to explore any of those possibilities.

Read more here.


Saludos Amigos (1942)

The sixth film in Disney’s official animated canon was the first in a run of cheap “package films” that span the gap from 1942’s Bambi to 1950’s Cinderella. Frankly, if Disney hadn’t decided to make it part of their animated canon whenever that list was first settled upon, I very much doubt it would be remembered today.

Read more here.


The Straight Story (1999)

Such a simple, straightforward, grounded narrative seems so very un-Lynch-like at first, but its tale of quirky Americana, peopled by a ragtag selection of endearing oddballs, isn’t so far outside his wheelhouse.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Murder on the Blackpool Express

Would I Lie To You?
11x10 The Unseen Bits [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Boss Baby 3D (2017)
[#12 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

Collection Count

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

One new DVD-to-BD upgrade this week, which otherwise makes no changes whatsoever. Ho hum.

Number of titles in collection: 2,076 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 1,165 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 911 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 5,327 [no change]
Number of films: 2,315 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 8,005 [no change]
Number of short films: 599 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.