TV

Have I Got News For You
61x08 (28/5/21 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Tom Allen's Quizness
1x03 Episode 3
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Podcasts

Toby Hadoke's Who's Round
50 Russell T Davies Part 1
54 Russell T Davies Part 2
I could listen to RTD talk about Doctor Who for hours... which is good, because this multi-part interview (it's spread across seven episodes) lasts over 3½ hours in total.
[Listen to Part 1 and Part 2 via Big Finish.]

TV

Simon Bird: Debrief
Wrote a bit of a review on Letterboxd.
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

TV

Eurovision Song Contest: Rotterdam 2021
Watching the next day, just like last time (i.e. two years ago), because I wasn't able to watch it live and iPlayer takes forever to put such a long, live show up after broadcast. It's not the same as being able to follow along on Twitter, but oh well. Anyway, I thought it was mostly a good final this year — a surprisingly strong lineup of songs — although the eventual winner was one of the few underwhelming ones, which was a shame.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

John Mulaney: The Comeback Kid
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Films

Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
[#112 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

this week on 100 Films

1 new review was published to 100 Films in a Year this week...


Psycho Goreman (2020)

Those who grew up on that stuff may get the biggest kick out of the film, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t delight its gonzo joys. I won’t be surprised if Psycho Goreman has a bright future ahead as a new cult staple.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

Films

Official Secrets (2019)
[#111 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

Collection Count

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

Just a single addition this week: Zack Snyder's Justice League on 4K. Maybe now I'll finally get round to watching it...

Number of titles in collection: 2,601 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,073 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,528 [up 1]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 102 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 6,598 [up 2]
Number of films: 3,028 [up 1]
Number of additional cuts: 221 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,075 [no change]
Number of short films: 867 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

Films

Crank (2006)
[#110 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

No, there hasn't been some mistake: this is my first "cultural experience" of the week. I just started a new job, see, and I haven't got my new schedule down quite yet to keep doing things I enjoy. Hopefully, more films, TV, books, and all the rest, to come regularly from now onwards.

Films

Good Boys (2019)
[#109 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

this week on 100 Films

4 new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week...


Devil's Cargo (1948)

It all unfolds as a surprisingly decent little mystery — no great head-scratcher, but it offers enough twists and turns to keep it lively. The conclusion may stretch credibility, and our hero more chances upon the identity of the killer than actually deduces it, but it suffices for a short B-movie.

Read more here.


Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)

Where the first film was a riff on something like Assault on Precinct 13, this sequel turns its attention to another John Carpenter classic, clearly trying to be a version of Escape from New York... It’s a perfectly serviceable storyline, and I have no problem with movies broadly borrowing storylines and whatnot in homage to other flicks. The problem is, Apocalypse is an awfully written and produced film.

Read more here.


The 100-Week Roundup XXXII

Featuring...
- The Saint (2017)
- Hairspray (1988)

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Murder, They Hope
1x03 Dales of the Unexpected [season finale]
Best one of the series. The run definitely picked up as it went along (even over just three episodes) — I hope there's more.

Films

The Aeronauts (2019)
[#108 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

Drop Zone (1994)
[#107 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

Collection Count

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

After dropping to 0 last week, it's back up to 60 this week. Not 60 new titles, obviously (that would be insane), but between new releases and a couple of cut-price bargains, there's a hefty load of new additions to report: nine titles with 15 films across.

Number of titles in collection: 2,600 [up 9]
Of which DVDs: 1,073 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,527 [up 9]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 101 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 6,596 [up 15]
Number of films: 3,027 [up 15]
Number of additional cuts: 221 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,075 [no change]
Number of short films: 867 [up 13]

See you next week, faithful reader.

Films

Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
[#105 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

Stuart Little (1999)
[#106 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

Films

Spontaneous (2020)
[#104 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

TV

Murder, They Hope
1x02 Evil Under the Bun

Films

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
[4th or so watch]
Rewatchathon 2021 #16
Continuing my Indiana Jones rewatch. This is actually my first time seeing it fully uncut: in 1984, the UK release was edited to get a PG from the BBFC, and that version persisted even until the DVD release — the Blu-ray was the first version to be uncut here. Conventional wisdom has always held it to be the worst film, at least of the original trilogy, although it's had vocal fans for years. I'm sure I saw it less often than Raiders or Last Crusade when I was a kid; it definitely stuck in my mind less.

Films

Twister (1996)
[#103 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

Films

Strange Confession (1945)
[#102 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
The fifth Inner Sanctum Mystery.
+ commentary by authors and film experts C. Courtney Joyner and Peter Atkins.