Creature from the Black Lagoon 3D (1954)
[#71 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026]
Tuesday, 13 October 2026
Monday, 12 October 2026
Tabletop Games
Daggerheart
All 3 games continuing — in fact, this week is the one-year anniversary of joining my first!
All 3 games continuing — in fact, this week is the one-year anniversary of joining my first!
Sunday, 11 October 2026
Saturday, 10 October 2026
Films
Marvel's The Avengers (2012)
[2nd watch]
[#68 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026]
aka Avengers Assemble
Vampir Cuadecuc (1971)
[2nd watch]
[#68 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026]
aka Avengers Assemble
Vampir Cuadecuc (1971)
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
A little pile of new additions this week, two new releases and a few sales pickups. Plus it's time again for the monthly running time update.
Number of titles in collection: 3,749 [up 6]
Of which DVDs: 959 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,790 [up 6]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 567 [up 1]
Number of discs in collection: 8,993 [up 6]
Number of films: 4,841 [up 6]
Number of additional cuts: 519 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 10,145 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,341 [up 4]
Total running time of collection (approx.):
625 days, 12 hours, and 35 minutes.
(Up 1 day, 11 hours, and 21 minutes from last month.)
See you next week, faithful reader.
A little pile of new additions this week, two new releases and a few sales pickups. Plus it's time again for the monthly running time update.
Number of titles in collection: 3,749 [up 6]
Of which DVDs: 959 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,790 [up 6]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 567 [up 1]
Number of discs in collection: 8,993 [up 6]
Number of films: 4,841 [up 6]
Number of additional cuts: 519 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 10,145 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,341 [up 4]
Total running time of collection (approx.):
625 days, 12 hours, and 35 minutes.
(Up 1 day, 11 hours, and 21 minutes from last month.)
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 9 October 2026
Thursday, 8 October 2026
Fiction
Vampire Hunter D by Hideyuki Kikuchi (translated by Kevin Leahy)
Chapter 1
Oh look, I’m starting another series! This is the first book in the Vampire Hunter D series (would you believe it!), which was adapted into the 1985 anime that I watched recently, which I’ve owned for a while but was inspired to finally put on because before that I’d picked up the whole series of novels as ebooks (well, the whole series that’s been translated into English — there’s an ever-growing pile that hasn’t been, unfortunately). It might seem daft to jump in like that, but… well, it’s the kind of thing I do. Besides, it was a dirt cheap bundle, and as ebooks they don’t take up any real space, so... But I do hope I like them. They seem like my kind of thing.
Chapter 1
Oh look, I’m starting another series! This is the first book in the Vampire Hunter D series (would you believe it!), which was adapted into the 1985 anime that I watched recently, which I’ve owned for a while but was inspired to finally put on because before that I’d picked up the whole series of novels as ebooks (well, the whole series that’s been translated into English — there’s an ever-growing pile that hasn’t been, unfortunately). It might seem daft to jump in like that, but… well, it’s the kind of thing I do. Besides, it was a dirt cheap bundle, and as ebooks they don’t take up any real space, so... But I do hope I like them. They seem like my kind of thing.
Wednesday, 7 October 2026
Fiction
The Legend of Drizzt: The Dark Elf Trilogy Book 1
Homeland by R.A. Salvatore
Chapters 25–29 [the end]
It took me a little while to warm up to this, but I enjoyed it a fair bit in the end. I'm not sure it ever fully transcends certain stereotypes of Fantasy fiction, but it's not a bad tale. Book 2 should be coming in my next delivery from the partwork, so I'll probably dive into it fairly quickly. (Hopefully the trilogy-concluding third volume won't be too far behind, though if they're cycling through all three trilogies they've started in issues 1–3, it won't be until at least the fourth delivery, likely in December.)
Homeland by R.A. Salvatore
Chapters 25–29 [the end]
It took me a little while to warm up to this, but I enjoyed it a fair bit in the end. I'm not sure it ever fully transcends certain stereotypes of Fantasy fiction, but it's not a bad tale. Book 2 should be coming in my next delivery from the partwork, so I'll probably dive into it fairly quickly. (Hopefully the trilogy-concluding third volume won't be too far behind, though if they're cycling through all three trilogies they've started in issues 1–3, it won't be until at least the fourth delivery, likely in December.)
Video Games
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk...
Like so many random games I buy nowadays, I can't remember how I came across this; but it has Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam and is only 62p in the sale. Made an effort to play it today (not much of an "effort" — it's a visual novel so mostly just clicking through, and it only took 20 minutes) because its sequel (Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk...) is also Overwhelmingly Positive and only £1.54, and the sale ends tomorrow afternoon. I liked it enough to buy that too.
Like so many random games I buy nowadays, I can't remember how I came across this; but it has Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam and is only 62p in the sale. Made an effort to play it today (not much of an "effort" — it's a visual novel so mostly just clicking through, and it only took 20 minutes) because its sequel (Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk...) is also Overwhelmingly Positive and only £1.54, and the sale ends tomorrow afternoon. I liked it enough to buy that too.
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