TV

How I Met Your Mother
2x19 Bachelor Party
2x20 Showdown

Merlin
2x06 Beauty and the Beast Part 2
The cast and crew clearly had a ball producing this episode, which makes it great fun to watch too.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance
On at the same time as The X Factor. Oh ITV...
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Alone in the Dark (2005)
[#69 in 100 Films in a Year 2009]
The first Uwe Boll film I've seen. I can now confirm that he certainly lives up (or, rather, down) to his atrocious reputation.

Articles

Comedy Central orders Onion pilot by Mike Moody
(from Digital Spy)
The Onion: The Series? Sounds like a great idea, considering how funny the videos on the ONN are. So it's a shame to learn it's focusing solely on sports.

Tarantino: 'Kill Bill 3 will be out in 2014' by Simon Reynolds
(from Digital Spy)
Read the article -- that's not really what he said.

new review at 100 Films

Pushing on with yet another review this week at 100 Films...

The Apartment (1960)

It begins almost as a farce, with Jack Lemmon playing up the near-misses inherent in lending your apartment to adulterous men, and though this comedic vein never goes away the film also develops a dark side. Alongside the affairs and underhand dealings — in which our hero is closely involved — there’s an attempted overdose, discussion of other suicide methods, and respectable men getting divorced.

Read the full review at 100 Films.

There are currently 17 films in the review pipeline at 100 Films. As ever, updates here as and when they're posted.