TV

Castle
3x16 Setup
[Watch it (again) on Demand 5.]

Duck Quacks Don't Echo
1x06 Episode 6

Friends
9x19 The One with Rachel's Dream [5th or so watch]
Even at this stage, I remember some episodes better than others. This is one I recall well.

Have I Got News For You
47x01 (4/4/2014 edition; extended repeat)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Alter Egos (2012)
[#30 in 100 Films in a Year 2014]

The Falcon's Adventure (1946)
[#31 in 100 Films in a Year 2014]

this week on 100 Films

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


The Box (2009)

I believe the short story is all of six pages long — not exactly feature-length. Kelly has bulked it up by expanding the characters, who are now based on his parents to an almost freakish degree, and a massive back-end extension (the short story accounts for 30 to 40 minutes of the two-hour film) that heads deep into the same “what the…?” territory that he mined in his previous directorial efforts.

Read more here.


Chicken Little (2005)

The director of Disney's woeful The Emperor's New Groove re-tells the well-known centuries-old folk take about a chicken who became a middle school baseball champ before foiling an alien invasion.

Read more here.


The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

If the first instalment was indulgent in setting up the adventure we were about to embark on, this middle part is restless to the point of distraction. It buffets us from action sequence to action sequence with barely a chance to catch our breath. Rather than making time fly, however, this has the unfortunate side effect of making everything feel much longer than it actually is.

Read more here.


And new to the new blog...


Kinky Boots (2005)

If nothing else it’s worth seeing for Chiwetel Ejiofor (who you may recognise from films such as Serenity, Inside Man and Children of Men [and this year Oscar nominated for 12 Years a Slave]) as a drag queen.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.