TV

Would I Lie To You?
13x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Fear of God: 25 Years of The Exorcist (1998)
[#134 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]
Mark Kermode's seminal documentary about the making of The Exorcist has been widely available on home media releases of the film ever since it was made, but for Halloween it's been released in its uncut form for the first time, exclusively on BBC iPlayer.
[Watch the extended version on iPlayer.]

TV

Children in Need: Got It Covered
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

World on Fire
1x03 Episode 3
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

University Challenge
2019/20 Episode 14
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Stranger Things 3
3x08 Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Watchmen
1x01 It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice

TV

Stranger Things 3
3x07 Chapter Seven: The Bite
So, after watching the first six episodes over five days, it's now been six whole weeks between my viewings of episodes six and seven. Oops. I really mistimed watching this season! If I'd started just a day or two earlier, it probably would've been fine (because I've been busy, hence not finding the time). Anyway, here I am now.
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Films

For Sama (2019)
[#133 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part Two (2012)
[#132 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Collection Count

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

After some busy time recently, nothing this week. But with all the releases that flood the market in the run-up to Christmas, I'm sure it'll be busy again soon.

Number of titles in collection: 2,264 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 1,127 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,137 [no change]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 36 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 5,894 [no change]
Number of films: 2,626 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 8,649 [no change]
Number of short films: 674 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

The Graham Norton Show
26x05 (25/10/19 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Have I Got News For You
58x03 (25/10/2019 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

QI
17x08 Qanimals
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Prince Charles: Inside the Duchy of Cornwall
Part 1 (of 2)
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]

TV

Japan with Sue Perkins
Part 2 (of 2)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

University Challenge
2019/20 Episode 13
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

World on Fire
1x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

World on Fire
1x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Collection Count

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

I was so busy with the massive raft of complicated additions & upgrades a fortnight ago that I forgot to mention one very important thing: the number of Blu-rays has now overtaken the number of DVDs! I wasn't sure that would ever happen -- when I started buying BD, I was intending to try to cut back. Obviously that didn't happen.

Anyway, back to this week: several all-new additions, and the monthly running time update.

Number of titles in collection: 2,264 [up 3]
Of which DVDs: 1,127 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,137 [up 3]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 36 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 5,894 [up 5]
Number of films: 2,626 [up 3]
Number of TV episodes: 8,649 [no change]
Number of short films: 674 [no change]

Total running time of collection (approx.):
431 days and 59 minutes.
(Up 1 day, 1 hour, and 49 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

The Graham Norton Show
26x04 (18/10/19 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Have I Got News For You
58x02 (18/10/2019 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

QI
17x06 Quests Part I
17x07 Quests Part II
[Watch Quests Parts I and II (again) on iPlayer.]

Would I Lie To You?
13x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Japan with Sue Perkins
Part 1 (of 2)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Teen Titans Go! vs Teen Titans (2019)
[#131 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

University Challenge
2019/20 Episode 12
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Catherine the Great
Part 4 (of 4)
She may've been great, but this series wasn't. Oh well.

Films

Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018)
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2019 #24

TV

The Great Model Railway Challenge
2x01 Heat One: The Restless Earth
[Watch it (again) on My5.]

Collection Count

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

A much more straightforward update than last week! Three new titles, three new films, plus nine bonus TV episodes, across four discs. Easy peasy.

Number of titles in collection: 2,261 [up 3]
Of which DVDs: 1,127 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,134 [up 3]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 36 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 5,889 [up 4]
Number of films: 2,623 [up 3]
Number of TV episodes: 8,649 [up 9]
Number of short films: 674 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Catherine the Great
Part 3 (of 4)

The Graham Norton Show
26x03 (11/10/19 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Have I Got News For You
58x01 (11/10/2019 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Catherine the Great
Part 2 (of 4)

Articles

Ang Lee: A Visionary Director Comes Face-To-Face With 3D’s Dimming Prospects
by Geoff Boucher (from Deadline)

Good long-ish read on Ang Lee's new movie and how he hopes to push technological boundaries in cinema.

TV

Catherine the Great
Part 1 (of 4)
Not a promising start. It looks suitably opulent (especially in UHD), but the writing and acting (despite a starry, talented cast) are thoroughly mediocre.

University Challenge
2019/20 Episode 11
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Strictly Come Dancing
17x06 Week 3 Results (aka Movies)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

this week on 100 Films

We begin with a look back at last month on 100 Films in a Year...





After which, 1 new review was published...


Colossal (2016)

you’d be forgiven for thinking this is just another indie rom-com. Anne Hathaway moves back to her Nowheresville hometown, reconnects with childhood friend Oscar (Jason Sudeikis), and romance is surely in the air. But Colossal has a couple of surprises up its sleeve. Concurrent with Gloria’s return home, a giant monster begins to rampage around Seoul, and she comes to realise these two disconnected events are, in fact, connected. Meanwhile, the relationship storyline has a few twists in store too.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

Collection Count

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

As intimated last week, there's a whole pile of additions this time. Most of which arrived right at the end of the week, and several required some real working out about what they upgraded or didn't from my existing collection -- hence why this post is on Sunday (not that there's anyone to notice).

So, those additions include:
- the Spider-Man: Legacy 4K box set, containing Spider-Man 1-3 and The Amazing Spider-Man 1&2, which replaces a variety of editions I own on DVD and Blu-ray, but not all my existing copies(!) I may let go of some more in future, if I find this new set duplicates the old one's contents after all.
- the latest release in Doctor Who: The Collection, which as it's Season 23, aka Trial of a Time Lord, is just a one-for-one DVD-to-BD upgrade
- Arrow's Oldboy / the Vengeance Trilogy on Blu-ray, which replaces my standalone Oldboy Special Edition DVD but not my Vengeance Trilogy box set (only because that's a nice box with some swag in it)
- Criterion's release of The Magnificent Ambersons, which replaces a DVD I had bundled with the US BD of Citizen Kane
- and two other titles, with four films between them.

Whew!

And yet, as you'll see, the net number of new titles is... zero. Eesh.

Number of titles in collection: 2,258 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 1,127 [down 3]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,131 [up 3]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 35 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 5,885 [up 14]
Number of films: 2,620 [up 8]
Number of TV episodes: 8,640 [no change]
Number of short films: 674 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

QI
17x05 Questions & Qualifications
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Strictly Come Dancing
17x05 Week 3 (aka Movies)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Articles

Joker May Represent The Post-Avengers Future For Comic Book Superhero Movies
by Scott Mendelson (from Forbes)

Excellent broad-sweep analysis of recent superhero era(s) and what the immediate future may hold for mainstream cinema as a whole -- i.e. "everything's a superhero movie".

Films

An array of shorts...

Allan + Waspy (2019)
[#130e in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Cumulus (2018)
[#130b in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Fifteen (2018)
[#130a in 100 Films in a Year 2019]
aka Quince

Pleased to Eat You! (2019)
[#130c in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Special Delivery (2018)
[#130d in 100 Films in a Year 2019]