Films

Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
[#8 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]

Films

The Dead Don't Die (2019)
[#7 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]

Films

1917 (2019)
[#6 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]

TV

Doctor Who
38x03 Orphan 55
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

this week on 100 Films

My review of last year finally came to an end this week over at 100 Films in a Year, with the following posts...


2019 Statistics

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. No, not Christmas — that’s well and truly over now, isn’t it? No, I mean this — the day I publish my annual statistics post! As the guy who does the introductions to films at Odeon might say, “ooh, yeah, the statistics. I love the statistics.”

Read more here.


The Best & Worst of 2019

Where others may do a top ten, or twenty, or fifty, nowadays I do a top 10%. This year I watched 151 films, so my ‘top ten’ has 15 films... As well as my favourite films I saw during 2019, this final review-of-the-year post also includes my least favourite films, as well as a list of 2019’s most noteworthy releases that I missed.

Read more here.


Finally for now, a look back at some Christmas TV...





More next Sunday.

Films

Dial M for Murder 3D (1954)
[#5 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]

+ the Featurette and theatrical trailer on the Blu-ray. The former was informative, the latter was a trailer.

Collection Count

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

After all the busy-ness around Christmas, there's nothing to report this week. I'm sure things will pick up soon.

Number of titles in collection: 2,276 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 1,124 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,152 [no change]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 37 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 5,932 [no change]
Number of films: 2,667 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 8,693 [no change]
Number of short films: 676 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Dracula
Part 3 The Dark Compass [finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer in the UK or Netflix elsewhere.]

In Search of Dracula with Mark Gatiss
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Little Women (2019)
[#4 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]

TV

Dracula
Part 2 Blood Vessel
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer in the UK or Netflix elsewhere.]

Films

Zatoichi at Large (1972)
[2nd watch]

Rewatchathon 2020 #1. I first watched this last August, but didn't get round to reviewing it. Looking at it and my notes again the other day, I realised I didn't remember it in the slightest -- makes it a bit difficult to review, that. So here I am again.

TV

Dracula
Part 1 The Rules of the Beast
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer in the UK or Netflix elsewhere.]

TV

Doctor Who
38x02 Spyfall Part Two
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Lucifer
3x11 City of Angels?
[Watch season 3 (again) on Prime Video.]

Not Going Out
10x06 Whodunnit?

Vienna Blood
1x03 The Lost Child [season finale]
[Watch the it (again) on iPlayer.]

this week on 100 Films

Over at 100 Films in a Year, I'm part way through my review of last year. It all started with the usual look back at the last month...





...and has continued with these...


2019: The Full List

Here we are once again, dear readers: another year over, another long list of films. The final tally of new feature films I saw in 2019 is 151.

Read more here.


My Most-Read Posts of 2019

2019 may’ve given us the highest grossing film of all time, but TV reviews once again dominate my most-viewed posts of the year... But this is still theoretically a film blog, so — as usual — I’ve compiled my five most-read TV posts and then my five most-read film reviews.

Read more here.


I would like to have had the entire review of the year up by now, but I've been busy this weekend. More of it next Sunday.

TV

The Big Fat Quiz of the Decade
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

The Goes Wrong Show
1x02 The Pilot (Not the Pilot)
[Watch it (again and again) on iPlayer.]

Lucifer
3x10 The Sin Bin
[Watch season 3 (again) on Prime Video.]

Collection Count

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

Well, I say that -- it's been two weeks this time. It wasn't meant to be! As I mentioned last time, I always intended for this update to be a little late, to serve as my usual end-of-year totaliser. But then there was a lot to compile for it (I'd been getting tardy), so it gradually slipped even later than intended, eventually ending up a whole week late. Oops. But nothing's been added to my collection in the last few days, so it's still a wholly honest post-Christmas / end-of-2019 set of figures. Lovely.

And with that said, on with the numbers...

Number of titles in collection: 2,276 [up 4 this week; up 98 in 2019]
Of which DVDs: 1,124 [no change this week; down 21 in 2019]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,152 [up 4 this week; up 119 in 2019]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 37 [no change this week; up 28 in 2019]

Number of discs in collection: 5,932 [up 17 this week; up 310 in 2019]
Number of films: 2,667 [up 23 this week; up 181 in 2019]
Number of TV episodes: 8,693 [up 12 this week; up 365 in 2019]
Number of short films: 676 [no change this week; up 25 in 2019]

Total running time of collection (approx.):
434 days, 7 hours, and 3 minutes.
(Up 2 days, 21 hours, and 8 minutes from last month.)
(Up 19 days, 7 hours, and 40 minutes from last year.)

That's my smallest year-on-year running time increase since 2014 -- which was also the case last year, but this year it's even lower again. And, as I said then, it's good really, because I shouldn't buy so much stuff... but I'm gonna keep doing it!

And therefore, as ever, I'll see you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Celebrity Mastermind
2019/2020 Episode 4 (of 10)
Watching out of order because someone said this contained "one of the TV moments of 2020" already. They were exaggerating.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Not Going Out
10x05 Memory

Films

Rocketman (2019)
[#3 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]

TV

The Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2019
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Lucifer
3x09 The Sinnerman
[Watch season 3 (again) on Prime Video.]

Films

Evil Under the Sun (1982)
[#2 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]

Articles

Gavin and Stacey Christmas special is most-watched TV comedy for 17 years
(from BBC News)

That headline buries the real story: that the Gavin & Stacey Christmas special was the only scripted programme among the top ten most-watched programmes of the entire decade. Mad. (The other nine included eight sporting events and one X Factor final.)

TV

Criminal: United Kingdom
1x02 Stacey
1x03 Jay [season finale]
This is an odd old show. Will try to gather some more thoughts for my next 100 Films TV column.
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Doctor Who
38x01 Spyfall Part One
A superb return to form, I thought.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Miranda
My Such Fun Celebration [10th anniversary special]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Crooked House (2017)
[#1 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]

TV

Lucifer
3x08 Chloe Does Lucifer
[Watch season 3 (again) on Prime Video.]

Not Going Out
10x04 Schooling

Films

Death on the Nile (1978)
[#151 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco
1x07 Fog of War
1x08 In for a Pound [season finale]

Criminal: United Kingdom
1x01 Edgar
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

The Goes Wrong Show
1x01 The Spirit of Christmas [2nd watch]
[Watch it (again and again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar (2019)
[#150 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Sort-of-sequel to Agatha and the Truth of Murder.

this week on 100 Films

There was 1 new post on 100 Films in a Year in the past week...


A seasonal message from 100 Films

it’s been a funny old year... On the one hand, the number of new films I’ve watched already puts it in my top five years ever. And I’ve had easily my most number of visitors ever, with the number of hits already up over 24% from last year. But on the other... My actual blogging has been much more sporadic, with only 124 posts published so far this year (for comparison, every year from 2015 to 2018 ended up with over 200). And consequently my review backlog has reached insane proportions — a whopping 178 films I’ve watched but not reviewed.

Read more here.

More next Sunday.

TV

Celebrity Mastermind
2019/2020 Episode 1 (of 10)
aka Champion of Champions
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Gavin & Stacey
A Special Christmas [Christmas special; 2nd watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Lucifer
3x07 Off the Record
[Watch season 3 (again) on Prime Video.]

Not Going Out
10x09 Driving Home for Christmas [Christmas special]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Brightburn (2019)
[#149 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

Would I Lie To You?
13x05 Episode 5
13x06 At Christmas
[Watch Episode 5 and At Christmas (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

University Challenge
Christmas 2019 Royal Holloway v Sussex
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Vienna Blood
1x02 Queen of the Night
[Watch the it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Gavin & Stacey
A Special Christmas [Christmas special]
Tidy.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Mrs Brown's Boys
A Wonderful Mammy [Christmas special]
Mrs Brown's Boys is only on at Christmas nowadays, which is probably for the best, because it's pretty much the only time I'd watch it.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

University Challenge
Christmas 2019 Liverpool v Hull
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

A lot less than usual for Christmas Day. I'll be catching up on stuff later.

University Challenge
Christmas 2019 Guildhall School of Music and Drama v UCL
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

QI
17x09 Quizmas [Christmas special]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

University Challenge
Christmas 2019 Birmingham City University v Wadham College, Oxford
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

The Goes Wrong Show
1x01 The Spirit of Christmas
Magnificently funny. So glad there are five more of these to look forward to.
[Watch it (again... and again and again, it's so good) on iPlayer.]

University Challenge
Christmas 2019 Leeds University v Clare College, Cambridge
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Have I Got News For You
58x10 (20/12/2019 edition) [season finale]
[Watch the it (again) on iPlayer.]

Vienna Blood
1x01 The Last Seance
I could offer comment, but I could just as easily point you to this (completely spoiler-filled) review from The Guardian. In short: bit predictable and formulaic with very little new (it owes a certain debt to Sherlock Holmes), but decently made and reasonably entertaining nonetheless.
[Watch the it (again) on iPlayer.]

this week on 100 Films

After several weeks of total silence, there were a couple of new posts on 100 Films in a Year this week.

First, a review of a certain major motion picture...


Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

Remember those people who tried to crowdfund a shitty fanwank-filled remake of The Last Jedi? Turns out J.J. Abrams let them make Episode IX under his name instead…

Read more here.


Then, my last regular TV column of the year...





More (hopefully) next Sunday.

TV

Death on the Tyne
This sequel to 2017's Murder on the Blackpool Express sadly isn't as good. They made a third one this year (Dial M For Middlesbrough), so I hope that's better.
[Watch it (again) on UKTV Play.]

University Challenge
2019/20 Episode 21
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Eighth Grade (2018)
[#148 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Collection Count

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

Normally things dip into a lull here just before Christmas as I wait to see what I've got on the big day, but between some sales and new releases I've actually ended up with a solid number of additions this week.

Number of titles in collection: 2,272 [up 4]
Of which DVDs: 1,124 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,148 [up 4]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 37 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 5,915 [up 9]
Number of films: 2,644 [up 7]
Number of TV episodes: 8,681 [no change]
Number of short films: 676 [up 1]

Next week's update will not only cover my Christmas haul, but will be a few days late so as to be fully end-of-year-y. See you then, faithful reader.

TV

Watchmen
1x09 See How They Fly [season finale]
Or possibly series finale, based on what cast and crew have been saying. It's been such a success, though, that I'm sure HBO will be hoping for more.

Films

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
[#147 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Oh dear. What a disappointment.

TV

The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco
1x05 Not Cricket
1x06 Iron in War

Films

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Extended Edition (2003/2004)
[4th or so watch]
Rewatchathon 2019 #29

TV

Lucifer
3x06 Vegas with Some Radish
[Watch season 3 (again) on Prime Video.]

Not Going Out
10x02 Holiday Share
10x03 Facts of Life

Shetland
5x05 Episode 5
5x06 Episode 6 [season finale]

TV

Lucifer
3x05 Welcome Back, Charlotte Richards
[Watch season 3 (again) on Prime Video.]

Shetland
5x03 Episode 3
5x04 Episode 4

Films

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Extended Edition (2002/2003)
[4th or so watch]
Rewatchathon 2019 #28

Unfortunately, I have to echo what I wrote last time. Some of the stuff in this film is so, so great (Helms Deep; most of the stuff with Rohan, actually; Gollum; Faramir; individual scenes, moments, and lines), but the overall film feels very, very long.

TV

Not Going Out
10x01 Parachute

Shetland
5x01 Episode 1
5x02 Episode 2

Films

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition (2001/2002)
[4th or so watch]
Rewatchathon 2019 #27

Can't believe it's been another four-and-a-half years since I watched this trilogy! I knew it'd been a while, but it doesn't feel like that long. Mad. Anyway, the important thing is it's still great.

TV

Lucifer
3x04 What Would Lucifer Do?
[Watch season 3 (again) on Prime Video.]

Not Going Out
10x00 Ding Dong Merrily on Live [Christmas special; 3rd watch]

Strictly Come Dancing
17x25 The Final [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Collection Count

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

This week would normally be the next running time update, but I've bumped that to the end of the month to do my usual post-Christmas / end-of-the-year running time & totals (rather than do it now and again in two weeks!)

As for this week's additions, there's a new release of Sergio Leone's final Western (which upgrades my DVD copy to a BD copy), and a couple of pickups from Anime Ltd's Christmas sale (which add quite a few bits and pieces).

Number of titles in collection: 2,268 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,124 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,144 [up 3]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 37 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 5,906 [up 8]
Number of films: 2,637 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 8,681 [up 26]
Number of short films: 675 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Have I Got News For You
58x09 (13/12/2019 edition)
[Watch the it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Have I Got News For You
58x08 (6/12/2019 edition)
[Watch the it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Watchmen
1x07 An Almost Religious Awe
1x08 A God Walks into Abar
O. M. G.

TV

Watchmen
1x06 This Extraordinary Being

TV

There's Something About Movies
1x06 Episode 6 [season finale]

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

TV

There's Something About Movies
1x03 Episode 3
1x04 Episode 4
1x05 Episode 5

TV

There's Something About Movies
1x01 Episode 1
1x02 Episode 2

Collection Count

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

This week's big (literally) addition is a massive (literally) treat to myself: the complete Game of Thrones box set -- the limited edition version, which comes in a huge box. Oh, but it is beautiful! As well as nice packaging, it contains some exclusive special features worth owning, hence why I've bought it despite already owning seasons 1-7.

I owned all of those with their Amazon-exclusive bonus discs, which are recompiled onto just two discs in the new set; plus the first three seasons have been re-encoded onto fewer discs, too. So although this big new set adds a whole extra season (six episodes), in every other stat it's a net reduction. (Number of films also goes up one because of a different purchase. So, for what it's worth, the Thrones set is 33 discs and 73 episodes.)

But while it may've cut back on some numbers here, its physical impact on my shelf space is gigantic (did I mention it's big?)

Number of titles in collection: 2,266 [down 5]
Of which DVDs: 1,125 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,141 [down 5]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 37 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 5,898 [down 4]
Number of films: 2,635 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 8,655 [up 6]
Number of short films: 675 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Comedians Giving Lectures
1x07 Episode 7
1x08 Episode 8 [season finale]
[Watch the whole series (again) on UKTV Play.]

The Great Model Railway Challenge
2x08 The Final: Surprise Surprise [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on My5.]

One Night: Joshua vs Ruiz
Not normally my kind of thing, though enjoying all of the Rocky/Creed movies last year has changed my perspective somewhat. (And I only half watched this anyway.)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

The Great Model Railway Challenge
2x06 Semi-Final 1: Myths, Monsters, Legends & Fables
2x07 Semi-Final 2: Blockbuster Films
[Watch semi-finals one and two (again) on My5.]

TV

The Great Model Railway Challenge
2x05 Heat Five: The Sky's the Limit
[Watch it (again) on My5.]

TV

Comedians Giving Lectures
1x05 Episode 5
1x06 Episode 6
[Watch the whole series (again) on UKTV Play.]

TV

The Great Model Railway Challenge
2x04 Heat Four: Uncharted Territory
[Watch it (again) on My5.]

University Challenge
2019/20 Episode 19
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Comedians Giving Lectures
1x02 Episode 2
1x03 Episode 3
1x04 Episode 4
[Watch the whole series (again) on UKTV Play.]

Strictly Come Dancing
17x22 Week 11 Results (aka Musicals)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

World on Fire
1x07 Episode 7 [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

this week on 100 Films

No new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week, but it was time for the monthly progress report...





More next Sunday.

TV

The Great Model Railway Challenge
2x03 Heat Three: Best of British
[Watch it (again) on My5.]

Michael McIntyre's Big Show
5x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Strictly Come Dancing
17x21 Week 11 (aka Musicals)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Collection Count

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

Number of titles in collection: 2,271 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,125 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,146 [up 1]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 37 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 5,902 [up 2]
Number of films: 2,634 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 8,649 [no change]
Number of short films: 675 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Have I Got News For You
58x07 (29/11/2019 edition)
[Watch the it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Watchmen
1x05 Little Fear of Lightning

Films

The Irishman (2019)
[#146 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

Watchmen
1x03 She Was Killed by Space Junk
1x04 If You Don't Like My Story, Write Your Own

World on Fire
1x06 Episode 6
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Have I Got News For You
58x06 (22/11/2019 edition)
[Watch the it (again) on iPlayer.]

University Challenge
2019/20 Episode 18
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Watchmen
1x02 Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship

TV

Agatha Raisin
2x01 The Wizard of Evesham [2nd watch]

Films

Easy Virtue (2008)
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2019 #26

this week on 100 Films

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


Judy & Punch (2019)

There’s no set version of Punch and Judy — each puppeteer has their own spin on the events of the tale and which characters show up — but there are certain elements that are, I suppose, considered standards and widely associated with the show. Here, Foulkes takes all of those familiar tropes and remixes them into a freshly imagined origin story... The setting is somewhere in Europe (never specified, and there’s a wide-ranging mix of accents to be heard), sometime in the past (it seems quite medieval, but there are buildings and notions that date from later), in a town called Seaside… which is nowhere near the sea. Judy & Punch comes with a hefty dose of absurdity and whimsy that calls to mind the work of Terry Gilliam

Read more here.


Shorts of FilmBath Festival 2019

Across the 2019 FilmBath Festival programme, 46 short films were screened — 23 attached to feature films, 17 at a dedicated ‘Shorts Showcase’, and six at the IMDb New Filmmaker Award ceremony (five in competition, one the film made from the winning screenplay of the IMDb Script to Screen Award). I saw 14 of these, one way or another, and have compiled my reviews into this (commensurately long) post.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Doctor Who Series 12 Trailer
Exciting!

Films

What We Did on Our Holiday (2014)
[3rd watch]
Rewatchathon 2019 #25

Collection Count

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

Three new purchases this week, though as one is a BD-to-BD upgrade it doesn't register at all on these stats.

Number of titles in collection: 2,270 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,125 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,145 [up 2]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 37 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 5,900 [up 2]
Number of films: 2,633 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 8,649 [no change]
Number of short films: 675 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

The Great Model Railway Challenge
2x02 Heat Two: Classic Books
[Watch it (again) on My5.]

TV

World on Fire
1x05 Episode 5
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys
1x03 New Zealand
No offence to the featured people of New Zealand, who all seem thoroughly lovely and likeable, but this episode kind of plays like a Taika Waititi mockumentary.
[Watch it (again) on My5.]

TV

Novels That Shaped Our World
1x01 A Woman's Place
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

World on Fire
1x04 Episode 4
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The five nominees for the IMDb New Filmmaker Award at FilmBath Festival 2019. The winner was Gladiators on Wheels, while the audience award went to Hey You.

Facing It (2018)
[#145e in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Gladiators on Wheels (2019)
[#145b in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Hey You (2019)
[#145a in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Tight Spot (2018)
[#145c in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

When Voices Unite (2017)
[#145d in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

His Dark Materials
1x03 The Spies
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

University Challenge
2019/20 Episode 17
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

His Dark Materials
1x02 The Idea of North
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Jojo Rabbit (2019)
[#145 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019)
[#144 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

this week on 100 Films

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


Little Monsters (2019)

Strumming a ukulele in her yellow sundress as she communicates with children on their level, Miss Caroline screams “Manic Pixie Dream Girl”. Fortunately, in the hands of Oscar-winner Nyong’o, there’s more to her than that, be it her savvy handling of Dave (clearly the latest in a long line of lustful dads) or wielding a spade to fight the undead. That sentiment perhaps extends to the film as a whole: it may be constructed from familiar building blocks, but its peppered with enough little moments of freshness

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

Collection Count

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

Two new titles this week; an adjustment to the total number of discs (which I somehow totally messed up last week); and the monthly running time update.

Number of titles in collection: 2,268 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,125 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,143 [up 2]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 37 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 5,898 [down 3]
Number of films: 2,631 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 8,649 [no change]
Number of short films: 675 [up 1]

Total running time of collection (approx.):
431 days, 9 hours, and 55 minutes.
(Up 8 hours and 56 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader.

Films

Judy & Punch (2019)
[#143 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Woman in Stall (2018)
[#142a in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

University Challenge
2019/20 Episode 16
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

And Then We Danced (2019)
[#142 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Spooning (2019)
[#141b in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Terra (2019)
[#141a in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Films

Filmfarsi (2019)
[#141 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

My Theatre (2019)
[#140a in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Films

La Belle Époque (2019)
[#140 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Films

Harriet (2019)
[#139 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

His Dark Materials
1x01 Lyra's Jordan
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Collection Count

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

I was away last week and forgot to get the post setup; but as there was only one new addition, and it was a fairly straight DVD-to-BD upgrade, its changes would've been barely noticeable anyhow.

Though they're even less noticeable after one of this week's additions -- something complicated that turned up last minute, hence this update being late (not that anyone cares). That was the Batman Beyond Blu-ray set, which upgrades the series DVD but, in the UK release, doesn't include the movie on Blu-ray (despite how it was advertised). So, I've kept my uncut US DVD of the movie (for now -- I intend to upgrade to a standalone BD version later), and the six-disc BD series set replaces the nine-disc DVD series set -- which means that, despite adding four new titles this week, overall there's a drop in the number of discs.

Number of titles in collection: 2,266 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,125 [down 2]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,141 [up 4]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 37 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 5,901 [down 1]
Number of films: 2,629 [up 3]
Number of TV episodes: 8,649 [no change]
Number of short films: 674 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

this week on 100 Films

Only 1 new post at 100 Films in a Year this week...


FilmBath Festival – Opening Night

FilmBath is a local festival giving local people a chance to see previews ahead of general release; films that have already been released but didn’t make it to one of Bath’s cinemas; and smaller, interesting movies that might be difficult to see at all outside a festival. The opening night kicked off the festival with a double bill of the first of those, including an exciting late addition to the lineup — so late it didn’t even make the brochure... I saw both films, and I’ll write full reviews nearer their wide releases, but for the time being here are some thoughts.

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More next Sunday.

Films

Little Monsters (2019)
[#138 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Pleased to Eat You! (2019)
[2nd watch]

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
[#137 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

The Graham Norton Show
26x07 (8/11/19 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Have I Got News For You
58x04 (1/11/2019 edition)
58x05 (8/11/2019 edition)
[Watch the 1/11 and 8/11 editions (again) on iPlayer.]

University Challenge
2019/20 Episode 15
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Would I Lie To You?
13x04 Episode 4
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]