Theatre

Much Ado About Nothing
The version starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate. I've wanted to see this since it was announced (over a decade ago, apparently!), so it's great to finally have had the chance.
[Watch it (again) on Digital Theatre.]

TV

The Crown
3x03 Aberfan
3x04 Bubbikins
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Is It Cake?
1x03 Fake by the Ocean
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Films

Move Over, Darling (1963)

Collection Count

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

With some stuff randomly stuck in the post, there's just one new addition this week. Technically it's an upgrade from DVD straight to 4K, but there are some special features on the DVD I might want to keep, so that stays counted for now.

Number of titles in collection: 2,814 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,055 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,759 [up 1]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 166 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 7,028 [up 2]
Number of films: 3,354 [up 1]
Number of additional cuts: 256 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,268 [no change]
Number of short films: 957 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

The Crown
3x01 Olding
3x02 Margaretology
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Is It Cake?
1x02 Phony Fashion
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x115 Week 19: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)

TV

Is It Cake?
1x01 Fast Food Fakeout
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x114 Week 19: Thursday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Doctor Who
21x04 Warriors of the Deep Part Four

Leverage
4x07 The Grave Danger Job

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x112 Week 19: Tuesday
5x113 Week 19: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Doctor Who
21x02 Warriors of the Deep Part Two
21x03 Warriors of the Deep Part Three

Trivia Quest
1x01 Reel Talk
1x02 Tune In
Is this really a TV show? It's a trivia game... but it's on Netflix, presented as an interactive series, with a new episode each day. So it's kind of a hybrid, I guess... but, really, it's more of a game — you can even replay episodes in "Hard Mode" — just presented using Netflix's interactivity tech. (FWIW, on the first, movies-themed episode, I scored full points on both standard and hard modes first time through.)
[Watch every episode (again) on Netflix.]

TV

Doctor Who
21x01 Warriors of the Deep Part One

TV

Doctor Who
9x14 The Sea Devils Episode Six
An all-action climax, with gunfights and speedboat chases galore — not the kind of thing you typically expect from classic Who. While it’s all suitably thrilling, it seems to mainly be there to provide cover for the rather thin plot, which rehashes The Silurians to diminishing effect. Fun in places, but hardly one of Who’s greatest narratives.

Films

Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
I'm a bit behind and out of sync with the MCU at this point. But this movie was so widely acclaimed, it seems worth skipping a couple of other films and TV series to see what all the fuss is about. Their continuity isn't that intertwined, after all.

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2022 | Weeks 9–11

Featuring...
- Tintin and the Temple of the Sun (1969)
- Los Olvidados (1950)
- The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee (2020)
- The King's Man (2021)
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
- Nothing Like a Dame (2018)

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Doctor Who
9x12 The Sea Devils Episode Four
9x13 The Sea Devils Episode Five
Pros: oh look, it’s most of the plot!
Cons: it’s just the same as The Silurians.

The Wheel
2x15 Episode 15
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Munich: The Edge of War (2021)
[#27 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]

Collection Count

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

And lo, as was foretold, this week is indeed "a fairly large one". I said it would be thanks to both new releases and sales orders, and I was correct: three new releases from last week, an early arrival from next week, catching up on two other fairly-recent releases, plus four titles and from sales. And not an upgrade among 'em!

Number of titles in collection: 2,813 [up 10]
Of which DVDs: 1,055 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,758 [up 10]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 165 [up 2]

Number of discs in collection: 7,026 [up 15]
Number of films: 3,353 [up 16]
Number of additional cuts: 256 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 9,268 [up 2]
Number of short films: 957 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Doctor Who
9x11 The Sea Devils Episode Three
I guess this episode must’ve been running short: it begins by recapping the entire sword fight from the end of the last one, taking up almost 10% of the running time.

Films

Withnail & I (1987)

TV

Doctor Who
9x10 The Sea Devils Episode Two

Scouting for Toys
1x01 Declan's Star Wars
1x02 Graham Hamilton Matchbox Sale
[Watch these episodes (again) on UKTV Play.]

TV

Doctor Who
9x09 The Sea Devils Episode One

It’s been almost two years since I last watched any Classic Who (when I caught up on all the animations released to that point, and semi-randomly watched The Time Meddler too). Well, time has felt ever so distorted these past few years...

That said, considering I’ve been an affirmed Doctor Who fan for over a quarter of a century now, it’s ridiculous how many classic-era stories I still haven’t seen (heck, at this point it’s ridiculous there are any classic-era stories I haven’t seen, especially after I diligently bought them all on DVD). The Sea Devils is one of them, obviously, and my viewing has been provoked by, naturally, the eponymous villains’ imminent return in the forthcoming Easter special.

Not that you see a great deal of them in this first episode, which is almost all set-up. Well, there were six episodes to fill, I suppose.

Films

Fast & Furious 9 (2021)

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It's been all quiet recently at 100Films.co.uk, but a new month began this week, and that means a review of the previous one...





And with it, March's failures...





More next Sunday.

TV

Mystery Science Theater 3000
13x02 Robot Wars

Films

Death on the Nile (2022)
[#26 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]

Collection Count

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

Another moderate week this time, with three new additions, all imports from the US. It's also time for the monthly running time udpate, where all those 'moderate' weeks can sometimes add up to something bigger... though, with all the "surprisingly big" weeks I've had in the past couple of years, I guess a gradual build-up isn't what it once was.

Number of titles in collection: 2,803 [up 3]
Of which DVDs: 1,055 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,748 [up 3]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 163 [up 2]

Number of discs in collection: 7,011 [up 5]
Number of films: 3,337 [up 3]
Number of additional cuts: 254 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,266 [no change]
Number of short films: 957 [up 2]

Plus this week it's time for a running time update, so...

Total running time of collection (approx.):
503 days, 7 hours, and 46 minutes.
(Up 1 day, 21 hours, and 42 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader, when the confluence of new releases and sales orders should make it a fairly large one.

Films

A Man Escaped (1956)
[#25 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]
Blindspot 2022 #3

Films

Django & Django (2021)
[#24 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]

Films

Cobra (1986)
[#23 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]
"What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...?" 2022 #3

TV

The 94th Annual Academy Awards
aka the Oscars. Well, they're certainly being talked about, though I'd guess not in the way the Academy wanted. For me, it was a mixed bag: some of the jokes and whatnot were fine, but a lot were dreadful; there were some nice wins and sweet moments, but the show overall was a bizarre mishmash that didn't work; and The Slap... was The Slap.

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x110 Week 18: Friday
5x111 Week 19: Monday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Oscars Night Live
Sky's two-hour Oscars pre-show, with very little red carpet gumph (hurrah!) but also the surprising revelation that Alex Zane and his guests wouldn't continue chatting to us throughout the US's ad breaks this year. I know the UK studio stuff isn't to everyone's taste, but I kinda missed it, especially given how much there it turned out there was to talk about during this year's show.

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x109 Week 18: Thursday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Muriel's Wedding (1994)

Collection Count

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

Four additions this week — two brand-new, two in an offer — but one is also an upgrade, meaning I land on a nice round 2,800 titles. I'll be at 3K before we know it!

Number of titles in collection: 2,800 [up 3]
Of which DVDs: 1,055 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,745 [up 3]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 161 [up 3]

Number of discs in collection: 7,006 [up 6]
Number of films: 3,334 [up 3]
Number of additional cuts: 254 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,266 [no change]
Number of short films: 955 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple
Basic overview of the works of Agatha Christie. If you're a diehard fan, I doubt you'll learn anything, but it's a solid primer for newcomers — and, crucially, doesn't spoil any of the twists!
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Leverage
4x06 The Carnival Job

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x107 Week 18: Tuesday
5x108 Week 18: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

West Side Story (2021)

TV

Leverage
4x05 The Hot Potato Job

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x106 Week 18: Monday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Fiction

Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz
Chapters 15–18

TV

University Challenge
2021/22 Episode 35 (aka Semi-Final 1)
[Watch the 2021/22 series (again) on iPlayer.]

The Wheel
2x14 Episode 14
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Moriarty the Patriot
1x23 The Final Problem Act 1
1x24 The Final Problem Act 2 [series finale]
[Watch it (again) on Funimation.]

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x104 Week 17: Thursday
5x105 Week 17: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Nothing Like a Dame (2018)

Radio

My Life in a Mixtape
Andrew Garfield
Didn't mean to listen to this, but happened to have the radio on when it started and ended up sticking with it. Not sure that counts as a recommendation, really, but here it is.

TV

Dexter: New Blood
1x10 Sins of the Father [series finale]

Only Murders in the Building
1x09 Double Time
1x10 Open and Shut [season finale]

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x102 Week 17: Tuesday
5x103 Week 17: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

West Side Story (1961)
[2nd watch]
[#22 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]

Collection Count

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

A relatively quiet one this week, with just two new additions — both recent releases, courtesy of HMV's 2-for-£30 4K offer. But it's enough to see me hit exactly 7,000 discs. Madness!

And expect things to kick off again soon — I've been on a preordering spree this week...

Number of titles in collection: 2,797 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,055 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,742 [up 2]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 158 [up 2]

Number of discs in collection: 7,000 [up 4]
Number of films: 3,331 [up 2]
Number of additional cuts: 254 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 9,266 [no change]
Number of short films: 955 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Dexter: New Blood
1x08 Unfair Game
1x09 The Family Business

Only Murders in the Building
1x07 The Boy from 6B
1x08 Fan Fiction

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x101 Week 17: Monday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Dexter: New Blood
1x07 Skin of Her Teeth

Only Murders in the Building
1x06 To Protect and Serve

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x99 Champions Week 4: Thursday
5x100 Champions Week 4: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Dexter: New Blood
1x06 Too Many Tuna Sandwiches

Only Murders in the Building
1x05 Twist

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x98 Champions Week 4: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Dexter: New Blood
1x04 'H' Is for Hero
1x05 Runaway

Only Murders in the Building
1x04 The Sting

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x96 Champions Week 4: Monday
5x97 Champions Week 4: Tuesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

The British Academy Film Awards 2022
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Only Murders in the Building
1x03 How Well Do You Know Your Neighbors?

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x95 Champions Week 3: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

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2022 | Weeks 7–8

Featuring...
- Shot in the Dark (1933)
- The Brits Are Coming (2018)
- Ode to Joy (2019)
- The Courier (2020)
- The Misfits (2021)

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Dexter: New Blood
1x02 Storm of Fuck
1x03 Smoke Signals

Only Murders in the Building
1x02 Who Is Tim Kono?

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x94 Champions Week 3: Thursday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
[#21 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]

Collection Count

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

This week looked set to boast just one new addition — a new release, and even then one I hadn't necessarily intended to buy (the new West Side Story, which is already on Disney+), but I was tempted by pretty limited edition packaging. But then, to compound it, I went and bought a bunch of stuff on offer and/or that was headed out of print. Story of my life. And so, while not a record-breaking week by any means, it's a not-insignificant one.

Number of titles in collection: 2,795 [up 7]
Of which DVDs: 1,055 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,740 [up 7]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 156 [up 2]

Number of discs in collection: 6,996 [up 16]
Number of films: 3,329 [up 9]
Number of additional cuts: 253 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 9,266 [up 29]
Number of short films: 955 [up 6]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Dexter: New Blood
1x01 Cold Snap
Is this Dexter season 9, or a new sequel/spin-off series? Given how other series have treated legacy specials/revivals, there's no set way of numbering these things. But given it's the only season of the show with a subtitle, and it was made years later and all that, I'm going with "new" numbering (as I think most people did in the end). Anyway, it's good to have Dexter Morgan back. I didn't hate the original ending, but, nonetheless, hope they give him a more fitting send-off this time.

Only Murders in the Building
1x01 True Crime
Heard good things about this — it seemed to build up some strong word-of-mouth when it was coming out and since — so thought I'd give it a go. On the evidence of episode one, it could be a lot of fun.

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x91 Champions Week 3: Monday
5x92 Champions Week 3: Tuesday
5x93 Champions Week 3: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Grantchester
6x04 Episode 4
Still finishing the last series, even though a new one starts tomorrow. But, in my defence, it's only six months since this one aired.
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]

Leverage
4x04 The Van Gogh Job

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x88 Champions Week 2: Wednesday
5x89 Champions Week 2: Thursday
5x90 Champions Week 2: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Moriarty the Patriot
1x22 The Two Criminals
[Watch it (again) on Funimation.]

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x86 Champions Week 2: Monday
5x87 Champions Week 2: Tuesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Peaky Blinders
5x06 Mr. Jones [season finale]
[Watch series 1–5 (again) on iPlayer or Netflix.]

TV

Peaky Blinders
5x05 The Shock
[Watch series 1–5 (again) on iPlayer or Netflix.]

Articles

The Abandoned An’ Forsaked - How Did Alfred First Meet Batman?
by Brian Cronin (from CBR)

Something (I forget what) piqued my interest as to when Alfred was added to Batman canon. A bit of Googling quickly brought me to this article, which not only includes Alfred’s first appearance (in Batman #16 from 1943), but also details how his backstory has changed down the years — the one we’re most familiar with (that he’s worked for the Waynes since Bruce was a child and always known about Batman) wasn’t actually the case until the mid ‘80s.

TV

Would I Lie To You?
15x02 Episode 2
15x03 Episode 3
[Watch these episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The King's Man (2021)

this week on 100Films.co.uk

I don't know about you, but this has been a long week — so long that I forgot a new month started during it. Yep, that's right! So. no new X new films review at 100Films.co.uk this week, but there was the monthly review of February...





And, to go with it, the February failures...





More next Sunday.

TV

Mystery Science Theater 3000
13x01 Santo in the Treasure of Dracula
The new season of MST3K began with a Kickstarter-backers-exclusive premiere last night — 1am UK time, hence me logging it today. After a few technical issues delayed the start, the episode itself was a delight: a perfect movie to be laughed at while still being kinda daftly enjoyable, which, for me, is the MST3K sweetspot (truly awful movies sometimes feel like a slog that the riffers didn't have enough to work with). If they keep up this standard, it should be a good season.

The Wheel
2x13 Episode 13
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Collection Count

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

Having delayed the monthly running time update from last week, I didn't buy (or sell) a single title this week, so it remains exactly as it would have last time. Isn't that... fundamentally immaterial to anything but this column. Anyway...

Number of titles in collection: 2,788 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 1,055 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,733 [no change]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 154 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 6,980 [no change]
Number of films: 3,320 [no change]
Number of additional cuts: 252 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,237 [no change]
Number of short films: 949 [no change]

As I said, no changes. Except...

Total running time of collection (approx.):
501 days, 10 hours, and 4 minutes.
(Up 2 days, 17 hours, and 18 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader.

Films

The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee (2020)

This is the 10,000th post published to My Cultural Experience! Sorry it's not something more... significant.

Fiction

Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz
Chapter 14

Fiction

Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz
Chapters 12–13

TV

University Challenge
2021/22 Episode 31
2021/22 Episode 32
[Watch the 2021/22 series (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Los Olvidados (1950)
[#20 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]
Blindspot 2022 #2

Tintin and the Temple of the Sun (1969)
[#19 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]
aka The Adventures of Tintin: The Prisoners of the Sun

Fiction

Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz
Chapters 8–11

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6 new reviews were published to 100Films.co.uk this week...


Knives Out (2019)

clearly built like an Agatha Christie story, though perhaps with a touch more satire and humour. That’s not to say it’s an outright comedy, but this is a heightened world we’re in; it’s the real world, but filtered through the lens of a genre. And rather than follow the familiar formula of a Poirot- or Marple-type case, the film is like one of Christie’s other novels; one of the ones where the broad shape is the same, but there’s some twist or variant in how it’s told.

Read more here.


Archive 5, Vol.5

Featuring...
- La Belle Époque (2019)
- The Awful Truth (1937)
- Coming to America (1988)
- Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2018)
- The Social Dilemma (2020)

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

Collection Count

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

Just a couple of new releases to keep things ticking over, this week. It's also time for a running time update, but I'm nowhere near having that ready, so I've bumped it to next week. Hopefully I won't just find myself next Saturday morning staring at still having to add a month's worth of new acquisitions to the total...

Number of titles in collection: 2,788 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,055 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,733 [up 2]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 154 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 6,980 [up 4]
Number of films: 3,320 [up 4]
Number of additional cuts: 252 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,237 [no change]
Number of short films: 949 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

Films

The Misfits (2021)
[#18 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]

TV

Peaky Blinders
5x03 Strategy
5x04 The Loop
[Watch series 1–5 (again) on iPlayer or Netflix.]

TV

Moriarty the Patriot
1x21 The Sign of Mary
[Watch it (again) on Funimation.]

Peaky Blinders
5x02 Black Cats
[Watch series 1–5 (again) on iPlayer or Netflix.]

Fiction

Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz
Chapters 6–7

TV

Peaky Blinders
5x01 Black Tuesday
With the sixth and final series imminent, it's long overdue that I catch up on series 5 (I mean, it did air 2½ years ago...)
[Watch series 1–5 (again) on iPlayer or Netflix.]

TV

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x85 Champions Week 1: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

A Room with a View (1985)
[2nd watch]
[#17 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]

this week on 100Films.co.uk

11 new reviews were published to 100Films.co.uk this week...


2022 | Weeks 4–6

Featuring...
- Voyage of Time: An IMAX Documentary (2016)
- L'avventura (1960)
- She's Gotta Have It (1986)
- Don't Look Up (2021)
- Jackass: The Movie (2002)
- Jackass Number Two (2006)

Read more here.


Archive 5, Vol.4

Featuring...
- Going My Way (1944)
- The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
- Zero Charisma (2013)
- Borat (2006)
- The Thin Red Line (1998)

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x83 Champions Week 1: Wednesday
5x84 Champions Week 1: Thursday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Courier (2020)

Ode to Joy (2019)

Collection Count

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

This week, two new releases (one from this week, The Story of Film: A New Generation, and one from next, The King's Man) and two on offer. One of the latter two should really count as an upgrade from DVD (The Shawshank Redemption), but the DVD set I've got is rather nice, so I'm hanging on to it, at least for the time being.

Number of titles in collection: 2,786 [up 4]
Of which DVDs: 1,055 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,731 [up 4]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 154 [up 3]

Number of discs in collection: 6,976 [up 7]
Number of films: 3,316 [up 4]
Number of additional cuts: 252 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,237 [no change]
Number of short films: 949 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x81 Champions Week 1: Monday
5x82 Champions Week 1: Tuesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Brits Are Coming (2018)

TV

Richard Osman's House of Games
5x78 Week 16: Wednesday
5x79 Week 16: Thursday
5x80 Week 16: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Shot in the Dark (1933)
[#16 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]

Fiction

Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz
Chapter 5

TV

Would I Lie To You?
15x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Jackass Number Two (2006)
[#15 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]

Fiction

Forever and a Day by Anthony Horowitz
Chapters 1–4

Finally reading the last James Bond novel (it's only been four years since it came out!) before the new one is released this summer. (This is exactly what I did last time.)

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2 new reviews were published to 100Films.co.uk this week...


Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

I don’t know if Afterlife’s detractors will come round to it with time. Frankly, I don’t really care — if they didn’t enjoy it, that’s their business. At worst, it’s their loss, because this is an appropriately fun and affectionate addition to the franchise.

Read more here.


Mass (2021)

The fact Mass been relegated to the status of a “Sky Original” in the UK might mislead you (not all their “original” acquisitions are bad, but the first few were dregs that distributors clearly didn’t want to send to cinemas and neither Netflix nor Amazon had any interest in, and they’ve not done much to turn that reputation around). This, however, is a blisteringly emotional gut-punch that definitely merits your time.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

The Wheel
2x11 Episode 11
2x12 Episode 12
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Collection Count

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

No new releases this week — which, if I were truly, properly trying to cut back on my new acquisitions, would mean there'd be nothing to report here. Of course, I'm a sucker for sales, offers, and general recommendations, and that's how I've still wound up with four additions this week (one an upgrade from regular BD to 4K).

Number of titles in collection: 2,782 [up 3]
Of which DVDs: 1,055 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,727 [up 3]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 151 [up 2]

Number of discs in collection: 6,969 [up 5]
Number of films: 3,312 [up 3]
Number of additional cuts: 252 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,237 [no change]
Number of short films: 949 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

Films

Jackass: The Movie (2002)

Films

The Hobbit (1977)
[#14 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]

Films

Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

this week on 100Films.co.uk

A new month began this week, and that now kicks off two types of post at 100Films.co.uk. First, my trusty monthly review...





And now, something that used to be a part of that review, but is now its own dedicated series: my failures. Yay!





As well as that, there were 6 new reviews published this week...


Meat Loaf: In Search of Paradise (2007)

The singer Meat Loaf was very protective of his creative process, and apparently this documentary was the first time he’d allowed cameras behind the scenes to document it. Certainly, he’s frequently uncomfortable with or begrudging of their presence, although he seems to get used to them over time, allowing us some rare insights.

Read more here.


Archive 5, Vol.3

Featuring...
- Guinevere (1994)
- The Kid (1921/1972)
- Defending Your Life (1991)
- The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)
- Sherlock Jr. (1924)

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

Films

Don't Look Up (2021)
The first film I've watched this year that doesn't qualify towards my All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge. I feel like that should be a negative, but it's almost exciting. Like, this was part of the point of the new challenge — that not everything counts — and this is the first time that's swung into action.

Collection Count

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

Look, I'm not trying to keep having weeks that push close to all-time-record status, it just keeps happening! I really need to rein myself in... But, yes, another 13 new titles this week, one an upgrade, makes a total increase of 12 two weeks in a row.

Speaking of last week, I mentioned then that if all the 4Ks in the post had actually arrived, it would've been a record-breaker. Well, the remainder turned up this week (of course). It's no record-breaker, but it does see my 4K total stop just one shy of 150 titles — I thought it was going to be 150, but then I remembered one was an upgrade. How many (or, rather, few) of those 149 have I actually watched? I dread to think...

Number of titles in collection: 2,779 [up 12]
Of which DVDs: 1,055 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,724 [up 12]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 149 [up 2]

Number of discs in collection: 6,964 [up 31]
Number of films: 3,309 [up 26]
Number of additional cuts: 252 [up 4]
Number of TV episodes: 9,237 [no change]
Number of short films: 949 [up 12]

In case you missed it, those 12 titles brought a total of 26 films and 4 alternate cuts. Crikey. I really ought to watch more of my Blu-rays...

See you next week, faithful reader.

Films

She's Gotta Have It (1986)
[#13 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]
"What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...?" 2022 #2