Witchfinder General (1968)
[#104 in 100 Films in a Year 2010]
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
TV
Ask Rhod Gilbert
1x03 Episode 3
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Mad Men
4x05 The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Excellent episode. Particularly Betty's session with the child psychologist, ably demonstrating how Betty operates on the level of a child without her even realising.
[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]
1x03 Episode 3
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Mad Men
4x05 The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
Excellent episode. Particularly Betty's session with the child psychologist, ably demonstrating how Betty operates on the level of a child without her even realising.
[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]
Articles
The Audio Commentariat by David Kalat
(from All Day Entertainment)
If you've ever wondered what level of work goes into an academic audio commentary on a classic film release, this is the article for you. It may surprise you it's more than just sitting down and having a natter.
The big picture: Lightning strike
(from BBC News)
Oo-ooh.
Click to enlarge.
Sky submits late YouView complaint by Andrew Laughlin
(from Digital Spy)
(from All Day Entertainment)
If you've ever wondered what level of work goes into an academic audio commentary on a classic film release, this is the article for you. It may surprise you it's more than just sitting down and having a natter.
The big picture: Lightning strike
(from BBC News)
Oo-ooh.
Click to enlarge.
Sky submits late YouView complaint by Andrew Laughlin
(from Digital Spy)
While we welcome justifiable scrutiny, the timing of this submission is clearly designed to extend the regulatory process in pursuit of commercial self-interest rather than the public interest.Sky more interested in money-grabbing than consumers? No, surely not...
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
TV
Dave's One Night Stand
1x01 Ben Elton
Could sense Ben Elton's unease at being back on stage -- or, possibly, just his dated style -- though Jason Byrne was rather good.
How I Met Your Mother
5x20 Home Wreckers
[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]
Whites
1x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]
1x01 Ben Elton
Could sense Ben Elton's unease at being back on stage -- or, possibly, just his dated style -- though Jason Byrne was rather good.
How I Met Your Mother
5x20 Home Wreckers
[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]
Whites
1x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]
Monday, 11 October 2010
Films
The Good German (2006)
[#103 in 100 Films in a Year 2010]
2006? Really? Didn't think this was so old. (I know it's only four years, but still, I didn't think it was that old.)
[#103 in 100 Films in a Year 2010]
2006? Really? Didn't think this was so old. (I know it's only four years, but still, I didn't think it was that old.)
Articles
Freeman confirms rejecting Hobbit role by Mayer Nissim
(from Digital Spy)
Dear journalists (especially at Digital Spy, of course), this is why you don't end articles with comments like "Freeman is expected to be done filming Animals before taking on the role of Bilbo Baggins in the Hobbit movies" until the rumours you've heard (incidentally, in this case, rumours which said he'd turned it down) have been properly officially confirmed. Now your journalistic ability just looks like bobbins. Which it is, but you can always improve.
(from Digital Spy)
Dear journalists (especially at Digital Spy, of course), this is why you don't end articles with comments like "Freeman is expected to be done filming Animals before taking on the role of Bilbo Baggins in the Hobbit movies" until the rumours you've heard (incidentally, in this case, rumours which said he'd turned it down) have been properly officially confirmed. Now your journalistic ability just looks like bobbins. Which it is, but you can always improve.
Sunday, 10 October 2010
TV
Argumental
3x08 (5/10/10 edition)
Downton Abbey
1x03 Episode Three
[Watch it (again) on ITV Player.]
QI
8x04 Humans (extended repeat)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
3x08 (5/10/10 edition)
Downton Abbey
1x03 Episode Three
[Watch it (again) on ITV Player.]
QI
8x04 Humans (extended repeat)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Articles
It's Official: Doctor Who To Film in the U.S. For The First Time!
(from Anglophenia at BBC America)
As a (very) geeky fan, I'm not particularly interested that they're (properly) filming in the US for the first time ever, or that the story's set in '60s America, or that River Song is back (again)... No, what interests me is that it's a two-part season opener! They've not done that before!
Also, if you're going all the way to a properly-alien-looking environment (i.e. one that isn't a Welsh quarry, which they've wound up using several times now), surely it'd make sense to use it as the basis for an alien planet? Just sayin'...
(from Anglophenia at BBC America)
As a (very) geeky fan, I'm not particularly interested that they're (properly) filming in the US for the first time ever, or that the story's set in '60s America, or that River Song is back (again)... No, what interests me is that it's a two-part season opener! They've not done that before!
Also, if you're going all the way to a properly-alien-looking environment (i.e. one that isn't a Welsh quarry, which they've wound up using several times now), surely it'd make sense to use it as the basis for an alien planet? Just sayin'...
this week on 100 Films
3 new reviews were posted to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...
Daylight (1996)
Road to Rio (1947)
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
More next Sunday.
Daylight (1996)
a fireball rips through the tunnel. It seems to destroy most cars and kill most people, except for about a dozen survivors. How are they not killed by the fireball? Well, it seems to be by the good fortune of Because We Need Some Characters. Should you ever get stuck in an exploding tunnel, pray you find yourself in a disaster movie and had been doing something mundane yet passably interesting earlier on, and you might get to survive.
Road to Rio (1947)
If you’ve seen one Road to film then you’ve a fair idea what to expect from any other: lots of comedy, a few songs, a bit of romance, as well as some general hijinks. The differences, in all of these aspects, lie in the specifics
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
Faces Death leaves behind the proto-Bond WW2 spying of the last three films (”it can almost be viewed as the starting point of a completely new Holmes series” asserts one review I’ve read) to involve Holmes in a genuine detective mystery. The story is packed with proper deduction, which is excellent, and to top it off Watson isn’t as bumbling as he could be
More next Sunday.
Saturday, 9 October 2010
DVD Extras
Filmmaker Profile: David Arnold, Composer
An interesting featurette I wound up watching while checking my Casino Royale Blu-ray played OK. It's the closest I can claim to a "cultural experience" for the last 24 hours. Well, that and this.
An interesting featurette I wound up watching while checking my Casino Royale Blu-ray played OK. It's the closest I can claim to a "cultural experience" for the last 24 hours. Well, that and this.
Magazines
Radio Times 9-15 October 2010
I read the last bit of this today. It's the closest I can claim to a "cultural experience" for the last 24 hours. Well, that and this.
I read the last bit of this today. It's the closest I can claim to a "cultural experience" for the last 24 hours. Well, that and this.
Friday, 8 October 2010
TV
Ask Rhod Gilbert
1x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Rosslyn Chapel: A Treasure in Stone
A decent documentary, but, having visited Rosslyn Chapel earlier this year, I'm quite aware that it left out a lot of rather interesting stuff. Shame.
[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]
1x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Rosslyn Chapel: A Treasure in Stone
A decent documentary, but, having visited Rosslyn Chapel earlier this year, I'm quite aware that it left out a lot of rather interesting stuff. Shame.
[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]
Articles
Dan Aykroyd Writing Ghostbusters 3 Again by James White
(from Empire)
It's edging ever closer... Some seem dubious about this "new generation"/"passing the torch" idea, but honestly, by the time this is made it's going to be 30 years (more-or-less) since the original -- these guys are old now. I don't want to see them struggling to behave like they did back then. No, passing of the torch -- if done right -- is the perfect idea for a three-decades-later sequel.
Peter Jackson Talks The Hobbit by Tom Ambrose
(from Empire)
After all the rumours this week, PJ himself clarifies: it's not greenlit yet (and no announcement is imminent) and he's not the director (yet). No confirmation or denial of that disappointing 3D business though...
(from Empire)
It's edging ever closer... Some seem dubious about this "new generation"/"passing the torch" idea, but honestly, by the time this is made it's going to be 30 years (more-or-less) since the original -- these guys are old now. I don't want to see them struggling to behave like they did back then. No, passing of the torch -- if done right -- is the perfect idea for a three-decades-later sequel.
Peter Jackson Talks The Hobbit by Tom Ambrose
(from Empire)
After all the rumours this week, PJ himself clarifies: it's not greenlit yet (and no announcement is imminent) and he's not the director (yet). No confirmation or denial of that disappointing 3D business though...
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
A nice big pile of post this week, although it's less numbers-boosting than numbers-rearranging. There's one DVD set that replaces several individual releases, and most are DVD-to-BD upgrades... except in several instances I'm hanging onto the DVDs (for now at least). Why keep a DVD when I've got the BD? Various reasons, including additional extras and, in one case, a different cut of the main feature that's sadly missing from the BD.
If you're interested, the following stats account for 9 new titles this week. That the "titles" figure only goes up 1 shows the scale of re-ordering.
Number of titles in collection: 1,221 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,100 [down 5]
Of which Blu-rays: 121 [up 6]
Number of discs in collection: 2,996 [up 17]
Number of films in collection: 1,291 [up 8]
Number of TV episodes in collection: 4,221 [up 26]
Statistic of the week is having a break due to my busy schedule (not all down to ordering-and-listing DVDs).
See you next week, faithful reader.
A nice big pile of post this week, although it's less numbers-boosting than numbers-rearranging. There's one DVD set that replaces several individual releases, and most are DVD-to-BD upgrades... except in several instances I'm hanging onto the DVDs (for now at least). Why keep a DVD when I've got the BD? Various reasons, including additional extras and, in one case, a different cut of the main feature that's sadly missing from the BD.
If you're interested, the following stats account for 9 new titles this week. That the "titles" figure only goes up 1 shows the scale of re-ordering.
Number of titles in collection: 1,221 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,100 [down 5]
Of which Blu-rays: 121 [up 6]
Number of discs in collection: 2,996 [up 17]
Number of films in collection: 1,291 [up 8]
Number of TV episodes in collection: 4,221 [up 26]
Statistic of the week is having a break due to my busy schedule (not all down to ordering-and-listing DVDs).
See you next week, faithful reader.
Thursday, 7 October 2010
TV
8 Out of 10 Cats
10x06 (1/10/10 edition)
[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]
The People's Detective
Part 6 Poirot/Sherlock [final episode]
ITV3 are doing a poll to find which of their regularly-shown 12 detectives is the people's favourite. I'm not bothered by that myself, but I do like Holmes and Poirot, hence why I bothered to catch this one part of the series profiling all the candidates.
[Watch it (again) on ITV Player.]
10x06 (1/10/10 edition)
[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]
The People's Detective
Part 6 Poirot/Sherlock [final episode]
ITV3 are doing a poll to find which of their regularly-shown 12 detectives is the people's favourite. I'm not bothered by that myself, but I do like Holmes and Poirot, hence why I bothered to catch this one part of the series profiling all the candidates.
[Watch it (again) on ITV Player.]
Wednesday, 6 October 2010
TV
Argumental
3x07 (28/9/10 edition)
Argumental's back! Obviously; but also: yay!
Story of England
Part 2 Domesday to Magna Carta
[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]
3x07 (28/9/10 edition)
Argumental's back! Obviously; but also: yay!
Story of England
Part 2 Domesday to Magna Carta
[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
TV
Mad Men
4x04 The Rejected
[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]
Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow
2x03 Blackpool
[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]
4x04 The Rejected
[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]
Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow
2x03 Blackpool
[Watch it (again) in HD on iPlayer.]
Articles
[Doctor Who] Nintendo Games Update by Chuck Foster
(from Doctor Who News Page)
Well those don't look at all rubbish.
(from Doctor Who News Page)
Well those don't look at all rubbish.
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