Castle
6x16 Room 147
6x17 In the Belly of the Beast
The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
3x06 Episode 6
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Luke Cage
1x01 Moment of Truth
1x02 Code of the Streets
Saturday, 1 October 2016
Friday, 30 September 2016
Films
The Nice Guys (2016)
[#156 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
[#157 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]
[#156 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
[#157 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]
Thursday, 29 September 2016
TV
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
5x05 Episode 5
The Great British Bake Off
7x06 Botanical Week
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
5x05 Episode 5
The Great British Bake Off
7x06 Botanical Week
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Wednesday, 28 September 2016
Tuesday, 27 September 2016
Monday, 26 September 2016
Sunday, 25 September 2016
this week on 100 Films
5 brand-new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...
Badlands (1973)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
Ted 2 (2015)
Also, my 100 Favourites series continued with 2 more posts...
Road to Perdition (2002)
The Rock (1996)
More next Sunday.
Badlands (1973)
"He was 25 years old. He combed his hair like James Dean. He was very fastidious. People who littered bothered him. She was 15. She took music lessons and could twirl a baton. She wasn’t very popular at school. For awhile they lived together in a tree house. In 1959, she watched while he killed a lot of people." As 60-word summaries go, that pretty fairly covers the characters, plot, and, to some degree, the film’s tone.Read more here.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
The artificially-extended Hunger Games trilogy-turned-tetralogy climaxes here. Presumably you’ve seen the first three and so know what you’re into by this point — either you’re invested or you’ve given up. Unless you want to know “does it end well?” before embarking on the whole thing, of course. While Mockingjay Part 2 is not the series’ finest instalment, it brings things to a decent head… eventually.Read more here.
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014)
the film wasn’t a success, either critically or commercially — despite casting a young, theoretically popular lead in Chris Pine, it didn’t attract the young audience needed to produce blockbuster numbers these days. I guess playing the “thriller” rather than “action” card didn’t pay off... I think the reaction has been unduly harsh, because Shadow Recruit is very effective at what it sets out to do, and is, in my view, easily the most entertaining Jack Ryan movie since at least the firstRead more here.
Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
the film is a romantic confection made up of sunny Côte d’Azur locations, pretty vintage costumes, gently witty dialogue, and quality actors gamely playing along. Colin Firth is hardly stretched as a romantic lead, but Stanley’s pompousness and sarcastic cynicism gives the role a little bite. Emma Stone’s big eyes do half the work for her, though she still gives it her all in a way that makes her character and performance endearing.Read more here.
Ted 2 (2015)
The plot (about Ted trying to become a legally recognised person) exists to string together comedic set pieces. Perhaps that’s why the pace feels off: individual parts are funny, but it’s slow going.Read more here.
Also, my 100 Favourites series continued with 2 more posts...
Road to Perdition (2002)
On the surface it’s a revenge thriller, replete with ’30s mob style and Tommy Gun massacres, but under that is a more emotive tale about masculinity as it pertains to the father/son dynamic. It’s all handled with sensitive artistry by director Sam Mendes, supported by first-rate technical merits across the boardRead more here.
The Rock (1996)
While it functions well in Bay’s familiar wheelhouse of adrenaline-pumping action-thriller, it’s elevated by a screenplay that offers dialogue which, at times, can be witty and/or intelligent; and, most importantly, which creates sympathetic characters on both sides of the conflict. There aren’t many actioners where you can say “the writing’s the best bit”, are there?Read more here.
More next Sunday.
Saturday, 24 September 2016
TV
The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
3x05 Episode 5
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Scott & Bailey
5x01 Episode 1
3x05 Episode 5
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Scott & Bailey
5x01 Episode 1
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
A few week's worth of orders coalesced into the last few days, leaving me with my biggest single weekly update in... about a month. Man, I buy too much stuff.
Number of titles in collection: 1,890 [up 4]
Of which DVDs: 1,204 [up 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 688 [up 3]
Number of discs in collection: 4,881 [up 17]
Number of films in collection: 2,084 [up 5]
Number of TV episodes in collection: 7,448 [up 27]
Number of short films in collection: 473 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
A few week's worth of orders coalesced into the last few days, leaving me with my biggest single weekly update in... about a month. Man, I buy too much stuff.
Number of titles in collection: 1,890 [up 4]
Of which DVDs: 1,204 [up 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 688 [up 3]
Number of discs in collection: 4,881 [up 17]
Number of films in collection: 2,084 [up 5]
Number of TV episodes in collection: 7,448 [up 27]
Number of short films in collection: 473 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 23 September 2016
Thursday, 22 September 2016
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
Tuesday, 20 September 2016
Monday, 19 September 2016
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