TV

Junior Bake Off
4x07 Heat Seven
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Moonstone
Part 4 (of 5)
Part 5 (of 5)
[Watch parts four and five (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Napoleon (1927)
[#184 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

Acts III and IV, including the famous triptych finale.

TV

The Flash
3x04 The New Rogues

Junior Bake Off
4x06 Heat Six
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Moonstone
Part 3 (of 5)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Red Dwarf
11x06 Can of Worms [season finale]
Probably the weakest episode of the season, and they save it for last. Shame.

Films

Napoleon (1927)
[#184 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

Act II. Two more to go.

TV

The Moonstone
Part 2 (of 5)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Napoleon (1927)
[#184 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

Act I only -- this 5½-hour silent epic is going to take another two or three sittings to get through.

TV

Arrow
5x03 A Matter of Trust

Junior Bake Off
4x05 Heat Five
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Star Trek Beyond (2016)
[#183 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

TV

The Flash
3x03 Magenta

Junior Bake Off
4x04 Heat Four
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Moonstone
Part 1 (of 5)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
[#182 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

TV

Castle
7x18 At Close Range

Junior Bake Off
4x03 Heat Three
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Deer Hunter (1978)
[#181 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...? 2016 #11

this week on 100 Films

Once again, it's time for 100 Films in a Year to look back at the past month on TV...




Also this week, I published just 2 brand-new reviews...


Enemy (2013)

There’s no denying that Enemy is atmospheric, but the actual story was a bit too elliptical for my taste. It was all going fairly swimmingly until it suddenly stopped just before it appeared to be going to offer answers. That naturally suggests you need to go back and reconsider / deconstruct what you’ve already seen, but it nonetheless makes it feel a bit frustrating, at least initially, and makes reading theories online a virtual necessity

Read more here.


A Knight's Tale (2001)

Renowned for its anachronistic use of rock music, there’s actually not much of that, but there’s plenty of comedy and adventure — too much: it’s a little long... An able cast keep it ticking: Heath Ledger hefts the derring-do and romance, with comic support from Mark Addy, Alan Tudyk, and Paul Bettany; but love interest Shannyn Sossamon is clearly miscast.

Read more here.


Also, my 100 Favourites series continued with 2 more posts...


Three Kings (1999)

Writer-director David O. Russell may have become increasingly acclaimed this decade with Oscar-nominated movies like The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook, and American Hustle, but for me this is still his best work. It mixes laugh-out-loud comedy with serious points about war and an ultimately emotional storyline, created with a filmmaking verve that is frequently exciting and inventive

Read more here.


Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Memorable Scene: Remote control car, James Bond style. Bond lies in the backseat of his BMW, driving it around a multi-storey car park with his mobile phone, deploying its weapons against a gang of attackers. It was a fun concept back in ’97, but I imagine you could do it yourself with an app now. Apart from the weapons. And the legal implications. So maybe not.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Castle
7x17 Hong Kong Hustle

Class
1x06 Detained
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
[#180 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

Collection Count

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

I thought there'd be a few more things to report this week, but they didn't materialise in the end, so there's just this:

Number of titles in collection: 1,908 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,196 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 714 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 4,907 [up 5]
Number of films in collection: 2,108 [no change]
Number of TV episodes in collection: 7,477 [up 10]
Number of short films in collection: 500 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

The Grand Tour
1x01 The Holy Trinity

"Not At All Like Top Gear, Honest" begins... and is very entertaining, too.

And just in case you forgot that Amazon also own IMDb...

[Watch it (again) on Amazon Prime Video.]

TV

Castle
7x16 The Wrong Stuff

TV

The Musketeers
2x10 Trial and Punishment [season finale]

The National Lottery: Who Dares Wins
9x04 (12/11/16 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Arrival (2016)
[#179 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

Suicide Squad (2016)
[#178 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]