Films

21 Jump Street (2012)
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2017 #2
+ all the Blu-ray's special features, including half-an-hour of deleted scenes.

San Andreas (2015)
[#24 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie (2015)
[#25 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]
aka just The Peanuts Movie

Collection Count

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

Accidentally went on a bit of a spending spree this week, so there's a few new additions in spite of no new releases. Consequently expect things to be a little quieter for the next few weeks!

Number of titles in collection: 1,940 [up 5]
Of which DVDs: 1,191 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 749 [up 5]

Number of discs in collection: 4,992 [up 12]
Number of films: 2,146 [up 7]
Number of TV episodes: 7,634 [up 12]
Number of short films: 516 [up 8]

See you next week, faithful reader.

Films

Fandango (1985)
[#22 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

Hail, Caesar! (2016)
[#23 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]
What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...? 2017 #2

TV

24: Legacy
1x01 12:00PM - 1:00PM
The more things change, the more they stay the same: Jack Bauer may be gone, and all the on screen text has swishy modifications, including the famous clock, and said text is now blue rather than golden yellow, but in every other respect this is the same old 24.

Elementary
5x10 Pick Your Poison

TV

Arrow
5x11 Second Chances

Death in Paradise
6x06 Episode 6
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Not Going Out
8x03 Car
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Death in Paradise
6x05 Episode 5
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Elementary
5x09 It Serves You Right to Suffer

Room 101
6x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Don't Breathe (2016)
[#21 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

TV

Elementary
5x08 How the Sausage is Made

The Flash
3x11 Dead or Alive

Films

In a Valley of Violence (2016)
[#20 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

TV

The British Academy Film Awards 2017
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Insert Name Here
2x06 Steve [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Mad Max: Fury Road - Black & Chrome Edition (2015/2016)
[#19a in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

Fury Road was #142 in 100 Films 2015, which I watched in October 2015. This is the black & white re-grade of the film.

this week on 100 Films

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


It Follows (2014)

It’s always fun when you come across a divisive movie — “which camp are you in?” It Follows is one of those. Some say it’s an instant horror classic, others that it’s slow, boring, unscary, and can’t even follow its own rules. I’m not qualified enough as a horror viewer to claim the former, but nor do I hold with the latter.

Read more here.


The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Humphrey Bogart is private dick and consummate bullshitter Sam Spade in this (re-)adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s novel, considered the first major film noir.

Read more here.


Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)

I kind of didn’t want to like Me and Earl and the Dying Girl because I didn’t want to fall into the obvious trap of “this movie totally gets me because I love Criterion editions too!” But I thought it worked in spite of those pandering affectations. Or maybe I just couldn’t resist them on a subconscious level? In some respects it doesn’t matter how it achieved it: the film wanted to make me feel a certain way, and I did feel that way — success.

Read more here.


Tale of Tales (2015)

If you can stomach the contents, there’s a quality cast, and the locations, production design, and cinematography are simply gorgeous.

Read more here.


Also this week, I was given the Mystery Blogger Award. You can read more about that here:

More next Sunday.

TV

Let It Shine
1x06 Episode 6
1x07 Episode 6 Results
[Watch Episode 6 and the results (again) on iPlayer.]

Collection Count

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

Six shiny new additions this week, all of them Blu-rays, but two of them DVD upgrades.

Number of titles in collection: 1,935 [up 4]
Of which DVDs: 1,191 [down 2]
Of which Blu-rays: 744 [up 6]

Number of discs in collection: 4,980 [up 5]
Number of films: 2,139 [up 5]
Number of TV episodes: 7,622 [no change]
Number of short films: 508 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Elementary
5x07 Bang Bang Shoot Chute

Who Dares Wins
9x06 (28/1/17 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Arrow
5x10 Who Are You?

Death in Paradise
6x04 Episode 4
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

The Flash
3x10 Borrowing Problems From the Future

Pointless
16x36 1,000th Episode
Turns out the last time I watched regular Pointless was 3½ years ago -- for the 500th episode.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Hell or High Water (2016)
[#19 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

TV

Elementary
5x06 Ill Tidings

The Missing
2x08 The Mountain [season finale]

Articles

Exclusive insights into The Missing series 2: What was cut, and one huge twist that almost didn't happen
by Morgan Jeffery (from Digital Spy)
As I finished the series tonight, I was able to read this piece I'd had saved for nearly two months. Very interesting.