Collection Count

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

Just one new thing this week -- and that turned up early because it's due out Monday. Next week will still be a relative big'un, though, with various things currently winging their way to me. Good times.

Number of titles in collection: 1,954 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,189 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 765 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 5,011 [up 2]
Number of films: 2,158 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 7,687 [no change]
Number of short films: 530 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

The Crown
1x10 Gloriana [season finale]

Elementary
5x16 Fidelity

Twin Peaks
2x01 Episode 8 aka May the Giant Be with You

TV

The Crown
1x09 Assassins

TV

The Crown
1x08 Pride & Joy

Films

War on Everyone (2016)
[#52 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

TV

The Crown
1x07 Scientia Potentia Est

Films

The BFG (2016)
[#51 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

+ all the Blu-ray's special features

TV

The Crown
1x06 Gelignite

Room 101
6x08 Episode 8
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

The Flash
3x16 Into the Speed Force

Films

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
[#50 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

this week on 100 Films

A new month has begun this weekend, which means it was time for 100 Films in a Year to look back at the old one...





Additionally, 4 brand-new reviews were published this week...


Don't Breathe (2016)

Don’t Breathe is perhaps the movie equivalent of a theme park attraction: designed to thrill you and scare you during its brief duration, not withstand plot and character scrutiny when dissected afterwards.

Read more here.


Ghost in the Shell (2017)

this iteration of Ghost in the Shell creates a new narrative, but builds it out of liberally repurposed imagery, sequences, character traits, and more from the popular 1995 anime adaptation and its sequel, and apparently from the Stand Alone Complex TV series too... Though to say “new narrative” is something of a kindness because, intricacies aside, the story isn’t new at all.

Read more here.


Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)

with technical advancements that aren’t necessarily beneficial, grander but less memorable action sequences, and less coherent thematic underpinnings, it’s clear that Hollywood doesn’t have the monopoly on sequel-y sequels.

Read more here.


Tokyo Tribe (2014)

the mix of battle rap, comic grotesques, ultra violence, gratuitous nudity, more barmy notions than you can shake a stick at, and probably the kitchen sink too, makes it possibly the most batshit-crazy movie I’ve ever seen.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

The Crown
1x05 Smoke and Mirrors

Films

Jackie Brown (1997)
[#49 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

Blindspot 2017 #3

Collection Count

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

Three new additions this week, though the disc count goes down because one's a three-disc Blu-ray set that replaces a seven-disc DVD set.

Number of titles in collection: 1,953 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,189 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 764 [up 3]

Number of discs in collection: 5,009 [down 1]
Number of films: 2,157 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 7,687 [no change]
Number of short films: 530 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Arrow
5x16 Checkmate

The Crown
1x04 Act of God

Films

Hook (1991)
[2nd or so watch]

Rewatchathon 2017 #7

TV

The Crown
1x03 Windsor

Room 101
6x07 Episode 7
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Black Dynamite (2009)
[#47 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

Ghost in the Shell (2017)
[#48 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

TV

Broadchurch
3x03 Episode 3
3x04 Episode 4
Catching up.
[Watch episodes three and four (again) on the ITV Hub.]

The Crown
1x02 Hyde Park Corner

TV

The Crown
1x01 Wolferton Splash