Collection Count

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

I was expecting about seven new Blu-rays this week, but in the end only one turned up. Slightly concerned where some of the others have got to, actually...

Number of titles in collection: 2,044 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,170 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 874 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 5,243 [up 1]
Number of films: 2,280 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 7,945 [no change]
Number of short films: 594 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
4x09 Episode 9
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Upstart Crow
2x06 Sweet Sorrow [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

The Great British Bake Off
8x09 Patisserie Week
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
4x08 Episode 8
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Upstart Crow
2x05 Beware My Sting!
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Articles

Blade Runner 2049: How VFX Masters Replicated Sean Young as Rachael
by Bill Desowitz (from IndieWire)

Interesting piece on how they created one of the film's most amazing special effects. (Sorry about the spoiler in the headline, but it has been out for almost a month now.)

Articles

Ghostwatch: The 1992 paranormal investigation that just had to be true, because it was on the BBC
by David Barnett (from the Independent)

I know I shared one good, long piece on Ghostwatch just last week, but here's another anyway. It was the 25th anniversary this year, so no wonder a host of articles popped up (there were many more than these two). If I'd been at home last night I might've finally watched it, but I wasn't, so I didn't. Is it weird to watch it in November?

Articles

Blade Runner 2049 Was First Cut Into A Four-Hour, Two-Part Epic (But We’ll Never See This Version)
by Zack Sharf (from IndieWire)

The headline has most of it covered, but obviously there's more detail in the story.

this week on 100 Films

This week on 100 Films in a Year it was time for my monthly TV review...





And 2 brand-new reviews were published too...


Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

It’s been a busy year for the MCU. Long gone are the days of Marvel Studios putting out one or two movies a year — this is their third theatrical release in 2017, alongside three full seasons of Netflix shows and two network TV series currently running. Whew! Nonetheless, according to Rotten Tomatoes this Thor threequel is the best-reviewed thing they’ve released this year (so far). Some critics have even said it’s the best Marvel Studios movie ever made. Well, let’s not get too hasty.

Read more here.


Transformers: Age of Extinction 3D (2014)

On a purely technical level, Age of Extinction is a masterpiece. As well as 3D, significant chunks of the film were shot for IMAX, and the IMAX 3D stuff is incredible. Sometimes director Michael Bay uses it for just regular scenes, like Mark Wahlberg driving his truck or walking around an old theatre, and even those bits are a riot of depth and dimensionality. So when it opens out to show wide scenery, or for the action sequences… wow! And Bay chooses to use IMAX, like, all the time

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Red Dwarf
12x03 Timewave

Films

Vehicle 19 (2013)
[#151 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

Collection Count

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

After last week's kerfuffling, normal service is resumed, including one box set adding an overabundance of discs compared to how many titles and films were added.

Number of titles in collection: 2,043 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,170 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 873 [up 2]

Number of discs in collection: 5,242 [up 10]
Number of films: 2,279 [up 4]
Number of TV episodes: 7,945 [no change]
Number of short films: 594 [up 1]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Peaky Blinders
3x05 Episode 5
3x06 Episode 6 [season finale]

Films

The Exorcist (1973)
[#150 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

Blindspot 2017 #10

+ some (but not all) of the Blu-ray's special features, including documentaries on the locations and the differing cuts of the film.

TV

Peaky Blinders
3x04 Episode 4

TV

The Great British Bake Off
8x08 Forgotten Bakes
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Films

Rurouni Kenshin 2: Kyoto Inferno (2014)
[#149 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

TV

Red Dwarf
12x02 Siliconia

Films

In the Loop (2009)
[#147 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
[#148 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

Films

RocknRolla (2008)
[#146 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

Articles

Ghostwatch: the Halloween hoax that changed the language of television
by Kate Mossman (from New Statesman)

A good, in-depth piece on the BBC's 1992 Halloween drama/hoax Ghostwatch, which I've still not seen. As it's 25 years old this year, maybe now's the time...

Films

The Heat (2013)
[#144 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

Moon (2009)
[#145 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]
What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...? 2017 #9

The Reckless Moment (1949)
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2017 #40. This was also #24 way back in 100 Films 2007, and is reviewed here.