Films

Hitchcock (2012)
[#20 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

this week on 100 Films

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


Blade Runner 2049 3D (2017)

cinematographer Roger Deakins is, I believe, no fan of 3D. Indeed, he’s publicly expressed that his preferred version of Blade Runner 2049 is the 2D one... Nonetheless, he also personally supervised the film’s conversion to 3D. I guess that’s some kind of dedication. It shouldn’t be a huge surprise, then, that this is not a film designed to show off in 3D — but that’s not to say it’s bad. Rather, what it most often offers is a subtle, believable delineation of space.

Read more here.


The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

“Logic doesn’t apply to any of this.” So says Tam, played by Zhang Ziyi, about halfway through this third movie in the Cloverfield sort-of-series. She’s talking about the crazy circumstances they’ve found themselves mixed up in, but she may as well be talking about the movie itself.

Read more here.


Eddie the Eagle (2016)

The unlikely hero of the 1988 Winter Olympics — ski jumper Eddie “the Eagle” Edwards — gets the Cool Runnings treatment in this comedy-drama. I make the Cool Runnings connection because, firstly, they’re both about unlikely competitors in the Winter Olympics (from the same year, in fact — what was in the water in ’88?!); and, secondly, because in their transition to the big screen they were both heavily fictionalised.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

Films

Casino (1995)
[#19 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]
What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...? 2018 #2

The Love Punch (2013)
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2018 #8

Collection Count

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

After an exceptionally busy time last week, it's back to the regular drip of my ever-increasing collection.

Number of titles in collection: 2,084 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,163 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 921 [up 2]

Number of discs in collection: 5,341 [up 4]
Number of films: 2,325 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 8,005 [no change]
Number of short films: 605 [up 3]

See you next week, faithful reader.

Films

The Mask (1994)
[2nd or so watch]

Rewatchathon 2018 #7

TV

The Good Place
2x04 Existential Crisis

Strike
1x05 The Silkworm Part 2 [season finale]

TV

The Good Place
2x03 Team Cockroach

Strike
1x04 The Silkworm Part 1

Films

Beetlejuice (1988)
[2nd watch]

Rewatchathon 2018 #6

TV

Castle
8x21 Hell to Pay

The Good Place
2x02 Dance Dance Resolution

Death in Paradise
7x05 Murder on the Day of the Dead
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
[#18 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

TV

Castle
8x20 Much Ado About Murder

The Good Place
2x01 Everything is Great!

Films

Airplane II: The Sequel (1982)
[#17 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

TV

Castle
8x19 Dead Again

Celebrity Mastermind
2017/2018 Episode 10 (of 10)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Insert Name Here
3x08 Jack [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Blade Runner 2049 3D (2017)
[2nd watch]

Rewatchathon 2018 #5

this week on 100 Films

We're in to the second month of 2018 already, which meant it was time to look back on January over at 100 Films in a Year this week...





There were also 5 brand-new reviews published this week...


Comedy Review Roundup

Quick reviews of The Heat, In the Loop, and This is the End.

Read more here.


Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017)

Two of Japan’s most successful cultural exports meet for the first time here as the King of the Monsters, Godzilla, gets the anime treatment. Originally conceived as a TV series, the box office success of Shin Godzilla prompted studio Toho to restructure the project as a trilogy of movies and release them theatrically (in Japan, anyway — the rest of the world gets them via Netflix). Part 2 is due later in 2018 and Part 3 in early 2019.

Read more here.


King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)

we’re in familiar Guy Ritchie territory: lads up to criminal hijinks with a London accent, only now in medieval costumes. [And] if you approach Legend of the Sword less as a King Arthur film and more as a Guy Ritchie-flavoured fantasy movie, there are bits of it I think are really, really good. Some of it’s great, even

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Room 101
7x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Strike
1x02 The Cuckoo's Calling Part 2
1x03 The Cuckoo's Calling Part 3

Collection Count

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

A whopping nine new titles were added to my collection this week, a mix of new releases and sale purchases. They were also a mix of brand new additions, DVD-to-BD upgrades, and BD-to-BD upgrades too, meaning there's a scattering of different changes to the numbers below.

And all of that just in time for the monthly running time update, too!

Number of titles in collection: 2,082 [up 6]
Of which DVDs: 1,163 [down 2]
Of which Blu-rays: 919 [up 8]

Number of discs in collection: 5,337 [up 10]
Number of films: 2,323 [up 8]
Number of TV episodes: 8,005 [no change]
Number of short films: 602 [up 3]

Total running time of collection (approx.):
394 days, 11 hours, and 37 minutes.
(Up 17 hours and 57 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Celebrity Mastermind
2017/2018 Episode 9 (of 10)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Insert Name Here
3x07 Jane
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Strike
1x01 The Cuckoo's Calling Part 1

Films

Accomplice (1946)
[#16 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

Articles

Highsnobsiety: A Beginner’s Guide to the Yakuza
by Mark Edwards (from Team Yellow)

Stumbled across this while looking for something else, and learnt a lot of stuff I never knew.