TV

Westworld
1x10 The Bicameral Mind [season finale]

Films

Identity (2003)
[#78 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
[#77 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

TV

Archer
5x05 Archer Vice: Southbound and Down

Westworld
1x08 Trace Decay
1x09 The Well-Tempered Clavier

Films

Fight, Zatoichi, Fight (1964)
[#76 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

Muppets from Space (1999)
[#75 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

TV

Westworld
1x07 Trompe L'Oeil

Films

Princess Mononoke (1997)
[#73 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]
+ all the special features on the UK Blu-ray

Witness (1985)
[#74 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

TV

Westworld
1x05 Contrapasso
1x06 The Adversary

Films

The Karate Kid (2010)
[#72 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

this week on 100 Films

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


Candyman (1992)

you don’t know where the story’s going to go or how it’s going to end, which is always an unusual sensation in a genre movie. It contributes to it being an effective piece of horror as well. It’s creepy and atmospheric, as well as containing straight-up jumps and gore. It’s all elevated by a fantastic score from Philip Glass, which helps lend a particular type of mood — kind of religious, almost; mythic.

Read more here.


The Director and the Jedi (2018)

The Director and the Jedi isn’t some cobbled-together EPK featurette, where talking heads tell you how wonderful everyone is and how great the working environment was... For this one Last Jedi’s writer-director Rian Johnson and his producer Ram Bergman contacted documentary-maker Anthony Wonke to follow them around throughout the film’s production and provide a more truthful account of the film’s creation. If that sounds like it would just turn out a video diary, the key would seem to be Wonke, who brings considerably more artistry than that. Most making-ofs are, for want of a better word, educational — “this is how they did it”. There’s some of that here, naturally, but it’s not about that. It’s more often about the psychology and emotion of being the people making a new Star Wars movie.

Read more here.


Shrek (2001)

DreamWorks’ irreverent riff on fairytale animations was a breath of fresh air back in 2001, allowing them to net the first Best Animated Feature Oscar ahead of Disney or Pixar. A decade and a half of imitators have taken the shine off that somewhat, as have advances in technology (old CGI ages worse than old cel animation), but it remains an amusing and quotable film, with a surprisingly strong moral message at its heart.

Read more here.


Shrek 2 (2004)

I think Shrek 2 has fared better. Arguably the first one has more pure originality, giving birth to an irreverent fairytale meta-verse, but Shrek 2 expands on those building blocks and plays with the ideas. There are lots of fun movie spoofs, the climax is a legitimately good action sequence, and there’s even a decent thematic throughline about what you’re prepared to do or give up for the one you love.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Archer
5x04 Archer Vice: House Call

Westworld
1x04 Dissonance Theory

Films

Mission: Impossible II (2000)
[5th watch]

Rewatchathon 2018 #15

It seems incredible this is my fifth watch of this, considering how rarely I rewatch movies, but that's what my records say. I wrote a little more related to this particular rewatch here.

Collection Count

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

A fresh DVD and a DVD-to-BD upgrade this week mean it looks like I just bought that one new BD when actually that was the upgrade -- hilarious!

Number of titles in collection: 2,095 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,163 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 932 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 5,365 [up 1]
Number of films: 2,336 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 8,018 [up 1]
Number of short films: 606 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Westworld
1x03 The Stray

Films

Geostorm 3D (2017)
[#70 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
[#71 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

TV

Archer
5x03 Archer Vice: A Debt of Honor

Films

Das Boot: The Director's Cut (1981)
[#69 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]
What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...? 2018 #4
+ featurette The Perfect Boat about the creation of the director's cut.

Shockproof (1949)
[#68 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

TV

Westworld
1x02 Chestnut

Films

Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)
[#67 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

TV

Archer
5x01 White Elephant
5x02 Archer Vice: A Kiss While Dying
I last watched Archer four years ago, when Channel 5 were titting around with how they showed the end of season four. I was always meant to keep going but never quite got round to seeking it out. Well, the whole lot is on Netflix nowadays, so… A new, ninth season starts later this month, but I've no intention of getting caught up in time for that (I mean, I'm 44 episodes behind!)

Westworld
1x01 The Original
Also finally getting round to this, 18 months after it aired. Conversely, this I am intending to catch up on before season two arrives in a couple of weeks.

Films

American Psycho (2000)
[#66 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]