TV

Jack Ryan
1x06 Sources and Methods
1x07 The Boy
1x08 Inshallah [season finale]
Despite how this looks, I didn't burn through almost half the season just to get it done for Iron Fist. Well, obviously I watched all these episodes within 24 hours, but I didn't sit and watch them back to back. (Just so we're clear on this important information.)
[Watch it (again) on Prime Video.]

Upstart Crow
3x01 Lord, What Fools These Mortals Be!
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

April and the Extraordinary World (2015)
[#191 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

Fiction

Zorro by Isabel Allende (translated by Margaret Sayers Peden)
Part 1 (pages 49-55)

TV

The Imitation Game
1x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]

Jack Ryan
1x05 End of Honor
I'd hoped to have this finished by today, because Iron Fist season 2 is out tomorrow. Oh well. (It's good, I just haven't had the time.)
[Watch it (again) on Prime Video.]

Fiction

Zorro by Isabel Allende (translated by Margaret Sayers Peden)
Part 1 (pages 32-49)

TV

Reported Missing
2x01 Episode 1
Not normally my kind of programme, but the write-up in the Radio Times was too intriguing: a dad reports his five-year-old son missing, having not seen him for two years after a custody dispute with the mother; but when the police track her down, she says the boy doesn't exist and she doesn't even know the man who made the report. To say much more would spoil the twists and turns as the case unfolds...
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Skyline (2010)
[#190 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

Fiction

Zorro by Isabel Allende (translated by Margaret Sayers Peden)
Part 1 (pages 13-32)

Films

Avengers: Infinity War 3D (2018)
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2018 #34

Fiction

Zorro by Isabel Allende (translated by Margaret Sayers Peden)
Part 1 (pages 1-12)

I bought this novel about 13 years ago and never read it (where does time go, seriously?) It was seeing it in a box the other day that (perhaps subconsciously) inspired me to watch Zorro, and enjoying that inspired me to dig this out and finally start it.

TV

Hang Ups
1x04 Episode 4
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Jack Ryan
1x03 Black 22
1x04 The Wolf
[Watch it (again) on Prime Video.]

Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema
1x04 Science Fiction
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Lost in Space (1998)
[#189 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

Films

Darkman (1990)
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2018 #33

Sartana's Here… Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin (1970)
[#188 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

this week on 100 Films

Yesterday saw the start of a new month, meaning it was time for 100 Films in a Year to look back at the old one...





Plus, the past week also saw the latest TV review column...





And in regular activities, 3 brand-new reviews were also published...


The Hunt for Red October (1990)

they don’t make big-budget spy thrillers like this anymore, but maybe they should, because Red October’s qualities stand the test of time: its story is driven by well-drawn, interesting characters and an overall sense of suspense, rather than elaborate stunts or computer-generated effects. I like the latter too, but there’s room for variety in the cinematic landscape.

Read more here.


Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)

What plays out is a solid plot, smattered with decent action sequences. Frankly, it’s nothing incredible, and you’d have reason to expect more distinctive work from a director of the calibre of Edward Zwick, but it’s still a good action-thriller.

Read more here.


Seoul Station (2016)

Before he made zombie masterpiece Train to Busan, director Yeon Sang-ho was an animation director with several features to his name. So perhaps it’s not surprising that, to accompany his aforementioned live-action debut, he also helmed this animated prequel. [...] Like Train to Busan, Seoul Station revolves around a struggling father-daughter relationship — though this one’s of a very different sort. That’s apparent from the off, but to say too much more would be a last-act spoiler. Suffice to say, it all comes to a very dark, grim ending, with none of the redemption or hopefulness of the main film.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Jack Ryan
1x02 French Connection
[Watch it (again) on Prime Video.]

Films

The Elephant Man (1980)
[#187 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]
What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...? 2018 #8

Music

The 2nd Law by Muse
[2nd listen]

As I just realised, I listened to this once when it came out six years ago... and then never again! (Aside from two tracks that I listened to a lot.) Until today, when I listened to the whole thing again. It's mostly okay, with a couple of great tracks (Supremacy, Panic Station).

Collection Count

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

This week: a BD-to-BD upgrade that changes nothing on the stats, two DVD-to-BD "upgrades" that don't replace my DVD copies, and a trilogy box set that doesn't replace the copy of the first film I already own. Plus: a 47-disc 173-episode complete series box set. And I'm supposed to be thinking about slimming down my collection...

Number of titles in collection: 2,145 [up 5]
Of which DVDs: 1,154 [up 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 991 [up 4]

Number of discs in collection: 5,508 [up 61]
Number of films: 2,394 [up 6]
Number of TV episodes: 8,293 [up 188]
Number of short films: 624 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Jack Ryan
1x01 Pilot
[Watch it (again) on Prime Video.]

Films

Zorro (1975)
[#186 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]