TV

Bodyguard
1x04 Episode 4
1x05 Episode 5
[Watch episodes four and five (again) on iPlayer.]

Upstart Crow
3x03 If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Solo: A Star Wars Story 3D (2018)
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2018 #35

Fiction

Zorro by Isabel Allende (translated by Margaret Sayers Peden)
Part 1 (pages 69-90)

Collection Count

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

Two new additions this week, though I also got rid of one title and found a couple of filing errors, so the changes are a bit bumpy.

In more exciting news, it's time for the running time update. It's a big'un: just over 7 whole days -- a week of solid viewing! That's the biggest increase since November 2015, when 246 episodes of TV saw it jump by almost 11 days. This month, it's thanks to "just" 173 episodes of TV: the complete Mission: Impossible set that I acquired at the start of the month, which alone accounts for almost 5 days & 18 hours.

Number of titles in collection: 2,149 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,153 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 996 [up 2]

Number of discs in collection: 5,515 [up 3]
Number of films: 2,398 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 8,293 [no change]
Number of short films: 636 [up 10]

Total running time of collection (approx.):
408 days, 1 hour, and 8 minutes.
(Up 7 days and 39 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Bodyguard
1x03 Episode 3
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Imitation Game
1x03 Episode 3
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]

Magic for Humans
1x05 Guilt Trip
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Films

Zatoichi's Vengeance (1966)
[#199 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

Articles

The Walking Dead studio Telltale hit with devastating layoffs as part of a ‘majority studio closure’
by Megan Farokhmanesh (from The Verge)

Well, this sucks -- Telltale always seemed to represent a possible renaissance for the kind of games I love: adventure games like Monkey Island. But it seems things haven't been right there for a while, as the next article explains:

Toxic Management Cost an Award-Winning Game Studio Its Best Developers
by Megan Farokhmanesh (from The Verge)

TV

Bodyguard
1x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Upstart Crow
3x02 Wild Laughter in the Throat of Death
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Gods of Egypt 3D (2016)
[#198 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

TV

Daniel Sloss: Jigsaw
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

TV

Bodyguard
1x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Simpsons
13x11 The Bart Wants What It Wants
Can't remember the last time I watched an episode of The Simpsons (I was going to say "not in the lifetime of this blog", but then I found this and this), but I happened across this on TV and for some reason stuck with it. It was quite good.

Films

Courage Under Fire (1996)
[#197 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

Heathers (1988)
[#196 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

TV

Daniel Sloss: Dark
The first of two live shows bundled together on Netflix as Daniel Sloss: Live Shows (does what it says on the tin, I guess). This show lives up to its title, but it's also very clever and hilariously funny.
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Iron Fist
2x09 War Without End
2x10 A Duel of Iron [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

TV

Iron Fist
2x08 Citadel on the Edge of Vengeance
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Who Do You Think You Are? [USA]
9x01 Courteney Cox
Didn't set out to watch this, but caught the start and was surprisingly engrossed -- more by the story from British history than anything to do with Courteney Cox, to be honest.

this week on 100 Films

Just 2 brand-new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...


All the Money in the World (2017)

All the Money in the World does not star Kevin Spacey. But I expect you knew that. Indeed, if you only know one thing about the film, I expect that is what you know. Spacey’s firing, and his speedy replacement by Christopher Plummer, was such a big news story that it instantly became what the movie was most famous for — and, I suspect, is what it will always be most famous for, because the film itself isn’t good enough to transcend its own reputation.

Read more here.


The Tree of Life (2011)

Whether you love it or hate it — and there are certainly plenty of perfectly reasonable people at both extremes — it’s definitely an Experience; one every person who considers themselves serious about film appreciation needs to have.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

Collection Count

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

Number of titles in collection: 2,148 [up 3]
Of which DVDs: 1,154 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 994 [up 3]

Number of discs in collection: 5,512 [up 4]
Number of films: 2,398 [up 4]
Number of TV episodes: 8,293 [no change]
Number of short films: 626 [up 2]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Hang Ups
1x05 Episode 5
1x06 Episode 6 [season finale]
[Watch episodes five and six (again) on All 4.]

Films

The Hunt (2012)
[#195 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]
Blindspot 2018 #9

TV

The Imitation Game
1x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]

Iron Fist
2x06 The Dragon Dies at Dawn
2x07 Morning of the Mindstorm
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

TV

Iron Fist
2x04 Target: Iron Fist
2x05 Heart of the Dragon
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]