Collection Count

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

This week, a trilogy box set gets upgraded from Blu-ray to UHD, which would normally mean more discs, but my previous set is so old it has digital copies on discs, one per film, so the UHD discs just replace those in the count. On the other hand, another trilogy box set gets upgraded from Blu-ray to UHD, adding both UHD discs and special features discs in the process. With two brand-new regular Blu-rays and a DVD-to-Blu-ray upgrade as well, the number of new titles is five, but the final count looks like this...

Number of titles in collection: 2,193 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,139 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,054 [up 3]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 21 [up 2]

Number of discs in collection: 5,685 [up 11]
Number of films: 2,509 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 8,426 [no change]
Number of short films: 655 [up 1]

Oh, and it's already time for a monthly running time update! Feels like only the other day I was doing the last one of these...

Total running time of collection (approx.):
418 days, 10 hours, and 2 minutes.
(Up 23 hours and 34 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

British History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley
1x03 The Jewel in the Crown [series finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Insert Name Here
4x05 Harry
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

QI
16x13 Phenomenal
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Predator (2018)
[#28 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

Insert Name Here
4x04 Emma
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Punisher
2x13 The Whirlwind [series finale]
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

TV

The Punisher
2x12 Collision Course
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Films

Serenity (2019)
[#27 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

The 91st Annual Academy Awards
aka the Oscars. Hurrah for Olivia Colman and Spider-Verse! As for the controversial Best Picture winner, well, it's certainly not the year's best film, I'll say that.

Films

Green Book (2018)
[#26 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

Great News
2x13 Early Retirement [series finale]
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Live from the Red Carpet: Oscars 2019

Films

Roma (2018)
[#25 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]
Will this win Best Picture? We'll find out in just a few hours' time...

this week on 100 Films

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


Ocean's Eight (2018)

Eight works as breezy entertainment. It’s not as perfectly slick and polished as Eleven — but then, that would’ve been asking a lot. It’s not as boundary-pushing as Twelve (a seemingly muddled film that gets interesting the more you think/read about it), but nor is it as aimless and derivative as I found Thirteen.

Read more here.


Roma (2018)

Drawn from writer-director Alfonso Cuarón’s memories of growing up in the Colonia Roma neighbourhood of Mexico City, Roma is the story of what happens to a middle-class family’s housemaid, Cleo (played by newcomer Yalitza Aparicio), over the course of ten months in 1970 and 1971. It’s also one of the best-reviewed films of the year, winner of BAFTA’s Best Film award (amongst others), and a frontrunner for the same at tonight’s Oscars. No pressure, then.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

The Punisher
2x11 The Abyss
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Films

Rope (1948)
[#24 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]
Blindspot 2019 #2

Collection Count

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

Just one addition this week, which is nice because I thought there were going to be none. I suppose I shouldn't buy new stuff every week, really...

Number of titles in collection: 2,191 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,140 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,051 [up 1]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 19 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 5,674 [up 2]
Number of films: 2,507 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 8,426 [no change]
Number of short films: 654 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Great News
2x12 The Fast Track
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

The Punisher
2x10 The Dark Hearts of Men
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Films

Ocean's Eight (2018)
[#23 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

Great News
2x11 Competing Offer
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema
1x07 Oscar Winners [special]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Punisher
2x09 Flustercluck
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Would I Lie To You?
12x10 The Unseen Bits
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Sherlock Gnomes (2018)
[#22 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

Great News
2x10 Catfight
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Music

Hamilton - Original Broadway Cast Recording

Obviously everyone's been talking about Hamilton for years, and I've head large chunks of the soundtrack in bits and pieces, now and then, but this is the first time I've listened to it properly from beginning to end, really paying attention. It's rather good, isn't it?