TV

Have I Got News For You
58x07 (29/11/2019 edition)
[Watch the it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Watchmen
1x05 Little Fear of Lightning

Films

The Irishman (2019)
[#146 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

Watchmen
1x03 She Was Killed by Space Junk
1x04 If You Don't Like My Story, Write Your Own

World on Fire
1x06 Episode 6
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Have I Got News For You
58x06 (22/11/2019 edition)
[Watch the it (again) on iPlayer.]

University Challenge
2019/20 Episode 18
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Watchmen
1x02 Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship

TV

Agatha Raisin
2x01 The Wizard of Evesham [2nd watch]

Films

Easy Virtue (2008)
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2019 #26

this week on 100 Films

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


Judy & Punch (2019)

There’s no set version of Punch and Judy — each puppeteer has their own spin on the events of the tale and which characters show up — but there are certain elements that are, I suppose, considered standards and widely associated with the show. Here, Foulkes takes all of those familiar tropes and remixes them into a freshly imagined origin story... The setting is somewhere in Europe (never specified, and there’s a wide-ranging mix of accents to be heard), sometime in the past (it seems quite medieval, but there are buildings and notions that date from later), in a town called Seaside… which is nowhere near the sea. Judy & Punch comes with a hefty dose of absurdity and whimsy that calls to mind the work of Terry Gilliam

Read more here.


Shorts of FilmBath Festival 2019

Across the 2019 FilmBath Festival programme, 46 short films were screened — 23 attached to feature films, 17 at a dedicated ‘Shorts Showcase’, and six at the IMDb New Filmmaker Award ceremony (five in competition, one the film made from the winning screenplay of the IMDb Script to Screen Award). I saw 14 of these, one way or another, and have compiled my reviews into this (commensurately long) post.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Doctor Who Series 12 Trailer
Exciting!

Films

What We Did on Our Holiday (2014)
[3rd watch]
Rewatchathon 2019 #25

Collection Count

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

Three new purchases this week, though as one is a BD-to-BD upgrade it doesn't register at all on these stats.

Number of titles in collection: 2,270 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,125 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,145 [up 2]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 37 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 5,900 [up 2]
Number of films: 2,633 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 8,649 [no change]
Number of short films: 675 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

The Great Model Railway Challenge
2x02 Heat Two: Classic Books
[Watch it (again) on My5.]

TV

World on Fire
1x05 Episode 5
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys
1x03 New Zealand
No offence to the featured people of New Zealand, who all seem thoroughly lovely and likeable, but this episode kind of plays like a Taika Waititi mockumentary.
[Watch it (again) on My5.]

TV

Novels That Shaped Our World
1x01 A Woman's Place
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

World on Fire
1x04 Episode 4
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The five nominees for the IMDb New Filmmaker Award at FilmBath Festival 2019. The winner was Gladiators on Wheels, while the audience award went to Hey You.

Facing It (2018)
[#145e in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Gladiators on Wheels (2019)
[#145b in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Hey You (2019)
[#145a in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Tight Spot (2018)
[#145c in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

When Voices Unite (2017)
[#145d in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

His Dark Materials
1x03 The Spies
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

University Challenge
2019/20 Episode 17
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

His Dark Materials
1x02 The Idea of North
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Jojo Rabbit (2019)
[#145 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019)
[#144 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

this week on 100 Films

Just 1 new review was published to 100 Films in a Year this week...


Little Monsters (2019)

Strumming a ukulele in her yellow sundress as she communicates with children on their level, Miss Caroline screams “Manic Pixie Dream Girl”. Fortunately, in the hands of Oscar-winner Nyong’o, there’s more to her than that, be it her savvy handling of Dave (clearly the latest in a long line of lustful dads) or wielding a spade to fight the undead. That sentiment perhaps extends to the film as a whole: it may be constructed from familiar building blocks, but its peppered with enough little moments of freshness

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

Collection Count

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

Two new titles this week; an adjustment to the total number of discs (which I somehow totally messed up last week); and the monthly running time update.

Number of titles in collection: 2,268 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,125 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,143 [up 2]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 37 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 5,898 [down 3]
Number of films: 2,631 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 8,649 [no change]
Number of short films: 675 [up 1]

Total running time of collection (approx.):
431 days, 9 hours, and 55 minutes.
(Up 8 hours and 56 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader.