TV

The Great Model Railway Challenge
2x04 Heat Four: Uncharted Territory
[Watch it (again) on My5.]

University Challenge
2019/20 Episode 19
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Comedians Giving Lectures
1x02 Episode 2
1x03 Episode 3
1x04 Episode 4
[Watch the whole series (again) on UKTV Play.]

Strictly Come Dancing
17x22 Week 11 Results (aka Musicals)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

World on Fire
1x07 Episode 7 [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

this week on 100 Films

No new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week, but it was time for the monthly progress report...





More next Sunday.

TV

The Great Model Railway Challenge
2x03 Heat Three: Best of British
[Watch it (again) on My5.]

Michael McIntyre's Big Show
5x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Strictly Come Dancing
17x21 Week 11 (aka Musicals)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Collection Count

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

Number of titles in collection: 2,271 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,125 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,146 [up 1]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 37 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 5,902 [up 2]
Number of films: 2,634 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 8,649 [no change]
Number of short films: 675 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

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]