Agatha Raisin
3x02 The Deadly Dance
The Great British Bake Off
10x02 Biscuit Week
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]
Jonathan Creek
3x03 The Omega Man [2nd watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
The Rookie
2x01 Impact
Saturday, 1 August 2020
Friday, 31 July 2020
TV
The Crown
2x01 Misadventure
2x02 A Company of Men
It's over three years since I watched season one! I hadn't given up on it, just hadn't got round to it.
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]
Jonathan Creek
3x02 The Eyes of Tiresias [2nd watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
2x01 Misadventure
2x02 A Company of Men
It's over three years since I watched season one! I hadn't given up on it, just hadn't got round to it.
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]
Jonathan Creek
3x02 The Eyes of Tiresias [2nd watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Thursday, 30 July 2020
TV
Friday Night Dinner
6x01 The Caravan
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]
The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
6x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]
Jonathan Creek
3x01 The Curious Tale of Mr Spearfish [2nd watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
6x01 The Caravan
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]
The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
6x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]
Jonathan Creek
3x01 The Curious Tale of Mr Spearfish [2nd watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Wednesday, 29 July 2020
TV
The Great British Bake Off
10x01 Cake Week
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]
Jonathan Creek
2x07 Black Canary [Christmas special; 2nd or so watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
10x01 Cake Week
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]
Jonathan Creek
2x07 Black Canary [Christmas special; 2nd or so watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Tuesday, 28 July 2020
Films
Spaceship Earth (2020)
[#182 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Venom (2018)
[#181 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
[#182 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Venom (2018)
[#181 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Monday, 27 July 2020
Films
The French Connection (1971)
[#180 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Blindspot 2020 #7
+ a couple of the deleted scenes, and a featurette on the film's connections to film noir
[#180 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Blindspot 2020 #7
+ a couple of the deleted scenes, and a featurette on the film's connections to film noir
Sunday, 26 July 2020
this week on 100 Films
My latest TV column headlines the additions to 100 Films in a Year this week...
There was also 1 new film review...
Searching (2018)
More next Sunday.
There was also 1 new film review...
Searching (2018)
When his daughter goes missing, David Kim does the most logical thing in this day and age: he turns to her computer and social media to try to work out where she’s gone. What Searching does to really sell this concept is place us inside the tech: everything we see takes place on the screen of computers... Director Aneesh Chaganty uses the visual concept perfectly... finding new ways to use the limitations to tell the story.Read more here.
More next Sunday.
Saturday, 25 July 2020
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
Every time I try to slow my purchasing, new sales and offers come along. So there are another six new titles this week, with a bunch more in the post and on order.
Of particular note this time is Master of Cinema's set of Bela Lugosi-starring Edgar Allen Poe adaptations, which includes an alternate cut of one of the three films, hidden as an Easter egg. This doesn't seem to have been widely reported. Indeed, if I hadn't had to look up a review to get the running times of the individual films, I would've missed that fact -- that one review seems to be the only place it's been mentioned anywhere!
Number of titles in collection: 2,409 [up 5]
Of which DVDs: 1,089 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,320 [up 6]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 64 [up 1]
Number of discs in collection: 6,216 [up 8]
Number of films: 2,708 [up 7]
Number of additional cuts: 176 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 8,935 [no change]
Number of short films: 756 [no change]
In the midst of all that going on, it's also time again for a monthly running time update...
Total running time of collection (approx.):
452 days, 19 hours, and 5 minutes.
(Up 1 day and 10 hours (exactly) from last month.)
See you next week, faithful reader.
Every time I try to slow my purchasing, new sales and offers come along. So there are another six new titles this week, with a bunch more in the post and on order.
Of particular note this time is Master of Cinema's set of Bela Lugosi-starring Edgar Allen Poe adaptations, which includes an alternate cut of one of the three films, hidden as an Easter egg. This doesn't seem to have been widely reported. Indeed, if I hadn't had to look up a review to get the running times of the individual films, I would've missed that fact -- that one review seems to be the only place it's been mentioned anywhere!
Number of titles in collection: 2,409 [up 5]
Of which DVDs: 1,089 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,320 [up 6]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 64 [up 1]
Number of discs in collection: 6,216 [up 8]
Number of films: 2,708 [up 7]
Number of additional cuts: 176 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 8,935 [no change]
Number of short films: 756 [no change]
In the midst of all that going on, it's also time again for a monthly running time update...
Total running time of collection (approx.):
452 days, 19 hours, and 5 minutes.
(Up 1 day and 10 hours (exactly) from last month.)
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 24 July 2020
Films
Bloodshot (2020)
[#178 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Le Mans ’66 (2019)
[#177 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
aka Ford v Ferrari
[#178 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Le Mans ’66 (2019)
[#177 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
aka Ford v Ferrari
Wednesday, 22 July 2020
Tuesday, 21 July 2020
Monday, 20 July 2020
Films
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
[#176 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
And a submarine double-bill...
Hunter Killer (2018)
[#175 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
The Wolf's Call (2019)
[#174 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
[#176 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
And a submarine double-bill...
Hunter Killer (2018)
[#175 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
The Wolf's Call (2019)
[#174 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Sunday, 19 July 2020
Films
Hamilton (2020)
[2nd watch]
The final 55 minutes + credits.
Love on a Leash (2011)
[#173 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
[2nd watch]
The final 55 minutes + credits.
Love on a Leash (2011)
[#173 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
this week on 100 Films
2 new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week...
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
The Three Caballeros (1944)
More next Sunday.
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
The opening few minutes of The Last Black Man in San Francisco are some of the most visually extraordinary I remember seeing from a film in a while. Well, it begins with two men waiting at a bus stop, but when the bus doesn’t arrive… cinema happens. If the rest of the film had been terrible, I’d have been ok with watching it just to have seen that.Read more here.
The Three Caballeros (1944)
technically, the first sequel in the Disney Canon... [it's] considerably more enjoyable than its predecessor. Its depiction of South America is perhaps a little more twee, leaning on culture and tradition rather than the modern cityscapes that were so important to the impact of the first film, but that doesn’t grate too much because it’s not striving so hard to be educational. Because of that, it’s also able to be more straightforwardly entertaining.Read more here.
More next Sunday.
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