Baptiste
1x01 Shell
Instead of a third series of The Missing, they created this spin-off for its hero detective, in which the detective who previously searched for a missing person now… searches for a missing person. Hmm.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
7x05 Episode 5
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]
Thursday, 3 December 2020
Wednesday, 2 December 2020
TV
Elementary
7x09 On the Scent
Ghosts
1x02 Gorilla War [2nd watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
The Great British Bake Off
11x05 Pastry Week
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]
7x09 On the Scent
Ghosts
1x02 Gorilla War [2nd watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
The Great British Bake Off
11x05 Pastry Week
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]
Tuesday, 1 December 2020
Monday, 30 November 2020
Sunday, 29 November 2020
this week on 100 Films
Just my somewhat-belated and shorter-than-usual monthly TV column over at 100 Films in a Year this week...
More next Sunday.
More next Sunday.
Saturday, 28 November 2020
TV
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel
1x01 Episode 1
Over-complicated and kind of silly, but also passably entertaining.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
1x01 Episode 1
Over-complicated and kind of silly, but also passably entertaining.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
More titles from my US spending spree arrived this week, alongside a couple of UK new releases. I'm just waiting on two more of the former now. As for the latter, those never end...
Number of titles in collection: 2,484 [up 6]
Of which DVDs: 1,081 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,403 [up 7]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 87 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 6,404 [up 16]
Number of films: 2,860 [up 17]
Number of additional cuts: 200 [up 3]
Number of TV episodes: 8,982 [no change]
Number of short films: 785 [up 14]
It's also time for the monthly running time update. It's been a pretty busy month (a net increase of 28 titles), so how big a bump has that generated?
Total running time of collection (approx.):
463 days, 19 hours, and 4 minutes.
(Up 3 days, 9 hours, and 19 minutes from last month.)
That's the fifth month this year to have an increase in excess of 3 days. Next time I do one of these I'll be including the year-on-year increases, and I think it's gonna be a biggy!
See you next week, faithful reader.
More titles from my US spending spree arrived this week, alongside a couple of UK new releases. I'm just waiting on two more of the former now. As for the latter, those never end...
Number of titles in collection: 2,484 [up 6]
Of which DVDs: 1,081 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,403 [up 7]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 87 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 6,404 [up 16]
Number of films: 2,860 [up 17]
Number of additional cuts: 200 [up 3]
Number of TV episodes: 8,982 [no change]
Number of short films: 785 [up 14]
It's also time for the monthly running time update. It's been a pretty busy month (a net increase of 28 titles), so how big a bump has that generated?
Total running time of collection (approx.):
463 days, 19 hours, and 4 minutes.
(Up 3 days, 9 hours, and 19 minutes from last month.)
That's the fifth month this year to have an increase in excess of 3 days. Next time I do one of these I'll be including the year-on-year increases, and I think it's gonna be a biggy!
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 27 November 2020
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Tuesday, 24 November 2020
Films
FilmBath Shorts
[#250j–v in 100 Films in a Year 2020] And that's the last thing I'll be watching from AMPLIFY! as the festival is now well and truly over (although I do still have some screeners knocking about...)
[#250j–v in 100 Films in a Year 2020] And that's the last thing I'll be watching from AMPLIFY! as the festival is now well and truly over (although I do still have some screeners knocking about...)
Monday, 23 November 2020
Sunday, 22 November 2020
Films
My Mexican Bretzel (2019)
[#250 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
+ the Q&A that followed the film on AMPLIFY!, which you can also watch on YouTube.
Plus, I finally got round to watching some of the festival's shorts programmes. Across these I watched 26 short films today, so I'll list the programmes rather than every individual short...
Cornwall Film Festival South West Regional Shorts
[#249a–k in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Cornwall Film Festival International Shorts
[#249l–s in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
New Voices Shorts
[#249t–z in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
[#250 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
+ the Q&A that followed the film on AMPLIFY!, which you can also watch on YouTube.
Plus, I finally got round to watching some of the festival's shorts programmes. Across these I watched 26 short films today, so I'll list the programmes rather than every individual short...
Cornwall Film Festival South West Regional Shorts
[#249a–k in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Cornwall Film Festival International Shorts
[#249l–s in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
New Voices Shorts
[#249t–z 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 IMDb New Filmmaker Award 2020
Some Beasts (2019)
More next Sunday.
The IMDb New Filmmaker Award 2020
Why would you watch an awards show after its happened? Well, in this case, you get to hear the judges’ musings on what makes a good film — and when those judges are BAFTA-nominated director Coky Giedroyc, Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning producer Amanda Posey, and the CEO of IMDb, Col Needham, those are opinions worth listening to. Even better, you get to watch the five nominated shorts in full, and they’re good a bunch. But don’t just take my word for it: take my, er, word for it, in the form of these reviews…Read more here.
Some Beasts (2019)
Sometimes, one thing can ruin an entire movie. Depending on how harsh a critic you are, I’d say that’s quite rare. Unless it’s threaded throughout the entire film (like, say, a terrible lead performance, or a consistently poor cinematography decision), a small constituent part would have to be truly horrendous to take the entire rest of the movie down with it. Some Beasts is one of those films. The problem arrives in the final 20 minutes, which makes it a massive plot spoiler. Out of some lingering respect for storytellers, I provide this spoiler warning; others would argue content of this nature doesn’t deserve such courtesy.Read more here.
More next Sunday.
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
I went a bit crazy with orders from the US recently (thanks to Barnes & Noble's Criterion sale being price-matched by Amazon.com), and that's bearing fruit now as they start to arrive. Every title is a Blu-ray, but it's a real mix of upgrade types (including DVD-to-BD, DVD-to-4K, BD-to-4K, BD-to-BD, and BD-but-I'm-keeping-the-DVD-too), as well as plain ol' new acquisitions. Consequently, the net title increase doesn't tell the whole story -- though even that's higher than normal. I really need to learn some self control...
Number of titles in collection: 2,478 [up 9]
Of which DVDs: 1,082 [down 3]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,396 [up 12]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 87 [up 2]
Number of discs in collection: 6,388 [up 14]
Number of films: 2,843 [up 10]
Number of additional cuts: 197 [up 3]
Number of TV episodes: 8,982 [no change]
Number of short films: 771 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
I went a bit crazy with orders from the US recently (thanks to Barnes & Noble's Criterion sale being price-matched by Amazon.com), and that's bearing fruit now as they start to arrive. Every title is a Blu-ray, but it's a real mix of upgrade types (including DVD-to-BD, DVD-to-4K, BD-to-4K, BD-to-BD, and BD-but-I'm-keeping-the-DVD-too), as well as plain ol' new acquisitions. Consequently, the net title increase doesn't tell the whole story -- though even that's higher than normal. I really need to learn some self control...
Number of titles in collection: 2,478 [up 9]
Of which DVDs: 1,082 [down 3]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,396 [up 12]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 87 [up 2]
Number of discs in collection: 6,388 [up 14]
Number of films: 2,843 [up 10]
Number of additional cuts: 197 [up 3]
Number of TV episodes: 8,982 [no change]
Number of short films: 771 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Saturday, 21 November 2020
Friday, 20 November 2020
Films
Influence (2020)
[#248 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
+ the Q&A that followed the film on AMPLIFY!, which you can also watch on YouTube.
I also watched tonight's live Q&A about You Will Die at Twenty (having watched the film itself yesterday, of course).
[#248 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
+ the Q&A that followed the film on AMPLIFY!, which you can also watch on YouTube.
I also watched tonight's live Q&A about You Will Die at Twenty (having watched the film itself yesterday, of course).
Thursday, 19 November 2020
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
Films
The IMDb New Filmmaker Award 2020
Including the 5 nominated shorts, which become 100 Films in a Year 2020 #247a—e.
[Watch the ceremony and shorts (again) on AMPLIFY!]
Including the 5 nominated shorts, which become 100 Films in a Year 2020 #247a—e.
[Watch the ceremony and shorts (again) on AMPLIFY!]
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