this week on 100 Films

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


Psycho Goreman (2020)

Those who grew up on that stuff may get the biggest kick out of the film, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us can’t delight its gonzo joys. I won’t be surprised if Psycho Goreman has a bright future ahead as a new cult staple.

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More next Sunday.

Films

Official Secrets (2019)
[#111 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

Collection Count

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

Just a single addition this week: Zack Snyder's Justice League on 4K. Maybe now I'll finally get round to watching it...

Number of titles in collection: 2,601 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,073 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,528 [up 1]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 102 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 6,598 [up 2]
Number of films: 3,028 [up 1]
Number of additional cuts: 221 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,075 [no change]
Number of short films: 867 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

Films

Crank (2006)
[#110 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

No, there hasn't been some mistake: this is my first "cultural experience" of the week. I just started a new job, see, and I haven't got my new schedule down quite yet to keep doing things I enjoy. Hopefully, more films, TV, books, and all the rest, to come regularly from now onwards.

Films

Good Boys (2019)
[#109 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

this week on 100 Films

4 new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week...


Devil's Cargo (1948)

It all unfolds as a surprisingly decent little mystery — no great head-scratcher, but it offers enough twists and turns to keep it lively. The conclusion may stretch credibility, and our hero more chances upon the identity of the killer than actually deduces it, but it suffices for a short B-movie.

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Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)

Where the first film was a riff on something like Assault on Precinct 13, this sequel turns its attention to another John Carpenter classic, clearly trying to be a version of Escape from New York... It’s a perfectly serviceable storyline, and I have no problem with movies broadly borrowing storylines and whatnot in homage to other flicks. The problem is, Apocalypse is an awfully written and produced film.

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The 100-Week Roundup XXXII

Featuring...
- The Saint (2017)
- Hairspray (1988)

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More next Sunday.

TV

Murder, They Hope
1x03 Dales of the Unexpected [season finale]
Best one of the series. The run definitely picked up as it went along (even over just three episodes) — I hope there's more.

Films

The Aeronauts (2019)
[#108 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

Drop Zone (1994)
[#107 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

Collection Count

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

After dropping to 0 last week, it's back up to 60 this week. Not 60 new titles, obviously (that would be insane), but between new releases and a couple of cut-price bargains, there's a hefty load of new additions to report: nine titles with 15 films across.

Number of titles in collection: 2,600 [up 9]
Of which DVDs: 1,073 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,527 [up 9]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 101 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 6,596 [up 15]
Number of films: 3,027 [up 15]
Number of additional cuts: 221 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,075 [no change]
Number of short films: 867 [up 13]

See you next week, faithful reader.

Films

Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
[#105 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

Stuart Little (1999)
[#106 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

Films

Spontaneous (2020)
[#104 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

TV

Murder, They Hope
1x02 Evil Under the Bun

Films

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
[4th or so watch]
Rewatchathon 2021 #16
Continuing my Indiana Jones rewatch. This is actually my first time seeing it fully uncut: in 1984, the UK release was edited to get a PG from the BBFC, and that version persisted even until the DVD release — the Blu-ray was the first version to be uncut here. Conventional wisdom has always held it to be the worst film, at least of the original trilogy, although it's had vocal fans for years. I'm sure I saw it less often than Raiders or Last Crusade when I was a kid; it definitely stuck in my mind less.

Films

Twister (1996)
[#103 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

Films

Strange Confession (1945)
[#102 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
The fifth Inner Sanctum Mystery.
+ commentary by authors and film experts C. Courtney Joyner and Peter Atkins.

this week on 100 Films

5 new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week...


The Secret Life of Pets 1&2

[The first] mostly reheats, remixes, and recombines stuff you’ve seen done in other movies, but it manages just enough charm to tick over as entertaining rather than irritatingly derivative. [The second] is a step down, but it has its moments

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The 100-Week Roundup XXXI

Featuring...
- Cosmopolis
- The Kennel Murder Case
- Widows

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

MST3K: The Return of the Final Countdown
So, I popped on this telethon finale for the MST3K Kickstarter just to see if anything interesting was going on with it… and ended up having enough fun that I stuck with it for the whole five-hour shebang. It's all available to replay, though I suspect it's less fun not watching live — I mean, you can't join in with the Jackbox game, for one thing.

Murder, They Hope
1x01 The Bunny Trap
First episode of a spinoff/continuation series (whatever you wanna call it) from the TV movie trilogy of Murder on the Blackpool Express, Death on the Tyne, and Dial M for Middlesbrough. I thought the hour format might tighten things up a bit, but if anything it feels even less focused and more ridiculous. Maybe future episodes will be better.

Films

I Care a Lot (2020)
[#101 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]

Collection Count

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

For once, there's absolutely nothing to report this week! But there's already more stuff in the post, so it won't be this way for long...

Number of titles in collection: 2,591 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 1,073 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,518 [no change]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 101 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 6,581 [no change]
Number of films: 3,012 [no change]
Number of additional cuts: 221 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,075 [no change]
Number of short films: 854 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Mystery Science Theater 3000
11x02 Cry Wilderness

“I’m afraid this movie might not be very good...”

So, I said I'd jump ahead to better-regarded episodes, but it turned out I didn't have to jump at all: Cry Wilderness seems to be widely regarded as the best episode of MST3K: The Return (aka season 11), and it also happens to be episode 2, so I haven't had to watch anything out of sequence. Hurrah! Unlike the first episode, this one hits the ground running and maintains a pretty consistent level from there. It was enough to convince me to back the Kickstarter.