Films

Murder and Cocktails (2024)
[#42 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2024]

Opera

Carmen
at Glyndebourne

TV

Richard Osman's House of Games
7x42 Week 9: Tuesday
7x43 Week 9: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

October Moth (1960)
[#41 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2024]

Collection Count

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

Well, a week and a half this time, because this week's update is so late. I've been away and busy. And no one cares but me anyway. And nothing's arrived or been purchased in the last couple of days, so the numbers are the same as they would've been on Saturday anyway. All new releases, and all arrived early — so they kinda belong in this week anyway.

Lots of box sets this week, one way or another — as you can see, only five new titles but 15 new films. That's two series box sets (the Whistler from Indicator and Shinobi from Radiance) and a two-part film (Trenque Lauquen); plus part two only of a two-part film (Dune), and one other release with multiple cuts (Planet of the Vampires). Fun times.

Number of titles in collection: 3,297 [up 5]
Of which DVDs: 1,002 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,295 [up 5]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 353 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 7,986 [up 11]
Number of films: 4,067 [up 15]
Number of additional cuts: 386 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 9,716 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,145 [up 3]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Death in Paradise
12x05 Episode 5
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Richard Osman's House of Games
7x41 Week 9: Monday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Richard Osman's House of Games
7x39 Week 8: Thursday
7x40 Week 8: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Song of the Thin Man (1947)
[2nd watch]
[#40 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2024]

Yellow Canary (1943)

TV

Richard Osman's House of Games
7x38 Week 8: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)

The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
[2nd watch]
[#39 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2024]

TV

Doctor Who
40x01 Space Babies [2nd watch]
40x02 The Devil's Chord [2nd watch]
[Watch all episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Richard Osman's House of Games
7x37 Week 8: Tuesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
[2nd watch]
[#38 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2024]

TV

Death in Paradise
12x04 Episode 4
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Richard Osman's House of Games
7x35 Week 7: Friday
7x36 Week 8: Monday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Videos

Critical Role
2x22 Lost Treasures [2nd half]
[Watch it (again) on YouTube, or Twitch, or Beacon.]

Talks Machina
#70 'Lost Treasures'
[Watch it (again) on Internet Archive.]

Videos

Critical Role
2x22 Lost Treasures [1st half]
[Watch it (again) on YouTube, or Twitch, or Beacon.]

Videos

Talks Machina
#69 'Stalker in the Swamp'
It's getting to be a thing (okay, it's happened twice) that when Liam's on he refers to how far they are through the campaign — this time, he goes with "a fifth". Wrong! It's only a seventh. I wonder if he spends the last 25 or so episodes like "well, we're in overtime now"...
[Watch it (again) on Internet Archive.]

Articles

As D&D booms, Critical Role makes its own kind of nerd celebrity
by Sarah Parvini (from The Washington Post)

Me, mentioning something to do with Critical Role?! Well, wonders will never cease! But seriously, if you were interested in a sort of "state of the nation" about where CR is right now, coupled with sufficient background detail to keep the unfamiliar up to speed — i.e. a good all-round introduction for right now — this seems a good place to start.

Videos

Critical Role
2x21 Stalker in the Swamp
Bowlgate. Apparently it was some big debate in the fanbase at the time, but the YouTube comments section definitely comes down firmly on one side...
[Watch it (again) on YouTube, or Twitch, or Beacon.]

Videos

Critical Role
2x20 Labenda Awaits [2nd half]
[Watch it (again) on YouTube, or Twitch, or Beacon.]

Talks Machina
#68 'Labenda Awaits'
[Watch it (again) on Internet Archive.]

When I mentioned the other day about passing 100 hours of Crit Role "depending how you define it", today is the kind of thing I was referring to: as well as the above, I watched about two hours of stuff relating to their Kickstarter from five years ago, which led me to an hour-or-so con panel from last year, which led to me watching huge chunks of a significant episode from Campaign 1 — which was so good, it's solidified the idea I should probably go back and watch that properly at some point. Just adding another 450 hours to my massive Crit Role backlog...

this week on 100Films.co.uk

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Archive 5, Vol.11

Featuring...
- Dumb and Dumber (1994)
- Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
- Small Axe: Mangrove (2020)
- Out of Africa (1985)
- Rambo: Last Blood (2019)

Read more here.


More next Sunday.