Videos

Critical Role
2x75 Rime and Reason [2nd half]
[Watch it (again) on YouTube, Twitch, or Beacon.]

Talks Machina
#124 'Rime and Reason'
[Watch it (again) on Internet Archive.]

TV

Blackadder II
2x04 Money [2nd watch]
2x05 Beer [2nd watch]
2x06 Chains [season finale; 2nd watch]
From one extreme (i.e. a nine-month pause) to the other (watching half the series in one sitting), I guess.

Videos

Critical Role
2x75 Rime and Reason [1st half]
[Watch it (again) on YouTube, Twitch, or Beacon.]

Films

Milano Calibro 9 (1972)
[#7 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2025]
+ featurette Italia Violenta, in which Matthew Holness (yes, the Garth Marenghi guy) talks about his love of the poliziotteschi and this film in particular

Fiction

The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Chapters 10–11

Comics

X-Men
#5 Psychic Rescue in Progress by Jed MacKay & Ryan Stegman

Videos

Talks Machina
#123 'Manifold Morals'
[Watch it (again) on Internet Archive.]

TV

The Wheel
5x07 Episode 7
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger (2025)
[#6 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2025]

Comics

The Uncanny X-Men
#3 Red Wave, Part Three: The Inside Man by Gail Simone & David Marquez

X-Men
#4 Upstarts by Jed MacKay & Netho Diaz

I've failed spectacularly at my goal of keeping up with my X-reading, so I've totally lost track of which issue is 'next' in publication order across the various books. But I do know that X-Men and Uncanny X-Men have a four-issue crossover coming up ("coming up" for me — it's finished publication), and that I have four issues of each book to go before said crossover, so if I just alternate issues between those two it will work out fine.

(I've still only read one issue of Exceptional X-Men, which has published up to #5, so I need to get a wriggle on with that separately.)

And attentive-eyed regular readers (not that I think I have any of those) will notice I've decided to change the way I list comics titles/issues. I liked acknowledging that individual issues have titles (as I do with TV episodes, for example), and it better reflects that the creative team might only be in effect for that one issue (something that definitely needs amending, based on the slightly awkward way I've listed the authors of collected volumes in the past).

Fiction

The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Chapters 8–9

Videos

Critical Role
2x74 Manifold Morals [2nd half]
[Watch it (again) on YouTube, Twitch, or Beacon.]

Collection Count

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

Three additions this week — all new releases, all 4K. Two are Arrow catalogue titles — The Cell and Inglourious Basterds (slightly begrudgingly replacing my old Blu-ray — "begrudging" purely because it has some postcards I quite like but I have nowhere else convenient to store them. I may yet solve this problem before I sell it on) — and the other a brand-new release (The Wild Robot).

Number of titles in collection: 3,455 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 991 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,464 [up 2]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 425 [up 3]

Number of discs in collection: 8,329 [up 4]
Number of films: 4,375 [up 2]
Number of additional cuts: 430 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 9,856 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,209 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

Films

Eraserhead (1977)
[#5 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2025]
Blindspot 2025 #1

Premonitions Following an Evil Deed (1995)
[3rd or so watch]

RIP David Lynch

Fiction

The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Chapter 7

Videos

Critical Role
2x74 Manifold Morals [1st half]
[Watch it (again) on YouTube, Twitch, or Beacon.]

Fiction

The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Chapter 6

Videos

Critical Role
2x73 Uthodurn
Yay, a live show! These are such fun, even to watch from home.
[Watch it (again) on YouTube, Twitch, or Beacon.]

Talks Machina
#122 'Uthodurn'
[Watch it (again) on Internet Archive.]

Fiction

The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Chapters 3–5

Videos

Critical Role
2x72 Clay and Dust [2nd half]
[Watch it (again) on YouTube, Twitch, or Beacon.]

Talks Machina
#121 'Clay and Dust'
[Watch it (again) on Internet Archive.]