TV

Celebrity Fifteen to One
(7/8/15 edition)
[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]

Ripper Street
3x08 The Peace of Edmund Reid [season finale]
Great finale to a great season. It really feels like a final end, though, so it'll be interesting to see where everyone goes in the next two seasons.
[Watch it now on Amazon Instant Video, or on BBC One (edited) in a few weeks.]

Films

Life of Pi (2012)
[#107 in 100 Films in a Year 2015]

Collection Count

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

Only two titles added this week... but it's also the running time update, and that entire TV series I added a couple of weeks back has made its presence felt.

Number of titles in collection: 1,784 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,208 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 576 [up 2]

Number of discs in collection: 4,438 [up 2]
Number of films in collection: 1,928 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes in collection: 6,634 [up 2]
Number of short films in collection: 448 [no change]

Total running time of collection (approx.):
320 days, 10 hours, and 57 minutes.
(Up 2 days, 13 hours, and 50 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
2x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Person of Interest
3x18 Allegiance
So, for no apparent reason, Channel 5 chose to skip an entire episode -- and they haven't even tried to hide it by renumbering the episodes on their site. Brazen! Torrents to the rescue it is, then.
[Watch it (again) on Demand 5.]

Yonderland
2x03 A Vicious Circle

Films

Sherlock Holmes (1922), aka Moriarty
[#106 in 100 Films in a Year 2015]

TV

8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
9x12 (31/7/15 edition)
[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]

The Great British Bake Off
6x01 Cake
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Last Leg
7x04 (17/7/15 edition)
[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]

TV

Mock the Week
14x06 (16/7/15 edition) [mid-season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Ripper Street
3x07 Live Free, Live True
[Watch it now on Amazon Instant Video, or on BBC One (edited) in a few weeks.]

Yonderland
2x02 The Winging Detective

Films

Shallow Grave (1994)
[#105 in 100 Films in a Year 2015]

TV

The Last Leg
7x03 (10/7/15 edition)
[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]

Person of Interest
3x16 RAM
[Watch it (again) on Demand 5.]

Two Tribes
2x37 (23/7/15 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Thing (2011)
[#104 in 100 Films in a Year 2015]

TV

Mock the Week
14x05 (9/7/15 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Ripper Street
3x06 The Incontrovertible Truth
[Watch it now on Amazon Instant Video, or on BBC One (heavily edited) in a few weeks.]

Films

Inside Man (2006)
[2nd watch]

Space Station 76 (2014)
[#103 in 100 Films in a Year 2015]

this week on 100 Films

August started yesterday, so it's time for the 100 Films in a Year monthly update, looking back at July:




Also this week, two brand-new reviews were published. They were...


Gone Girl (2014)

“Horrible people do horrible things to each other” is the Post-it Note summary of this dark drama-thriller from director David Fincher, adapted by screenwriter Gillian Flynn from her own novel, which is short on heroes and overloaded with villains. An alternative brief summation is, “modern society is shit.”

Read more here.


Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

With Bond going “real world” and gadget free in the Daniel Craig era, and the Bourne series having blazed a trail of “we shot it all handheld and shaky and grainy so it must be real” veracity, it seems the task of providing audiences with a contemporary version of the spy action, just-ahead-of-reality gadgets, and larger-than-life spectacle that the Bond movies specialised in during the ’60s and ’70s, has fallen upon the Mission: Impossible franchise. For my money, it’s taken the baton with aplomb.

Read more here.


Finally, three archive reviews were reposted...


1945-1998 (2003)

Is 1945-1998 actually a film? Or is it a piece of video Art? Or just another online video? Its setup is quite simple: it charts every nuclear explosion between the titular years; the total, by-the-way, is 2,053. These explosions play out as flashing dots on a world map; different colours indicate which country was responsible for the explosion, accompanied by running totals.

Read more here.


Easy Virtue (2008)

it’s frequently hilariously funny. You’d expect nothing less from a work taken from Noel Coward, I suppose... There’s a decidedly wicked streak to the humour at times (a subplot about the fate of the family Chihuahua; lots of double entendres), which is welcome. The overall tone is light, largely, but not light in the head.

Read more here.


Fargo (1996)

the latest film to have been inducted into the United States National Film Registry, donchaknow. It’s also 105th on the IMDb Top 250 [it’s now 153rd], and the 21st film from the 1990s. So it’s pretty much a modern classic then.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Episodes
4x09 Episode 9 [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Person of Interest
3x15 Last Call
[Watch it (again) on Demand 5.]

Would I Lie To You?
9x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Collection Count

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

This week, nothing. Next week, hopefully something.

Number of titles in collection: 1,782 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 1,208 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 574 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 4,436 [no change]
Number of films in collection: 1,926 [no change]
Number of TV episodes in collection: 6,632 [no change]
Number of short films in collection: 448 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Ripper Street
3x05 Heavy Boots
[Watch it now on Amazon Instant Video, or on BBC One (edited) in a few weeks.]

Two Tribes
2x36 (22/7/15 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Yonderland
2x01 Panic in the Streets of Yonderland

TV

The Last Leg
7x02 (3/7/15 edition)
[Watch it (again) on 4oD.]

Mock the Week
14x04 (2/7/15 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The National Lottery: Who Dares Wins
8x08 (18/7/15 edition) [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

RED 2 (2013)
[#102 in 100 Films in a Year 2015]

Salvation Boulevard (2011)
[#101 in 100 Films in a Year 2015]

TV

Episodes
4x08 Episode 8
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Ripper Street
3x04 Your Father. My Friend
[Watch it now on Amazon Instant Video, or on BBC One (edited) soon.]

Two Tribes
2x31 (21/7/15 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Brazil (1985)
[#100 in 100 Films in a Year 2015]

What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...? 2015 #6

There's oh so much to say about reaching #100 this early... and say it I shall on Saturday, in the monthly update.