TV

DC's Legends of Tomorrow
1x01 Pilot Part 1

Gilmore Girls
4x19 Afterboom [2nd watch]
4x20 Luke Can See Her Face [2nd watch]

The Voice UK
5x10 The Knockouts 1
Only the first half (Paloma's team), because after that I'd had enough for one sitting.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Boxer from Shantung (1972)
[#56 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)
[#55 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

TV

Gilmore Girls
4x18 Tick, Tick, Tick, Boom! [2nd watch]

Person of Interest
4x04 Brotherhood
4x05 Prophets
[Watch Brotherhood and Prophets (again) on My5.]

TV

Arrow
4x10 Blood Debts

Gilmore Girls
4x16 The Reigning Lorelai [2nd watch]
4x17 Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doin' the Twist [2nd watch]

The X Files
10x06 My Struggle II [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on My5.]

TV

Elementary
4x13 A Study in Charlotte

Gilmore Girls
4x15 Scene in a Mall [2nd watch]

Grantchester
2x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]

TV

Elementary
4x12 A View with a Room

Gilmore Girls
4x14 The Incredible Sinking Lorelais [2nd watch]

this week on 100 Films

4 brand-new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...


Daybreakers (2009)

offers an original and imaginative world (how would mankind cope if we couldn’t go out in daylight? Maybe like this). It’s somewhat let down by a few campy performances and a sensibility that reverts to action sequences, but originality counts for a lot

Read more here.


Kill List (2011)

mixes in its genre elements — and they’re elements from a couple of different genres at that — so gradually that it’s hard to discuss them without spoiling the film... It’s kind of a compilation of traditional British movie genres: we begin with kitchen sink, then discover we’re actually watching a crime film, before the final act swerves (though not without foreshadowing) into folk horror.

Read more here.


Macbeth (2015)

The text is heavily cut (a copy & paste & delete-bits job that somehow took three screenwriters), to the displeasure of some critics, though this is primarily because Kurzel chose to supplant some of the dialogue with Filmmaking. In a film?! How very dare he! What I mean, more specifically, is that he’s visualised parts of the text; applied the old rule of “show don’t tell”.

Read more here.


The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

Guy Ritchie is a self-confessed non-fan of the classic ’60s spy-fi series, so he seems a somewhat odd choice to helm this long-gestating big-screen reboot... Unsurprisingly, he gives it a bit of the Sherlock Holmeses (namely, a semi-comedic tone and appropriately swish, ’60s-ish direction)

Read more here.


Also, my 100 Favourites series continued with 2 more posts...


Casino Royale (2006)

Bourne happened, shifting the playing field of the spy-action genre... What Casino Royale does skilfully is acknowledge the changes brought by Bourne, but adapt them to Bond’s slightly more classical style (something Quantum of Solace fumbled). At the same time, it acknowledges and frequently subverts that Bond formula

Read more here.


Children of Men (2006)

Cuarón mixes intelligent near-future sci-fi with exciting, and excitingly-realised, action sequences to create an action-thriller of a movie that stimulates both the mind and the adrenal glands. A fantastic film in every respect.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

The X Files
10x05 Babylon
[Watch it (again) on My5.]

Collection Count

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

As predicted, nothing this week. Next week: something.

Number of titles in collection: 1,844 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 1,210 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 634 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 4,726 [no change]
Number of films in collection: 2,017 [no change]
Number of TV episodes in collection: 7,187 [no change]
Number of short films in collection: 465 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

Films

Office Space (1999)
[#54 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

TV

Elementary
4x11 Down Where the Dead Delight

Gilmore Girls
4x13 Nag Hammadi is Where They Found the Gnostic Gospels [2nd watch]

Penn & Teller: Fool Us
2x01 Phone-y Business
Remember this ITV series from nearly six years ago? Well, it aired in the US in 2014 and was a hit for the network, so they commissioned a new run (now in Las Vegas with US magicians) which Channel 5 have bought over here. There's going to be a third season, too.
[Watch it (again) on My5.]

Films

Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
[#53 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

TV

Gilmore Girls
4x11 In the Clamor and the Clangor [2nd watch]
4x12 A Family Matter [2nd watch]

Person of Interest
4x03 Wingman
[Watch it (again) on My5.]

Films

Fast & Furious 7 (2015)
[#52 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]
aka Furious Seven

TV

Dickensian
1x20 Episode 20 [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Flash
2x10 Potential Energy

Gilmore Girls
4x09 Ted Koppel's Big Night Out [2nd watch]
4x10 The Nanny and the Professor [2nd watch]

Films

Kill List (2011)
[#51 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

TV

Gilmore Girls
4x08 Die, Jerk [2nd watch]

Person of Interest
4x02 Nautilus
[Watch it (again) on My5.]

Shetland
3x06 Episode 6 [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The X Files
10x04 Home Again
[Watch it (again) on My5.]

Films

The Book of Life (2014)
[#50 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

TV

Gilmore Girls
4x07 The Festival of Living Art [2nd watch]

Shetland
3x05 Episode 5
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Barely Lethal (2015)
[#49 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
[#48 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]