TV

Elementary
4x14 Who is That Masked Man

Gilmore Girls
5x03 Written in the Stars [2nd watch]
5x04 Tippecanoe and Taylor, Too [2nd watch]

Grantchester
2x03 Episode 3
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]

Films

One-Armed Swordsman (1967)
[#58 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

TV

The Flash
2x11 The Reverse-Flash Returns

Gilmore Girls
5x02 A Messenger, Nothing More [2nd watch]

Person of Interest
4x07 Honor Among Thieves
[Watch it (again) on My5.]

TV

Daredevil
2x03 New York's Finest
2x04 Penny and Dime

Gilmore Girls
5x01 Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller [2nd watch]

Films

The Descendants (2011)
[#57 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

this week on 100 Films

Can you believe it's already been a month since my inaugural "Past Month on TV" post? I can't. Anyway, this week on 100 Films in a Year saw the second volume:




Back in the blog's raison d'être, 3 brand-new reviews were published...


47 Ronin (2013)

Blighted by behind-the-scenes difficulties, 47 Ronin wound up among the biggest box office bombs of all time — a fate not entirely undeserved.

Read more here.


Amistad (1997)

Despite being “a slavery drama”, most of the film functions as a legal drama: though it begins with the slave uprising, and later has an extended flashback showing their kidnap and transportation, the thrust of the film lies in the courtroom arguments about who owns the ship’s ‘cargo’ and consequently what should be done with them.

Read more here.


Return to the 36th Chamber (1980)

follows the shape of its forebear, but with less inventiveness and more comedy, both intentional and not: the villain’s weapon of choice is a collapsible stool. Each to their own.

Read more here.


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


Conspiracy (2001)

“A group of men have an administrative meeting” is possibly the least exciting logline for a movie you could ever read, but when those men are Nazis, at the height of the Third Reich’s pomp and opulence, and the businesslike meeting is to plot one of the greatest atrocities ever committed by mankind, it becomes horrendously fascinating.

Read more here.


Daredevil (2003)

The runt of the litter when it comes to the (first) modern explosion of superhero movies, Daredevil has, believe it or not, always had its fans. [...] Okay, the Netflix series has now easily surpassed it, but the Daredevil movie is still a moderately underrated film for its era.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Daredevil
2x01 Bang
2x02 Dogs to a Gunfight

Gilmore Girls
4x21 Last Week Fights, This Week Tights [2nd watch]
4x22 Raincoats and Recipes [season finale; 2nd watch]

Person of Interest
4x06 Pretenders
[Watch it (again) on My5.]

The Voice UK
5x10 The Knockouts 1
The second half (Ricky's team), of course.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Collection Count

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

Number of titles in collection: 1,845 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,210 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 635 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 4,731 [up 5]
Number of films in collection: 2,017 [no change]
Number of TV episodes in collection: 7,197 [up 10]
Number of short films in collection: 465 [no change]

Plus this week it's time for a running time update, so...

Total running time of collection (approx.):
346 days, 19 hours, and 42 minutes.
(Up 1 day, 3 hours, and 30 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader.

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]