TV

Gilmore Girls
6x09 The Prodigal Daughter Returns

The People v. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story
1x05 The Race Card

Person of Interest
4x15 Q&A
[Watch it (again) on My5.]

TV

DC's Legends of Tomorrow
1x05 Fail-Safe

Gilmore Girls
6x07 Twenty-One is the Loneliest Number
6x08 Let Me Hear Your Balalaikas Ringing Out

Films

Maleficent (2014)
[#84 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

TV

Gilmore Girls
6x06 Welcome to the Dollhouse

Person of Interest
4x14 Guilty
[Watch it (again) on My5.]

Films

Locke (2013)
[#83 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

TV

Gilmore Girls
6x05 We've Got Magic to Do

Films

A Royal Night Out (2015)
[#82 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

Wuthering Heights (2011)
[#81 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

this week on 100 Films

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


The Color Purple (1985)

because it’s a Spielberg film, it never quite feels like we’re getting the full force of the story’s brutality. That’s a mixed blessing: as a viewer, we’re spared all the horrors you can infer from what actually happens; at the same time, how much should a story about such horrors be sparing us from them? Though as it was at one point advertised with the tagline, “Remember how good it made you feel… See it again.”, someone clearly thought it was meant to be a feel-good movie.

Read more here.


The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter (1984)

Although the story features a lot of back-and-forth-ing to little avail, there are parts to commend it — the sequence where one son brutally inducts himself into a Buddhist temple is fantastic. Less clever: proving he isn’t too war-obsessed to become a monk by… fighting the other monks.

Read more here.


Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)

My main takeaway from the film was a massive list of films I now want to see... Even though the talking heads in the documentary keep saying how awful all of these movies are, the film makes them look awesome. I mean, not “award-winning” awesome, or even “genre classic” awesome, but like magnificently trashy fun.

Read more here.


Home on the Range (2004)

The plot, such as it is, locates us in the Old West, where a trio of singing cows hunt for an outlaw in order to save the farm they live on. The early ’00s box office was not a great place for musicals, Westerns, or traditional animations, so one does have to wonder what inspired Disney to make their 45th Animated Classic a traditionally-animated musical Western.

Read more here.


The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

Undoubtedly a comedy, Eastwick is less laugh-out-loud, more wryly amused by small-town tittle-tattle. Nicholson was made for devilish characters like this, but the rest of the film isn’t as focused.

Read more here.


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


Face/Off (1997)

Our Hero: Sean Archer, super cop. Looks like John Travolta, until he looks like Nicolas Cage. Don’t overthink it, it works just fine when you’re watching the film.
Our Villain: Castor Troy, super villain. Looks like Nicolas Cage, until he looks like John Travolta. Don’t overthink it, it works just fine when— wait, I did that bit.

Read more here.


Flash Gordon (1980)

In 2009 I said that Flash Gordon was better than Star Wars. Well, I mean, I don’t know if I exactly stand by that, but I’m also not going to contradict it — Flash Gordon is awesome.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Gilmore Girls
6x04 Always a Godmother, Never a God

The Voice UK
5x15 The Final [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Fighter (2010)
[#80 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

Collection Count

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

Next week, Star Wars: Episode VII and the Criterion Collection both finally come to UK Blu-ray.

But this week, it's the monthly running time update!

Number of titles in collection: 1,855 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,211 [up 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 644 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 4,748 [up 1]
Number of films in collection: 2,028 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes in collection: 7,197 [no change]
Number of short films in collection: 472 [no change]

Total running time of collection (approx.):
347 days, 11 hours, and 36 minutes.
(Up 15 hours and 54 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Arrow
4x14 Code of Silence

Gilmore Girls
6x03 The UnGraduate

Have I Got News For You
51x01 (8/4/2016 edition; extended repeat)
[Watch the extended version (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Lost River (2014)
[#79 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

TV

Elementary
4x16 Hounded
When did they decide to start doing adaptations on this show?!

The Flash
2x14 Escape from Earth-2

TV

Gilmore Girls
6x02 Fight Face

The Night Manager
Part 6 (of 6)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Film

300: Rise of an Empire (2014)
[#78 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

TV

Gilmore Girls
6x01 New and Improved Lorelai

The Night Manager
Part 5 (of 6)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Caesar Must Die (2012)
[#77 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]
aka Cesare deve morire

TV

Gilmore Girls
5x22 A House is Not a Home [season finale]

The Night Manager
Part 4 (of 6)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The People v. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story
1x04 100% Not Guilty

TV

Gilmore Girls
5x21 Blame Booze and Melville

Person of Interest
4x13 M.I.A.
[Watch it (again) on My5.]