Films

Steve Jobs (2015)
[#109 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

Films

Ip Man 3 (2015)
[#108 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

TV

Preacher
1x03 The Possibilities
[Watch it (again) on Amazon Prime Instant Video.]

Films

Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969)
[#107a in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

TV

Game of Thrones
6x08 No One

TV

Arrow
4x23 Schism [season finale]

Upstart Crow
1x05 What Bloody Man is That?
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Deadpool (2016)
[#107 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

this week on 100 Films

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


Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

Top villain Jürgen Prochnow is so underused one wonders why he’s even in the film — Brigitte Nielsen’s more striking henchwoman could’ve been brains as well as brawn. Either way, they’re the character equivalent of a MacGuffin: this is all about Murphy

Read more here.


Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)

according to director John Landis, [Eddie Murphy] envious of the careers of Denzel Washington and Wesley Snipes, who were starring in straight action movies. Consequently, Murphy was keen to downplay the film’s comedy — much to its detriment, of course, as it’s Murphy’s comedy that makes this series work.

Read more here.


A Boy and His Dog (1975)

It’s a film fuelled by weirdness, left-field ideas, and a controversial tragicomic ending. It’s a “not for everyone” kind of film that, I must confess, I found hard to properly engage with

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The Revenant (2015)

it’s like an old-fashioned blockbuster — the kind of thing you’d’ve seen in the 1950s (epic revenge Western) or 1970s (bleak revenge Western) as among the year’s biggest movies — crossed with a slow-paced, scenery-loving, meditative arthouse piece. If it’s about anything (beyond, y’know, the plot), it’s surely about nature — both the amazing vastness of natural spaces, but also the brutality of survival.

Read more here.


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


The Incredibles (2004)

Even before the present glut of big-screen super-heroics, Pixar were in on the game with this affectionate genre entry. Writer-director Brad Bird mixes together classical superhero antics with elements of 1960s spy-fi to create a retro world of optimistic heroics and larger-than-life villainy — at odds with the dark-and-serious tone of so many superhero movies of the past 17+ years, but all the more memorable for it.

Read more here.


Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

I know we’re all supposed to love Raiders most, but I think Last Crusade is actually my favourite Indy movie. [It has] plenty of the requisite derring-do, an almost Bondian globetrotting storyline, and a high-stakes climax, complete with gruesome death for the villain. Spielberg once said it was his favourite Indy movie too, so I’m in good company.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

Films

Spy (Extended Cut) (2015)
[#106 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

Collection Count

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

One new addition this week, which is actually a new release out on Monday (yay HMV!) It is time for the running time update, though, so there's exciting then.

Number of titles in collection: 1,873 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,208 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 665 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 4,785 [up 1]
Number of films in collection: 2,056 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes in collection: 7,214 [no change]
Number of short films in collection: 473 [no change]

And that running time update...

Total running time of collection (approx.):
349 days, 18 hours, and 25 minutes.
(Up 1 day, 10 hours, and 11 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader.

Films

Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)
[#105 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

TV

DC's Legends of Tomorrow
1x14 River of Time

Gilmore Girls
7x14 Farewell, My Pet

Preacher
1x02 See
[Watch it (again) on Amazon Prime Instant Video.]

Talking Preacher
1x01 Talking Preacher on Pilot
Spin-off talk show. Rather than going weekly, as some of AMC's other such programmes do, the next episode will be after the finale. Shame.
[Watch it (again) on Amazon Prime Instant Video.]

TV

The Flash
2x23 The Race of His Life [season finale]

Gilmore Girls
7x13 I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia

Films

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)
[#104 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

TV

Arrow
4x22 Lost in the Flood

DC's Legends of Tomorrow
1x13 Leviathan

The Flash
2x22 Invincible

Game of Thrones
6x07 The Broken Man

Gilmore Girls
7x12 To Whom It May Concern

Films

Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
[3rd watch]

TV

Arrow
4x21 Monument Point

DC's Legends of Tomorrow
1x12 Last Refuge

Upstart Crow
1x04 Love is Not Love
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Revenant (2015)
[#103 in 100 Films in a Year 2016]

this week on 100 Films

It was a new month at 100 Films in a Year this week (as well as everywhere else, obviously), meaning it was time to look back at the last one:




Other than that, 3 brand-new reviews were published...


The Assassin (2015)

far from your typical martial arts film, and so will appeal to a different kind of viewer. Hou has said it’s more about the spirit and deeper meanings of martial arts than it is the physical combat, and I can only presume that’s true. Besides looking very pretty, and presenting a (barely explained) adjustment in the mentality of one character, it’s difficult to know what to take away from it.

Read more here.


Quigley Down Under (1990)

Tom Selleck is Quigley, who has the ability to shoot things at implausibly long distances, and whose hair has the ability to stay implausibly coiffed even after days abandoned in the outback. He’s been employed by Alan Rickman, who we know is the villain because this was released in 1990.

Read more here.


Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)

The Turtles’ personalities are pretty one-note, but not unfaithful to the original — the franchise started life as a spoof of things like Daredevil, after all, not a realistic character drama. That said, turning Mike into basically a turtle version of Michael Bay — i.e. he’s focused on lusting after Megan Fox and occasionally causing explosions — is a little cringe-y.

Read more here.


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


Groundhog Day (1993)

Best Supporting Character: Now, don’t you tell me you don’t remember Ned because he’d sure as heckfire remember you. Ned Ryerson. Needlenose Ned. Ned the Head. From Case Western High. Ned Ryerson, did the whistling belly-button trick at the high school talent show? Bing! Ned Ryerson, got the shingles real bad senior year, almost didn’t graduate? Bing, again. Ned Ryerson, dated Phil’s sister Mary Pat a couple times until Phil told him not to anymore? Ned Ryerson? Bing!

Read more here.


Highlander (1986)

Connor MacLeod is an immortal, a race of men living in secret among the rest of us, who must one day come together for the Gathering, after which there can be only one immortal left standing. That time comes in New York, 1985, as hulking savage the Kurgan hunts down the remaining immortals so that he can be the only one, and use the power that imbues to dominate the world. MacLeod is the only man in his way. Who will win? After all, there can be only— yeah, okay, you get it.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Gilmore Girls
7x11 Santa's Secret Stuff