TV

A Series of Unfortunate Events
1x07 The Miserable Mill Part One
1x08 The Miserable Mill Part Two [season finale]

TV

Elementary
5x03 Render, and Then Seize Her

TV

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Part 4 Fall

A Series of Unfortunate Events
1x05 The Wide Window Part One
1x06 The Wide Window Part Two

TV

A Series of Unfortunate Events
1x03 The Reptile Room Part One
1x04 The Reptile Room Part Two

Films

Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie (2016)
[#6 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

TV

The Flash
3x09 The Present

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Part 3 Summer

TV

Celebrity Mastermind
2016/2017 Episode 10 (of 10)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

DC's Legends of Tomorrow
2x07 Invasion!
Concluding the crossover.

Sherlock
4x03 The Final Problem [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Kubo and the Two Strings (2016)
[#5 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

+ all of the Blu-ray's special features.

this week on 100 Films

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


Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

The most recent feature from the director of the very-different-to-each-other What We Do in the Shadows and Thor: Ragnarok, this very-different-again adventure-comedy-drama was a surprise hit in its native New Zealand, then around the rest of the world, before it wound up as Empire magazine’s pick for the best film of 2016.

Read more here.


Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future (1973)

maybe it’s a kind of Stockholm syndrome, but I ended up rather enjoying it. It’s not genius, but it’s a fairly amusing farce once it gets going. Very of its time as an early-’70s mainstream-style silly comedy, but what’s wrong with being of your time?

Read more here.


Ninja Scroll (1993)

One of the films credited with helping to popularise anime in the West in the wake of Akira (reportedly it has had a greater and more enduring impact in the US than in Japan), Ninja Scroll is a fast-paced fantastical action flick full of gratuitous swordplay, gratuitous gore, and gratuitous nudity.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Part 2 Spring

Let It Shine
1x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

A Series of Unfortunate Events
1x01 A Bad Beginning Part One
1x02 A Bad Beginning Part Two

Collection Count

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

Number of titles in collection: 1,924 [up 5]
Of which DVDs: 1,194 [up 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 730 [up 4]

Number of discs in collection: 4,963 [up 11]
Number of films: 2,125 [up 4]
Number of TV episodes: 7,602 [up 23]
Number of short films: 508 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

Films

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
[#4 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

Ninja Scroll (1993)
[#3 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]
+ the first half-ish of the audio commentary.

TV

Arrow
5x08 Invasion!
Part 2 (aka 3) of the crossover. Also Arrow's 100th episode, so it's handy they had those aliens to provide a way to bring back lots of dead characters.

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
Part 1 Winter

TV

Elementary
5x02 Worth Several Cities

Insert Name Here
2x02 Alex
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Death in Paradise
6x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Flash
3x08 Invasion!
Four-episode crossover ep.2 (because apparently ep.1's content was all of one scene that they repeat here).

Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs
at Christmas [2016]
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]

Films

Anomalisa (2015)
[#2 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

TV

Arrow
5x07 Vigilante

Elementary
5x01 Folie a Deux
You can never have enough Sherlock Holmes on the telly, I guess.

this week on 100 Films

No new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week, but there was a bunch of other stuff going on.

First: wrapping up 2016...


My Top 5 Most-Read New Posts in 2016

…and why I think they made the cut.

Read more here.


2016: The Full List

the usual array of factual analysis of my viewing (lists! statistics! yay statistics!)

Read more here.


The Best & Worst of 2016

it’s now time to consider the quality of that viewing: which films were the worst? Which the best? And what did I miss?

Read more here.


Then, announcing some plans of 2017...


Blindspot 2017

In case you’re unfamiliar with the concept of Blindspot, it’s where you pick 12 films you’ve never seen but feel you should have and resolve to watch one per month over the course of the year.

Read more here.


What Do You Mean You Haven’t Seen…? 2017

So what differentiates my WDYMYHS selection? Well, to mark my 10th blogiversary I’ve attempted to identify the films from the last ten years that I really should have seen.

Read more here.


Rewatchathon 2017

This year I’m adding a new component to my annual goal: in addition to watching at least 100 films I’ve never seen before, I decided to set a target to rewatch more.

Read more here.


Reviews next Sunday, I should imagine.

TV

The Flash
3x07 Killer Frost
This episode should've been called Hugs, the amount they couldn't stop embracing each other. That or Painfully Obvious Reveal That Everyone Saw Coming.

Sherlock
4x02 The Lying Detective
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Celebrity Mastermind
2016/2017 Episode 9 (of 10)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Let It Shine
1x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]