TV

Twin Peaks
2x14 Episode 21 aka Double Play
2x15 Episode 22 aka Slaves and Masters

Vera
7x03 Broken Promise

Who Dares Wins
10x02 (29/4/17 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Car Share
2x04 Episode 4 [season finale]
Ooh, there'll be clamour for a third series after that!
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Elementary
5x19 High Heat

Films

Back to the Future (1985)
[4th or so watch]
Rewatchathon 2017 #9. Finally playing the Blu-ray set I bought almost seven years ago! Man, time flies.

Split (2016)
[#62 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

TV

24: Legacy
1x10 9:00PM - 10:00PM

Car Share
2x03 Episode 3
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Twin Peaks
2x13 Episode 20 aka Checkmate

Films

Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
[#61 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...? 2017 #4

this week on 100 Films

A new feature debuted on 100 Films in a Year this week. Called "review round-up", it aims to help race through some of my massive backlog of reviews. The first edition covers Dazed and Confused, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, and Under the Shadow. Here's the link:





Additionally, there was 1 brand-new regular review...


The Magnificent Seven (2016)

Despite sharing a title and setting, this second Western remake of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai is almost as different from The Magnificent Seven (1960 version) as that was from the original. Maybe that’s over-egging the point, but The Magnificent Seven (2016 version) is certainly not just a straight-up do-over of the popular Western classic.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Doctor Who
36x03 Thin Ice
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Grantchester
3x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]

Twin Peaks
2x12 Episode 19 aka The Black Widow

Films

The 39 Steps (1935)
[#60 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

Blindspot 2017 #4

Collection Count

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

Except for last week, when I was away from home, so this actually counts the last fortnight -- all the more Blu-rays to factor in to the monthly running time update, then!

It would've been a big week by any measure, but when you add in the week before as well... Well, there were 12 additions to my collection this fortnight (so much for "11 additions by the end of May"!), including one BD-to-BD upgrade, as well as the Ultimate Edition of Peter Jackson's King Kong, a single two-disc set that replaces the content previously held across three titles and seven discs(!)

And what all that jiggery-pokery does to the numbers is...

Number of titles in collection: 1,969 [up 8]
Of which DVDs: 1,186 [down 3]
Of which Blu-rays: 783 [up 11]

Number of discs in collection: 5,041 [up 17]
Number of films: 2,173 [up 11]
Number of TV episodes: 7,697 [no change]
Number of short films: 531 [up 1]

Total running time of collection (approx.):
372 days, 14 hours, and 42 minutes.
(Up 1 day, 8 hours, and 7 minutes from last month.)

Despite the mass of titles this fortnight (and a busy week last time, too), that's actually the smallest running time increase for six months!

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Car Share
2x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Flash
3x18 Abra Kadabra

Twin Peaks
2x11 Episode 18 aka Masked Ball

Vera
7x02 Dark Angel

Films

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
[#59 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

TV

24: Legacy
1x09 8:00PM - 9:00PM

Twin Peaks
2x10 Episode 17 aka Dispute Between Brothers

Who Dares Wins
10x01 (15/4/17 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Car Share
2x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Doctor Who
36x02 Smile
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

this week on 100 Films

Over at 100 Films in a Year this week, it was time for my monthly TV review...





...and 2 brand-new reviews were also published...


Guardians of the Galaxy 3D (2014)

I commented in my original review that some sequences seemed to have been designed with 3D in mind — specifically the chase through Knowhere, which I described as “little more than a blur.” I feel like past-me was correct, because I had no such issues with the sequence this time out. Even though I enjoy it, I’m still one of those people who regard 3D as fundamentally little more than a gimmick, but it does lend a scope, scale, and pizzazz throughout the movie that’s a lot of fun

Read more here.


The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

When it works, The Legend of Tarzan® is a straight-up old-fashioned adventure movie, albeit with slicker action sequences and created with lashings of CGI. When it doesn’t, it comes across as oddly muddled. As with so many blockbusters last year (Suicide Squad and Rogue One spring immediately to mind), it feels like it was chopped and changed a lot in the edit.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

Films

Sully (2016)
[#58 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

aka Sully: Miracle on the Hudson

TV

The Graham Norton Show
21x03 (21/4/17 edition)
I'm away for a few days and haven't really watched anything (hence no updates), but I did happen to catch this.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Arrow
5x18 Disbanded

Broadchurch
3x08 Episode 8 [series finale]
In which Hardy and Miller catch whodunnit.
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]

Twin Peaks
2x08 Episode 15 aka Drive with a Dead Girl
2x09 Episode 16 aka Arbitrary Law
In which Coop and Harry catch whodunnit.

TV

24: Legacy
1x08 7:00PM - 8:00PM

Duck Quacks Don't Echo
4x03 Episode 3

Twin Peaks
2x06 Episode 13 aka Demons
2x07 Episode 14 aka Lonely Souls
Got a bit off schedule with this lately. With the new season coming next month, I need to stay on track.

TV

Elementary
5x18 Dead Man's Tale

Unforgotten
1x06 Episode 6 [season finale]

Films

The Magnificent Seven (2016)
[#57 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]