The Americans
5x09 IHOP
The Persuaders!
1x11 Greensleeves
Twin Peaks
3x08 The Return Part 8
Monday, 26 June 2017
Sunday, 25 June 2017
this week on 100 Films
7 brand-new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Moonlight (2016)
Our Kind of Traitor (2016)
Space Jam (1996)
Review Roundup
More next Sunday.
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
We’ve all read reviews where a critic (or blogger!) will write something like, “it would benefit from being 10 minutes shorter”. That sounds very precise and therefore clever, but it’s really a number plucked from thin air. No one who’s written a sentence like that has actually sat down with a film, noted all the bits they’d cut, added them up, and then presented that total in their review. It is, at best, intuition (at worst, it’s random and thoughtless). However, with 10 Cloverfield Lane I can say exactly how much needs to be cut: 9 minutes and 10 seconds. To be exact, those’d be the 9 minutes and 10 seconds between a (spoilery) revelation and the credits rolling.Read more here.
Moonlight (2016)
In telling the story of a young gay black man, Moonlight is exposing a world and lifestyle that’s not seen much, or at all, in (mainstream) cinema — that is, being black and gay. Or just being gay, really. Or black, to an extent. There’s an inherent positivity in getting such untold stories out into the open. Nonetheless, there’s a certain universality to Chiron’s experience.Read more here.
Our Kind of Traitor (2016)
Some of Traitor’s detractors have a problem with it right from the off, finding the premise to be inherently ridiculous. I disagree. In fact, I think it’s quite a good plan on Dima’s part: to use an unsuspected casual acquaintance to smuggle important documents to the authorities. The way the MacKendricks continue to be involved does wind up stretching credibility, but that’s narrative structure for you — it’d be a real trick to construct a satisfying relay of perspective characters.Read more here.
Space Jam (1996)
It is joyless. Not funny. Not clever. It’s just flat. The concept of character is nonexistent — no one has an arc. It wastes time on a subplot about a bunch of players who aren’t Michael Jordan. (I say “wastes time” — the whole thing’s a waste of time.) Bill Murray turns up for no apparent reason — did he need the money? Does he really love basketball? I don’t know. He brings some small joy just by being him. Elsewhere, there’s a grand total of one funny line.Read more here.
Review Roundup
Quick reviews of 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie, and Young Frankenstein.Read more here.
More next Sunday.
Saturday, 24 June 2017
TV
Doctor Who
36x11 World Enough and Time
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
The Persuaders!
1x10 Chain of Events
Pitch Battle
1x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
36x11 World Enough and Time
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
The Persuaders!
1x10 Chain of Events
Pitch Battle
1x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
A couple of new additions this week, but really it's all about the monthly running time update. Yes, it's that time! And it's a pretty huge one -- the biggest in almost 10 months, in fact. A major part of that was getting all of Star Trek: The Original Series at the start of the month: it accounts for exactly 75% of this month's increase.
Number of titles in collection: 1,989 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,181 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 808 [up 2]
Number of discs in collection: 5,089 [up 3]
Number of films: 2,193 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 7,784 [no change]
Number of short films: 566 [no change]
Total running time of collection (approx.):
377 days, 18 hours, and 10 minutes.
(Up 3 days, 19 hours, and 26 minutes from last month.)
See you next week, faithful reader.
A couple of new additions this week, but really it's all about the monthly running time update. Yes, it's that time! And it's a pretty huge one -- the biggest in almost 10 months, in fact. A major part of that was getting all of Star Trek: The Original Series at the start of the month: it accounts for exactly 75% of this month's increase.
Number of titles in collection: 1,989 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,181 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 808 [up 2]
Number of discs in collection: 5,089 [up 3]
Number of films: 2,193 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 7,784 [no change]
Number of short films: 566 [no change]
Total running time of collection (approx.):
377 days, 18 hours, and 10 minutes.
(Up 3 days, 19 hours, and 26 minutes from last month.)
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 23 June 2017
Thursday, 22 June 2017
Tuesday, 20 June 2017
Monday, 19 June 2017
Sunday, 18 June 2017
this week on 100 Films
This week it was time for 100 Films in a Year to review the past month's TV, including the first third of the new Twin Peaks, four new episodes of Doctor Who, and much more...
In regular business, there were 2 brand-new reviews...
New Tale of Zatoichi (1963)
Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made (2016)
More next Sunday.
In regular business, there were 2 brand-new reviews...
New Tale of Zatoichi (1963)
With studio Daiei apparently realising they had a potential long-running series on their hands, blind masseur cum roving wrong-righter Ichi makes his colour debut in this third film. Despite the obvious visual change, New Tale picks up on plot threads from the previous film, concluding a trilogy of sorts that spans the series’ first three instalments.Read more here.
Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made (2016)
It’s a great tale, but unfortunately it’s told in a really sloppily made documentary. The narrative is a complete jumble — it jumps in and out of stories all over the place, getting distracted by something else before looping back around. Exposition and setup are bungled, leaving the viewer constantly playing catch-up and trying to piece things together.Read more here.
More next Sunday.
Saturday, 17 June 2017
TV
Doctor Who
36x10 The Eaters of Light
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
The Persuaders!
1x07 The Old, the New and the Deadly
Pitch Battle
1x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
36x10 The Eaters of Light
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
The Persuaders!
1x07 The Old, the New and the Deadly
Pitch Battle
1x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Films
Mamma Mia! (2008)
[3rd watch]
Well, I half watched it. Pretty sure I've half-watched it before too, but I obviously didn't bother to log that.
Moonlight (2016)
[#83 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]
+ all the Blu-ray's featurettes
[3rd watch]
Well, I half watched it. Pretty sure I've half-watched it before too, but I obviously didn't bother to log that.
Moonlight (2016)
[#83 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]
+ all the Blu-ray's featurettes
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
Including one thing that was supposedly dispatched at 6AM this morning and arrived here at 10AM (yeah, right), and not including one thing that was dispatched days ago and was due to arrive today but hasn't (weird).
Number of titles in collection: 1,987 [up 4]
Of which DVDs: 1,181 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 806 [up 4]
Number of discs in collection: 5,086 [up 8]
Number of films: 2,191 [up 4]
Number of TV episodes: 7,784 [no change]
Number of short films: 566 [up 5]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Including one thing that was supposedly dispatched at 6AM this morning and arrived here at 10AM (yeah, right), and not including one thing that was dispatched days ago and was due to arrive today but hasn't (weird).
Number of titles in collection: 1,987 [up 4]
Of which DVDs: 1,181 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 806 [up 4]
Number of discs in collection: 5,086 [up 8]
Number of films: 2,191 [up 4]
Number of TV episodes: 7,784 [no change]
Number of short films: 566 [up 5]
See you next week, faithful reader.
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