Twin Peaks
3x16 The Return Part 16
Wednesday, 30 August 2017
Tuesday, 29 August 2017
Monday, 28 August 2017
TV
Designated Survivor
1x19 Misalliance
1x20 Bombshell
Game of Thrones
7x07 The Dragon and the Wolf [season finale]
1x19 Misalliance
1x20 Bombshell
Game of Thrones
7x07 The Dragon and the Wolf [season finale]
Sunday, 27 August 2017
this week on 100 Films
Just 2 brand-new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...
Death Note (2006)
Death Note: The Last Name (2006)
More next Sunday.
Death Note (2006)
the Death Note is so all-powerful that there’s little drama in Light using it, especially as he isn’t morally conflicted himself — he’s sure he’s doing the right thing, despite people around him voicing their disagreement with Kira. The story therefore comes to focus on the battle between Light and L, a pair of self-proclaimed geniuses who work to constantly outwit each other. This is where the film begins to falter, because a lot of their supposed intelligence comes from leaps of logic designed to make them look clever.Read more here.
Death Note: The Last Name (2006)
Fundamentally, The Last Name resumes Light and L’s cat-and-mouse game in the same style as the first movie — in case you didn’t get it, near the start of the film their figurative chess game is represented by a literal chess game. This time there are the added complications of Light being on L’s team and the second Death Note being in play, which at least adds some variety.Read more here.
More next Sunday.
Saturday, 26 August 2017
TV
Designated Survivor
1x16 Party Lines
1x17 The Ninth Seat
Who Dares Wins
10x09 (26/8/17 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
1x16 Party Lines
1x17 The Ninth Seat
Who Dares Wins
10x09 (26/8/17 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Non-Fiction
Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich
Chapters 1-7
The book that inspired the film 21, which I watched the other day. Apparently the film was heavily fictionalised, so I was curious to read the real story. What's kind of interesting is that the book apparently takes quite a few liberties with the truth as well. It also reads more like a novel than a work of non-fiction. Thus far, it's actually fairly similar to the film; as similar as most fiction-to-movie adaptations are, at least. Presumably it deviates more later.
Chapters 1-7
The book that inspired the film 21, which I watched the other day. Apparently the film was heavily fictionalised, so I was curious to read the real story. What's kind of interesting is that the book apparently takes quite a few liberties with the truth as well. It also reads more like a novel than a work of non-fiction. Thus far, it's actually fairly similar to the film; as similar as most fiction-to-movie adaptations are, at least. Presumably it deviates more later.
Articles
Interview: Steven Soderbergh
by Amy Taubin (from Film Comment)
An interesting interview, primarily about Soderbergh's new film, Logan Lucky, but, him being him, there are lots of interesting tangents too.
Netflix is Using The Defenders to Understand Its Audience
by Angela Watercutter (from Wired)
Another interesting piece (hence why I'm sharing them both!), this one about both how Netflix compiles data on what it's users watch, and how The Defenders provides a unique opportunity in that regard.
by Amy Taubin (from Film Comment)
An interesting interview, primarily about Soderbergh's new film, Logan Lucky, but, him being him, there are lots of interesting tangents too.
Netflix is Using The Defenders to Understand Its Audience
by Angela Watercutter (from Wired)
Another interesting piece (hence why I'm sharing them both!), this one about both how Netflix compiles data on what it's users watch, and how The Defenders provides a unique opportunity in that regard.
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
A couple of late arrivals to add this week ("late" as in "part of an order that mostly arrived last week"). Next week: looking like nothing. Gasp!
Number of titles in collection: 2,019 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,173 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 846 [up 2]
Number of discs in collection: 5,187 [up 2]
Number of films: 2,249 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 7,910 [no change]
Number of short films: 584 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
A couple of late arrivals to add this week ("late" as in "part of an order that mostly arrived last week"). Next week: looking like nothing. Gasp!
Number of titles in collection: 2,019 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,173 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 846 [up 2]
Number of discs in collection: 5,187 [up 2]
Number of films: 2,249 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 7,910 [no change]
Number of short films: 584 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 25 August 2017
Thursday, 24 August 2017
Wednesday, 23 August 2017
TV
The Defenders
1x07 Fish in the Jailhouse
1x08 The Defenders [season finale]
Designated Survivor
1x10 The Oath
1x11 Warriors
1x12 The End of the Beginning
1x07 Fish in the Jailhouse
1x08 The Defenders [season finale]
Designated Survivor
1x10 The Oath
1x11 Warriors
1x12 The End of the Beginning
Tuesday, 22 August 2017
TV
The Defenders
1x05 Take Shelter
1x06 Ashes, Ashes
Designated Survivor
1x07 The Traitor
1x08 The Results
1x09 The Blueprint
Rick and Morty
1x01 Pilot
People keep going on about this so I've decided to try at least a couple of episodes. This one isn't that promising, but we'll see.
1x05 Take Shelter
1x06 Ashes, Ashes
Designated Survivor
1x07 The Traitor
1x08 The Results
1x09 The Blueprint
Rick and Morty
1x01 Pilot
People keep going on about this so I've decided to try at least a couple of episodes. This one isn't that promising, but we'll see.
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