TV

The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
4x06 Episode 6
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

The Musketeers
3x07 Fool's Gold

Films

Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
[4th watch]

Rewatchathon 2017 #39

TV

Doctor Foster
2x05 Episode 5 [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Great British Bake Off
8x06 Pastry Week
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Films

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
[4th watch]

Rewatchathon 2017 #38

TV

Doctor Foster
2x04 Episode 4
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Duck Quacks Don't Echo
6x06 Episode 6

Films

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
[5th watch]

Rewatchathon 2017 #37

this week on 100 Films

Just 1 new review was published to 100 Films in a Year this week, though it covered three (short) films...


Blade Runner 2022-2048 (2017)

You’ve probably heard that three short films have been released as part of the promotion for sci-fi sequel Blade Runner 2049. More than just trailers, these shorts go some way to bridging the 30-year gap between 2049 and the original Blade Runner. They were released out of sequence over the past couple of months, but here they’re reviewed in chronological order.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Doctor Foster
2x03 Episode 3
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
4x05 Episode 5
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Upstart Crow
2x01 The Green-Eyed Monster
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Collection Count

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

A box set and two new individual-film releases this week, the latter two both in 3D. I'm building up quite a 3D collection now -- I might start adding that to the stats...

Number of titles in collection: 2,037 [up 3]
Of which DVDs: 1,171 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 866 [up 3]

Number of discs in collection: 5,223 [up 10]
Number of films: 2,270 [up 5]
Number of TV episodes: 7,937 [no change]
Number of short films: 593 [up 3]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Doctor Foster
2x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Great British Bake Off
8x05 Pudding Week
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Films

Blade Runner: The Final Cut (1982/2007)
[4th watch]
Only my second time seeing The Final Cut (the first was way back in 2009), but my records tell me this is my fourth viewing of the film overall. Watched it last night, before...

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
[#132 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

TV

Doctor Foster
2x01 Episode 1
Bingeing now it's finished. (Also, quite surprised to realise it's over a year since I watched series one.)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Duck Quacks Don't Echo
6x05 Episode 5

Films

Perfect Sense (2011)
[#131 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

+ three short prequels to Blade Runner 2049...

Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 (2017)
[#130a in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

2036: Nexus Dawn (2017)
[#130b in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

2048: Nowhere to Run (2017)
[#130c in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

TV

The Great British Bake Off
8x04 Caramel Week
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
4x04 Episode 4
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Films

Public Access (1993)
[#130 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

Films

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
[#129 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]

Wayne's World 2 (1993)
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2017 #35

Articles

DC Rethinks Its Universe
by Abraham Riesman (from Vulture)
A longish, interesting piece on how DC are managing (or hoping to manage) the negative reception their movies have mostly received so far.

TV Series Budgets Hit the Breaking Point as Costs Skyrocket in Peak TV Era
by Maureen Ryan & Cynthia Littleton (from Variety)
Another lengthy but very interesting behind-the-scenes piece, this one on the spiralling cost of high-end TV shows -- why it's happening, what effect it's having, and how it might change going forward. All quite insider-y stuff, but if that's your thing then, as I said, super-interesting.

this week on 100 Films

2017 heads into its final third today, as October begins. As ever, a new month means it's time to look back at the one just past on 100 Films in a Year...





The monthly updates and my TV column don't usually coincide, but this week they do for the second month in a row. Last time it was because I was publishing TV reviews at increased frequency to cover the volume of stuff I was watching. This time it's because I haven't watched much so delayed the column a week. Funny old life, ain't it?





Finally, in regular business, 2 brand-new reviews were also posted this week...


A Fistful of Dollars (1964)

Watching Yojimbo and this back to back, you can’t miss how similar they are — no wonder they settled the legal case, they wouldn’t’ve had a leg to stand on. Yojimbo is the classier handling of the material, giving the whole scenario a weightiness that has gone astray here. Fistful has its own charms, of course, as director Sergio Leone merrily reinvents the Western genre before our eyes

Read more here.


Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)

Critics, eh? There’s a lot you could say about them, both individually and en masse, but right now I’m concerned with the fact they’ve given Kingsman: The Golden Circle a Rotten Tomatoes score of just 50%. More than that, many have gone further: I’ve read one-star reviews from several major outlets. Audiences disagree. On IMDb it’s got a very respectable 7.4 (just a few points down from the much better-received Wonder Woman, for comparison) and it topped the box office this past weekend, beating the latest LEGO movie in the US and almost doubling the first film’s opening weekend in the UK. Well, I’m definitely an audience member rather than a critic. In fact, I’m still weighing up the possibility that The Golden Circle might be even better than its predecessor.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

Films

Wayne's World (1992)
[3rd watch]

Rewatchathon 2017 #34

Collection Count

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

A few new acquisitions this week. Next week: a few more. Then: a quiet spell. Well, we'll see.

Number of titles in collection: 2,034 [up 3]
Of which DVDs: 1,171 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 863 [up 3]

Number of discs in collection: 5,213 [up 5]
Number of films: 2,265 [up 3]
Number of TV episodes: 7,937 [no change]
Number of short films: 590 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.