The Punisher
1x03 Kandahar
Saturday, 18 November 2017
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
Number of titles in collection: 2,053 [up 4]
Of which DVDs: 1,169 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 884 [up 4]
Number of discs in collection: 5,270 [up 15]
Number of films: 2,289 [up 5]
Number of TV episodes: 7,980 [up 13]
Number of short films: 594 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Number of titles in collection: 2,053 [up 4]
Of which DVDs: 1,169 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 884 [up 4]
Number of discs in collection: 5,270 [up 15]
Number of films: 2,289 [up 5]
Number of TV episodes: 7,980 [up 13]
Number of short films: 594 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 17 November 2017
Films
Baby Driver (2017)
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2017 #42 -- just 4½ months since the first time, too. Can't remember the last time I rewatched a film that quickly where an alternate version wasn't involved. (For example: I rewatched Ghost in the Shell also 4½ months later, but that was in 3D, and before that Suicide Squad in under 2 months, but that was an extended cut.) This is part of the point of my Rewatchathon, though.
Justice League (2017)
[#157 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2017 #42 -- just 4½ months since the first time, too. Can't remember the last time I rewatched a film that quickly where an alternate version wasn't involved. (For example: I rewatched Ghost in the Shell also 4½ months later, but that was in 3D, and before that Suicide Squad in under 2 months, but that was an extended cut.) This is part of the point of my Rewatchathon, though.
Justice League (2017)
[#157 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]
Thursday, 16 November 2017
TV
Rick and Morty
1x03 Anatomy Park
Another really good one. If it keeps this up then I guess I'll be seeing what other people see after all.
1x03 Anatomy Park
Another really good one. If it keeps this up then I guess I'll be seeing what other people see after all.
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
Tuesday, 14 November 2017
TV
Red Dwarf
12x06 Skipper [season finale]
An excellent, fan-pleasing episode. Perfectly placed as a finale, too. Apparently Red Dwarf XIII is already in the works -- hurrah!
Rick and Morty
1x02 Lawnmower Dog
A massive improvement on the pilot -- I actually enjoyed this.
Stranger Things 2
2x07 Chapter Seven: The Lost Sister
Hm. This episode has attracted a lot of criticism online. It's not great, but I don't think it was that bad. The real problem is that it rushes through a character arc for Eleven that would've been better presented over multiple episodes. Basically, there were better ways to structure her role this season.
12x06 Skipper [season finale]
An excellent, fan-pleasing episode. Perfectly placed as a finale, too. Apparently Red Dwarf XIII is already in the works -- hurrah!
Rick and Morty
1x02 Lawnmower Dog
A massive improvement on the pilot -- I actually enjoyed this.
Stranger Things 2
2x07 Chapter Seven: The Lost Sister
Hm. This episode has attracted a lot of criticism online. It's not great, but I don't think it was that bad. The real problem is that it rushes through a character arc for Eleven that would've been better presented over multiple episodes. Basically, there were better ways to structure her role this season.
Monday, 13 November 2017
Sunday, 12 November 2017
TV
Castle
8x09 Tone Death
Red Dwarf
12x05 M-Corp
Stranger Things 2
2x05 Chapter Five: Dig Dug
2x06 Chapter Six: The Spy
8x09 Tone Death
Red Dwarf
12x05 M-Corp
Stranger Things 2
2x05 Chapter Five: Dig Dug
2x06 Chapter Six: The Spy
this week on 100 Films
4 brand-new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...
Anomalisa (2015)
Assassin's Creed (2016)
Batman vs. Two-Face (2017)
Eye in the Sky (2015)
More next Sunday.
Anomalisa (2015)
Although an everyday kind of drama that would be largely achievable in live-action, it uses its animated form to its advantage when depicting the central conceit, giving every character who isn’t Michael and Lisa the same face and having them all voiced by the same actor (Tom Noonan). For me, this was the most effective part of the movie. It’s a really neat way of executing the concept of not being able to tell people apart. Noonan is the film’s real star, too, voicing “everyone else” in a way that makes them sound plausibly unique but also all the sameRead more here.
Assassin's Creed (2016)
the action carries no weight: our hero can’t change the past, just witness it as he helps the bad guys watch to see where the MacGuffin ended up. So we are literally watching someone watch someone else do all the action — like, y’know, watching someone else play a video game. It’s almost a meta commentary on video game movies, except I don’t think that was the intention.Read more here.
Batman vs. Two-Face (2017)
we don’t want a serious Bat-adventure, we want something light, daft, and above all fun. Batman vs. Two-Face isn’t exactly a sombre affair, but it isn’t funny enough either... The tone is just wrong. The makers admit they were trying to mix “camp with noir”, but — as I think any of us could’ve told them — that’s an unnatural combination that just doesn’t work.Read more here.
Eye in the Sky (2015)
After a multinational mission is launched to capture wanted terrorists in Kenya, surveillance observes them prepping suicide bombers. The mission objective is changed to “kill”, but commanders watching from afar via drone are forced to reconsider their options due to a civilian presence near the target. It’s a tense thriller driven by a compelling moral dilemma — in fact, the dilemma is an old one: would you sacrifice one innocent life to potentially save dozens more? It’s just that it’s now framed in the super-modern context of using drones to dispatch death from the other side of the world.Read more here.
More next Sunday.
Saturday, 11 November 2017
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
Eight new purchases this week -- everything I mentioned last week finally showed up, and a couple more! You won't see that many new titles added, however, because one upgrades a DVD and two upgrade Blu-rays to better Blu-rays. Still, a wealth of new discs thanks to how many of those BDs have (useless to me) DVD copies.
Number of titles in collection: 2,049 [up 5]
Of which DVDs: 1,169 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 880 [up 6]
Number of discs in collection: 5,255 [up 12]
Number of films: 2,284 [up 4]
Number of TV episodes: 7,967 [up 22]
Number of short films: 594 [no change]
It's also time for another running time update. Despite all those new titles, this is actually the smallest increase since May (only by about three hours though, so it's hardly anything outside the norm).
Total running time of collection (approx.):
389 days, 19 hours, and 58 minutes.
(Up 1 day, 2 hours, and 45 minutes from last month.)
See you next week, faithful reader.
Eight new purchases this week -- everything I mentioned last week finally showed up, and a couple more! You won't see that many new titles added, however, because one upgrades a DVD and two upgrade Blu-rays to better Blu-rays. Still, a wealth of new discs thanks to how many of those BDs have (useless to me) DVD copies.
Number of titles in collection: 2,049 [up 5]
Of which DVDs: 1,169 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 880 [up 6]
Number of discs in collection: 5,255 [up 12]
Number of films: 2,284 [up 4]
Number of TV episodes: 7,967 [up 22]
Number of short films: 594 [no change]
It's also time for another running time update. Despite all those new titles, this is actually the smallest increase since May (only by about three hours though, so it's hardly anything outside the norm).
Total running time of collection (approx.):
389 days, 19 hours, and 58 minutes.
(Up 1 day, 2 hours, and 45 minutes from last month.)
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 10 November 2017
Thursday, 9 November 2017
TV
Arrow
6x01 Fallout
Oh look, everybody apart from the minor guest star survived. There's a surprise.
Bounty Hunters
1x02 Episode 2
Detectorists
3x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
6x01 Fallout
Oh look, everybody apart from the minor guest star survived. There's a surprise.
Bounty Hunters
1x02 Episode 2
Detectorists
3x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Wednesday, 8 November 2017
Tuesday, 7 November 2017
Articles
X-Men at 25: The Unlikely Story of the Animated Hit No Network Wanted
by Aaron Couch & Byron Burton (from The Hollywood Reporter)
Celebrating a quarter-century of one of the great superhero TV series. Personally, it was a defining part of my childhood -- I'd credit it with my enduring love of the X-Men franchise.
by Aaron Couch & Byron Burton (from The Hollywood Reporter)
Celebrating a quarter-century of one of the great superhero TV series. Personally, it was a defining part of my childhood -- I'd credit it with my enduring love of the X-Men franchise.
Monday, 6 November 2017
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