The League of Gentlemen
4x03 Royston Vasey Mon Amour [season finale]
Revivals of once-great comedies can be a mistake -- they're often little more than an exercise in nostalgia -- but this has been really rather good, and gone down very well too. Officially it's a set of 20th anniversary specials rather than a fourth series, but might we see more? I think it would be welcomed.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Wednesday, 20 December 2017
Films
Forbidden Planet (1956)
[#172 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]
Blindspot 2017 #12. And that completes Blindspot for 2017.
Home Alone (1990)
[2nd or so watch]
Rewatchathon 2017 #49. Haven't seen this since I was a kid. I may well have seen it more than once back then, but I wouldn't swear to it.
[#172 in 100 Films in a Year 2017]
Blindspot 2017 #12. And that completes Blindspot for 2017.
Home Alone (1990)
[2nd or so watch]
Rewatchathon 2017 #49. Haven't seen this since I was a kid. I may well have seen it more than once back then, but I wouldn't swear to it.
Tuesday, 19 December 2017
Monday, 18 December 2017
Sunday, 17 December 2017
this week on 100 Films
It was time for a TV review this week on 100 Films in a Year...
Plus there were 4 brand-new film reviews...
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
Hotel Chevalier (2007)
The Terminator (1984)
Your Name. (2016)
More next Sunday.
Plus there were 4 brand-new film reviews...
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)
As someone who still feels new to Wes Anderson’s world and is working through his oeuvre in a roundabout fashion, I don’t necessarily disagree with the sentiment that it's a lesser work on Anderson’s CV. If you want to find out what’s so great about Anderson, there are certainly other places to start.Read more here.
Hotel Chevalier (2007)
a kind-of-prequel, kind-of-Part-One to The Darjeeling Limited. It’s probably best remembered for... Natalie Portman’s ass... because oh my God you get to see Natalie Portman’s ass... I don’t know how much it has to offer outside of setting up part of The Darjeeling Limited. Unless you just want to see Natalie Portman’s ass, of course.Read more here.
The Terminator (1984)
The more mediocre movies you see, or even just “quite good” ones, the more you realise how perfect the great ones are — and The Terminator is a great movie. It’s full of superb sci-fi ideas, well-directed action sequences, quotable dialogue, and memorable characters — not least the instantly iconic title role.Read more here.
Your Name. (2016)
If you’ve not heard about Your Name then… well, where have you been for the past year? It was a colossal hit in its native Japan during the back end of 2016, spending 12 weeks at #1 to become the fourth highest-grossing film of all time there... Critical acclaim has followed as it’s been released around the rest of the world too, hailing writer-director Makoto Shinkai as the new Miyazaki. It’s hard to imagination higher praise for an animator... So when I finally sat down to watch it this week it had a bit of weight on its shoulders — at this point it runs the risk of being a victim of its own hype.Read more here.
More next Sunday.
Saturday, 16 December 2017
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
Four new acquisitions this week, including a BD-to-BD upgrade. It would've been double that, but the post seems to be slow right now. Wonder why...
Note how the numbers of discs and films are both sitting on the cusp of nice round figures. They won't land there though, because next week all those other titles will turn up and storm past it. Hey-ho.
Number of titles in collection: 2,064 [up 3]
Of which DVDs: 1,167 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 897 [up 3]
Number of discs in collection: 5,299 [up 9]
Number of films: 2,299 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 8,005 [up 7]
Number of short films: 595 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Four new acquisitions this week, including a BD-to-BD upgrade. It would've been double that, but the post seems to be slow right now. Wonder why...
Note how the numbers of discs and films are both sitting on the cusp of nice round figures. They won't land there though, because next week all those other titles will turn up and storm past it. Hey-ho.
Number of titles in collection: 2,064 [up 3]
Of which DVDs: 1,167 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 897 [up 3]
Number of discs in collection: 5,299 [up 9]
Number of films: 2,299 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 8,005 [up 7]
Number of short films: 595 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 15 December 2017
Thursday, 14 December 2017
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Tuesday, 12 December 2017
TV
Detectorists
3x05 Episode 5
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
The Flash
4x06 When Harry Met Harry...
Insert Name Here
3x04 Paul
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Would I Lie To You?
11x04 Episode 4
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
3x05 Episode 5
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
The Flash
4x06 When Harry Met Harry...
Insert Name Here
3x04 Paul
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Would I Lie To You?
11x04 Episode 4
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Monday, 11 December 2017
TV
The Good Place
1x12 Mindy St. Claire
Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs
6x05 Episode 5
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]
1x12 Mindy St. Claire
Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs
6x05 Episode 5
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]
Sunday, 10 December 2017
Films
For a Few Dollars More (1965)
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2017 #47
This was included in my 100 Favourites series, which you can read about here.
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2017 #47
This was included in my 100 Favourites series, which you can read about here.
this week on 100 Films
There were 7 brand-new reviews on 100 Films in a Year this week, with 4 of them bundled into a...
Comedy Review Roundup
Life (2017)
Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends (2014)
Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)
More next Sunday.
Comedy Review Roundup
Let’s have a laugh (or, perhaps, not) with… Police Academy, Black Dynamite, Four Lions, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.Read more here.
Life (2017)
Playing like a cross between Gravity (a near-future thriller where space technology is almost identical to our present capabilities) and Alien (a violent alien lifeform attacks the crew of a space vessel), Life clearly aspires to be little more than a straight-up sci-fi/horror thrill ride, and on that score it’s a pretty effective piece of entertainment.Read more here.
Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends (2014)
As is a common fate among so many trilogy-closers, I thought Rurouni Kenshin 3 was sadly the series’ weak link. That said, it’s not a bad action movie — if you’re only in it for the swordplay then it satisfies with bells on; it’s the storyline around that is disappointing.Read more here.
Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)
Film Twitter has been getting itself in a bit of a tizzy over the past couple of days about David Lynch’s return to TV [after] respected British film magazine Sight & Sound went and named Twin Peaks: The Return as the second best film of 2017... Personally, I’m not really sure where I come down on the issue. I mean, it’s definitely a TV series, isn’t it? But it’s also virtually an 18-hour movie, isn’t it? Can it be both? Why can’t it be both?Read more here.
More next Sunday.
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
As promised last week, there's a whole load of stuff here -- eight additions, to be exact, with just one being a DVD-to-BD upgrade. That all makes its presence felt in the monthly running time update, too.
Number of titles in collection: 2,061 [up 7]
Of which DVDs: 1,167 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 894 [up 8]
Number of discs in collection: 5,290 [up 18]
Number of films: 2,297 [up 9]
Number of TV episodes: 7,998 [up 18]
Number of short films: 595 [up 1]
Total running time of collection (approx.):
392 days, 5 hours, and 22 minutes.
(Up 2 days, 9 hours, and 24 minutes from last month.)
That's the biggest running time increase since there were silly numbers in July.
See you next week, faithful reader.
As promised last week, there's a whole load of stuff here -- eight additions, to be exact, with just one being a DVD-to-BD upgrade. That all makes its presence felt in the monthly running time update, too.
Number of titles in collection: 2,061 [up 7]
Of which DVDs: 1,167 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 894 [up 8]
Number of discs in collection: 5,290 [up 18]
Number of films: 2,297 [up 9]
Number of TV episodes: 7,998 [up 18]
Number of short films: 595 [up 1]
Total running time of collection (approx.):
392 days, 5 hours, and 22 minutes.
(Up 2 days, 9 hours, and 24 minutes from last month.)
That's the biggest running time increase since there were silly numbers in July.
See you next week, faithful reader.
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