Saturday, 27 January 2018

TV

Murder on the Blackpool Express

Would I Lie To You?
11x10 The Unseen Bits [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Boss Baby 3D (2017)
[#12 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

Collection Count

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

One new DVD-to-BD upgrade this week, which otherwise makes no changes whatsoever. Ho hum.

Number of titles in collection: 2,076 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 1,165 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 911 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 5,327 [no change]
Number of films: 2,315 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 8,005 [no change]
Number of short films: 599 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

Friday, 26 January 2018

TV

Celebrity Mastermind
2017/2018 Episode 7 (of 10)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Vera
8x02 Black Ice
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]

Thursday, 25 January 2018

TV

The Great British Bake Off
The Great Festive Bake Off [2018 special]
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Would I Lie To You?
11x09 Episode 8
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Wednesday, 24 January 2018

Tuesday, 23 January 2018

TV

Celebrity Mastermind
2017/2018 Episode 6 (of 10)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Monday, 22 January 2018

TV

Would I Lie To You?
11x08 Episode 7
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Sunday, 21 January 2018

Films

La La Land (2016)
[#10 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]

this week on 100 Films

It's that time of the month over at 100 Films in a Year: the TV review...





Plus there were 4 brand-new film reviews too...


Black Swan (2010)
Described by director Darren Aronofsky as “a psychological thriller horror film”, Black Swan straddles the divide between classy Cinema and genre Movies as artfully as, say, a Hitchcock thriller. [...] Shot handheld on a mix of 16mm and video-capable HD DSLRs,it has a documentary look, often emphasised by its editing — at times it could almost pass for a fly-on-the-wall look behind the scenes of a ballet company. [This] serves to make the film’s unsettling parts all the more effective
Read more here.


Bright (2017)
Bright is a long way from perfect, but it’s also pretty far from being the disaster of epic proportions that critical and social media reaction seems suspiciously keen to paint it as (the Cannes-like “Netflix make TV not movies” sentiment is strong in some quarters). It’s a middle-of-the-road blockbuster movie, with some very solid plus points that are let down by some irritating negatives.
Read more here.


The Man from Earth: Holocene (2017)
has some very good ideas that could’ve made for a worthy continuation of the original film. Chief among them is the mystery of John’s relatively sudden ageing. Is he dying? Is he just entering a new phase of his existence? Either way: why? The film asks these questions, makes nods towards possible explanations, but otherwise doesn’t seek to explore it too much.
Read more here.


The Mummy (2017)
It’s a tonal mishmash. It’s not exciting enough to satisfy as an action movie, but not scary enough to qualify as a horror. There’s humour, but it’s poorly integrated, feeling at odds with the dark tone. This is a PG-13 movie that kinda wants to be an R, but not so much that it’ll really commit to sitting on that PG-13/R line.
Read more here.


More next Sunday.

Saturday, 20 January 2018

Theatre

Aladdin

Collection Count

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

Number of titles in collection: 2,076 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,166 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 910 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 5,327 [up 2]
Number of films: 2,315 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 8,005 [no change]
Number of short films: 599 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

Friday, 19 January 2018

TV

QI
15x12 Occult
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Thursday, 18 January 2018

Wednesday, 17 January 2018

Films

The Man from Earth (2007)
[2nd watch]

Rewatchathon 2018 #3

+ one of the two audio commentaries, featuring director Richard Schenkman and actor John Billingsley

Monday, 15 January 2018

Films

Die Hard (1988)
[4th watch]

Rewatchathon 2018 #2. It's been almost ten years since I last watched Die Hard. Where does time go?!

Sunday, 14 January 2018