Castle
8x18 Backstabber
Insert Name Here
3x06 John
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Tuesday, 30 January 2018
Sunday, 28 January 2018
this week on 100 Films
4 brand-new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012)
Public Access (1993)
Saludos Amigos (1942)
The Straight Story (1999)
More next Sunday.
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012)
Naturally it’s a tale not so much of derring-do as of humorous shenanigans, though in truth it’s not the studio’s most hysterical offering, ticking along with a level of gentle amusement rather than outright hilarity... Plus it’s all carried off with the ineffable charm of Aardman’s hand-crafted puppetryRead more here.
Public Access (1993)
What secrets lurk beneath the surface of this pretty little town? Who is this stranger and what are his motives? How will the community react to the previously-secret complaints and possible revelations? Unfortunately, Public Access does very little to explore any of those possibilities.Read more here.
Saludos Amigos (1942)
The sixth film in Disney’s official animated canon was the first in a run of cheap “package films” that span the gap from 1942’s Bambi to 1950’s Cinderella. Frankly, if Disney hadn’t decided to make it part of their animated canon whenever that list was first settled upon, I very much doubt it would be remembered today.Read more here.
The Straight Story (1999)
Such a simple, straightforward, grounded narrative seems so very un-Lynch-like at first, but its tale of quirky Americana, peopled by a ragtag selection of endearing oddballs, isn’t so far outside his wheelhouse.Read more here.
More next Sunday.
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.]
Would I Lie To You?
11x10 The Unseen Bits [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
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.
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
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.]
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
Monday, 22 January 2018
Sunday, 21 January 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)
Bright (2017)
The Man from Earth: Holocene (2017)
The Mummy (2017)
More next Sunday.
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 effectiveRead 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.
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