Maniac
Part 1 The Chosen One!
Part 2 Windmills
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]
Saturday, 29 September 2018
Films
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
[2nd watch]
Did not realise it'd been a whole year since I last watched this. I guess it makes sense when I think about it, but oof, time flies!
Step Brothers (2008)
[#204 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]
[2nd watch]
Did not realise it'd been a whole year since I last watched this. I guess it makes sense when I think about it, but oof, time flies!
Step Brothers (2008)
[#204 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
Just one new addition this week. There'll be a bunch more next time, though I don't expect this month to hit the same kinda levels as last month!
Number of titles in collection: 2,150 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,153 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 997 [up 1]
Number of discs in collection: 5,516 [up 1]
Number of films: 2,399 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 8,293 [no change]
Number of short films: 636 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Just one new addition this week. There'll be a bunch more next time, though I don't expect this month to hit the same kinda levels as last month!
Number of titles in collection: 2,150 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,153 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 997 [up 1]
Number of discs in collection: 5,516 [up 1]
Number of films: 2,399 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 8,293 [no change]
Number of short films: 636 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 28 September 2018
Thursday, 27 September 2018
Films
Ran (1985)
[#203 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]
What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...? 2018 #9
+ the restoration featurette among the Blu-ray's (insanely extensive) special features, to see how they justified the bizarre teal-tinged colour balance. "This is how it was always meant to look," allegedly...
[#203 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]
What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...? 2018 #9
+ the restoration featurette among the Blu-ray's (insanely extensive) special features, to see how they justified the bizarre teal-tinged colour balance. "This is how it was always meant to look," allegedly...
Wednesday, 26 September 2018
Tuesday, 25 September 2018
Monday, 24 September 2018
Sunday, 23 September 2018
this week on 100 Films
3 brand-new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...
Gods of Egypt (2016)
The Post (2017)
Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (1965)
More next Sunday.
Gods of Egypt (2016)
it is kind of a terrible film… but if you embrace it, it’s also campy fun. It’s a film where the men are burly, the women are breasty, and the CGI is blurry, but there’s a certain irreverence that stops it from being stodgy, and a light-hearted tone to the dialogue that occasionally hits home. For all the whizzy video game-ish visuals, it’s an old-fashioned adventure quest at heart, capable of pulling off the occasional thrilling sequence or amusing verbal exchange.Read more here.
The Post (2017)
Perhaps the timeliest historical movie ever made, The Post is, in its plot, about the publication of the ‘Pentagon Papers’, a leaked report that examined decades of US government decisions about the Vietnam war; but, thematically, it’s about press oversight of a government lying to its people to cover up their own wrongdoing, including trying to forcibly stop the press from performing that role — sounds familiar, doesn’t it?Read more here.
Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (1965)
Even if Chess Expert doesn’t thrill as much as some of the other movies, nor differ from the formula as thoroughly as some others, it does have its own charms for those prepared to indulge a somewhat more contemplative and chewy Ichi tale... For me, it doesn’t crack the very top tier of Ichi flicks, but is still an above-average adventure for everyone’s favourite blind masseur swordmaster.Read more here.
More next Sunday.
Saturday, 22 September 2018
TV
Bodyguard
1x04 Episode 4
1x05 Episode 5
[Watch episodes four and five (again) on iPlayer.]
Upstart Crow
3x03 If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
1x04 Episode 4
1x05 Episode 5
[Watch episodes four and five (again) on iPlayer.]
Upstart Crow
3x03 If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
Two new additions this week, though I also got rid of one title and found a couple of filing errors, so the changes are a bit bumpy.
In more exciting news, it's time for the running time update. It's a big'un: just over 7 whole days -- a week of solid viewing! That's the biggest increase since November 2015, when 246 episodes of TV saw it jump by almost 11 days. This month, it's thanks to "just" 173 episodes of TV: the complete Mission: Impossible set that I acquired at the start of the month, which alone accounts for almost 5 days & 18 hours.
Number of titles in collection: 2,149 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,153 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 996 [up 2]
Number of discs in collection: 5,515 [up 3]
Number of films: 2,398 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 8,293 [no change]
Number of short films: 636 [up 10]
Total running time of collection (approx.):
408 days, 1 hour, and 8 minutes.
(Up 7 days and 39 minutes from last month.)
See you next week, faithful reader.
Two new additions this week, though I also got rid of one title and found a couple of filing errors, so the changes are a bit bumpy.
In more exciting news, it's time for the running time update. It's a big'un: just over 7 whole days -- a week of solid viewing! That's the biggest increase since November 2015, when 246 episodes of TV saw it jump by almost 11 days. This month, it's thanks to "just" 173 episodes of TV: the complete Mission: Impossible set that I acquired at the start of the month, which alone accounts for almost 5 days & 18 hours.
Number of titles in collection: 2,149 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,153 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 996 [up 2]
Number of discs in collection: 5,515 [up 3]
Number of films: 2,398 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 8,293 [no change]
Number of short films: 636 [up 10]
Total running time of collection (approx.):
408 days, 1 hour, and 8 minutes.
(Up 7 days and 39 minutes from last month.)
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 21 September 2018
TV
Bodyguard
1x03 Episode 3
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
The Imitation Game
1x03 Episode 3
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]
Magic for Humans
1x05 Guilt Trip
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]
1x03 Episode 3
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
The Imitation Game
1x03 Episode 3
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]
Magic for Humans
1x05 Guilt Trip
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]
Articles
The Walking Dead studio Telltale hit with devastating layoffs as part of a ‘majority studio closure’
by Megan Farokhmanesh (from The Verge)
Well, this sucks -- Telltale always seemed to represent a possible renaissance for the kind of games I love: adventure games like Monkey Island. But it seems things haven't been right there for a while, as the next article explains:
Toxic Management Cost an Award-Winning Game Studio Its Best Developers
by Megan Farokhmanesh (from The Verge)
by Megan Farokhmanesh (from The Verge)
Well, this sucks -- Telltale always seemed to represent a possible renaissance for the kind of games I love: adventure games like Monkey Island. But it seems things haven't been right there for a while, as the next article explains:
Toxic Management Cost an Award-Winning Game Studio Its Best Developers
by Megan Farokhmanesh (from The Verge)
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