Maniac
Part 4 Furs by Sebastian
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]
Monday, 1 October 2018
Sunday, 30 September 2018
Films
Before Midnight (2013)
[#205 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]
+ half-hour behind-the-scenes documentary After Before
[#205 in 100 Films in a Year 2018]
+ half-hour behind-the-scenes documentary After Before
this week on 100 Films
It was time for another TV column this week over at 100 Films in a Year...
Plus, 2 brand-new film reviews...
Happy Death Day (2017)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
More next Sunday.
Plus, 2 brand-new film reviews...
Happy Death Day (2017)
a high-concept slasher movie that could be described as Groundhog Day meets Scream via Legally Blonde. Normally those kind of “X meets Y” descriptions give a general sense of tone or some coincidental similarities, but if you could put those three films in a blender, Happy Death Day is almost certainly what would come out. But while there’s no doubt that it is derivative, that doesn’t mean it’s not entertaining.Read more here.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
a mix of overwrought melodrama, plausible real-life horror, and mature psychological thriller. It’s really driven by the acting of the two leads. Joan Crawford gets a less showy role, having to play it straight as the reasonable, sensible older sister... Bette Davis, on the other hand, is allowed to cut loose. She starts the film batty and only gets less mentally stable from there. It’s quite an extraordinary performanceRead more here.
More next Sunday.
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.]
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