TV

The Punisher
2x01 Roadhouse Blues
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Films

Glass (2019)
[#7 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

Les Misérables
Part 3 (of 6)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Split (2016)
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2019 #4. Tomorrow: Glass.

Films

Ghostbusters (1984)
[4th or so watch]
Rewatchathon 2019 #3. I don't know how many times I saw this as a kid, but I reckon I haven't actually watched it in the last 20 or so years, and yet I still vividly remembered whole chunks of it. Iconic.

Unbreakable (2000)
[4th watch]
Rewatchathon 2019 #2. Almost time for Glass...

Films

Twelve Monkeys (1995)
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2019 #1

Films

Experiments in Love 3D (1977)
[#6a in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

La jetée (1962)
[#6b in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

The Stewardesses 3D (1969)
[#6 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Films

Rambo (2008)
[#5 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

this week on 100 Films

It was all about finished 2018 and belatedly starting 2019 this week at 100 Films in a Year.

Firstly, I finished off last year by listing my best & worst films I saw in 2018...





Then, 2019's goal got underway with two lists of 12 films I must watch this year...


What Do You Mean You Haven’t Seen…? 2019

A new year, a new challenge… or, rather, an old challenge with new components. Yes, for a seventh year I’m setting myself the goal of watching 12 specific films I really should have seen but haven’t... WDYMYHS is selected by analysing lists of great and/or popular movies to try to determine a consensus view of what I’m a fool to have missed.

Read more here.


Blindspot 2019

12 films I should’ve seen but haven’t that I must watch this year — and, because I’m doing both WDYMYHS and Blindspot, that’s 24 films I must watch... Blindspot choices are simply personally selected from my DVD/Blu-ray collection. Nonetheless, I do try to add a bit of variety to the mix, with different countries, genres, and eras represented.

Read more here.


Finally, there was even 1 new review...


Zatoichi's Cane Sword (1967)

Anyone who watches and enjoys the Zatoichi series is bound to end up with their own particular favourites, for whatever reason. Cane Sword particularly clicked for the writers at The Digital Bits; for me, it's been other films... Either way, Cane Sword is another very good entry in a series which is, fortunately, full of them.

Read more here.


Regular business resumes next Sunday.

Films

1941 (1979)
[#4 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

The final Steven Spielberg film I've definitely never seen! (Believe it or not, I can't remember if I've ever seen E.T. I'll settle that for certain sometimes soon-ish, then.)

Collection Count

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

Just one DVD to Blu-ray upgrade this week; plus I'd messed up the film count on a previous week, so there's a correction to that.

Number of titles in collection: 2,179 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 1,142 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,037 [up 1]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 9 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 5,629 [up 1]
Number of films: 2,491 [up 4]
Number of TV episodes: 8,378 [no change]
Number of short films: 651 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

The Graham Norton Show
24x13 (11/1/19 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Cool Hand Luke (1967)
[#2 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]
What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...? 2019 #1

Godzilla: The Planet Eater (2018)
[#3 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Films

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018)
[#1 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Mopping up some Christmas specials I missed...

The Imitation Game
1x07 Episode 7 [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]

Would I Lie To You?
12x07 At Christmas
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Les Misérables
Part 2 (of 6)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

this week on 100 Films

With the new year only just underway, the past week at 100 Films in a Year has been almost entirely concerned with looking back at 2018.

First, the monthly progress report for December...





Then, three posts looking back over the whole year...


My Top 5 Most-Read New Posts in 2018

Last year, my top five most-viewed new posts were dominated by TV reviews, with no film getting a look in... This year, one film did crack the top five... Nonetheless, as this is supposedly a film blog, I’m still presenting the two separate top fives: first, which five sets of TV reviews attracted the most hits; then, which five film reviews were most visited.

Read more here.


2018: The Full List

2018 was the biggest year of 100 Films ever in terms of films viewed, and by some margin: my previous highest total was 2015’s 200, but this year I made it all the way to 261. Throw in my Rewatchathon and I watched 311 feature-length films this year. This post is, as the title should suggest, a list of those.

Read more here.


2018 Statistics

For today’s portion of my review of 2018, it’s one of my personal highlights every year: the statistics! For any newcomers among you, this is where I take the 261 films I watched for the first time in 2018 and analyse them in all kinds of different ways, and compare them to previous years too. It’s exciting, I promise. (Well, it is to me.)

Read more here.


My best and worst of the year will (hopefully) follow soon. Meanwhile, in more regular business, there was my review of Christmas TV...





...and 1 new film review, too:


Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016)

Primarily, I think Ab Fab: The Movie is targeted at fans of the series, and isn’t really designed to stand on its own feet as an independent movie. I’ve only seen some of the TV show, and I think that was essential to understanding who all the characters were, how they were connected, and why they behaved in certain ways. Even then, I felt like there was stuff flying over my head because I haven’t seen all of the original episodes and/or because it’s been some years since I did watch any.

Read more here.


And that's the lot! More next Sunday.

Collection Count

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

Three new Blu-rays to kick off 2019, but one upgrades a pair of DVD sets, so the numbers go something like this...

Number of titles in collection: 2,179 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,143 [down 2]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,036 [up 3]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 9 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 5,628 [up 6]
Number of films: 2,487 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 8,378 [up 50]
Number of short films: 651 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

The Big Fat Quiz of Everything 2019
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

A Series of Unfortunate Events
3x05 The Penultimate Peril Part One
3x06 The Penultimate Peril Part Two
3x07 The End [series finale]
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

University Challenge
Christmas 2018 The Grand Final [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Island of Dreams
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

A Series of Unfortunate Events
3x03 The Grim Grotto Part One
3x04 The Grim Grotto Part Two
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

University Challenge
Christmas 2018 Semi-Final 2
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]