TV

Poirot
3x10 The Affair at the Victory Ball [season finale]
5x01 The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
[Watch The Affair at the Victory Ball and The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb (again) on the ITV Hub.]

TV

The Punisher
2x02 Fight or Flight
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Articles

Glass Was Always Building Toward This Ending
by Richard Newby (from The Hollywood Reporter)
An interesting (but super spoilery) reading of Glass and the Eastrail 177 trilogy.

this week on 100 Films

It was time for the monthly sidestep into the world of TV this week on 100 Films in a Year...





As well as which, 5 new reviews were published...


Glass (2019)

Want to see Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson face off again in a film that’s fundamentally Unbreakable 2? That’s not an unreasonable hope, but Glass is as much a sequel to Split as it is to Unbreakable, perhaps even more so. Certainly in tone, Glass has more in common with the slightly-pulpy, almost-B-movie style of Split than it does with the quiet, characterful mode Unbreakable operated in. That first film was a Drama, all about believable people coping with their personal issues, whereas the two follow-ups are much more genre movies. That said, they’re still genre movies that have been filtered through the unique mindset of this particular writer-director — don’t expect a great deal of easy satisfaction here.

Read more here.


Godzilla: The Planet Eater (2018)

There have been some interesting ideas tucked away in this trilogy, both in how it reimagined the kaiju and their mythologies, and in the brand-new stuff it attempted to introduce with the alien races and their beliefs. Unfortunately, that promise has been lost under unengaging characters, poorly defined relationships, and the kind of philosophising you might expect from a Sixth Form student.

Read more here.


Blindspot Review Roundup

Quick review of:
- The 400 Blows
- Big Fish
- Strangers on a Train

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Great News
2x08 Sensitivity Training
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Collection Count

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

Two new purchases this week, both Blu-ray-to-Blu-ray upgrades, which results in a cumulative total of one new disc.

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

Number of discs in collection: 5,630 [up 1]
Number of films: 2,491 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 8,378 [no change]
Number of short films: 651 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

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.]