TV

Game of Thrones
8x03 The Long Night
+ all the making-of videos on HBO's website, in particular the 40-minute The Game Revealed featurette which covers the whole episode.

Articles

Arya’s big moment sets up the Game of Thrones ending we deserve
by Dan Selcke (from Winter is Coming)

There's been a looooot of commentary about this week's Game of Thrones (there always is, of course, but this was a particularly big one), and some of the more ridiculous points are refuted in this article, which I more or less agree with entirely.

Films

Mortal Engines 3D (2018)
[#69 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
[#68 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

this week on 100 Films

Time for another TV roundup this week on 100 Films in a Year...





Plus 2 new film reviews were published, including a particularly big one...


Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Within its three hours and one minute running time, Endgame encompasses and represents almost all of the tendencies of other MCU movies — for both good and ill. This is not a perfect movie, and this will not be a 5-star review, which I’m saying upfront because massive spoilers may follow. There’s not much to discuss about the film if we limit ourselves to what’s been revealed in trailers and promos, because they’ve purposely kept almost the entire movie a secret, so I’m just going to talk freely.

Read more here.


Baywatch: Extended Cut (2017)

I actually thought it was fun. Big, dumb, daft fun. And that’s what I think it’s meant to be, so, really, what’s the problem? It’s not clever and it’s not subtle, but why would you expect it to be? Okay, fair enough: maybe you flat-out don’t enjoy this kind of movie. That’s fine. But for anyone who chooses to watch it with realistic expectations about the kind of film it will be, it delivers what you’d expect in reasonably good fashion.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

Collection Count

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

A couple of new additions this week. I was expecting it to be a load, but one large package didn't turn up in time, so next week's will be pretty humungous instead.

Number of titles in collection: 2,214 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,131 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,083 [up 2]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 24 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 5,732 [up 4]
Number of films: 2,535 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 8,427 [no change]
Number of short films: 657 [up 1]

It's also time for the monthly running time update...

Total running time of collection (approx.):
420 days, 10 hours, and 58 minutes.
(Up 1 day, 6 hours, and 35 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Have I Got News For You
57x03 (19/4/2019 edition; extended repeat)
[Watch the extended version (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Avengers: Endgame (2019)
[#67 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Articles

Non-Review Review: Avengers – Endgame
by Darren Mooney (from The m0vie blog)

There are tonnes of reviews of the fourth Avengers movie out there right now, obviously, but this lengthy one has some good insights into what the film fails at. But do be aware, there are spoilers herein.

TV

Ghosts
1x01 Who Do You Think You Are?
1x02 Gorilla War
[Watch episodes one and two (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Captain Marvel (2019)
[#66 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

Game of Thrones
8x02 A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Thronecast
8x01 Winterfell
8x02 A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Eesh, both episodes of this post-GoT show were pretty terrible, just in different ways -- the first with guests going off on their own barely-relevant tangents, the second like getting blood from a stone. Based on the Twitter reaction it's not normally this awkward, so maybe I'll stick with future episodes nonetheless.

Travel Man
8x02 48 Hours in Porto
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

University Challenge
2018/19 Episode 37 [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

this week on 100 Films

Just 1 short new review was published to 100 Films in a Year this week...


Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018)

Although ostensibly a children’s series, and therefore presumably a children’s movie, this is actually full of gags and references aimed at older viewers, without resorting to cheap double entendres or the like designed to fly over kids’ heads, but instead focusing on the wider universe of superhero movies

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

Collection Count

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

In the polar opposite of last week's busy-ness, this week has precisely nothing to report. Next week might be the same, though will at least have the monthly running time update.

Number of titles in collection: 2,212 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 1,131 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,081 [no change]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 24 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 5,728 [no change]
Number of films: 2,533 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 8,427 [no change]
Number of short films: 656 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

The Graham Norton Show
25x03 (19/4/19 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)
[#65 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Podcasts

David Tennant Does a Podcast with…
3 Jodie Whittaker

Films

Ice Age (2002)
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2019 #16

Films

Click (2006)
[#64 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

Game of Thrones
8x01 Winterfell

Films

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
[#63 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]
Blindspot 2019 #4