TV

Ghosts
1x03 Happy Death Day
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Thronecast
8x04 The Last of the Starks

The Twilight Zone
5x06 Living Doll

Films

Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
[#78 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

The Twilight Zone
2x06 Eye of the Beholder
2x07 Nick of Time

Films

Jaws 2 (1978)
[#76 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

The Meg 3D (2018)
[#77 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

Game of Thrones
8x04 The Last of the Starks

Films

Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
[#75 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
[3rd watch]
Rewatchathon 2019 #17. It wasn't deliberate, but it is quite neat that I've had another month-long pause between these.

this week on 100 Films

A new month began this week, so it was time to look back on the previous one at 100 Films in a Year...





Also this week, there were 2 new reviews...


Ice Age (2002)

I first and last saw it sometime shortly after its original release, but all I could remember was enjoying it well enough. Well, all that is probably because it’s not as good as the best of Pixar or DreamWorks. It’s amenable enough, but it lacks the sharpness of concept, dialogue, character, and story that makes those movies truly memorable. I can see why I remember liking it but couldn’t recall much else.

Read more here.


Snowpiercer (2013)

it’s a pretty out-there, not-at-all-plausible premise, but just go with it and the film has rewards aplenty. If you want to get intellectual, the train’s societal structure and how it’s maintained offers an allegorical commentary about class divides and the interdependence of the oppressed and the oppressors. But if that sounds a bit heavy, the film wraps it up in a pulse-pounding action thriller, dressed up further with mysterious backstories ripe for exposing and an array of memorable performances

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

Films

The Eyes of Orson Welles (2018)
[#74 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Collection Count

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

As mentioned last week, a big pile of new additions here: 10 titles in total, with one being a 2D-to-3D upgrade. Across them there are 15 news discs and 10 new films. Also 10 shorts, landing that total on 667 -- ironically, it was a horror movie that tipped it over from 666.

Number of titles in collection: 2,223 [up 9]
Of which DVDs: 1,131 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,092 [up 9]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 24 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 5,747 [up 15]
Number of films: 2,545 [up 10]
Number of TV episodes: 8,427 [no change]
Number of short films: 667 [up 10]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Thronecast
8x03 The Long Night

Films

The Secret Life of Pets 3D (2016)
[#73 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Films

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
[#72 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]
What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...? 2019 #5

Godzilla (1954)
[#71 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

Columbo
1x01 Murder by the Book
No, not a new series I'm embarking on watching -- it just so happens this 'first' episode (it's actually the second or third, depending how you look at it) was an early work by a young director called Steven Spielberg.

TV

Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema
1x08 Disaster Movies [special]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Help (2011)
[#70 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

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.