TV

Historical Roasts
1x02 Freddie Mercury
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Films

Untouchable (2011)
[#97 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]
aka Intouchables, aka The Intouchables
What Do You Mean You Haven't Seen...? 2019 #6

this week on 100 Films

6 new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...


Murder Mystery (2019)

The actual mystery plot is no great shakes — there are two glaring clues early on that give most of the game away, especially if you’re well-versed in watching murder mysteries and spotting such hints. That’s somewhat beside the point, though, because there’s enough fun to be had along the way to make up for it, and there are still some reasonable red herrings.

Read more here.


Finding Dory (2016)

Nemo didn't desperately need a sequel, so I was worried this would seem like little more than an excuse to return to these characters. In fact, the plot actually works very well. Far from being a desperate stretch, it actually feels like a worthwhile development and follow-up from the first movie. Alongside the worth of the narrative, it's also just a lot of fun to watch

Read more here.


Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)

as the title indicates, the main guest star for this film is the lead character from Akira Kurosawa’s films Yojimbo and Sanjuro, played by the great Toshiro Mifune. I don’t know if that was a deliberate move to mark the series’ 20th movie or if they weren’t even conscious of the milestone, but it certainly feels like it was meant to be a special occasion. “Meant to be” being the operative part of that sentence, because the result is sadly one of the least enjoyable entries in the series so far.

Read more here.


Review Roundup

Featuring:
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Allied (2016)
American Made (2017)

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

TV

Historical Roasts
1x01 Abraham Lincoln
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Collection Count

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

This week's big addition is a complete series box set of The Twilight Zone, in this beautiful (overpriced, but beautiful) 60th Anniversary Limited Edition. That'll make a hefty contribution to the next running time update (which is a couple of weeks away).

I also acquired another TV series set this week, so the total number of episodes in my collection has risen considerably (though still by less than 2.2% overall!)

Number of titles in collection: 2,234 [up 3]
Of which DVDs: 1,132 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,102 [up 3]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 29 [up 1]

Number of discs in collection: 5,800 [up 30]
Number of films: 2,558 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 8,609 [up 182]
Number of short films: 669 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

Films

Murder Mystery (2019)
[#96 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

Deadwood (2019)
[#95 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

Have I Got News For You
57x06 (9/6/2019 edition)
Well, I say "9/6 edition" -- this is the delayed broadcast of the edition they dropped due to the European elections.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Killing Eve
2x01 Do You Know How to Dispose of a Body?
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Collection Count

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

A bunch of new acquisitions this week, between sales and new releases.

Number of titles in collection: 2,231 [up 4]
Of which DVDs: 1,132 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,099 [up 4]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 28 [up 2]

Number of discs in collection: 5,770 [up 10]
Number of films: 2,557 [up 6]
Number of TV episodes: 8,427 [no change]
Number of short films: 669 [up 2]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

The Graham Norton Show
25x10 (7/6/19 edition)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Killing Eve
1x05 I Have a Thing About Bathrooms
1x06 Take Me to the Hole!
1x07 I Don't Want to Be Free
1x08 God, I'm Tired [season finale]
[Watch all episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Killing Eve
1x02 I'll Deal with Him Later
1x03 Don't I Know You?
1x04 Sorry Baby
[Watch all episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Killing Eve
1x01 Nice Face
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

this week on 100 Films

I'm currently in the middle of moving house, which is why there have been fewer than usual updates here, and it's the same over at 100 Films in a Year. The only thing this week was my monthly look-back at May, which doesn't even have a proper header image yet...


The Surprisingly Thorough Considering How Quickly I Dashed It Off Monthly Review of May 2019

I’m going to have to make this quick, because I’m actually right in the middle of a house move. The palaver around that has led to regular tail-offs in posting over the past few months, and during May in particular, though it hasn’t had too much affect on my actual viewing, as you’ll soon see (June may be another story, but that’s next month’s discussion). That’s also why there isn’t my usual header image for this post — they take a disproportionality long time to put together (whereas the post itself is still fairly lengthy because, as the famous adage alludes, it’s easier to write something long than something short).

Read more here.


More next Sunday (hopefully).

Collection Count

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

This week, it's the running time update. This should've been published last week, but I was away from home without the info with me; and there were no new additions last week, so there was nothing else to report anyway.

Number of titles in collection: 2,227 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,132 [up 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,095 [no change]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 26 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 5,759 [up 1]
Number of films: 2,551 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 8,427 [no change]
Number of short films: 667 [no change]

Total running time of collection (approx.):
421 days, 14 hours, and 52 minutes.
(Up 1 day, 3 hours, and 54 minutes from last month.)

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Grantchester
4x04 Episode 4

Films

Devil's Cargo (1948)
[#93 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Hairspray (1988)
[#94 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

Hairspray (2007)
[4th watch]
Rewatchathon 2019 #20

TV

Grantchester
4x03 Episode 3
[Watch it (again) on the ITV Hub.]

Who Dares Wins
11x08 (30/6/18 edition)

Films

The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
[#91 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

The Saint (2017)
[#92 in 100 Films in a Year 2019]

TV

Line of Duty
5x05 Episode 5
5x06 Episode 6 [season finale]
[Watch both episodes (again) on iPlayer.]