QI
17x04 Queasy Quacks
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
University Challenge
2019/20 Episode 7
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Monday, 30 September 2019
Sunday, 29 September 2019
Saturday, 28 September 2019
TV
The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco
1x01 Presidio
1x02 Wake
American-produced sequel/spin-off from The Bletchley Circle. And it certainly feels like cheap US TV rather than a properly British show, unfortunately.
1x01 Presidio
1x02 Wake
American-produced sequel/spin-off from The Bletchley Circle. And it certainly feels like cheap US TV rather than a properly British show, unfortunately.
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
Ah, a lull -- there's absolutely nothing to report this week. Next week will, I think, be a different story.
Number of titles in collection: 2,258 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 1,130 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,128 [no change]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 34 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 5,871 [no change]
Number of films: 2,612 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 8,640 [no change]
Number of short films: 674 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Ah, a lull -- there's absolutely nothing to report this week. Next week will, I think, be a different story.
Number of titles in collection: 2,258 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 1,130 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,128 [no change]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 34 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 5,871 [no change]
Number of films: 2,612 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 8,640 [no change]
Number of short films: 674 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 27 September 2019
TV
Lewis
7x05 Intelligent Design Part 1
7x06 Intelligent Design Part 2 [season finale]
[Watch both parts (again) on the ITV Hub.]
7x05 Intelligent Design Part 1
7x06 Intelligent Design Part 2 [season finale]
[Watch both parts (again) on the ITV Hub.]
Wednesday, 25 September 2019
Tuesday, 24 September 2019
Sunday, 22 September 2019
this week on 100 Films
3 new reviews were published to 100 Films in a Year this week, and they were...
Battle at Big Rock (2019)
Downton Abbey (2019)
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)
More next Sunday.
Battle at Big Rock (2019)
Set one year on from the cliffhanger-ish ending to the last film, this short presents a vignette in the Jurassic world that will help bridge the gap between the previous feature and 2021’s third/sixth instalment. But aside from that large franchise-minded goal, it’s also a chance to see some different characters have a different kind of encounter within the films’ universe.Read more here.
Downton Abbey (2019)
As the 2020s loom, with the world in a scary old place for a whole host of reasons, why not retreat to the safety of the 1920s, when posh toffs ran the country because their birthright had put them there rather than because the hoi polloi had actually chosen to vote for them in some act of retrograde nationalism. Downton Abbey does actually feature a subplot where a group of working-class servants secretly plot to overthrow the system… but the system in question is the one about who gets to serve the King and Queen their dinner. The working classes fighting amongst themselves about something fundamentally unimportant while the upper classes carry on serenely above them? It’s almost allegorical, although I suspect not on purpose.Read more here.
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)
The action-man with the second most quotable line about being back is, er, back — again — for the third chapter in the ongoing saga of what happens if you kill a man’s dog. Basically, lots of people die. Quite right too.Read more here.
More next Sunday.
Saturday, 21 September 2019
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
After last week's biggie, it's a comparatively quiet one for the collection this week, with just one new addition -- and that doesn't even change the number of discs, because I found a discrepancy somewhere else in the count.
But it's also time for the monthly running time update, so there's that excitement!
Number of titles in collection: 2,258 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,130 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,128 [up 1]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 34 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 5,871 [no change]
Number of films: 2,612 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 8,640 [no change]
Number of short films: 674 [no change]
Total running time of collection (approx.):
429 days, 23 hours, and 10 minutes.
(Up 2 days, 1 hour, and 42 minutes from last month.)
See you next week, faithful reader.
After last week's biggie, it's a comparatively quiet one for the collection this week, with just one new addition -- and that doesn't even change the number of discs, because I found a discrepancy somewhere else in the count.
But it's also time for the monthly running time update, so there's that excitement!
Number of titles in collection: 2,258 [up 1]
Of which DVDs: 1,130 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,128 [up 1]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 34 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 5,871 [no change]
Number of films: 2,612 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 8,640 [no change]
Number of short films: 674 [no change]
Total running time of collection (approx.):
429 days, 23 hours, and 10 minutes.
(Up 2 days, 1 hour, and 42 minutes from last month.)
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 20 September 2019
Thursday, 19 September 2019
Tuesday, 17 September 2019
Monday, 16 September 2019
Films
Battle at Big Rock (2019)
[#127a in 100 Films in a Year 2019]
Short film set between Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Jurassic World 3. Watch it on YouTube here, and read my review here.
[#127a in 100 Films in a Year 2019]
Short film set between Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Jurassic World 3. Watch it on YouTube here, and read my review here.
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