Death in Paradise
9x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
His Dark Materials
1x07 The Fight to the Death
1x08 Betrayal [season finale]
[Watch series 1 (again) on iPlayer.]
Lucifer
3x25 Boo Normal [bonus episode]
Skipping ahead a little here, but it's recommended. At the end of season 3 they made two episodes for inclusion in season 4; when the show was cancelled (before being picked back up by Netflix), they released those two as "bonus episodes". According to co-showrunner Joe Henderson, this one fits best between episodes 15 and 16, so that's where I've watched it.
[Watch season 3 (again) on Prime Video.]
Monday, 20 January 2020
Sunday, 19 January 2020
TV
Doctor Who
38x04 Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
The Great British Bake Off
1x03 Bread
[Watch series 1 (again) on Netflix.]
His Dark Materials
1x05 The Lost Boy
1x06 The Daemon-Cages
[Watch series 1 (again) on iPlayer.]
38x04 Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
The Great British Bake Off
1x03 Bread
[Watch series 1 (again) on Netflix.]
His Dark Materials
1x05 The Lost Boy
1x06 The Daemon-Cages
[Watch series 1 (again) on iPlayer.]
Films
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2020 #3
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2020 #2
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2020 #3
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2020 #2
this week on 100 Films
Just one new post on 100 Films in a Year this week: my 12 picks for 2020's Blindspot challenge...
More next Sunday.
More next Sunday.
Saturday, 18 January 2020
TV
Doctor Who
38x03 Orphan 55 [2nd watch]
I didn't think much of this the first time, but its flaws only become more obvious on a rewatch.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
The Goes Wrong Show
1x04 The Lodge
[Watch it (again and again) on iPlayer.]
The Great British Bake Off
1x02 Biscuits
[Watch series 1 (again) on Netflix.]
His Dark Materials
1x03 The Spies [2nd watch]
1x04 Armour
[Watch series 1 (again) on iPlayer.]
Lucifer
3x15 High School Poppycock
[Watch season 3 (again) on Prime Video.]
38x03 Orphan 55 [2nd watch]
I didn't think much of this the first time, but its flaws only become more obvious on a rewatch.
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
The Goes Wrong Show
1x04 The Lodge
[Watch it (again and again) on iPlayer.]
The Great British Bake Off
1x02 Biscuits
[Watch series 1 (again) on Netflix.]
His Dark Materials
1x03 The Spies [2nd watch]
1x04 Armour
[Watch series 1 (again) on iPlayer.]
Lucifer
3x15 High School Poppycock
[Watch season 3 (again) on Prime Video.]
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
From one extreme to the other: after the absolute quite of last week, there's something new for every category this week -- although for DVD it's just a further reduction. (It's not an unrelenting downward slide nowadays, but the last year my DVD tally actually increased was 2015, and then it was only by 7 across the entire year.)
This week's big addition is the Twin Peaks: From Z to A box set (out in the UK on Monday). Theoretically it should upgrade the previous Blu-ray box sets... but then they should've upgraded the previous DVDs and I hung on to them, so for the time being I'm keeping the lot. In some cases that's never likely to change (the season one DVD has audio commentaries that David Lynch won't allow to be included on future releases, so I'll hang on to those), but in others I really ought to just give in and sell (the only thing stopping me in most cases is the nice packaging, which is daft really). So, really From Z to A should've barely changed the numbers at all, but instead it adds piles of stuff. Most notably, though: it includes the original pilot and season three's Part 8 in UHD, so counts to that tally.
As you can see, it's one of three UHD additions this week. I haven't had anything to report there in over two months, and now three at once! The others were Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Don't Look Now (which is the upgrade responsible for dropping a DVD). Finally, anime movie Time of Eve adds some short films to round out every category.
And all of that looks like this:
Number of titles in collection: 2,279 [up 3]
Of which DVDs: 1,123 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,156 [up 4]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 40 [up 3]
Number of discs in collection: 5,958 [up 26]
Number of films: 2,670 [up 3]
Number of TV episodes: 8,741 [up 48]
Number of short films: 676 [up 2]
Not counted: soundtrack CDs. There are two this month (in Don't Look Now and Time of Eve). Back when I first started tallying my DVD collection, I decided CDs "didn't count" -- because they were CDs and this was a list of DVDs (duh). But now I've got so many releases with soundtrack CDs bundled in, I wish I had kept a record. Maybe I should go back and count them in somehow? Maybe their own count; or I could just straight-up add them to my disc count -- it might not skyrocket exactly (it's already at nearly 6,000 and I doubt there's more than a few dozen CDs, max), but it would give it a notable bump (as I said, possibly a few dozen).
Or maybe I just can't be bothered.
See you next week, faithful reader.
From one extreme to the other: after the absolute quite of last week, there's something new for every category this week -- although for DVD it's just a further reduction. (It's not an unrelenting downward slide nowadays, but the last year my DVD tally actually increased was 2015, and then it was only by 7 across the entire year.)
This week's big addition is the Twin Peaks: From Z to A box set (out in the UK on Monday). Theoretically it should upgrade the previous Blu-ray box sets... but then they should've upgraded the previous DVDs and I hung on to them, so for the time being I'm keeping the lot. In some cases that's never likely to change (the season one DVD has audio commentaries that David Lynch won't allow to be included on future releases, so I'll hang on to those), but in others I really ought to just give in and sell (the only thing stopping me in most cases is the nice packaging, which is daft really). So, really From Z to A should've barely changed the numbers at all, but instead it adds piles of stuff. Most notably, though: it includes the original pilot and season three's Part 8 in UHD, so counts to that tally.
As you can see, it's one of three UHD additions this week. I haven't had anything to report there in over two months, and now three at once! The others were Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Don't Look Now (which is the upgrade responsible for dropping a DVD). Finally, anime movie Time of Eve adds some short films to round out every category.
And all of that looks like this:
Number of titles in collection: 2,279 [up 3]
Of which DVDs: 1,123 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,156 [up 4]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 40 [up 3]
Number of discs in collection: 5,958 [up 26]
Number of films: 2,670 [up 3]
Number of TV episodes: 8,741 [up 48]
Number of short films: 676 [up 2]
Not counted: soundtrack CDs. There are two this month (in Don't Look Now and Time of Eve). Back when I first started tallying my DVD collection, I decided CDs "didn't count" -- because they were CDs and this was a list of DVDs (duh). But now I've got so many releases with soundtrack CDs bundled in, I wish I had kept a record. Maybe I should go back and count them in somehow? Maybe their own count; or I could just straight-up add them to my disc count -- it might not skyrocket exactly (it's already at nearly 6,000 and I doubt there's more than a few dozen CDs, max), but it would give it a notable bump (as I said, possibly a few dozen).
Or maybe I just can't be bothered.
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 17 January 2020
TV
The Great British Bake Off
1x01 Cakes
I joined Bake Off with series 2 (so slightly ahead of the mass popularity, then) and always meant to go back and catch up on this first series somehow -- once upon a time that meant "hoping to see it repeated on some odd satellite channel", but nowadays it's just all on Netflix. It's a funny experience watching it now: so much of it is like the Bake Off we all came to know and love, but there are little bits here and there that aren't quite right. They obviously tweaked (and perfected) the formula for series 2.
[Watch series 1 (again) on Netflix.]
His Dark Materials
1x01 Lyra's Jordan [2nd watch]
1x02 The Idea of North [2nd watch]
[Watch series 1 (again) on iPlayer.]
Lucifer
3x14 My Brother's Keeper
[Watch season 3 (again) on Prime Video.]
Not Going Out
10x08 Halloween [special]
1x01 Cakes
I joined Bake Off with series 2 (so slightly ahead of the mass popularity, then) and always meant to go back and catch up on this first series somehow -- once upon a time that meant "hoping to see it repeated on some odd satellite channel", but nowadays it's just all on Netflix. It's a funny experience watching it now: so much of it is like the Bake Off we all came to know and love, but there are little bits here and there that aren't quite right. They obviously tweaked (and perfected) the formula for series 2.
[Watch series 1 (again) on Netflix.]
His Dark Materials
1x01 Lyra's Jordan [2nd watch]
1x02 The Idea of North [2nd watch]
[Watch series 1 (again) on iPlayer.]
Lucifer
3x14 My Brother's Keeper
[Watch season 3 (again) on Prime Video.]
Not Going Out
10x08 Halloween [special]
Thursday, 16 January 2020
TV
Celebrity Mastermind
2019/2020 Episode 2 (of 10)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Death in Paradise
9x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Doctor Who
38x02 Spyfall Part Two [2nd watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Lucifer
3x13 Til Death Do Us Part
[Watch season 3 (again) on Prime Video.]
2019/2020 Episode 2 (of 10)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Death in Paradise
9x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Doctor Who
38x02 Spyfall Part Two [2nd watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Lucifer
3x13 Til Death Do Us Part
[Watch season 3 (again) on Prime Video.]
Wednesday, 15 January 2020
TV
The Goes Wrong Show
1x03 A Trial to Watch
Friendly reminder that this series is absolutely magnificent.
[Watch it (again and again) on iPlayer.]
Lucifer
3x12 All About Her
[Watch season 3 (again) on Prime Video.]
Not Going Out
10x07 Builder [season finale]
1x03 A Trial to Watch
Friendly reminder that this series is absolutely magnificent.
[Watch it (again and again) on iPlayer.]
Lucifer
3x12 All About Her
[Watch season 3 (again) on Prime Video.]
Not Going Out
10x07 Builder [season finale]
Tuesday, 14 January 2020
Monday, 13 January 2020
Sunday, 12 January 2020
this week on 100 Films
My review of last year finally came to an end this week over at 100 Films in a Year, with the following posts...
2019 Statistics
The Best & Worst of 2019
Finally for now, a look back at some Christmas TV...
More next Sunday.
2019 Statistics
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. No, not Christmas — that’s well and truly over now, isn’t it? No, I mean this — the day I publish my annual statistics post! As the guy who does the introductions to films at Odeon might say, “ooh, yeah, the statistics. I love the statistics.”Read more here.
The Best & Worst of 2019
Where others may do a top ten, or twenty, or fifty, nowadays I do a top 10%. This year I watched 151 films, so my ‘top ten’ has 15 films... As well as my favourite films I saw during 2019, this final review-of-the-year post also includes my least favourite films, as well as a list of 2019’s most noteworthy releases that I missed.Read more here.
Finally for now, a look back at some Christmas TV...
More next Sunday.
Saturday, 11 January 2020
Films
Dial M for Murder 3D (1954)
[#5 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
+ the Featurette and theatrical trailer on the Blu-ray. The former was informative, the latter was a trailer.
[#5 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
+ the Featurette and theatrical trailer on the Blu-ray. The former was informative, the latter was a trailer.
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
After all the busy-ness around Christmas, there's nothing to report this week. I'm sure things will pick up soon.
Number of titles in collection: 2,276 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 1,124 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,152 [no change]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 37 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 5,932 [no change]
Number of films: 2,667 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 8,693 [no change]
Number of short films: 676 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
After all the busy-ness around Christmas, there's nothing to report this week. I'm sure things will pick up soon.
Number of titles in collection: 2,276 [no change]
Of which DVDs: 1,124 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,152 [no change]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 37 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 5,932 [no change]
Number of films: 2,667 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 8,693 [no change]
Number of short films: 676 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Wednesday, 8 January 2020
TV
Dracula
Part 3 The Dark Compass [finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer in the UK or Netflix elsewhere.]
In Search of Dracula with Mark Gatiss
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Part 3 The Dark Compass [finale]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer in the UK or Netflix elsewhere.]
In Search of Dracula with Mark Gatiss
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Tuesday, 7 January 2020
Films
Zatoichi at Large (1972)
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2020 #1. I first watched this last August, but didn't get round to reviewing it. Looking at it and my notes again the other day, I realised I didn't remember it in the slightest -- makes it a bit difficult to review, that. So here I am again.
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2020 #1. I first watched this last August, but didn't get round to reviewing it. Looking at it and my notes again the other day, I realised I didn't remember it in the slightest -- makes it a bit difficult to review, that. So here I am again.
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