TV

The Great British Bake Off
10x05 The Roaring Twenties
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
6x05 Episode 5
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

The Rookie
2x08 Clean Cut

TV

Agatha Raisin
3x03 Love from Hell

The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
6x04 Episode 4
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Jonathan Creek
4x00 Satan's Chimney [Christmas special; 2nd watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Rookie
2x06 Fallout
2x06 Safety

TV

The Great British Bake Off
10x04 Dairy Week
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Jonathan Creek
3x06 The Three Gamblers [season finale; 2nd watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Rookie
2x05 Tough Love

Films

Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2020 #34

TV

The Crown
2x09 Paterfamilias
2x10 Mystery Man [season finale]
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

The Rookie
2x04 Warriors and Guardians

TV

The Crown
2x07 Matrimonium
2x08 Dear Mrs Kennedy
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
6x03 Episode 3
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Jonathan Creek
3x05 Miracle in Crooked Lane [2nd watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

The Crown
2x05 Marionettes
2x06 Vergangenheit
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

The Great British Bake Off
10x03 Bread Week
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

The Rookie
2x03 The Bet

TV

The Crown
2x03 Lisbon
2x04 Beryl
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
6x02 Episode 2
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Jonathan Creek
3x04 Ghost's Forge [2nd watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Rookie
2x02 The Night General

Films

Much Ado About Nothing (2012)
[#185 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]

this week on 100 Films

A new month means another monthly review on 100 Films in a Year...





Plus, 1 new review...


Split Second (1992)

Rutger Hauer chomps cigars, chocolate, and scenery as Harley Stone, a badass rogue cop on the hunt for the serial killer who murdered his partner... It starts out almost like budget Blade Runner — it’s the future (so we’re told); it’s night; it’s raining; a hardbitten cop visits a seedy nightclub; etc. But then we get Stone’s first line of dialogue, which comes after a guard dog barks at him. He flashes his warrant card — at the dog — and says “police, dickhead.” To the dog. It’s hilariously terrible and awesome in one fell swoop.

Read more here.


More next Sunday.

Collection Count

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

There were 13 new additions this week, a pile of them arriving last-minute, hence this delayed update -- especially as many weren't just simple additions.

For example, I bought two Hitchcock films on Blu-ray that I already own on DVD as part of a box set. That set is of six films, five of which I now own on Blu-ray. The sixth film isn't available on Blu, so I can't just upgrade the whole set. Normally I'd either have to lose that sixth film or keep the entire box set. But, fortunately, the films are in individual cases and, uncommonly, have individual barcodes, so I can split up the set and sell five of the six. So, in this case, the Blu-ray count goes up, the DVD count stays the same, but the film count goes down, and so does the disc count.

Anyway, with all the various other changes also accounted for, here are the new numbers...

Number of titles in collection: 2,418 [up 9]
Of which DVDs: 1,088 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,330 [up 10]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 68 [up 4]

Number of discs in collection: 6,226 [up 10]
Number of films: 2,712 [up 4]
Number of additional cuts: 176 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 8,935 [no change]
Number of short films: 758 [up 2]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Agatha Raisin
3x02 The Deadly Dance

The Great British Bake Off
10x02 Biscuit Week
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Jonathan Creek
3x03 The Omega Man [2nd watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

The Rookie
2x01 Impact

TV

The Crown
2x01 Misadventure
2x02 A Company of Men
It's over three years since I watched season one! I hadn't given up on it, just hadn't got round to it.
[Watch it (again) on Netflix.]

Jonathan Creek
3x02 The Eyes of Tiresias [2nd watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

The Woman in Green (1945)
[2nd watch]
Rewatchathon 2020 #33

TV

Friday Night Dinner
6x01 The Caravan
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice
6x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Jonathan Creek
3x01 The Curious Tale of Mr Spearfish [2nd watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
[#184 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]

TV

The Great British Bake Off
10x01 Cake Week
[Watch it (again) on All 4.]

Jonathan Creek
2x07 Black Canary [Christmas special; 2nd or so watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Clueless (1995)
[#183 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]

Films

Spaceship Earth (2020)
[#182 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]

Venom (2018)
[#181 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]

Films

The French Connection (1971)
[#180 in 100 Films in a Year 2020]
Blindspot 2020 #7
+ a couple of the deleted scenes, and a featurette on the film's connections to film noir