Damages
1x06 She Spat at Me [3rd watch]
1x07 We Are Not Animals [3rd watch]
Leverage
1x08 The Mile High Job
Who Dares Wins
12x07 (17/8/19 edition)
Monday, 8 March 2021
Sunday, 7 March 2021
TV
Damages
1x04 Tastes Like a Ho-Ho [3rd watch]
1x05 A Regular Earl Anthony [3rd watch]
Leverage
1x07 The Wedding Job
1x04 Tastes Like a Ho-Ho [3rd watch]
1x05 A Regular Earl Anthony [3rd watch]
Leverage
1x07 The Wedding Job
this week on 100 Films
This week began with a new month, and so it was time for 100 Films in a Year to look back at the previous one...
Plus, there were 2 new reviews, too...
The 100-Week Roundup XXVI
More next Sunday.
Plus, there were 2 new reviews, too...
The 100-Week Roundup XXVI
A pair of awards-worthy short animations — the first won an Oscar, the second was nominated for one. I was going to include more films in this week’s roundup (effectively bundle two weeks into one), but it felt like a disservice to this pair. They are...Read more here.
- Paperman
- Waltz with Bashir
More next Sunday.
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
Having pushed the running time update back a week purely because I hadn't had time to update it, this week I got a whole pile of new titles. To be exact, there were 10 additions, though various upgrades keep the net change at +4. And the number of discs actually goes down, thanks to The World at War Blu-ray being an 8-disc upgrade to a 26-disc-version I owned on DVD. That wasn't even the most complicated-to-factor title, which only turned up yesterday morning. So this update is late, but it's complete!
Number of titles in collection: 2,553 [up 4]
Of which DVDs: 1,075 [down 6]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,478 [up 10]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 96 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 6,524 [down 6]
Number of films: 2,963 [up 7]
Number of additional cuts: 210 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 9,052 [up 4]
Number of short films: 843 [no change]
Total running time of collection (approx.):
472 days, 16 hours, and 8 minutes.
(Up 4 days, 8 hours, and 11 minutes from last month.)
That's the biggest monthly increase since June 2019... although it does have five weeks in it, so that's kinda cheating, I guess.
See you next week, faithful reader.
Having pushed the running time update back a week purely because I hadn't had time to update it, this week I got a whole pile of new titles. To be exact, there were 10 additions, though various upgrades keep the net change at +4. And the number of discs actually goes down, thanks to The World at War Blu-ray being an 8-disc upgrade to a 26-disc-version I owned on DVD. That wasn't even the most complicated-to-factor title, which only turned up yesterday morning. So this update is late, but it's complete!
Number of titles in collection: 2,553 [up 4]
Of which DVDs: 1,075 [down 6]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,478 [up 10]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 96 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 6,524 [down 6]
Number of films: 2,963 [up 7]
Number of additional cuts: 210 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 9,052 [up 4]
Number of short films: 843 [no change]
Total running time of collection (approx.):
472 days, 16 hours, and 8 minutes.
(Up 4 days, 8 hours, and 11 minutes from last month.)
That's the biggest monthly increase since June 2019... although it does have five weeks in it, so that's kinda cheating, I guess.
See you next week, faithful reader.
Saturday, 6 March 2021
TV
Damages
1x02 Jesus, Mary and Joe Cocker [3rd watch]
1x03 And My Paralyzing Fear of Death [3rd watch]
Leverage
1x06 The Stork Job
Not Going Out
11x00 Resolutions [special; 2nd watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
1x02 Jesus, Mary and Joe Cocker [3rd watch]
1x03 And My Paralyzing Fear of Death [3rd watch]
Leverage
1x06 The Stork Job
Not Going Out
11x00 Resolutions [special; 2nd watch]
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Friday, 5 March 2021
TV
Celebrity Mastermind
2020/2021 Episode 6 (of 14)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Damages
1x01 Get Me a Lawyer [3rd watch]
Starting Damages again from the beginning, because it's about a decade since I watched season 3 (the last season to air on regular UK TV, as far as I'm aware) and I'd like to see seasons 4 and 5. I'd forgotten I already watched season 1 twice until after finishing this episode, but that's ok because it's really good.
Leverage
1x04 The Miracle Job
1x05 The Bank Shot Job
WandaVision
Part 9 The Series Finale [finale]
2020/2021 Episode 6 (of 14)
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Damages
1x01 Get Me a Lawyer [3rd watch]
Starting Damages again from the beginning, because it's about a decade since I watched season 3 (the last season to air on regular UK TV, as far as I'm aware) and I'd like to see seasons 4 and 5. I'd forgotten I already watched season 1 twice until after finishing this episode, but that's ok because it's really good.
Leverage
1x04 The Miracle Job
1x05 The Bank Shot Job
WandaVision
Part 9 The Series Finale [finale]
Thursday, 4 March 2021
Films
Con Air (1997)
[#58 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)
[#57 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
Dundee: The Son of a Legend Returns Home (2018)
This ad for Australian tourism, released back in 2018, initially got people excited because it looked like it was a trailer for a surprise fourth Crocodile Dundee movie. Eventually, the truth was revealed (I think during the Superbowl?) Anyway, they never released a 'complete' version — it only exists as a collection of four or five teasers/trailers/adverts, which you can find on YouTube edited together by just being stuck one after another. They tend to be called "extended version"s, but really it's just playing all the clips back to back. If they'd properly cut all the variants together into one complete version, I'd probably count it and review it as a short on 100 Films; but they didn't, so I'm just mentioning it here (and on Letterboxd).
[#58 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001)
[#57 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
Dundee: The Son of a Legend Returns Home (2018)
This ad for Australian tourism, released back in 2018, initially got people excited because it looked like it was a trailer for a surprise fourth Crocodile Dundee movie. Eventually, the truth was revealed (I think during the Superbowl?) Anyway, they never released a 'complete' version — it only exists as a collection of four or five teasers/trailers/adverts, which you can find on YouTube edited together by just being stuck one after another. They tend to be called "extended version"s, but really it's just playing all the clips back to back. If they'd properly cut all the variants together into one complete version, I'd probably count it and review it as a short on 100 Films; but they didn't, so I'm just mentioning it here (and on Letterboxd).
Wednesday, 3 March 2021
Tuesday, 2 March 2021
Monday, 1 March 2021
Films
Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway (2019)
[#54 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
+ the audio commentary on Arrow's Blu-ray, which was very academically-minded but not without interest
[#54 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
+ the audio commentary on Arrow's Blu-ray, which was very academically-minded but not without interest
Sunday, 28 February 2021
TV
The Twilight Zone
3x35 I Sing the Body Electric
+ commentary by Twilight Zone expert Marc Scott Zicree
3x35 I Sing the Body Electric
+ commentary by Twilight Zone expert Marc Scott Zicree
Films
Frankenstein (1931)
[#53 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
Blindspot 2021 #2
+ commentary by film historian Sir Christopher Frayling
[#53 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
Blindspot 2021 #2
+ commentary by film historian Sir Christopher Frayling
this week on 100 Films
Time flies: this week, it was already time for a new monthly TV column at 100 Films in a Year...
Plus 2 new film reviews...
Creed II (2018)
Zatoichi in Desperation (1972)
More next Sunday.
Plus 2 new film reviews...
Creed II (2018)
The film’s title is, obviously, meant to be read “Creed 2” because it’s a follow-up to “Creed 1”, but if you chose to read it as “Creed the 2nd” it wouldn’t be inappropriate to the movie’s themes. This is a movie all about parents and children, what they owe to each other, and how they live up to that — or fail to. It’s a meaty subject to chew on, and [the film] examines it from almost every conceivable angle.Read more here.
Zatoichi in Desperation (1972)
The 24th and penultimate film in the original Zatoichi series is also the first to be directed by star Shintarô Katsu. Despite such fundamental creative control by the man who arguably knew the character best, it's widely regarded as one of the series’ worst instalments, and yet you’ll find some people full of praise for it. It’s one of the series’ darkest entries, and I suspect it’s unpopular overall because it’s so grim; but for those who do like it, they love it.Read more here.
More next Sunday.
Saturday, 27 February 2021
TV
Dial M for Middlesbrough
Sequel to Murder on the Blackpool Express and Death on the Tyne. I thought it was the best one yet.
Sequel to Murder on the Blackpool Express and Death on the Tyne. I thought it was the best one yet.
Films
Radioactive (2019)
[#52 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983)
[#51 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
[#52 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain (1983)
[#51 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
It was supposed to be a new running time update this week, but it's been a busy month and a bunch of titles arrived just this morning, so I haven't found time to add it all up. That's bumped to next week, then. In the meantime, this week's pile of new arrivals: one recent release, and four sale pickups.
Number of titles in collection: 2,549 [up 5]
Of which DVDs: 1,081 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,468 [up 5]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 96 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 6,532 [up 6]
Number of films: 2,956 [up 6]
Number of additional cuts: 209 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 9,048 [no change]
Number of short films: 843 [up 2]
See you next week, faithful reader.
It was supposed to be a new running time update this week, but it's been a busy month and a bunch of titles arrived just this morning, so I haven't found time to add it all up. That's bumped to next week, then. In the meantime, this week's pile of new arrivals: one recent release, and four sale pickups.
Number of titles in collection: 2,549 [up 5]
Of which DVDs: 1,081 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,468 [up 5]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 96 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 6,532 [up 6]
Number of films: 2,956 [up 6]
Number of additional cuts: 209 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 9,048 [no change]
Number of short films: 843 [up 2]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 26 February 2021
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