Leverage
3x13 The Morning After Job
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
29x01 Episode 1
Buzzcocks is back, and as good as it ever was — hurrah!
Richard Osman's House of Games
5x07 Week 2: Tuesday
5x08 Week 2: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Saturday, 2 October 2021
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
It's not the busiest week of recent times, but it's no slouch either, with five new additions across most categories: there's 3D, 4K, TV, and films all here; stuff I've seen before, and stuff I haven't. There's even a short.
No alternate cut are counted, although there sort of is one: the animation of Doctor Who serial Evil of the Daleks comes in both colour and black & white versions. But I've not quite worked out how to count alternate cuts of TV episodes (which I do have, for things like Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, and some anime) so there's no change to that figure.
So, the only thing that's entirely unrepresented this week is DVDs. Not so unusual, that.
Number of titles in collection: 2,668 [up 5]
Of which DVDs: 1,064 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,604 [up 5]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 123 [up 1]
Number of discs in collection: 6,731 [up 8]
Number of films: 3,117 [up 4]
Number of additional cuts: 232 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,115 [up 7]
Number of short films: 886 [up 1]
See you next week, faithful reader.
It's not the busiest week of recent times, but it's no slouch either, with five new additions across most categories: there's 3D, 4K, TV, and films all here; stuff I've seen before, and stuff I haven't. There's even a short.
No alternate cut are counted, although there sort of is one: the animation of Doctor Who serial Evil of the Daleks comes in both colour and black & white versions. But I've not quite worked out how to count alternate cuts of TV episodes (which I do have, for things like Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, and some anime) so there's no change to that figure.
So, the only thing that's entirely unrepresented this week is DVDs. Not so unusual, that.
Number of titles in collection: 2,668 [up 5]
Of which DVDs: 1,064 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,604 [up 5]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 123 [up 1]
Number of discs in collection: 6,731 [up 8]
Number of films: 3,117 [up 4]
Number of additional cuts: 232 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,115 [up 7]
Number of short films: 886 [up 1]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 1 October 2021
Thursday, 30 September 2021
TV
Leverage
3x11 The Rashomon Job
Richard Osman's House of Games
5x06 Week 2: Monday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
3x11 The Rashomon Job
Richard Osman's House of Games
5x06 Week 2: Monday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Wednesday, 29 September 2021
Monday, 27 September 2021
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
Oops — this is rather late, isn't it? But, as you'll see, it's the third substantial week in a row. In fact, if a parcel from the US had turned up when I expected it to, this would actually have beaten two weeks ago to be the biggest of the month. But it didn't, so it doesn't.
Still, there's six new arrivals (The Thing (1982) 4K set includes The Thing (2011) Blu-ray bundled, so it's a net increase of five) — and, wonder of wonders, one of them's a DVD! That'd be season two of Romanzo Criminale, which has been available on Blu-ray in some countries, but I've never found season one on Blu-ray anywhere, and I already own that on DVD, so I'm just completing the set. It also means that every single stat goes up this week, a real rarity.
And all of that is just in time for the monthly running time update — the main reason I took so long putting this post together. Have these busy weeks led to an uncommonly large leap?
Number of titles in collection: 2,663 [up 6]
Of which DVDs: 1,064 [up 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,599 [up 5]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 122 [up 3]
Number of discs in collection: 6,723 [up 18]
Number of films: 3,113 [up 11]
Number of additional cuts: 232 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 9,108 [up 10]
Number of short films: 885 [up 11]
Total running time of collection (approx.):
484 days, 21 hours, and 2 minutes.
(Up 2 days, 4 hours, and 23 minutes from last month.)
I'm not sure about all-time, but that's the biggest running time increase since April's.
See you next week, faithful reader.
Oops — this is rather late, isn't it? But, as you'll see, it's the third substantial week in a row. In fact, if a parcel from the US had turned up when I expected it to, this would actually have beaten two weeks ago to be the biggest of the month. But it didn't, so it doesn't.
Still, there's six new arrivals (The Thing (1982) 4K set includes The Thing (2011) Blu-ray bundled, so it's a net increase of five) — and, wonder of wonders, one of them's a DVD! That'd be season two of Romanzo Criminale, which has been available on Blu-ray in some countries, but I've never found season one on Blu-ray anywhere, and I already own that on DVD, so I'm just completing the set. It also means that every single stat goes up this week, a real rarity.
And all of that is just in time for the monthly running time update — the main reason I took so long putting this post together. Have these busy weeks led to an uncommonly large leap?
Number of titles in collection: 2,663 [up 6]
Of which DVDs: 1,064 [up 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,599 [up 5]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 122 [up 3]
Number of discs in collection: 6,723 [up 18]
Number of films: 3,113 [up 11]
Number of additional cuts: 232 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 9,108 [up 10]
Number of short films: 885 [up 11]
Total running time of collection (approx.):
484 days, 21 hours, and 2 minutes.
(Up 2 days, 4 hours, and 23 minutes from last month.)
I'm not sure about all-time, but that's the biggest running time increase since April's.
See you next week, faithful reader.
Sunday, 26 September 2021
Saturday, 25 September 2021
Friday, 24 September 2021
Articles
Frances McDormand & Joel Coen Answer All Questions On Eve Of New York Film Festival Opener The Tragedy Of Macbeth
by Mike Fleming Jr (from Deadline)
Macbeth is my favourite Shakespeare, so I'm very much looking forward to this new adaptation. I like the Coen brothers' movies less than most people, but this is something different, and the two leads are great, so I still have expectations. However it turns out, this is an interesting interview about how the project came to be and the motivations behind its artistic choices.
by Mike Fleming Jr (from Deadline)
Macbeth is my favourite Shakespeare, so I'm very much looking forward to this new adaptation. I like the Coen brothers' movies less than most people, but this is something different, and the two leads are great, so I still have expectations. However it turns out, this is an interesting interview about how the project came to be and the motivations behind its artistic choices.
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
Tuesday, 21 September 2021
Monday, 20 September 2021
Sunday, 19 September 2021
Films
The Current War (2017)
[#168 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
David Lynch: The Art Life (2016)
[#167 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
[#168 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
David Lynch: The Art Life (2016)
[#167 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
Saturday, 18 September 2021
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
I said last week would probably be the busiest of September, with one new release and seven sales purchases. And it still is, but I hadn't expected this week to come so close.
That's due to a bulk order from the US arriving super-speedily, plus I didn't realise Black Widow was out on disc this week until last weekend, so that was a last-minute (still-technically-a-)preorder. Throw in another couple of new releases (Early Universal Volume 1, and Days of Heaven from Australia via Amazon UK) and this week's tally is a more-than-respectable seven new additions... although one of them's a BD-to-4K upgrade, so the numbers fall one short of that.
Number of titles in collection: 2,657 [up 6]
Of which DVDs: 1,063 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,594 [up 6]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 119 [up 4]
Number of discs in collection: 6,705 [up 12]
Number of films: 3,102 [up 7]
Number of additional cuts: 231 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 9,098 [no change]
Number of short films: 874 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
I said last week would probably be the busiest of September, with one new release and seven sales purchases. And it still is, but I hadn't expected this week to come so close.
That's due to a bulk order from the US arriving super-speedily, plus I didn't realise Black Widow was out on disc this week until last weekend, so that was a last-minute (still-technically-a-)preorder. Throw in another couple of new releases (Early Universal Volume 1, and Days of Heaven from Australia via Amazon UK) and this week's tally is a more-than-respectable seven new additions... although one of them's a BD-to-4K upgrade, so the numbers fall one short of that.
Number of titles in collection: 2,657 [up 6]
Of which DVDs: 1,063 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,594 [up 6]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 119 [up 4]
Number of discs in collection: 6,705 [up 12]
Number of films: 3,102 [up 7]
Number of additional cuts: 231 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 9,098 [no change]
Number of short films: 874 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Monday, 13 September 2021
Sunday, 12 September 2021
Films
La Dolce Vita (1960)
[#165 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
Blindspot 2021 #9
Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019)
[#164 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
[#165 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
Blindspot 2021 #9
Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019)
[#164 in 100 Films in a Year 2021]
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