Wasted Space #1 by Michael Moreci & Hayden Sherman
It's been over eight years since I last read a single issue of a comic, back in the days when I collected them. I stopped buying because they weren't getting read — I know roughly how many I had still unread at the end, but I'm not going to say because it's insane.
Anyway, I read this one because they're Kickstarting a complete collection of the series, which piqued my interest ("Philip K. Dick in a blender with Preacher"? C'mon!), and they're offering the first issue for free online as a taster. But if you're interested, get a wriggle on: at time of posting, the Kickstarter only had 32 hours left.
Monday, 10 October 2022
Sunday, 9 October 2022
TV
Scouting for Toys
1x08 Mr Timpo
[Watch the series (again) on UKTV Play.]
Strictly Come Dancing
20x05 Week 3 (aka Movies Week)
20x06 Week 3 Results
Just dropping in for Movies Week, as I often do.
[Watch these episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
1x08 Mr Timpo
[Watch the series (again) on UKTV Play.]
Strictly Come Dancing
20x05 Week 3 (aka Movies Week)
20x06 Week 3 Results
Just dropping in for Movies Week, as I often do.
[Watch these episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Saturday, 8 October 2022
Films
Encanto (2021)
[2nd watch]
[#62 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]
I think this is going to count as #62. What gives me pause is that it was also #28, but that was a different viewing. My rules say a film can't count multiple times, but what I really mean is I can't count it multiple times from a single viewing — a rewatch (counted in the Rewatch category) is different, right? That's my current thinking, anyway.
The Infernal Cauldron (1903)
The One-Man Band (1900)
Watched a couple of Georges Méliès shorts on YouTube. I only did it to tick them off a list on Letterboxd, really (and, in the case of the second, to check if I'd seen it before. I don't think I had; not in full, anyway), but they're incredible pieces of work — still entertaining, 120 years after they were created.
[2nd watch]
[#62 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2022]
I think this is going to count as #62. What gives me pause is that it was also #28, but that was a different viewing. My rules say a film can't count multiple times, but what I really mean is I can't count it multiple times from a single viewing — a rewatch (counted in the Rewatch category) is different, right? That's my current thinking, anyway.
The Infernal Cauldron (1903)
The One-Man Band (1900)
Watched a couple of Georges Méliès shorts on YouTube. I only did it to tick them off a list on Letterboxd, really (and, in the case of the second, to check if I'd seen it before. I don't think I had; not in full, anyway), but they're incredible pieces of work — still entertaining, 120 years after they were created.
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
Just two packages of Blu-rays turned up this week, but ooh, there's all sorts going on across them. For one thing, one contained four titles and the other five — so that's two weeks' worth at the average rate I mentioned last time. However, three of the latter were Blu-ray upgrades of titles I owned on DVD, and one of the former was a BD-to-BD upgrade, so the net total is only five additions.
Various other stats went up and down as titles were subtracted and added, though the end result of it all looks calm: five new titles, with five films, on five discs.
Number of titles in collection: 2,934 [up 5]
Of which DVDs: 1,043 [down 3]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,891 [up 8]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 203 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 7,263 [up 5]
Number of films: 3,512 [up 5]
Number of additional cuts: 284 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,422 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,007 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Just two packages of Blu-rays turned up this week, but ooh, there's all sorts going on across them. For one thing, one contained four titles and the other five — so that's two weeks' worth at the average rate I mentioned last time. However, three of the latter were Blu-ray upgrades of titles I owned on DVD, and one of the former was a BD-to-BD upgrade, so the net total is only five additions.
Various other stats went up and down as titles were subtracted and added, though the end result of it all looks calm: five new titles, with five films, on five discs.
Number of titles in collection: 2,934 [up 5]
Of which DVDs: 1,043 [down 3]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,891 [up 8]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 203 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 7,263 [up 5]
Number of films: 3,512 [up 5]
Number of additional cuts: 284 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,422 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,007 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 7 October 2022
Thursday, 6 October 2022
Monday, 3 October 2022
Sunday, 2 October 2022
this week on 100Films.co.uk
No new reviews to share from 100Films.co.uk this week, but as a new month began there was the usual monthly review...
Plus the roundup of films I failed to watch...
More next Sunday.
Plus the roundup of films I failed to watch...
More next Sunday.
Saturday, 1 October 2022
TV
How I Met Your Father
1x04 Dirrty Thirty
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
30x02 Episode 2
Richard Osman's House of Games
6x02 Week 1: Tuesday
6x03 Week 1: Wednesday
6x04 Week 1: Thursday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Shetland
7x02 Episode 2
7x03 Episode 3
7x04 Episode 4
[Watch series 7 (again) on iPlayer.]
1x04 Dirrty Thirty
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
30x02 Episode 2
Richard Osman's House of Games
6x02 Week 1: Tuesday
6x03 Week 1: Wednesday
6x04 Week 1: Thursday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Shetland
7x02 Episode 2
7x03 Episode 3
7x04 Episode 4
[Watch series 7 (again) on iPlayer.]
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
Considering my collection grew by 240 titles last year, I guess five titles in one week is more-or-less average (the actual average is 4.6, so it does round up to five, but only just).
Two of them were new releases this week, because there's always stuff I want coming out nowadays; and to underline that point, another one is a new release from next week; while the other two were... well, not new. Although, one of them only came out a couple of weeks ago; but, in my mind, if I don't preorder it or get it in release week, it's no longer a "new release". (And the fourth title came out three years and one month ago, so that's not new by anyone's standards.)
Number of titles in collection: 2,929 [up 5]
Of which DVDs: 1,046 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,883 [up 5]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 203 [up 2]
Number of discs in collection: 7,258 [up 8]
Number of films: 3,507 [up 7]
Number of additional cuts: 284 [up 3]
Number of TV episodes: 9,422 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,007 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Considering my collection grew by 240 titles last year, I guess five titles in one week is more-or-less average (the actual average is 4.6, so it does round up to five, but only just).
Two of them were new releases this week, because there's always stuff I want coming out nowadays; and to underline that point, another one is a new release from next week; while the other two were... well, not new. Although, one of them only came out a couple of weeks ago; but, in my mind, if I don't preorder it or get it in release week, it's no longer a "new release". (And the fourth title came out three years and one month ago, so that's not new by anyone's standards.)
Number of titles in collection: 2,929 [up 5]
Of which DVDs: 1,046 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,883 [up 5]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 203 [up 2]
Number of discs in collection: 7,258 [up 8]
Number of films: 3,507 [up 7]
Number of additional cuts: 284 [up 3]
Number of TV episodes: 9,422 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,007 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 30 September 2022
TV
How I Met Your Father
1x03 The Fixer
Richard Osman's House of Games
4x25 Episode 25
6x01 Week 1: Monday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
The Rookie
4x04 Red Hot
Shetland
7x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
1x03 The Fixer
Richard Osman's House of Games
4x25 Episode 25
6x01 Week 1: Monday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
The Rookie
4x04 Red Hot
Shetland
7x01 Episode 1
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]
Thursday, 29 September 2022
TV
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
30x01 Episode 1
Richard Osman's House of Games
4x24 Episode 24
[Watch various (other) episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
30x01 Episode 1
Richard Osman's House of Games
4x24 Episode 24
[Watch various (other) episodes (again) on iPlayer.]
Sunday, 25 September 2022
Saturday, 24 September 2022
Games
Return to Monkey Island
And that's the end! A good ending too, I thought. I can immediately see it'll be controversial with some people, but I don't think we should really have expected anything too different (not that I'm saying we should've guessed this, exactly, but it seems in-keeping). Plus, when put alongside The Matrix Resurrections, I feel like there are finally some legacy sequels giving me the kind of things I've long wanted a legacy sequel to attempt. Love that.
Wish I knew exactly how long the game had taken me. It's my own fault for going back and replaying segments before I'd finished it through once! I got to the end in just under 15 hours, per Steam, but that includes replaying the very end three times, not to mention all the earlier replaying.
And after that, I played for another two hours to hit the final few achievements I missed. A big chunk of that was hunting around for the last few trivia cards; another was that I had to replay a whole swathe of the game because I didn't have any appropriately-placed savegames to quickly pull off something. One of the downsides to the game only allowing 8 save points (plus that, for this particular accomplishment, you need to do something in Part 2 or 3 that doesn't pay off until Part 5, meaning I had to replay the end of Part 3 and all of Part 4; but I initially realised that a little way into Part 4, so if I'd had more savegames I could've just repeated a little bit then instead of a whole part later. Hey ho).
So, I've got 38 out of the 39 achievements. The only one I'm missing is a speed run (completed in under 2 hours). I've never seen the point in speed running point-and-click adventures — story and humour are the goal of the genre, not racing through the puzzles as fast as possible. But as it's the only one I'm missing... and you can do it on Casual Mode, which I haven't played... Maybe...
And that's the end! A good ending too, I thought. I can immediately see it'll be controversial with some people, but I don't think we should really have expected anything too different (not that I'm saying we should've guessed this, exactly, but it seems in-keeping). Plus, when put alongside The Matrix Resurrections, I feel like there are finally some legacy sequels giving me the kind of things I've long wanted a legacy sequel to attempt. Love that.
Wish I knew exactly how long the game had taken me. It's my own fault for going back and replaying segments before I'd finished it through once! I got to the end in just under 15 hours, per Steam, but that includes replaying the very end three times, not to mention all the earlier replaying.
And after that, I played for another two hours to hit the final few achievements I missed. A big chunk of that was hunting around for the last few trivia cards; another was that I had to replay a whole swathe of the game because I didn't have any appropriately-placed savegames to quickly pull off something. One of the downsides to the game only allowing 8 save points (plus that, for this particular accomplishment, you need to do something in Part 2 or 3 that doesn't pay off until Part 5, meaning I had to replay the end of Part 3 and all of Part 4; but I initially realised that a little way into Part 4, so if I'd had more savegames I could've just repeated a little bit then instead of a whole part later. Hey ho).
So, I've got 38 out of the 39 achievements. The only one I'm missing is a speed run (completed in under 2 hours). I've never seen the point in speed running point-and-click adventures — story and humour are the goal of the genre, not racing through the puzzles as fast as possible. But as it's the only one I'm missing... and you can do it on Casual Mode, which I haven't played... Maybe...
Collection Count
Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week.
It is a quieter one this week, with only two new additions — both new releases, though not sharing a date: one is from this week; the other has arrived early from the week after next. Fun times.
Number of titles in collection: 2,924 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,046 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,878 [up 2]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 201 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 7,250 [up 2]
Number of films: 3,500 [up 2]
Number of additional cuts: 281 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,422 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,007 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
It is a quieter one this week, with only two new additions — both new releases, though not sharing a date: one is from this week; the other has arrived early from the week after next. Fun times.
Number of titles in collection: 2,924 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 1,046 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 1,878 [up 2]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 201 [no change]
Number of discs in collection: 7,250 [up 2]
Number of films: 3,500 [up 2]
Number of additional cuts: 281 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 9,422 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,007 [no change]
See you next week, faithful reader.
Friday, 23 September 2022
Games
Return to Monkey Island
Apparently I somehow managed to play 4 hours today. It didn't feel like it! I'm sure that's testament to the quality of the game. Also that I did it across three or four bursts, rather than one or two big chunks (like on Tuesday).
Also also, this isn't the amount of time I've spent playing through the story: as a record of that the time is 'off' because I've repeated a few bits in order to hit some achievements. So, it's certainly an accurate count of how long I've spent playing the game, but not of how long it will have taken me to get through the main narrative.
For today, I leave it at the start of Part V — the final part! I guess it'll all be over tomorrow. Exciting, but also sad.
Apparently I somehow managed to play 4 hours today. It didn't feel like it! I'm sure that's testament to the quality of the game. Also that I did it across three or four bursts, rather than one or two big chunks (like on Tuesday).
Also also, this isn't the amount of time I've spent playing through the story: as a record of that the time is 'off' because I've repeated a few bits in order to hit some achievements. So, it's certainly an accurate count of how long I've spent playing the game, but not of how long it will have taken me to get through the main narrative.
For today, I leave it at the start of Part V — the final part! I guess it'll all be over tomorrow. Exciting, but also sad.
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