Sunday, 9 July 2023

Films

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
[#49 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2023]
My first trip to the cinema since Dune: Part One in October 2021! But I had to go for Indy. (And, soon, for Mission #7.)

Saturday, 8 July 2023

Films

John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
[#48 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2023]

Santo vs. Evil Brain (1961)
If it weren’t for the strange confluence of MST3K piquing my interest and then Indicator releasing a box set, I’m not sure I’d have ever seen this movie. I’m not yet wholly sure whether that’s a good or indifferent thing, but at least it’s not bad.

Comics

2000 AD #2328

Collection Count

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

Four new titles this week, including that rarest of sightings: an addition to my DVD collection! That was the Ian McKellen / Judi Dench Macbeth (shot for TV in the 1970s, so never likely to see a Blu-ray release). I don't know why I'd not bought it before, really, as I've wanted to rewatch it for years (having last seen it at school, presumably off a VHS, while studying the play for the first time, and so being less enamoured of it than I am now).

The other three titles are all new (or new-ish) releases from Radiance, including their first box set — which shipped with two corrected discs outside the box. Well, at least I don't have to sign up for some replacement programme and wait for them.

Number of titles in collection: 3,116 [up 4]
Of which DVDs: 1,029 [up 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,087 [up 3]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 266 [no change]

Number of discs in collection: 7,633 [up 6]
Number of films: 3,818 [up 6]
Number of additional cuts: 321 [up 1]
Number of TV episodes: 9,589 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,056 [up 1]

See you next week, faithful reader.

Wednesday, 5 July 2023

TV

Have I Got News for You
65x10 (16/6/2023 edition; extended repeat) [season finale]
I think that's the first time I've ever wanted to buy the guest publication...
[Watch the extended episode (again) on iPlayer.]

Tuesday, 4 July 2023

Monday, 3 July 2023

TV

Only Murders in the Building
2x07 Flipping the Pieces
2x08 Hello, Darkness

Poker Face
1x04 Rest in Metal

Richard Osman's House of Games
6x68 Week 14: Wednesday
6x69 Week 14: Thursday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

this week on 100Films.co.uk

June was the fourth month in a row where I didn't publish any new reviews to 100Films.co.uk. Oh dear. Hopefully I'll restart again soon.

In the meantime, July has begun, and so that means it's time for the usual lookbacks at last month. First, the general review of the month...





And second, a bunch of stuff I didn't watch last month...





Perhaps there'll be more next Sunday. If not, see you in August!

Saturday, 1 July 2023

TV

Not Going Out
13x01 Italian Lessons
[Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

Only Murders in the Building
2x02 Framed
2x03 The Last Day of Bunny Folger
2x04 Here's Looking at You

Richard Osman's House of Games
6x65 Week 13: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Films

Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical (2022)
[#47 in The All-New 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2023]

Collection Count

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

This week brings a heady mix of new releases (Avatar 2 in 3D; anime Pompo the Cinephile; '70s Japanese action in the Game trilogy from Arrow); a belated pickup from earlier in the year (Park Chan-wook's Decision to Leave); and a pile of titles from US label Vinegar Syndrome, including three in 4K. An eclectic bunch, to be sure, but that's half the fun.

Number of titles in collection: 3,112 [up 8]
Of which DVDs: 1,028 [no change]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,084 [up 8]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 266 [up 3]

Number of discs in collection: 7,627 [up 18]
Number of films: 3,812 [up 10]
Number of additional cuts: 320 [up 2]
Number of TV episodes: 9,589 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,055 [no change]

See you next week, faithful reader.

Thursday, 29 June 2023

Wednesday, 28 June 2023

Tuesday, 27 June 2023

Comics

2000 AD #2327
Once I finally catch up on 2000 AD, I've got a massive pile of American comics I've been buying for, like, the past year to catch up on too. Looking forward to that 'n' all.

Sunday, 25 June 2023

TV

The 1% Club
2x04 Episode 4
[Watch it (again) on ITVX.]

Glastonbury 2023
Elton John
Farewell (again), Elton. A pretty spectacular send-off it was, too.
[Find the BBC's complete Glastonbury TV coverage on iPlayer.]

Mystery Science Theater 3000
13x09 The Million Eyes of Sumuru
So much for watching MST3K more regularly (it's been almost four months), but, hey, there's no season 14 in sight (yet), so I'll get there eventually (only four more to go now).

Fiction

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Chapters 1–4

I've been meaning to read this since everyone really started talking about it, which I guess was sometime after the paperback came out, which was in mid-2021, i.e. over two years ago. But I had other books to read and finish first, and so here I am, finally, with there now being three of the things (and a fourth imminent). Anyway, it's off to a fun and promising start.

Comics

2000 AD #2326

Skipping another Regened Prog, for the time being.

Incidentally, the 'end' of my catchup period is beginning to feel in sight now. When I started, I was five months behind, and for a long while I was only managing to more-or-less maintain that. But now, I've got it down to less than three months; only ten issues. And the gap continues to narrow — hurrah!