TV

Critical Role
2x110 Dinner with the Devil [1st half]
Following the announcement at the weekend, there's just 59 days until the start of Campaign IV. Once upon a time, me completing C2 by the start of October wouldn't have seemed impossible; but I've been a bit sluggish the last couple of months, including allowing time for Age of Umbra (and I've still got half of that to go) — at this point, I'd have to watch something like 2½ hours every single day to get through what I need to in time for the beginning of C4... and then I'd probably be left bereft because I'd bump right down to one episode a week! So, there may well be some intermingling come October.
(Not that literally anyone cares about this but me. But then, I don't believe anyone but me looks at this site, so it's ok.)
[Watch it (again) on YouTube, Twitch, or Beacon.]

Friends
9x09 The One with Rachel's Phone Number [6th or so watch]

TV

Friends
9x07 The One with Ross's Inappropriate Song [6th or so watch]
9x08 The One with Rachel's Other Sister [6th or so watch]

Films

Candidate for Murder (1962)
[#65 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2025]

The Critic (2023)

Games

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Trick-Taking Game

this week on 100Films.co.uk

Another month is over. What, already?! Yes, already! It feels like only the other day I was sharing the June reviews on 100Films.co.uk — in fact, I thought it was just last month that they'd been split across two weeks, but that was May's! — and now we have the July ones.

As usual, they begin with the overview of the whole month...





...and continue/conclude with a selection of my "failures"...





More next... Sunday? Probably not. Next month? For sure.

TV

Friends
9x05 The One with Phoebe's Birthday Dinner [6th or so watch]
9x06 The One with the Male Nanny [6th or so watch]

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2x08 Shadow and Flame [season finale]

Richard Osman's House of Games
8x33 Week 7: Wednesday
8x34 Week 7: Thursday
8x35 Week 7: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Games

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Trick-Taking Game

Collection Count

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

Four brand-new titles this week — yes, I managed to avoid any sale purchases!

...apart from the stuff I've purchased in sales that should turn up next week, that is. Ah well.

Three of the four are 4K (yay!), and two are upgrades — one directly, so it replaces my older BD, but the other is Hearts of Darkness, the Apocalypse Now making-of that's included in the Apocalypse Now release. A new standalone 4K edition seemed indulgent for that reason but, in addition to the feature being restored in 4K, it comes with a copy of Eleanor Coppola's behind-the-scenes book Notes, and on disc there's a fairly large selection of special features, including (I believe) Eleanor's complete documentary filmography. Neat. On the bright side, it does replace an old DVD copy I was also hanging on to for special features, so that's a bonus.

Number of titles in collection: 3,588 [up 2]
Of which DVDs: 986 [down 1]
Of which Blu-rays: 2,602 [up 3]
— of which Ultra HD Blu-rays: 451 [up 3]

Number of discs in collection: 8,626 [up 6]
Number of films: 4,553 [up 3]
Number of additional cuts: 451 [no change]
Number of TV episodes: 10,160 [no change]
Number of short films: 1,259 [up 9]

See you next week, faithful reader.

TV

Friends
9x03 The One with the Pediatrician [6th or so watch]
9x04 The One with the Sharks [6th or so watch]

Richard Osman's House of Games
8x31 Week 7: Monday
8x32 Week 7: Tuesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Games

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Trick-Taking Game

Continuing our post-'campaign' game. It works pretty well; it's certainly welcome that the game remains playable without having to totally reset it and just play through 'story mode' again.

TV

Friends
9x02 The One Where Emma Cries [6th or so watch]

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2x07 Doomed to Die

Games

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Trick-Taking Game
Chapter 18 Group 2

That completes the 'adventure'/'campaign' portion of the game, but it also provides rules to continue playing (basically by creating your own 'chapter' via a random selection of different card types), so we also started a game following those principles.

TV

Friends
9x01 The One Where No One Proposes [6th or so watch]

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2x06 Where Is He?

Richard Osman's House of Games
8x30 Week 6: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Games

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Trick-Taking Game
Chapter 18 Group 1

TV

Friends
8x23 The One Where Rachel Has a Baby Part 1 [6th or so watch]
8x24 The One Where Rachel Has a Baby Part 2 [season finale; 6th or so watch]

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2x05 Halls of Stone

Richard Osman's House of Games
8x29 Week 6: Thursday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Games

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Trick-Taking Game
Chapter 17

TV

Friends
8x21 The One with the Cooking Class [6th or so watch]
8x22 The One Where Rachel Is Late [6th or so watch]

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2x04 Eldest

Richard Osman's House of Games
8x28 Week 6: Wednesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

TV

Friends
8x19 The One with Joey's Interview [6th or so watch]
8x20 The One with the Baby Shower [6th or so watch]

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
2x03 The Eagle and the Sceptre

Richard Osman's House of Games
8x26 Week 6: Monday
8x27 Week 6: Tuesday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]

Games

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - Trick-Taking Game
Chapter 16
It took literally hours attempting it over and over, but we finally beat Chapter 16!

TV

Friends
8x17 The One with the Tea Leaves [6th or so watch]
8x18 The One in Massapequa [6th or so watch]

Richard Osman's House of Games
8x25 Week 5: Friday
[Watch various episodes (again) on iPlayer.]