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The Wheel 6x07 Episode 7 [Watch it (again) on iPlayer.]

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Daggerheart All 3 games continuing.

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A Midsummer Night's Dream I can't believe it's taken me 10 years to get round to watching this. That's insane. And it's really good, too! I was thinking about logging it as a film, because it is a "TV movie", but it also feels very 'TV'. Good, but TV-ish. [Watch it (again) on iPlayer.] Russell T Davies Remembers... A Midsummer Night's Dream A short featurette-length piece of RTD reflecting on

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Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week. It's patchy whether new releases turn up on the Saturday before or not anymore — this week, not. So really it's just the monthly running time update that's new here. Number of titles in collection: 3,695 [no change] Of which DVDs: 965 [no change] Of which Blu-rays: 2,730 [no change] — of which Ultra HD

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Tosca review – Puccini’s high-octane bloodbath bonanza makes for a shocking festival kick-off and ‘Really entertaining in a horrible way’: the indestructible appeal of Tosca by Flora Willson (from the Guardian) I'm going to see this production next month. Sounds like it's gonna be good.

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The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole Preface to the First Edition Sonnet Chapter 1 The first-ever Gothic novel! I've been meaning to read this forever. Decided to finally dive in on a whim.

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007: Everything or Nothing Well, technically I played it — replayed one level to test all the additional fiddling I'd been doing! Basically, I had to re-do everything I did months ago (even more than I'd done yesterday; though it had remembered a few things I'd done to Wind Waker, at least), which involved copious googling and whatnot, because of course I couldn't remember exactly what I did

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Daggerheart All 3 games continuing.

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Puss in Boots 3D (2011) [#26 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026]

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007: Everything or Nothing Back when I got my Steam Deck, one of the first things I did was set up emulation to be able to play this Bond game — I’ve actually owned it for years (it was released on GameCube, though I can’t remember if I bought it then or picked it up later when I had a Wii) but never actually played it. I even spent a tonne of time fiddling around to make it nicer — not just

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The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) [#25 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026] Blindspot 2026 #3 This was meant to be part of WDYMYHS 2019. Seven years late, I've finally got there!

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Buffet Knight: Decadent Full Course Had felt a little like I was going back and forth over the same areas making minor progress... then opened up one new pathway and loads more of the map. Fun times. Probably playing it incredibly inefficiently, just wandering around, back and forth, but hey, that's kinda what I was taught to do by... The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition Placid

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Collection Count tracks my DVD/Blu-ray collection via a number of statistics every week. This week, a trio of Masters of Cinema titles turned up a whole week early, thanks to ordering direct. Plus another Akira Kurosawa in HD from the BFI, and a feature-length Hammer documentary from, er, Hammer themselves. Two of those are upgrades, but in both cases the previous copies are in box sets, so

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition

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Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber IV. The Lords of Quarmall pp.61–92 [the end] And that is also the end of The First Book of Lankhmar, meaning I'm theoretically halfway through the series. That said, I've read four of its seven books, which cover 24 stories and leave 13 to go. It won't come as much of a surprise, then, that those 13 include three of the four longest tales (Lords of

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition When I started Skyrim, I aimed to not use fast travel — half the fun is traversing the world and stumbling upon things. Eventually I caved and began to use it to quickly transport loot for sale; then, after I’d explored some regions so thoroughly there were no more landmarks to discover and the random encounters were becoming repetitive, I allowed

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Buffet Knight: Decadent Full Course Completed the second dungeon today, of which I believe there are five, and I was thinking "this game is going quite quickly"... until I realised my playtime so far is 3½ hours, which means five dungeons + I presume some kind of equivalent endgame is likely to be over 10 hours, which is a perfectly reasonable game length, especially for an indie. Skyrim may

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Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber IV. The Lords of Quarmall pp.54–60

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Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber IV. The Lords of Quarmall pp.36–53 I didn't mention it yesterday because I was too busy waffling about something else, but this story was co-written by Leiber's mate, Harry Fischer, who actually co-created Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser with Leiber in the '30s (vaguely based on themselves). While Leiber became a fairly prolific author, it seems Fischer did

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition 3½ hours this evening. That's quite definitively back on the horse.

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Daggerheart All 3 games continuing.

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The Blade (1995) [#24 in The 100 Films in a Year Challenge 2026]

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Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber IV. The Lords of Quarmall pp.1–35 So, I said I wasn't intending to break the longer stories down in future, but then I saw the thickness of this one in my copy — it's only 92 pages, but physically that looks like a (short) novel. Although, in fairness to past me, I said I wasn't intending to repeat this division (i.e. reading Stardock in many small chunks

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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition Back into Skyrimming after another semi-accidental two-week break. It's not due to lack of interest — it started as a busy week not giving me time, which turned into wanting to make sure I did something when I played again (as opposed to just noodling around for the sake of it), and that turned into self-pressure to, I guess, have an idea what I

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I should have posted an update about 100Films.co.uk last weekend, noting the publication of my April review on May 1st. But the same busy-ness that kept me from posting the 'failures' post on May 2nd also kept me from posting this on May 3rd — so here we are, technically looking back at the past fortnight (really, the past 10 days). That means this post encompasses the entirety of my April

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