the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘The Search for Sherlock Holmes’
The search for who? Oh no: do we have to remind people yet again that Sherlock Holmes was never a real person, that he was a fictional invention of a writer of crime stories?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Young Sherlock Holmes (review)
First thing the Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes made me think? (Okay, second thing, after ‘Sexiest Holmes evah!’) ‘I have got to see Young Sherlock Holmes again.’
Sherlock Holmes (review)
I think Conan Doyle might well love what Guy Ritchie has done with the world’s first consulting detective…
DVDs to give: ‘The Sherlock Holmes Collection’ and ‘Sherlock Holmes Double Feature: The Spider Woman/Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror’
FOR THE CLASSIC MYSTERY FAN/available now There are always way too many DVDs coming in than I possibly ever review, but since ’tis the season to be giving, I thought it was worth pointing out some of them to you, in case you’re stuck for gift ideas for the people on your list. (Or even … more…
July 1-3: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We all know how it is. You’d like to get out to see a new movie this weekend, but all those fireworks aren’t gonna shoot themselves off, and there’s too many hot dogs to be eaten, anyway. But you can have something close to that blockbuster experience on the road with the proper application of … more…
The Others movie review: scary movie
This is classy gothic horror, old-fashioned in the best way: there are no CGI specters, just mysterious footsteps and distant cries and movement in the shadows and hushed whispers and slamming doors.
In the Heat of the Night (review)
Maybe it’s an indication of some slight social progress, or just a marker of how fine a film this is, that In the Heat of the Night also works as a crime-fighting story in a tradition as old as the Sherlock Holmes tales and as new as The X-Files.
Fairy Tale: A True Story (review)
A charming movie full of great performances with a new-agey undertone that probably offends only me.
