Friday night fortune cookie: Sherlock Holmes says…
“People say there’s no such thing as coincidence. What dull lives they must lead.”
“People say there’s no such thing as coincidence. What dull lives they must lead.”
Someone make it stop, please.
There’s little resemblance to Arthur Conan Doyle’s story here, apart from the lashings of creepy atmosphere…
The second series of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’s brilliant, brilliant Sherlock is about to start tomorrow, and so my hand is forced: I must finally write about the first series…
Oh, glorious steampunk! Oh, glorious Victoriana! Oh, for a time when men were men (and not little boys) and industry meant hard work (and not corporate malfeasance) and optimism (and not despair) ruled the day. When the future was so bright, you hadda wear shades.
New Year’s Day, BBC One. Not till — ahem — May in the U.S.
Who’da thunk that it’d be a couple of Sherlock Holmes movies that would bring a certain verve back to action movies?
When was the last time you saw a movie poster on the side of a phone kiosk or even at a multiplex for a movie that you hadn’t previously known about… or for one that you hadn’t already made a decision about seeing?
You know, like how Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch are swapping sides as they move between Sherlock and The Hobbit…
Plus: Cannes shocked by We Need to Talk About Kevin and Lars von Trier; family values robot from the future Arnold Schwarzenegger turns out to be a hypocrite…