Reports are out of a new, “modern†(whatever that means – Holmes in a hovercraft?) Holmes story getting ready for filming in January 2009.
The 60-minute film is bring produced by Hartswood Films, which also produced Jekyll and Men Behaving Badly.
Notably, one of the writers of the drama is Steven Moffat, who steps into some very [...]
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The Los Angeles Times just reviewed “Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong,” the new hardcover deconstruction of “The Hound of the Baskervilles.” The author, psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard, uses Holmes’ own methods on the text itself, questioning everything that is presented in the story, including the testimony of our good doctor himself.
With wit and careful analysis, Bayard makes [...]
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I don’t have the time to make it to New York to see the North American Cultural Laboratory’s current production, “The Uncanny Appearance of Sherlock Holmes.” After reading up on it, I’m undecided as to whether that makes me happy or sad.
“THE UNCANNY APPEARANCE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES” is a carnival-style crime investigation filled with live [...]
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Seattle Times columnist Adam Woog, who specializes in crime fiction, has just published an exhaustive list of his picks for the best mystery fiction of 2008. Among the many titles chosen is the latest Adam Dagliesh book from P.D. James, the new Rebus novel from Ian Rankin, and an honorable mention for what must be [...]
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