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Sam Sewell-Peterson
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Tag Archives: Sherlock Holmes
Review: The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
If there’s a film I never expected THE LEGEND OF TARZAN to remind me of, it was THE LONE RANGER. Both films are beautiful looking genre pieces with entertaining set pieces and shudder-inducing cultural insensitivity. Johnny Depp should never have … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Skarsgard, Christoph Waltz, David Yates, Djimon Honsou, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Fantasy, Film, Guy Ritchie, Johnny Depp, Margot Robbie, Movies, Samuel L. Jackson, Sherlock Holmes, The Legend of Tarzan, The Lone Ranger, The Lord of the Rings
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Review: Love & Friendship (2016)
It’s Jane Austen, but not quite as we know it. Whit Stillman’s LOVE & FRIENDSHIP adapts one of the titanically influential novelist’s lesser-known and unfinished stories (originally titled LADY SUSAN) and the result is a film that is both delicate … Continue reading
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Tagged Chloë Sevigny, Comedy, Film, Historical Drama, James Fleet, Jane Austen, Jemma Redgrave, Justin Edwards, Kate Beckinsale, Lady Susan, Love & Friendship, Morfydd Clark, Movies, Romance, Sherlock Holmes, Stephen Fry, Tom Bennett, Total Recall, Underworld, Whit Stillman
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Review: Mr. Holmes (2015)
Ian McKellen and Bill Condon have done it again, but in perhaps the exact opposite fashion to how they approached their stunning not-really-biopic of James Wale, GODS AND MONSTERS. In that film they wrapped a real person in the trappings … Continue reading