Tag Archives: Sherlock Holmes

Review: The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

Posted on December 4, 2016 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

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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Review: Love & Friendship (2016)

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

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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Review: Mr. Holmes (2015)

Posted on November 26, 2015 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

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 →

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Review: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)

Posted on August 25, 2015 by Sam Sewell-Peterson

2015 has been a busy year for the spy genre. Between the anarchic KINGSMAN, the thrilling MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, and the much-hyped SPECTRE lurking round the corner,  THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. had it all to prove. Guy Ritchie is in the … Continue reading →

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