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A Certain Focus

by November 25th, 2011 - Creative » Poetry »

Some things that should not be are like riding a bike.

Lame Done Well – Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch

by March 28th, 2011 - Culture » Film and TV »

I don’t go to see every movie that comes out, but based on its dazzling trailers and the director’s previous films (300, Watchmen) I had positioned Zack Snyder‘s Sucker Punch as a tentpole movie that wouldn’t fail to explode with all the right blockbuster stimulation on the big screen. Following the expert flow and framing […]

Sherlock Holmes: What is in a Name? Supplebutt Splatterback Edition

by November 26th, 2010 - Culture »

Image copyright BBC And so, I have now viewed the entirety of the new Masterpiece Anthology series Sherlock, the modern updating of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle‘s Adventures of Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Having enjoyed all three stories several times, my strongest complaint is that there are only three of them and shall not be more […]

Sherlock Holmes: What is in a Name?

by November 10th, 2010 - Culture »

Image copyright BBC How cool is the new Sherlock show from the BBC? Doctor Who show-runner, Steven Moffat(Doctor Who, Jekyll) and Mark Gatiss (League of Gentlemen) take the bastard brilliance of Sherlock Holmes and jam in modern time, casting Martin Freeman (Office, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) as Doctor Watson. I do not actually know […]

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