There is another spirit haunting the family, and when a member of the household is found dead, the companions realise that no one is beyond suspicion.more Holmes and Watson travel to the Allerthorpe family seat at Fellscar Keep to investigate, but soon discover that there is more to the case than at first appeared. What is more, she has begun to receive mysterious parcels of birch twigs, the Black Thurrick's calling card.Įve stands to inherit a fortune if she is sound in mind, but it seems that something - or someone - is threatening her sanity. Her late mother told her terrifying tales of the sinister Black Thurrick, and Eve is sure that she has seen the creature from her bedroom window. Eve Allerthorpe - eldest daughter of a grand but somewhat eccentric Yorkshire-based dynasty - is greatly distressed, as she believes she is being haunted by a demonic Christmas spirit. It is 1890, and in the days before Christmas Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson are visited at Baker Street by a new client. Eve Allerthorpe - eldest daughter of a grand but somewhat eccentric Yorkshire-based dynasty - is greatly distressed, as she believ The new Sherlock Holmes novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin and Firefly - Big Damn Hero. Screenwriter: Kieran Mulroney and Michele Mulroney ( Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows) based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.The new Sherlock Holmes novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Odin and Firefly - Big Damn Hero. ( Iron Man, Wonder Boys), Jude Law ( Road to Perdition, Cold Mountain), Noomi Rapace ( The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo).ĭirector: Guy Ritchie ( Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch.). Which is worth a tenner of anyone’s money.Ĭast: Robert Downey Jr. What it does have, however, is Stephen Fry’s bottom. Compared to the BBC version with Cumberbatch and Freeman, Ritchie’s effort still doesn’t have the requisite captivating plot or character sympathy, bar the central relationship, to really grab. No film star could want for more.Īnd he really does look quite fetching in a dress.Ī touching romance, this time with actual touching, A Game of Shadows will while away a couple of hours with a few good set pieces and a couple of giggles. has said he’d be happy playing nothing but Iron Man and Sherlock until the man in the sky calls, with the latter offering him the chance to dress up, pull silly faces and beat the living snot out of men twice his size. That’s not to say the duality of the geniuses and their number twos, Sherlock versus Moriaty and Watson versus Moran, doesn’t add to the conflict, it just never eclipses the combination of Holmes and Watson. The new additions to the cast – original Girl With a Dragon Tattoo, Noomi Rapace, and the Moriarty as Hannibal Lecter, Jared Harris – are welcome but never really grab the light away from the Holmes and Watson tryst. The mystery of what Moriarty is up to couldn’t really be bigger in scale yet somehow it fails to be even a bit dramatic. Which is great because sadly the plot doesn’t. It’s these looks and the tussles that keep the film on track. We’re even treated to a half naked tussle to completely prevent any “they’re just really good friends” arguments. and Law attack the sequel with a zesty wink and a nod, sharing long, loving looks that wouldn’t be out of place in a Twilight film. Happily embracing – with both arms and a fair amount of heavy petting – the homoerotic subtext implicit in the first, Downey Jr.
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