6 April 2010
Link of the Month:
My Birfday Wish List
Yes, it’s that time of year again. My birfday is coming up, and I’m shamelessly asking for stuff. Hooray!
Album of the Month:
Julia Massey & The Five Finger Discount: I’m Not Hollow
Good stuff. Gooood stuff. The long-awaited album by the full Five Finger Discount is finally here, and it does not disappoint.
DVD of the Month:
Sherlock Holmes
A damnably fun movie, and probably my favorite screen version of the character. Read my full review here!
Categories: Of the Month.
Tags: Amazon, Julia Massey, Sherlock Holmes.
Posted by Chris at 8:59 pm.
18 March 2010
The game’s afoot.
All too often Sherlock Holmes is portrayed as a stuffy, tweedy, dry intellectual, full of calm and cool reason, using only the power of his brain to solve dastardly crimes. But that portrayal has always seemed, well, boring to me. There is nothing boring about Robert Downey Jr. and Guy Ritchie’s vision of the famous detective. This brave new Sherlock Holmes is quite a departure from previous film versions of the character, and at the same time extremely reverent to the original stories. And above all else, this one is FUN. [Read my full review]
Categories: Movie Reviews.
Tags: Robert Downey Jr, Sherlock Holmes.
Posted by Chris at 10:03 pm.
