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Doubleheader Reviews: ‘Sherlock Holmes – A Game of Shadows’

Is Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows worth seeing? Is it an improvement over the 2009 original? Will Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law make out? Sam and Castor have opposite takes on the film. Read their reviews after the jump.

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Watch: Eight Minutes Worth of Footage From Both ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ and ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’

If you can’t wait for December 16th to roll around for the theatrical release of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows or December 21st for David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, then we may just have some visual nourishment to ease your cinematic appetite for the time being.

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Movie News: Weekly Round-Up

Movie News: Guy Ritchie abandons DC Comics Lobo to focus on Sherlock Holmes 2 (Hero Complex) George Lucas to direct a CGI-musical with fairies, don’t laugh… It’s true (Heat Vision) Miramax goes belly up (First Showing): RIP Miramax. A Prequel of Bourne trilogy might be made without Matt Damon (Empire) I, Frankenstein to begin shooting [...]

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Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes (2009)

Some “purists”, who should probably re-read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, will complain that the movie is not true to Sherlock Holmes’ essence. However, it is made clear in the written stories that he is a martial art expert and an avid boxer (“The Adventure Of The Empty House”). Why would a man who often puts himself in danger not come into some physical confrontation at one point or another and you know… use his fighting skills?

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Sherlock Holmes Poll

I was discussing box office prospects for Avatar and Sherlock Holmes earlier with a friend and he said he didn’t expect Sherlock Holmes to do well at the box office. Given the fact that it has the hugely popular Robert Downey Jr, that the movie is receiving fairly favorable early reviews, and is more of [...]

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Movie Review: Snatch (2000)

Snatch is absolutely piss-your-pants hilarious with sharp dialogue, stylish direction and dark comedy. Add to that brilliant editing and a solid musical soundtrack and the movie got most of it right already. Sure, it might be a little too over-the-top for some but Guy Ritchie doesn’t look back and keeps the momentum going into a brilliant climactic sequence

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