![]() ![]() (Fun fact: The grown-up star of 1985's Young Sherlock Holmes, Nicholas Rowe, appears as a screen version of Holmes in a movie house. The fine performances by Condon regulars McKellen and Linney top it off. Nothing seems concrete or certain, yet everything is connected, from the use of glass and bees, books, and movies, to young Roger's inability to remember stories from his early years. ![]() he even goes to the movies to watch a fictional Sherlock Holmes. It's deep and complex, and Condon makes it all seem quietly simple. Mon 04.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 20.12 EDT. Screenwriter Jeffrey Hatcher (working from Mitch Cullin's novel) constructs an elaborate series of meditative flashbacks, dreams, and memories. Of diminished mind and body, the worlds greatest detective rallies to solve one last mystery in Bill Condons intimate, elegiac Sherlock Holmes tale. Holmes joins the pantheon of books about the great detective Sherlock Holmes that. Holmes may disappoint some viewers by not actually being a Sherlock Holmes mystery (nor is it an explosive adventure like Guy Ritche's Sherlock Holmes), but it's a great movie, a brilliant rumination on the delicate nature of human memory and the way we need to tell stories, not just for entertainment, but to live. Labels: Movies, Sherlock Holmes actors, TV or Movie Review Tuesday, MaElementary S3E15 - 'When your number's up' - But who's counting. Adapted from Mitch Cullins 2005 novel A Slight Trick of the Mind, Mr. After two Twilight movies, director Bill Condon returns to the territory of his best movie, Gods and Monsters, with this thoughtful, low-key drama about the mysteries of memory and storytelling. ![]()
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