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Quite Elementary Dear Holmes

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  • Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
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sherlock-holmes-case-of-silk-stalkingRupert Everett brings a certain savior fair to the role of Sherlock Holmes in The Case of the Silk Stocking.  Like Simon Brett, Everett doesn’t shy away from presenting Holmes as boorish and snobbish.  If only the writing and the mystery had lived up to his performance.

Dr. Watson (Ian Hart) has left Baker Street and is preparing for his wedding.  Sherlock Holmes (Rupert Everett) has removed himself from the mundane crime of London only finding solace in the prick of a syringe.  Lured out of his despondency by Lestrade (Neil Dudgeon) and Watson, Holmes tackles a case involving a serial killer who preys on the young daughters of the London elite.  Each victim is found dressed in clothes not her own, strangled to death, and with a silk stocking buried in her throat.

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Zorro Part Deux

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  • Title: The Legend of Zorro
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Way back in 1998 Zorro, the sword wielding, bullwhip snappin’, hero to the downtrodden of California, returned to the big screen in The Mask of Zorro.  Now 7 years later a sequel has finally been made.  So how is it?  Well if you liked the first one you’ll probably enjoy this one as well.

Zorro (Antonio Banderas) has been swashbuckling his way through California as the champion of the people.  California is in the final stages of joining the United States of America, and as promised Zorro is looking to retire.  But wait, there is still evil afoot; despite the insistence of his wife Elena (Catherine Zeta-Jones) our hero cannot bring himself to hang up the mask.

The villains looking to stop California’s induction into the Union include a duke who is also a knight of a forgotten order and former flame of Elena’s Armand (Rufus Sewell), and dirty rotten good fer nuthin’ killer McGivens (Nick Chinlund) and his seemingly never ending posse of nameless thugs with guns and swords.  There’s also a Confederate officer and a plot to help the South win the Civil War, the Pinkertons, Elena as a spy….(yawn) um, never mind.

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Quake 4

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  • Title: Quake 4
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There was a time when the idea of a new Quake game would be enough to send me into paroxysms of spastic nerd ecstasy. The first Quake was seriously that cool. How could it not be?  It was Doom times a 1000, and it even had Trent Reznor (from Nine Inch Nails) doing the music and sound effects.  Whether ID has lost there way (or I’ve just outgrown that style of game) remains to be seen, but in regards to the just released Quake 4 the fact remains that it’s just a ‘meh’ experience.

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Welcome to Fantasy Island

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  • Title: The Island
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So…how much for a clone of Scarlett Johansson?
There are two ways to review a film:  The first is to judge it on whether it met your expectations going in and the second is to look at the film and ask if it still works despite its flaws.  Under the first category The Island fails early on, but under the second it succeeds spectacularly.  I went to see what I thought was going to be a big budget high-thinking moral sci-fi tale about cloning, but what I got was a huge summer action adventure chase movie inside a sci-fi structure that just blew me away for two hours.  Does it deal with the moral issues?  Kinda’.  Would I have liked to see them develop the philosophical and ethical implications more deeply?  Probably.  But did I enjoy the movie?  You better damn believe I did.  I had a blast.

Lincoln Six Echo (Ewan McGregor) is unhappy.  He’s one of the lucky ones; he survived the cataclysm and radiation that devastated the earth and lives in relative comfort with the other survivors who hope every night that they can win a chance to live outside on the island, the last free uncontaminated zone on the planet.

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Have Pants: Will Travel

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  • Title: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
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Sadly, Hollywood vaules Brand Name Jeans more than it’s teen stars
Whatever happened to truly great teen movies? Say Anything, Rebel Without a Cause, Wild Things…where are today’s John Hughes and Cameron Crowe? I blame American Pie, personally. Sure, it hearkened back to the blissful days of Porky’s (with maybe 1/8 th the nudity), but now teen movies are either firmly girl films or guy films, with no real crossover between them. Coming down firmly in the X chromosome camp is Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, which is based on the best-selling teen fiction novel of the same name.

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