Sherlock Holmes

Six Characters in Search of a Mystery


Sherlock: The Christmas Special Sherlock is back on our TV screens once again in a feature-length episode set in Victorian London that is full of self-referential humour, meta-narratives that utilise both pastiche and parody, and a plot that cannibalises several famous Holmes stories. I won’t reveal too much of the plot, suffice to say that […]

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R.I.P. Christopher Lee


During World War II Lee served in the RAF and then the intelligence service, and afterwards hunted down Nazi war criminals. Whenever anyone questioned him about working as a spy, he would ask “Can you keep a secret?” People would of course respond yes. “So can I,” was his reply.

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U is for Universal


U is for Universal Universal was always the poor man’s studio that churned out B Pictures. MGM had the stars; and the high-end productions; Warner Bros. had the social conscience and pretty much created the crime thriller; Fox had the quality melodramas. Universal had Dracula. And Frankenstein’s monster. And the Wolf Man. And the Mummy. The […]

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