<![CDATA[Absolutely James Bond - Sherlock Holmes - Action Hero]]> http://www.ajb007.co.uk/topic/28359/sherlock-holmes-action-hero/ Wed, 04 Jul 2012 21:23:38 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: Sherlock Holmes - Action Hero]]> http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/528017/#p528017 Sky has bought the UK rights to broadcast the new US Sherlock Holmes drama series Elementary this autumn. It will be shown on Sky Living. Jonny Lee Miller stars as Holmes, a recovering alcoholic who is assigned to live with Dr Joan Watson, played by Lucy Liu. The series is set in modern day New York. You can watch a preview by clicking on the link below.

US Sherlock drama Elementary to air on Sky
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18712400

Elementary -2012 Fall Preview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrDVSxNycKc

]]> Wed, 04 Jul 2012 21:23:38 +0000 http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/528017/#p528017 <![CDATA[Re: Sherlock Holmes - Action Hero]]> http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/517528/#p517528 Lucy Liu is Dr Watson in the US version of 'Sherlock.' No bromance there then.

]]> Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:37:11 +0000 http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/517528/#p517528 <![CDATA[Re: Sherlock Holmes - Action Hero]]> http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/516374/#p516374 A US version of Sherlock Holmes makes me think of 'Cruise of the Gods' in which Steve Coogan cameos as an actor who's made it big in the States playing a modern day Holmes complete with his wisecracking African American partner. "Elementary, my dear Bro.." Wish I could find a clip.

]]> Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:00:56 +0000 http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/516374/#p516374 <![CDATA[Re: Sherlock Holmes - Action Hero]]> http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/516345/#p516345 Good news for US fans of Sherlock Holmes. Jonny Lee Miller will play the sleuth in a pilot episode of proposed CBS show Elementary, to be set in contemporary New York. If the pilot is successful a series will be made in time for the autumn.

For fans of the BBC's Sherlock update a third series has been confirmed with Benedict Cumberbatch as Holmes and Martin Freeman as Watson.

For the FULL article.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17038465

]]> Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:43:49 +0000 http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/516345/#p516345 <![CDATA[Re: Sherlock Holmes - Action Hero]]> http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/463508/#p463508 It's called Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. 


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The Arthur Conan Doyle bit on the cover is smaller than the disclaimer on life insurance policy.  The guy playing Holmes is totally miscast.  He's about 5'4 with a high-pitched squeaky voice.  I kind of felt sorry for him.  The guy playing Watson is the Welsh bloke from Torchwood.

]]> Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:42:16 +0000 http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/463508/#p463508 <![CDATA[Re: Sherlock Holmes - Action Hero]]> http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/463503/#p463503 What's the name of the wacky Asylum Holmes movie?  ajb007/smile

]]> Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:55:41 +0000 http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/463503/#p463503 <![CDATA[Re: Sherlock Holmes - Action Hero]]> http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/463492/#p463492 Just finished watching the new BBC version and really enjoyed it.  The modern setting worked really well and Benedict Cumberthatch was impressive as Holmes. 

However the Asylum mockbuster is bizarre, although worth seeing for a sequence in which a young man goes  to Whitechapel to pick up a prostitute and gets eaten by a tyrannasurus rex instead. ajb007/lol

]]> Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:09:53 +0000 http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/463492/#p463492 <![CDATA[Re: Sherlock Holmes - Action Hero]]> http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/455612/#p455612 No, it's a mockbuster from the notorious studo The Asylum who make cheap knock-offs of hit movies and release them on DVD just before the big movie they ape comes out either in cinemas or on rental.

]]> Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:20:45 +0000 http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/455612/#p455612 <![CDATA[Re: Sherlock Holmes - Action Hero]]> http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/455595/#p455595 Is it the one with Sacha Baron Cohen?

]]> Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:37:11 +0000 http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/455595/#p455595 <![CDATA[Re: Sherlock Holmes - Action Hero]]> http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/455577/#p455577 Napoleon Plural wrote:

Never mind that, JD did you see La Coren ajb007/heart on Have I Got News For You last night?  ajb007/smile

Iplayer time again. 

Gonna watch this Sherlock Holmes versus the dinosaurs tomorrow hopefully.

]]> Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:45:24 +0000 http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/455577/#p455577 <![CDATA[Re: Sherlock Holmes - Action Hero]]> http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/455537/#p455537 Never mind that, JD did you see La Coren ajb007/heart on Have I Got News For You last night?  ajb007/smile

]]> Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:09:48 +0000 http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/455537/#p455537 <![CDATA[Re: Sherlock Holmes - Action Hero]]> http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/455530/#p455530 Charles Grey portrayed Mycroft in 'Solution'? I don't remember that. Interesting since he also played Mycroft in the Jeremy Brett series.

]]> Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:35:37 +0000 http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/455530/#p455530 <![CDATA[Re: Sherlock Holmes - Action Hero]]> http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/455506/#p455506 I saw The Seven Per Cent Solution last night, with Nicol Williamson and Robert Duvall as Holmes and Watson.

Duvall nearly kills it with his strangulated English accent, he sounds like Biggus Dic*us in Life of Brian. There's plenty of his narration early on too. Williamson is good but looks like Ade Edmondson and Watson's wife is a ringer for the one who'd play Watson's wife in the Guy Ritchie version, in fact there are other similarities as Holmes is holed up in his flat in the throes of drug addiction.

It's all about how Watson has to lure Holmes to Vienna to get treated by none other than Sigmund Freud, well played by Alan Arkin, who has some of DeNiro's mannersims here.

It's an engrossing film that descends into silliness towards the end with an Octopussy-style climax on a steam train rooftop. Ken Adam did the sets and Charles 'Blofeld' Grey makes a brief appearance as Mycroft Holmes. The period details are understatedly rather wonderful. Purists may baulk at the whole Moriaty line in it. And I think it's heroin addiction, not cocaine, that prompts such terrifying Trainspotting-style withdrawal symptoms.

]]> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:42:50 +0000 http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/455506/#p455506 <![CDATA[Re: Sherlock Holmes - Action Hero]]> http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/455495/#p455495 Napoleon Plural wrote:

Did you catch La Coren ajb007/heart on Question Time last week? You could still catch it on iPlayer.
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No i missed her.  Still haven't seen this week's Only Connect either. 

I got sent a review disk for a Sherlock Holmes movie which I assumed would be the Downey Jr/Jude Law flick, but it appears to have dinosaurs in the background.  No idea who the actors are, but I'm kind of looking forward to seeing it.

]]> Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:26:42 +0000 http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/455495/#p455495 <![CDATA[Re: Sherlock Holmes - Action Hero]]> http://www.ajb007.co.uk/post/455441/#p455441 I'm watching The One Per Cent Solution tonight JD, the one where Holmes is on crack.

Did you catch La Coren ajb007/heart on Question Time last week? You could still catch it on iPlayer.

Apropos of even less, I thought Guy Ritchie would be good for a new Flashman series, an effective one this time. It's the same sort of time period. Depends on who they get as Flashy of course.

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