Robert Downey Jr returns as billionaire Tony Stark in Iron Man 2, the 2010 sequel to the 2008 blockbuster hit. Downey Jr made the character so engaging in the first film that even moviegoers who’d never picked up an Iron Man comic could understand and embrace the billionaire industrialist forced into wearing a special suit [...]
Andy Bockelman
Andy Bockelman’s movie reviews appear in the Craig Daily Press and Saturday Morning Press.
‘Sherlock Holmes’
Rating: 3 out of 4 stars
Running time: 134 minutes
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams
Now playing at the West Theater.
Before there were Batman and Robin, Crockett and Tubbs or most any other crime-fighting duo, there was [...]
Did Sherlock shop in Manchester? Sue Frause photo.
Our choice for a new Year’s Day movie was narrowed down to two: Sherlock Holmes and It’s Complicated.
We ended up going with the latter, which was a real hoot. Filmed mostly in Santa Barbara, California it’s an all-American film, written and directed by Nancy Meyers.
The one that got [...]
It’s not surprising that Hollywood would feel the need to turn the famously cerebral Sherlock Holmes into a rib-crunching, pistol-whipping action hero who might solve a locked-room mystery by leaping out of the window and using his fists to rearrange the internal organs of anyone who happened to be walking by. What is surprising, though, [...]
Andy Bockelman
Andy Bockelman’s movie reviews appear in the Craig Daily Press and Saturday Morning Press.
‘Sherlock Holmes’
Rating: 3 out of 4 stars
Running time: 134 minutes
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Rachel McAdams.
Now playing: at the West Theater.
Before there were Batman and Robin, Crockett and Tubbs or most any other crime-fighting duo, there was [...]
NEW YORK – it was a memorable and merry Christmas in Hollywood as moviegoers shattered box-office records, responding in droves to a diverse array of high-profile releases over the holiday weekend.
The estimated $278 million in weekend box-office revenue broke the previous record of roughly $253 million set in July 2008, the weekend “The dark Knight” [...]
the 2009 Christmas weekend broke the record for the biggest domestic box office weekend in history.
According to Variety, revenues for the weekend topped out at $280 million, beating the $260 million earned the weekend “The Dark Knight” opened in July 2008.
Domestic ticket sales for 2009 went past the $10 billion mark for the first [...]
Sherlock Holmes
Directed by Guy RitchieScreenplay by Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham, Simon Kinberg
Sherlock Holmes – Robert Downey Jr.Dr. John Watson – Jude LawIrene Adler – Rachel McAdamsLord Blackwood – Mark StrongInspector Lestrade – Eddie MarsanMary Morstan – Kelly ReillySir Thomas Rotheram – James FoxLord Coward – Hans MathesonMrs. Hudson – Geraldine James
CLR Rating:
Jude Law [...]
Well if fortune favors the bold, then consider Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law bold. For one thing Downey is not even British and does not naturally speak with a British accent. For another thing Jeremy Brett’s portrayal of Holmes is so beloved that the backlash could be enormous from all the true aficionados. How [...]
Sherlock Holmes’ powers of detection are legendary. Holmes was so beloved that when author Sir Conan Doyle killed the character off, popular outcry forced him to revive him. Holmes has been bobbing to the surface of our cultural slipstream ever since; he’ll make his latest splash on Dec. 25, when Guy Ritchie’s film starring Robert [...]
