A foppish shake-up of an imperious literary hero or a raucous pantomime designed to play for the masses not the mind? I mean, what do you expect with an American playing Sherlock Holmes? If the former, it comes as little surprise that they turned to Robert Downey Jr. for this new incarnation of the legendary [...]
Edge of Darkness Pt. 2
On a more timely note, and while I wait for the snow to thaw so I can visit the cinema and see the blasted film again, Avatar and Edge have an ec0-connection. The organisation, GAIA, that Craven investigates in the mini would probably have jumped at the chance to inhabit their own neon blue Na’vi [...]
Edge of Darkness
A new trailer for the movie version of the cult drama Edge of Darkness starring Bob Peck (Ronald Craven) and a very young, and very beautiful Joanne Whalley (Emma Craven), has lead me to revisit the miniseries and make an initial comparison based on the first couple of episodes and my vague memories. Quite besides [...]
New Beginnings
After being forced into a weird, disorientating bubble of night shifts by the credit gloom (4 months no less) it seems rather appropriate to begin this new blog with the release of the paradigm shifting, bar raising, groundbreaking- and other such interminables- Avatar. Wake up, sleepy dead. James Cameron invites you to a new revolution [...]
