Benedict Cumberbatch – The Cultural Gutter

Tag: Benedict Cumberbatch

Secret Agent, Detective, Genius, Jerk: Modernizing Sherlock Holmes

By Alex MacFadyen on May 2, 2013 • ( 5 Comments )

A man with dark wavy hair wakes up in an iron-framed bed in the middle of a windowless room. He leaps out from under the white sheets and stares intently at a corner of the white ceiling. Suddenly, gracefully, he spins to defeat an invisible opponent in four […]

Elementary

By Carol on March 4, 2011 • ( 1 Comment )

“We have in our police reports realism pushed to its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, neither fascinating nor artistic.”—Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Case of Identity.” When I wrote about Sherlock Holmes and Kolchak: The Night Stalker: Cry of Thunder, I wrote that […]