sherlock holmes

Closing Tabs started as a weekly look at news we didn’t cover on the site throughout the week. As the site has grown, however, we’ve moved away from reporting most news (you can catch most of it regurgitated on other sites anyway) in favor of more original opinions and editorials.

Alright, all of you folks who have been complaining about a lack of originality from James Cameron’s blockbuster, Avatar, pay attention. The world’s most famous consulting detective is here in a new incarnation that is unlike anything we’ve seen before. Yet, Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes remains faithful to the source material, both in characterization and in content.

It's an episode so long we couldn't possibly cram it into our traditional hourlong format (a technical malfunction with the timer notwithstanding). Inside you'll hear reviews of Sherlock Holmes, Up in the Air, and Family Guy: Something, Something, Something Darkside, as well as the finish of James Cameron month with Strange Days and True Lies.

I’m intrigued about Robert Downey Jr.’s Sherlock Holmes, coming later this year. As our own Margaret pointed out in her trailer review, it’s hard to tell just how much of this movie will be comedic and how much will be more of an action flick. Somewhere in between is where Holmes will lie, and I’m interested to find out where.

The surprising trailer for Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law opens with a bang and then gets, well, odd. The trailer seems to take on a vampire/undead like subject, switches to classic detective work, brushes on martial arts, and then ends as if the film is supposed to be a comedy.