Martin Freeman

Feb 2016 13

Sherlock’s Abominable Bride: Facing the Invisible Enemy

2016 Articles, Mysteryrat's Maze, Sharon Tucker, TV

by Sharon Tucker

CAUTION: Spoilers abound.
Having had a bit of time to think about and see the latest Moffat and Gatiss Sherlock a time or two, I have to admit I like it now much better than I did initially. Somehow I had developed an unrealistic yearning to spend the whole action of the story in Conan Doyle’s era, enjoying Holmes and Watson exclusively in their original setting, but I was ignoring the essence of what Moffat and Gatiss always do with Conan Doyle’s characters and plots.
They turn the stories around.

Dec 2014 29

The Hobbit-The Battle of The Five Armies: Movie Review

2014 Articles, Fantasy & Fangs, Lorie Lewis Ham, Movies

by Lorie Lewis Ham

I admit to being a bit lost at the beginning of the movie because it had been far too long since I had seen the last one, The Desolation of Smaug, but once my memory was jogged and I kind of sorted out again who everyone was (well I knew Bilbo and Gandalf), The Battle of the Five Armies was an action filled, sword clanging adventure.

Feb 2014 15

A Tale of Two Sherlocks

2014 Articles, Deborah Harter Williams, Mysteryrat's Maze, TV

by Deborah Harter Williams

The BBC’s Sherlock and CBS’s Elementary provide two wonderfully divergent flavors of Sherlock Holmes, Watson, Moriarty et al. You might call them light and dark.

Dec 2013 23

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: Movie Review

2013 Articles, Fantasy & Fangs, Lorie Lewis Ham, Movies

by Lorie Lewis Ham

The Desolation of Smaug finds us back with our hero Bilbo Baggins and his Dwarf companions for more of their adventures, based on the book The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.

Dec 2012 31

The Hobbit: Movie Review

2012 Articles, Movies, Summer Lane

by Summer Lane

Bilbo Baggins, a respectable hobbit from Bag End in the Shire, doesn’t like adventures. They “make you late for dinner,” as he says. But when a nomadic wizard who we all know and love drops in with a company of dwarves on a quest to retrieve a lost treasure, Bilbo finds himself in the middle of a…well, an adventure.