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Sherlock: The Abominable Bride (2016) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional character has stood the time. From the time he appeared in the Strand Magazine to the eagerly waiting die-hard fans to read about his next case and the time he was the subject of many movies and TV series, he continues to excite the masses. Over the years, the stories get only more attractive. This time around, he is trying to solve a century old unexplained murder of two men; one after she had apparently shot herself through her head in a suicide then return to kill another! The complicated thing is that he is doing through a stuporous state of a self-proclaimed regulated dose of cocaine in the system. Holmes is the 21st century, and he goes in and out of consciousness as he tries to find the answer to the perplexing question, how ghosts commit murder? At the same time, he has to fight his arch nemesis, Professor Moriarty, the devious ‘Napoleon of crime’. The role of Holmes is assumed again by Benedict Cum...

Dressed to Kill (1946) Sherlock Holmes can be said to be the first private investigator that the world came to know about. As we read more about him in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's compositions, we discover that he has indeed a dark shady past behind him. This small juicy bits about him and how he deduces the theories to solve his cases cannot be enjoyed merely by seeing some characters acting out what he or the directors thinks happened in the Victorian times and the foggy streets of London and Baker's Street. Clueless on what to expect to see, our imagination is an excellent composer of our own mythical and mystical platform on how we wish our elitist hero to be portrayed. In this way, our imagination is rekindled again and again to became imaginative and innovative. The idiot box dulls our brain to be a recipient of information which does not leave much to imagination. This is what went through my mind as I watched this old 1946 depiction of our pipe chomping mentali...

Meet the new 21st century occupant of 221B Baker Street, London. Yes! It is yet another version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictitious crime buster, Sherlock Holmes - 2011 BBC edition. Thanks to UniFi and BitTorrent, we are not at total dependence for the strewn our way by our unfriendly satellite TV to view new shows. I just finished viewing the three 1-hour episodes of the entertaining Season 1 series of Sherlock which were released in the UK in 2010. Refreshing, cocky, conceited tenant of Baker Street terrorizing the streets of London doing what the present day CSI team should be doing.  Only this time, the streets of London appear clean and breathable and the London Black Cab is Sherlock and Watson's frequent mode of transport , not hansom cab as in the original Doyle's novel. Also missing are the paraphernalia frequently associated with Holmes- the Sherlock cap and the pipe (Sherlock is on nicotine patch now). I wonder if he is still o...