Like Shutter Island, the cast of Sherlock Holmes is what intrigues me the most as Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law and Mark Strong star for Guy Ritchie in this adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original tale which is said to have also drawn inspiration from the comic book
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Pixar has a way of turning an idea that seems silly or mundane into one hell of a feature. They did it with a rat and then with a robot with a very limited vocabulary. Now they are doing it with an old man as he floats his home to a far off land using helium balloons and brings a little boy scout along for the ride. I wasn’t convinced I was interested in this film until this clip hit the Internet. Now, I am certainly looking forward to May 29.
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From what I understand, this is supposed to be the war movie to see as Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker received rave reviews out of the Toronto Film Festival and was promptly snatched up by Summit Entertainment. Many thought the studio may have done it in an effort for a late Oscar push, but word is we should expect it this coming summer. Jeff Wells at Hollywood-Elsewhere said watching it is “like having your heart operated on by a construction worker wielding a power pneumatic nail-driver.” Yeah, that sold me because, strangely enough, I require all my surgeons to use power tools in my operations. Just a personal preference.
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This one doesn’t even have a distributor yet, but there are rumblings of a mid-December release as Rachel Weisz stars as the legendary astronomer Hypatia (Weisz), trapped in the legendary Library of Alexandria, and tells the story of her fight to save the old world’s wisdom from the religious riots sweeping the streets of Alexandria.
Weisz is only part of the intrigue, however, as the film is co-written and directed by Alejandro Amenbar (The Others and The Sea Inside). It’s his first theatrical feature since the Oscar-winning The Sea Inside in 2004. Five years is a long time to wait.
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Come on, Woody Allen, Larry David and Evan Rachel Wood… Need I say more? I hope not, because that’s all you are getting.
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