By Dr. Craig D. Reid Growing up in England and reading Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories on Sherlock Holmes, scanning 1960’s English comic books featuring Holmes-influenced characters, and watching the eloquently shrouded Holmes on umpteen TV shows and films, one can become attached to the Holmes that was. So comparing the true Victorian Holmes created […]
Period Piece
CENTURION: SURPRIZE PICT-URE OF THE SUMMER
By Dr. Craig D. Reid As the summer cinema season draws to a close, which for all intents and purposes has not been a banner summer for Hollywood, the limited release Centurion will catch many people off guard. On the surface, some filmgoers may assume it’s a low budgeted 300 (2006) meets the Gladiator (2000) […]
ROBIN HOOD: A BIRD IN HAND IS WORTH A CROWE ON THE SCREEN
By Dr. Craig D. Reid As a kid growing up in England, I’d hear that the kids in America would often play cowboys and Indians; cowboys being the good guys and Indians being the bad guys, which of course really was a skewered teaching tool of good vs. evil, and impressed upon the children the […]