The Unlikely Murderer

On a late winter evening in 1986, a graphic designer (Robert Gustafsson) becomes the unlikely murderer of Sweden’s Prime Minister. What was initially presented in 2020 by the prosecutor in…

Sherlock: The Adventures of a Modern Detective

Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. Photo: BBC There’s a moment in ”A Scandal in Belgravia”, the first episode of the second season of Sherlock, that made me laugh. Sherlock Holmes…

Blue Velvet: Quite an Earful

Photo: De Laurentiis Entertainment Group In his annual movie guide, Leonard Maltin expresses amazement at how Blue Velvet was a critically lauded film. Roger Ebert wrote about how Isabella Rossellini was degraded,…

El Camino 

The long-awaited movie sequel to Breaking Bad (2008-2013) picks up where the show ended, with Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) on the run from the police, getting in touch with old…

Joker: Birth of a Clown Prince

Joaquin Phoenix. Photo: Warner As it is about to premiere, Joker has become a controversial film. For the Twitter crowd, director Todd Phillips’s explanation why he decided to make the…

The Girl in the Spider’s Web 

Lisbeth Salander (Claire Foy) is hired to get her hands on a computer program built to access the world’s nuclear codes. Seven years after The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo…

Dressed to Kill 

A gang of criminals are trying to locate three music boxes with a secret hidden inside that were made in prison. The fourteenth and last in this Sherlock Holmes series…

Terror by Night 

Sherlock Holmes and dr. Watson (Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce) are on a train bound for Scotland where a murder is committed and a very valuable diamond is stolen. Film no.…

Pursuit to Algiers

Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) agrees to escort a royal prince home to his country from London; assassins are on their trail. The twelfth chapter in this series takes place largely…

The Woman in Green 

Several women in London have been found murdered, with their forefingers severed; Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) soon begins to suspect who’s actually behind it all… Film number 11 in the…