Geek Overture

Star Trek fans have been experiencing a bit of a lull recently. Enterprise went off the air in 2005 and it’s been almost three years since the last movie. Star Trek was the most successful Trek movie so far, grossing over $385 million worldwide, so it is no surprise that Star Trek 2 is underway. [...]

Sherlock. Enigma to the end. There’s a lot of fun to be had comparing the show and its creators to the lead character and his modus operandi. Just how clever is he? Is he more concerned with making everyone aware of how clever he is than doing what’s in the best interest of all involved? [...]

  There probably isn’t a fictional detective more popular than Sherlock Holmes. Since his creation by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887 Sherlock Holmes has been written about, appeared on the silver screen and the little screen more times than any other fictional character. The Guinness World Records has consistently listed Sherlock Holmes as the [...]

BBC’s Sherlock, you are an unusual beast. The main characters have one of the most convincingly hidden-in-plain-sight pseudo-romantic relationships dedicated to the small screen, but the adventure that surrounds this realistically odd fish of a pairing has leapt gleefully off the deep end. This week the boys tackle one of Sherlock’s most famous mysteries: The [...]

The BBC have had a bit of a killer year in 2011, and by golly 2012 is off to a winner with the first episode of the new series of Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch’s cheekbones and the bags under Martin Freeman’s eyes. Questions about the nature of the leads’ relationship and the watershed  aside, Stephen Moffat and Mark Gatiss have [...]

The new film adaptation of the seminal espionage novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré owes as much to its sterling British cast as it does to the erstwhile foreigner at the helm. Rarely does a film trust its audience as much as Tinker, Tailor and the decision to hand over the directing [...]