Below is a list of my favorite Season Two episodes from the CBS series, "ELEMENTARY". Created by Robert Doherty, the series stars Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes and Lucy Liu as Joan Watson: ( Read more... )

Below is my current list of favorite movies set in the 1880s: ( Read more... )

Below is my current list of favorite movies set in the 1890s: ( Read more... )

"MR. HOLMES" (2015) Review

Arthur Conan Doyle created a force of nature when he set out to write a series of mystery novels featuring the fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes. His novels have not only provided a series of movie and television adaptations for the past century, but also the Holmes character has led to a great number of movies, novels and television series that featured original stories not written by Doyle. Among them is Mitch Cullin’s 2005 novel, "A Slight Trick of the Mind". ( Read more... )

Below are images from "MR. HOLMES", the 2015 adaptation of Mitch Cullin's 2005 novel, "A Slight Trick of the Mind". Directed by Bill Condon, the movie stars Ian McKellen as Sherlock Holmes: ( Read more... )

"FLASHMAN AND THE TIGER" (1999) Book Review

Out of all the books featured in George MacDonald Fraser's The Flashman Papers, only one featured more than one tale. This turned out to be "FLASHMAN AND THE TIGER", first published in 1999. Instead of one novel, the book contained three novellas featuring an aging Harry Flashman between the ages of 56 and 72. ( Read more... )

Below are images from "WITHOUT A CLUE", the 1988 spoof of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Directed by Thom Eberhardt, the movie starred Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley: ( Read more... )