From piratelicker: New BBC series 'Sherlock' to air this Sunday -- essentially a 21st century update of Sherlock Holmes, where Watson is an Afghan war vet who has to write a blog to deal with PTSD, and Holmes is well, a consulting detective. With a website and cellphone, and if the article is anything to go by, has a few shades of the Eleventh Doctor as well. ( Read more... )

Because there has been an explosion of Sherlock Holmes on my flist thanks to the enjoyable but not particularly spectacular movie, and in the hope that people will read the original Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories first before running off to find/write fanfiction, I'm going to do a post with the best and/or my favourite SH stories you should all ( Read more... )

The Sherlock Holmes movie with Robert Downey Jnr. and Jude Law has a new trailer. On one hand there's the Holmes-purist part of me that wants to facepalm at the whole ACTION EXPLOSIONS BLACK MAGIC approach to one of my favourite classic characters and stories ever (please someone tell me Moriarty is going to be in this...). On the other hand, there ( Read more... )

TAUNTAUN SLEEPING BAG!!

Evangelion 2.0 teaser trailers are up.

I couldn't care two hoots about the Twilight series (saw the movie on the plane, it induced a lot of eye-rolling/malicious laughter/face-palming), but fandom_lawyers has linked to something interesting. Apparently some paranormal website (not a publishing house from what I can tell) is planning to ( Read more... )