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Young Sherlock Holmes, a review by addicted2dvd

Young Sherlock Holmes (1985/United States) Paramount Pictures (United States) Director: Barry Levinson (1942) Writing: Chris Columbus (Writer), Arthur Conan Doyle [Sir Arthur Conan Doyle] (Original Characters By) Length: 109 min. Video: Widescreen 1.85:1 Audio: Subtitles:

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Stars:
Nicholas Rowe as Sherlock Holmes
Alan Cox as John Watson
Sophie Ward as Elizabeth
Anthony Higgins as Rathe
Susan Fleetwood as Mrs. Dribb

Plot:


Extras:

• Digital Copy

I always enjoyed the Shelock Holmes films that I have seen in the past. Happy to say I ejoyed this one too. I saw it on Vudu and hope to add it to my physical collection before to long. I thought the cast did a fine job and it was fun to see Holmes and Watson in their younger days. Recommended.


(From Young Sherlock Holmes on July 31st, 2023)

The Lost Boys, a review by Antares

The Lost Boys (1978) 2.5/5 - A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled upon the film Finding Neverland on HDNet. It told a rather fanciful and creative tale of the author J.M.Barrie, and his relationship with five brothers growing up in England around the turn of the 20th century. The boys would be the basis for the creation of Barrie's most famous work, Peter Pan. When I wrote that review, I mentioned that I had never read the book, nor seen the famous Disney film. But due to its rather creative way of the spinning its story, had completely absorbed me. After I watch something that is based upon an historical character, I always find myself scouring the web, to get more in depth knowledge of said character. When I perused many articles about Barrie and his relationship with the Llewellyn Davies brothers, I kept reading about a BBC mini-series which chronicled the same story as Finding Neverland. That film had a more dubious reputation when it came to the historical accuracy of its story, but had been such a delight to watch, that I forgave it for its shortcomings in the truth department. The Lost Boys

(From Antares' Short Summations on March 8th, 2012)

Death Note anime/manga/movies comparison, a review by Tom

08. Glare

- The detectives and L watch subway survaillence footage of Raye Penber's death.
- Light and Ryuk discuss one of the death note rules
- Watari and L receive a call and learn of Naomi's going missing. L concludes that she must have been onto Kira. And as she was Raye Penber's fiance, they are going to focus on the people Raye investigated. Among these was Light Yagami's family.
- They decide to put camera's and wiretabs in the Yagami house.
- Light notices that someone has entered his room and suspect that cameras were installed. Light tells Ryuk about this after they have left the house. He also tells him about all the tricks he has implemented to see if someone has entered his room. Only one of those has been discovered and resetted by the ones who entered his room. Light gets Ryuk to check for the positions of the cameras.
- Light looks at porn magazines in his room, so that the detectives think he checks for entry to his room because of these. L doesn't fall for this
- Yagami family has dinner and watches TV. L sends fake news report to check the reaction of Light. Light doesn't fall for it
- With a trick, Light can watch the news report without L knowing he has access to a TV. Light writes down names of criminals currently being reported
- L learns about the death of those criminals and survaillence is stopped

Manga: Episode is covered in chapters 16 and 17

Movies: Essentially the same but with some changes. Light only uses one trick to check access to his room and it wasn't noticed. Therefore the trick with the porn magazines is not needed. Also the survaillence takes about a week until Light can move suspicion away from him, instead of only one day. This is good for the character development of Light's father (the lead detective) in my opinion.

(From Death Note anime/manga/movies comparison on June 28th, 2009)