Daniel Craig (above) has been cast as the new James Bond, replacing Pierce Brosnan. First up is a version of the very first Bond book written by Ian Fleming, Casino Royale. Pre-production has already begun on its follow-up as well.
Last Sunday, PBS's Masterpiece Theater showed a new (well, new to viewers in the United States, anyway) Sherlock Holmes adventure called "Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking".
Rupert Everett (above) plays Holmes in this original screenplay. The story involves the murders of pubescent daughters of the aristocracy. A reviewer in our local free-weekly, Isthmus, declared that Holmes had been CSI'd, but that's going a bit too far. While you see the heads and faces of corpses, there is no gore nor any super-zip-into-the-wound camera trickery. But it was also no Basil Rathbone retread. Here, Holmes is the misanthrope that Doyle made him out to be and we first see our hero in an opium den. The story is quite good with its mix of sexual perversion, murder, and fog. There's lots of fog. Oh, and lots of nubile teenage girls.
Lastly, I've discovered a new artist. His name is Mark Bryan. I really like this one:
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