The Game’s Afoot (or Holmes for the Holidays) Through Dec. 9 Jewel Box Theatre 3700 N. Walker Ave. jewelboxtheatre.org 405-521-1786 $20-$25 The first mystery to solve in Ken Ludwig’s Sherlock-inspired farce The Game’s Afoot (or Holmes for the Holidays) is what exactly is going on. “This is so confusing,” said Billie Thrash, director of the […]
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
It’s certainly not short on action; Holmes gets into a street brawl, disposes of a bomb and destroys a bachelor party, all before the main plot gets going. That involves what criminal mastermind Professor James Moriarty (Jared Harris, TV’s Mad Men) may have to do with anarchist activities around town, and what he wants with […]
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The game is afoot
Based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel, Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles chronicles a case in which the Great Detective and his colleague, Dr. Watson, are hired by a country doctor to discover the truth behind a mysterious family curse. The charming adaptation by Harvey Mackie, a beloved figure in the Oklahoma […]
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Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of The Toynbee Tiles
Imagine coming across a homemade tile on a city street or sidewalk bearing the enigmatic, four-line message of “TOYNBEE IDEA IN MOVIE 2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPITER.” Now imagine coming across dozens of such tiles. Starting in 1994 on the East Coast, Justin Duerr did, and wondered what it meant. The more he encountered […]
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Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of The Toynbee Tiles
Imagine coming across a homemade tile on a city street or sidewalk bearing the enigmatic, four-line message of “TOYNBEE IDEA IN MOVIE 2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPITER.” Now imagine coming across dozens of such tiles. Starting in 1994 on the East Coast, Justin Duerr did, and wondered what it meant. The more he encountered […]
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The Big Bang
For a review in a few hundred more, read on. Private dick Ned (Antonio Banderas) is hired by a 7-foot Russian ex-con (wrassler Robert Malliet, “Sherlock Holmes”) to locate Lexie Persimmon (Guillory), a to-die-for stripper who’s been pledging her undying love to the prisoner as a pen pal. Strange thing is, her return address is […]
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The Black Sleep
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I present 1956’s “The Black Sleep,” now available on DVD as part of MGM’s Limited Edition Collection. Directed by Reginald Le Borg (whose “Diary of a Madman” helped kick off the line), the film stars Basil Rathbone (arguably the best of the big-screen Sherlock Holmeses) as surgeon Joel Cadman. […]
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Zorro: The Complete Series
As someone whose bookshelf still contains the Penguin Classics edition of Johnston McCulley’s 1919 novel, “The Curse of Capistrano,” as well as a hardback of Isabel Allende’s 2005 “Zorro,” I’m drawn to many adaptations of Mexico’s mysterious, masked rider, no matter the medium. Although it lasted four seasons, Family Channel’s early-’90s television series is not […]