Four Worlds

Street.” (Moffat) This is where we start our story, with a name and an address. If you ask random people “Who is Sherlock Holmes?” most will tell you that he is the greatest detective to ever live. While this statement is taken for fact all around the world, unfortunately the great Mister Holmes has always been fiction. It is like calling the lion who lives in savannas the king of the jungle. The actuality in these labels maybe lacking, but the meaning stays the same. Sherlock Holmes may have…

After being available in cinema for about a week, Marvel’s new film Dr.Strange has already becoming one of the most popular movie in cinema now. Even though Dr.Strange is a completely new character for the most of the audience, but combining Benedict Cumberbatch’s unparalleled performance and the excellent special effect, Dr.Strange who is the first super hero to use magic began getting more and more intention. But after so many big production super hero movie, how is Dr.Strange different from…

A YouGov survey shows that 45% percent of surveyors prefer the book to the movie, 32% find them equally as good, 5% prefer the movie, and 9% don’t read the book. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle follows the mystery of the murder of Sir Charles Baskerville from the point of view of Dr. Watson, the admirable companion of Sherlock Holmes, a master of deduction. The 2002 BBC movie adaptation, directed by David Attwood, follows the same story, but both major and minor plot…

Adapted many times and having countless tumblrs dedicated to the tale, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Problem is the world's most treasured classic adventure. It comes as no surprise that BBC took the English tale and made it one of their own, but did their adaption, Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall, live up to the expectation? It comes with a change of century and characters that have been moulded into, what some would falsely criticise, entirely new beings. BBC's adaption is surprisingly new… and so…

Hancock Superhero Film as the Storehouse of Black Stereotypes Hancock is an American superhero movie directed by Peter Berg in 2008 and starring Will Smith, Charlize Theron, and Jason Bateman. While in most of the contemporary superhero films, superheroes are loved and admired by the society, in this story, John Hancock (Smith) serves as a burden to Los Angeles citizens: his saving operations regularly cost the city millions of dollars. One day, Ray Embrey (Bateman), the head of a public…

“Elementary, my dear Watson.” Sherlock Holmes’s famous catchphrase is still widely recognized throughout modern society. Much to his own surprise, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle became one of the most famed authors in the field of crime fiction after the creation of British private detective Sherlock Holmes and his associate Dr. John Watson. Even though the novels and short stories were published during the late 1800’s, people today still consider Holmes the most well-known detective of all time. The…

Marvel is an ever expanding universe of superheroes and villains mostly created by Stan Lee. The cinematic world of Marvel is centered on making the heroes in the comics come to life through action-packed movies. There have been thousands of characters throughout history, including superheroes, villains and certain groups of individuals that have all shaped Marvel’s cinematic universe. Usually, in the films, they will slightly differ from the original comics and take on their own roles. What has…

Vivian Darkbloom wrote “Holmes is Where the Heart is” to delve into the unusual behaviors in Sherlock and Helen. However, the fault in her arguments are the assumptions and false information that back up her assertions. Darkbloom assumes that Helen is relevant to the story. She takes advantage of the lack of information and attempts to correlate the missing pieces of the miscellaneous characters together in disarray. The surviving step daughter is simply the catalyst that puts the story and the…

Rather than building another, super-suited personality and exploring different avenues regarding freshly discovered forces, T'Challa's undertaking is to improve as a ruler than his dad and alter the course of Wakanda, a nation that has avoided the world. Wakanda takes isolation to an unheard level, keeping…

In making the Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle created a hero modern to the times. Holmes, an independent detective, tackles many of his cases with his companion John H. Watson, who, in contrast to heros today, could be considered Holmes’ side kick. Though Holmes does not have the ability to fly or read minds, he has an extrodinary capability in solving crimes with evidence lost on others. In A Case of Identity, Watson states, “You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite…