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Usually it's not too hard to imagine what a film will be like. This is not, however, the case with Sherlock Holmes. First, it was a challenge to try and imagine just how Guy Ritchie would handle the material, even with the suggestion of a "slightly stylized 1891." Robert Downey Jr. was an intriguing choice for Mr. Holmes, and now as the bigger casting pieces begin to fall into place, I'm dying to see what Ritchie makes of it. Jude Law IS in as Watson, and The Hollywood Reporter posts that Rachel McAdams has signed on to play Sherlock's love interest, Irene Adler. THR says the character showed up in only one story -- 1891's "A Scandal in Bohemia," but should the film become part of a series, she'll be there for the ride. As Elisabeth pointed out when Mark Strong signed on, Ritchie isn't interested right now in a sequel, but that doesn't mean the studio isn't salivating over the thought. Oh yes, and Strong, who was cast in a few roles through the rumor mill -- he'll play Blackwood, Holmes' main villain. There's some excellent talent in here, and after RocknRolla, I'm dying to see Strong go head to head with Downey Jr. Dear readers of Cinematical, what say you? Will these four work well together, or are you hoping for a little recasting? And for more of this week's big casting news, check out the gallery below ...Filed under: Casting, Mystery & SuspenseContinue reading Rachel McAdams Romances Sherlock Holmes Permalink | Email this | Comments

Their romance in Titanic was one for the record books. Now Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio are getting to canoodle once again in Revolutionary Road. The above pic is part of the poster for the film, which has popped up over at USA Today. The guy died too quickly last time, and thus we never got to see what the future had in store for Jack and Rose. So now we get Frank and April -- a young, successful couple in the '50s, who move to France and watch things crumble. Man, it's so much more hopeful when they die young. Now this whole ordeal could be sending Winslet right into the world of Erica Jong and Fear of Flying. Yay! After waiting months for that elusive deal to finalize, The Hollywood Reporter posts that Oscilloscope Pictures has picked up Kurt Kuenne's Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about His Father. The theatrical release will begin in New York on October 31. Go see it. Please. Don't read anything more. Just go. In other Big Apple news, Yahoo has got a trailer up for Synecdoche, New York, which I'm dying to see. Besides growing up near Schenectady, where part of the film takes place, it's Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut. And it also has a mind-boggling, a-mazing cast. Finally a little bit for the rumor hounds -- EW says that now Jude Law might play Dr. Watson in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes. (Not Colin Farrell or Russell Crowe.) Robert Downey Jr. and Law -- interesting... What do you think?Filed under: Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Casting, Deals, RumorMonger, Posters Permalink | Email this | Comments

Filed under: Thrillers, Deals, Warner Brothers, Scripts Plenty of musicians have made the transfer from the recording studio to the silver screen, and with varying results. But, it probably isn't so common to see a rock star who's willing to stay behind the scenes. The Hollywood Reporter announced that WB has picked up The Karma Coalition, a spec script written by rocker Shawn Christensen. Christensen is probably best known for his work as lead singer of Stellastar, an indie rock outfit that's toured with Jane's Addiction and The Killers. According to THR, "The story centers on a professor who engages in a game of cat and mouse with a corrupt detective after he's told his dead wife of five years might still be alive. He uncovers the existence of a secret organization responsible for faking her death but suffers the consequences of that knowledge." The project was written by Christensen and his partner, Jason Dolan. Dan Lin will be producing the flick for Lin Pictures along with the WB. Lin already has some high profile films like Sherlock Holmes and Terminator Salvation in the pipeline, so a low stress thriller probably came as a welcome relief. Even though Karma sounds like your usual Hollywood thriller (and it was written by two guys with minimal film credits to say the least), WB must have seen something in the idea. The studio will be shelling out $750,000 against $1.5 million for the project *and have attached Joe Russo to direct (which is an odd choice if you ask me, considering Russo's last flick was You, Me and Dupree), and 21's Jim Sturgess to star. So while Karma might not have the best 'film pedigree', at least Christensen already has a day job. *Correction: Joe Russo and Jim Sturgess are attached to another Dolan/Christensen project, titled, Sidney Hall. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

The Devil's Mask 1946 Based on the "I Love a Mystery" radio program (where most of the stories were told in serial fashion over several episodes): Searching through the wreckage of a crashed airline, the police find five shrunken human heads, and one of them is a white man with red hair. The head belonged to an explorer, deemed lost on an expedition to South America, and is tagged as a victim of jungle savagery. His daughter thinks otherwise, and suspects foul-play outside the jungle. She hires a team of private detectives to investigate, and points them in the direction of her stepmother and a colleague of her father, who appears to be more than a colleague of the stepmother. The detective, however, also looks in another direction and vocation for the killer.

Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance on American radio in 1930, in an adaptation of The Speckled Band starring William Gillette as the Great Detective and Leigh Lovell as his faithful assistant Dr Watson. A weekly run of Holmes adventure began a week later, with Richard Gordon replacing Gillette. This episode hails from the penultimate series, and stars John Stanley as Holmes and Wendell Holmes as Watson (though he was billed as George Splevin, to avoid any confusion over Watson being portrayed by Holmes). Dr Winthrop's Notorious Carriage was first broadcast on May 23, 1949.It can be found on the Old Time Radio TimesPast site's "Definitive Sherlock Holmes" thread. Visit us at:http://timespast.ning.com/

Jack is away, so blame any errors in this particular podcast on Shannon! Features tonight include Shadowlands Theatre episode 46- The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Then we follow that up with Episode 5 of Gate!

Filed under: Comedy, Casting, Celebrities and Controversy Sometimes a movie's concept tells you everything you need to know about it. Other times you hear one and go "well, that's kind of weird -- I wonder what they'll make of this." Surprisingly, Will Ferrell's latest project fits into the latter category. It's a dramedy called Two Face, written by X-Files vet Vince Gilligan, who also had a hand in the Hancock screenplay. The pitch: Ferrell will play a virulent racist who develops a split personality after an accident, and his alter ego turns out to be a bleeding-heart liberal. I think the success of this concept depends on how frankly they're willing to approach the racism angle. Obviously there are certain things you're not supposed to say even in unflattering portrayals of racist characters, and certain things that Will Ferrell probably doesn't want to say for the sake of his career. (Side note: I find it a bit curious that period movies can get away with patently offensive displays of racism while movies set in the present tend to shy away, as if we're all pretending that we've solved the racism problem. Any counterexamples? Monster's Ball, maybe.) There's a lot of potential for trenchant satire in something like this, and a lot of potential to make something anodyne and boring, too. No word on what comes first, this or Sherlock Holmes. Permalink | Email this | Comments

Robert Downey, Jr. will portray Sherlock Holmes.

Here's the final version, with a happier bit of country rock on the soundtrack, and various changes to the content - even to the multi-screen effect, which took a bit of remaking!

Fireman Joe Martin comes to suspect that fires occurring in the warehouse and home of a furrier may have been deliberately set in order to cover thefts. He goes undercover, pretending to have been discharged from the fire department and appearing to ally himself with a crooked insurance man. Things get hot in this one Click here to download The Movies Store

In London, a secret society run by scank lawyer collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. With a set up like this, Society members start dropping dead suspiciously. Enter Sherlock Holmes, big brained snooper who has to find the real reason people are taking the dirt nap. Holmes keys in on a mysterious Chinese widow as other members keep dying. If you know anything about Sherlock Holmes, you can bet the bad guys take it up the wazoo in the end. Click here to download The Movie Store

A private detective about to enter the Army investigates the murder of a cop by gangsters who are in the stolen tires racket. Click here to download The Movie Store

A woman has dreams that she is a werewolf so she goes out and finds men. She proceeds to have sex with them and then rip their throats out with her teeth. She eventually falls in love but then she is raped and her lover is murdered so she goes out for revenge. Click here to download The Movie Store

This wartime thriller has newspaperman James Dunn trying to track down a stolen Chinese amulet the offers a clue to a lost treasure. He is racing a Russian teacher as well as an arms dealer for the same prize. This flick includes Ralph Morgan and Linda Gray in the credits. Click here to download The Movie Store

Leo Gorcey stars as Mugs Maloney with Bobby Jordan as Danny in this lower east fight flick during the forties. Danny, managing Mugs boxing career, books him into a Conservation Corps camp for training. When the camps safe is robbed, Mugs is blamed since everyone knows he needed cash for his sick mother. What a line of bull, but it works. Click here to download The Movie Store.

Blanche Mehaffey heads the cast as FBI agent Betty Mason. At the risk of her own neck, Betty pursues the kidnappers of a wealthy businessman. She also juggles the affection of her partner Morrison (Jack Mulhall) and the victim's son Scott (Grant Withers). After five yarn-provoking reels, the film finally roars into life with a truly exciting climactic shootout. Though Blanche Mehaffey had been in films since the silent days, she never quite attained stardom, and was still being referred to as an "unknown" by the 1938 trade papers. Despite the description, this is not a bad movie.

Jimmy Mason idolizes bootlegger Matt Kelly who is interested in Jimmy's girlfriend Peggy. Unwilling to squeal on his idol, Jimmy winds up in a cruel reformatory where a new- found friend dies from abuse. Jimmy's aunt tells him Peggy is seeing a lot of Matt, so Jimmy escapes. Click here to download The Movie Store

A New York Couple is a long way from their home in Brooklyn when their truck breaks down. The two run into one of those goofy fairs, and are forced to sell their only valuable possession. It's an elephant named Bunny that Ollie has grown really attached to. Jose the fair owner sees that Bunny could save his struggling side show but secretly wants the business to fail and does everything to screw up the sale and the love that is developing among the fairs crew for bunny. Why the hell this movie is entitled Machine Gun Mama escapes us. Click here to download The Movie Store

A young woman is on death row for the murder of a man who was blackmailing her family, although she claims she was framed. Her fiancée, a doctor who is conducting experiments on reviving the dead, also happens to be the state's executioner, and is assigned to pull the switch when she is strapped into the electric chair. A famous criminologist, believing her to be innocent, rushes to investigate the case and clear her before her execution date. Click here to download The Movie Store

The lady of the title is author Dorinda Hatch (Joan Caulfield), who writes a scathing best-seller in which she trashes all men. Photographer Bill Shelby (David Niven) vows to make Dorinda eat her words, thereby proving the superiority of the male of the species. Suffice to say that he doesn't succeed--at least until the very, very end. The middle portion of The Lady Says No consists of a surrealistic dream sequence in which Dorinda realizes that she loves Bill despite his rampant chauvinism. This film is not a likely candidate for screening at the next N.O.W. meeting. Lady Says No was produced and directed by Frank Ross, who at the time was married to star Joan Caulfield. Movie Description from NY Times. Click here to download The Movie Store

Crazy tale of some poor sap having too much to drink and finds himself married to a married woman. Similar to Barack Obama awakening this morning finding himself being forced into a shotgun wedding with Hillary Clinton as his running mate.

Frank Johnson, sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is being tracked down by the cops on the hunch that Frank is trying to escape from possible bitch slapping payback. Frank's wife, Eleanor suspects he is actually running away from their unsuccessful marriage. Click here to download The Movie Store

A famous star is discovered by her ex-lover, drowned on a beach. Police arrive and arrest the unlucky bastard on the testimony of busy bodies who saw him with the body. He is slapped with a rap of murder and faces trial. Not to go down easy, the sucker makes a break from the court house with the help of a cops daughter that thinks our guy is too cute to be guilty.

This flick stars Melvyn Douglas Glenn Ford, Jim Backus Stella Stevens posing as a prostitute, and her boss, Jenny Joan Blondell in what we think was the foundation for F Troop the funny TV classic of the late sixties early seventies. Also, Jack Schaefer based this comedy on Company of Cowards, a novel

Now 15 years old, Luci grew up alone with her slutty mother in a poor district of London. After her mother's suicide, Robert, her mother's former high-school boyfriend, brings Luci to his home where she meets his rich wife Aimee and their teenage son. However, Robert is not the boy's biological father. Luci makes Robert think that he's guilty of her mother's death, because he left her after he finished university. Nevertheless, she wants to stay with his family in their beautiful home. It seems to them that she wants revenge. The whole family is confused by her strange behavior toward each of them, which is interpreted as sexual advances... Movie description from IMDb

A Boy and His Dog is a short story by Harlan Ellison which was also the basis of a 1974 post-apocalyptic science fiction film of the same name directed by L. Q. Jones. The story was first published in 1969. A revised and expanded version was printed in Ellison's 1976 story collection The Beast that Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, and Ellison continued the story in the graphic novel Vic and Blood. The film version is often cited as an inspiration for George Miller's Mad Max though Miller has said he didn't view Jones' film until after he had completed his own [citation needed]. The movie was also distributed after the initial run under the name, "Psycho Boy and His Killer Dog" among other titles. This description is from Wikipedia Click here to download The Movie Store

Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiancée, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous husband of a client. This flick was also titled Scandal House Click here to download The Movie Store