Feature Louisa Mellor 20 Jan 2014 - 07:00
An in-depth look at how His Last Vow, Sherlock’s series 3 finale, adapts the Doyle story of Charles Augustus Milverton…
Warning: contains major spoilers for Sherlock series three.
Having ticked off Moriarty, the Woman and the hell-hound in series two, Sherlock’s third run was in need of a villain. Enter Charles Augustus Magnussen, a Scandi take on Arthur Conan Doyle’s detestable master blackmailer played to grotesque perfection by The Killing’s Lars Mikkelsen.
Though perhaps the most despicable, Mikkelsen wasn’t the first on-screen version of the Doyle character. Barry Jones gave an arch, cruelly playful turn as the blackmailer in the 1965 BBC adaptation with Douglas Wilmer and Nigel Stock as Holmes and Watson. Robert Hardy, recognisable to many as Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge in the Harry Potter series, was an odious, amused Milverton in the 1992 television film with Jeremy Brett...
An in-depth look at how His Last Vow, Sherlock’s series 3 finale, adapts the Doyle story of Charles Augustus Milverton…
Warning: contains major spoilers for Sherlock series three.
Having ticked off Moriarty, the Woman and the hell-hound in series two, Sherlock’s third run was in need of a villain. Enter Charles Augustus Magnussen, a Scandi take on Arthur Conan Doyle’s detestable master blackmailer played to grotesque perfection by The Killing’s Lars Mikkelsen.
Though perhaps the most despicable, Mikkelsen wasn’t the first on-screen version of the Doyle character. Barry Jones gave an arch, cruelly playful turn as the blackmailer in the 1965 BBC adaptation with Douglas Wilmer and Nigel Stock as Holmes and Watson. Robert Hardy, recognisable to many as Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge in the Harry Potter series, was an odious, amused Milverton in the 1992 television film with Jeremy Brett...
- 1/19/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Sharpshooter Pictures
NEW YORK -- Adam Watstein's indie feature, redefining minimalist aesthetics by being entirely improvised and shot on video over the course of a single day, has one lucky thing going for it. That is the starring presence of James Tupper, who has become a television sex symbol thanks to his role as a hunky Alaskan in the Anne Heche ABC series "Men in Trees".
Otherwise, "Invisible", which recently played a theatrical engagement at New York's Two Boots Pioneer Theater, has little to recommend it. The film concerns a trip to Upstate New York undertaken by a married couple, Joe (Tupper) and Jane (Kit Pongetti), who are on the verge of getting a divorce.
After much tedious time spent in the car bickering, the couple reaches their destination, where the siren effects of nature causes a romantic reconciliation as they frolic in their underwear in the lake. Their romantic bliss is unfortunately interrupted by the arrival of two vicious backwoods crazies (Joe Mellis and David Mogentale), who torment the couple even while claiming them as parents.
The film, which lives up to its title thanks to the deeply murky visuals often on display, is utterly ludicrous. But it can probably be admired at least for the sheer ingenuity and hard work inherent in its production method, even while it provides ample demonstration that having a written script and setting aside one day for retakes are concepts that might well behoove would-be filmmakers.
NEW YORK -- Adam Watstein's indie feature, redefining minimalist aesthetics by being entirely improvised and shot on video over the course of a single day, has one lucky thing going for it. That is the starring presence of James Tupper, who has become a television sex symbol thanks to his role as a hunky Alaskan in the Anne Heche ABC series "Men in Trees".
Otherwise, "Invisible", which recently played a theatrical engagement at New York's Two Boots Pioneer Theater, has little to recommend it. The film concerns a trip to Upstate New York undertaken by a married couple, Joe (Tupper) and Jane (Kit Pongetti), who are on the verge of getting a divorce.
After much tedious time spent in the car bickering, the couple reaches their destination, where the siren effects of nature causes a romantic reconciliation as they frolic in their underwear in the lake. Their romantic bliss is unfortunately interrupted by the arrival of two vicious backwoods crazies (Joe Mellis and David Mogentale), who torment the couple even while claiming them as parents.
The film, which lives up to its title thanks to the deeply murky visuals often on display, is utterly ludicrous. But it can probably be admired at least for the sheer ingenuity and hard work inherent in its production method, even while it provides ample demonstration that having a written script and setting aside one day for retakes are concepts that might well behoove would-be filmmakers.
- 12/14/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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