Spoiler alert! In The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle’s sixth Sherlock Holmes book, Sherlock Holmes, the famed detective, returns. “The Final Problem,” the last story of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, was set in 1891. “The Adventure of the Empty House,” the first story of The Return of Sherlock Holmes, is set...
Besides myself, I could count the number of people in the audience on one hand plus one finger. I mean six. There were six persons in the theater, seven if you count me, which I suppose you should. Granted, it was the first showing of the day, but it wasn’t that early. It was...
In 1274 BCE, the Egyptian and Hittite Empires met for battle at Kadesh. Less than a hundred years later, around 1190, unknown invaders captured and destroyed the Hittite capital of Hattusa. Between these two events, legend tells us, a Trojan prince named Paris visited the Mycenaean Greek city of Sparta and ran off with...
At the risk of stubbing my toe against a cliché, let me tell you to never judge a book by its cover. I wish I could brag that I follow that edict to the word, but I know that there are many books in my library that are there for their covers alone. The...
Last week, I wrote a rant against marketing abuses of Marvel Cinematic Universe, but even as that was finished and scheduled for publication, DC Extended Universe released Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Despite my rant against these shared fictional universes, I decided to see it. I have neither the time nor the money...
