Monthly Archives: June 2015

Accept No Imitations? Pondering Holmes’s Legacy in Anthony Horowitz’s ‘Moriarty’

Posted on June 22, 2015 by Jonathan Buckmaster

Warning: This post contains spoilers. Moriarty is written by Anthony Horowitz, who, according to Orion, “may have committed more (fictional) murders than any other living author”. However, in this, his second Sherlock Holmes novel, he also attempts to perform acts of … Continue reading →

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Review of “Far From the Madding Crowd” (20th Century Fox, 2015)

Posted on June 14, 2015 by Jonathan Buckmaster

This film initially announces its setting as being ‘200 miles from London’, and thus immediately signposts its precise distance from the ‘madding crowd’ of urban life. Yet this unwisely sets an awkward tone for what follows, as it tries to … Continue reading →

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