Sherlock Holmes And The Silk Stocking

Seeing as how I am an insomniac, putting on a movie at 10 minutes to midnight is almost early for me.  Hadn't actually done a actual Sherlock film today, so going with the one Sherlock film that stars Rubert Everett in his only turn as Holmes.  

This is not a story that was actually written by Conan Doyle, but I am not a purest in these matters, and I like the story anyway.  I really love the movie.  Not just that Everett makes, for me, a great Holmes, but that it stars Michael Fassbender, the German/Irish actor as twins.  We've already seen Fassbender once this Halloween month, in a Poirot movie on Monday.  Here he disappears into the role of a psychopath; believe me, it's really scary how good he is at dissolving into such a role that on the face of it is peripheral to the story and turns out to be oh so important!  There's none of his knife-edged charm from Quentin Tarantino's Inglouirious Basterds here!!  

This pairs well with "Murder Rooms."  Some parts of the story are supposedly from a collection of forensic cases that Dr. Bell worked on, and Fassbender's character is in part based on the psychopath from the premier of Murder Rooms--it's kind of combined with Jack the Ripper.  Also I've tried to keep some consistency of actors.  Actors Charles Dance and Sean McGinley are both in the Murder rooms premiere are both also in "Bleak House."  Whilst, actor Julian Wadham was in The Madness of King George watched today.  Actress Helen McCrory occupies the Dr. Bell like role in this production, and like in Bleak House, a lot of the violence is committed because of the British aristocracy.  Ian Hart, who first assayed the role of Watson in a re-working of Hound of the Baskervilles returns here as Watson.  In that production Richard Roxburgh was Holmes; of course, he is well know for his camp performance as Dracula in Van Helsing--screened here as part of Fright Month on Sunday.  What a lovely circle!

As a tongue and cheek nod to Fassbender's German ancestry, I mean he was born in Hiedelberg, I included the German poster for the film above.