Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes

It is the nature -- nay, the sacred mission -- of Hollywood to seek out entertaining, creative, nuanced storytelling and to stuff it willy-nilly into the sausage casing of the current year's cinematic esthetic. Currently, this includes obligatory explosions and improbable fisticuffs. Hence the premise that the archetypally cerebral puzzle-solver Sherlock Holmes was actually a bad-boy drunken brawler who somehow managed to occasionally open his bleary eyes for five minutes at a time to toss on disguises and toss off solutions to criminal conundrums. ( And the rest of this will include spoilers. )

Overall judgement: Mentally change the name of the movie and character to something other than "Sherlock Holmes" and enjoy a well-done costume-action flick.

Messing around in iTunes

I may yet get to that "start the year on the right foot housecleaning" thing, but in the meantime I've been playing in iTunes putting together some new exercise playlists. Just because other people might find this amusing (or even useful), here's a description of the sort of parameters I'm working with. ( This could get really boring if you're not into geeking out about exercise music. )