30 Day Film Challenge -- Day 18

Favorite Comedy -- Monty Python and the Holy Grail

I love this movie so much. I can watch it hundreds of times and still laugh hysterically at the same scenes. There are far too many things to list here. 


I think Life of Brian is the better movie, but this one is by far the funniest.  It's also the most quotable of their movies. 

Sherlock 2x03 Review

The Reichenbach Fall




So it's been about a day since I watched the Sherlock series 2 finale and I'm finally able to put it into words. This was an episode that showed me why I love Stephen Moffat so much. It was an episode that showed why Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman are two of the best actors on television. It was finally an episode that shook me to my very core. Of course it's only a television show, and there are more important things going on in the World. I would be lying though if I didn't say that I felt a combination of sickness and excitement after watching this episode. I'm going to assume if you're reading this that you've seen the episode because I'm going to spoil it very soon. If you haven't seen it yet...see it!! 

The episode continues the series arc of Sherlock becoming more famous, and loved by the media. I loved the bit with the hat, and him asking why it has two fronts. Watson points out that you can go from loved to hated by the media very quickly, and he better watch out. Meanwhile we are treated to an amazing scene with Andrew Scott as Moriarty where he appears to break into the Bank of London, a prison, and the crown jewels all with the click of an iPhone app.  He gets caught, and clearly this was part of his plan. From there things escalate, and we are trying to figure out what Moriarty's plan truly is. 

Sherlock Episode 2.02 Review

The Hounds of Baskerville


The second episode of the second series of BBC's amazing Sherlock was pretty different from the other episodes we've seen. The episode starts where we left off, with Sherlock feeling bored and taking cases off the website. It quickly turns though and we are thrown into what really felt like a Doctor Who episode. There was a mystical aspect to it that I hadn't seen in Sherlock before. In Doctor Who the resolution would probably include aliens or something and not a government conspiracy, but still very Who-like.

I loved that Sherlock puts everything together about the rabbit early on and used that to further his investigation into the "enormous hound". As always we had enough information to figure out a good deal of the answer on our own. Since there is no H.O.U.N.D. project in Liberty, Indiana in real life we couldn't connect all the dots, but that's fine. A memory palace is definitely something I wish I had by the way. The resolution of the story was very interesting I think. Clearly there was not a massive dog running around in this location like a UK version of Big Foot. Once Sherlock said he had seen it it seemed like it might be there, but the fear he felt seemed strange. Sure if I, or most people say a giant dog they would be scared, but I would imagine Sherlock would be more interested that afraid, and surely he wouldn't doubt himself. The scientist at the lab told them that really anything is possible, so he would just list it as a genetically manipulated beast. It was his fear that was the real clue about the truth of the matter.

Doctor Who Episode 6x11 Review

Episode Title: The God Complex
Episode Rating: A
Overall Season Rating: A-

Yet another home run for Doctor Who. Last week I talked about how each episode was different, and gave us aspects of Who that we all love. This one keeps that streak going. While it was creepy, I wouldn't say it was scary. Not in the way Night Terrors was anyway. The idea of a hotel filled with rooms of people fears is properly creepy though, and I think it would have been fun to watch this episode in an actual hotel. Try walking the corridors late at night then. Another streak that I noticed however has been broken. For most of Steven Moffat's tenure on Doctor Who we have seen very little death. I'm not a fan of people I like dying in TV shows, but when Russell T. Davies was running things people died all the time. Sometimes a lot of people. Knowing that people could, and probably will die adds real stakes to episodes of the show, and makes us sigh relief when people we genuinely like don't die. Well, this episode fixed that for us.

Doctor Who Episode 6x10 Review

Episode Title: The Girl Who Waited
Episode Rating: A
Overall Season Rating: A-

Last week's episode "Night Terrors" was very different from the mid-season premiere episode "Let's Kill Hitler", and this episode was very different from both of those. Which is a good thing. Moffat is keeping the episode style fresh, while staying true to what Doctor Who stands for. In this episode we got even more information about the early days of Amy and Rory's relationship, and as it turns out this show is capable of discussing them and have it be more intelligent than your average teenage drama. There were so many aspects I loved about this episode, and some of them are things that I have not liked recently in Who.

Doctor Who Episode 6x09 Review

Episode Title: Night Terrors
Episode Rating: A-
Overall Season Rating: A-

Well sort of review. I love Doctor Who so much I've decided that for the most part this will just be a stream of consciousness. Plus, I got some good feed back on my shorter Eureka review.

 Tonight's episode was everything I love about a Doctor Who episode. Recently, I've been getting upset with the show and I'm not entirely sure why. I mean I loved pretty much every episode from the first half of series six, and I was blown away by "Let's Kill Hitler". I think some of it has to do with the three documentaries made by BBC America. If you didn't see these, then you are lucky. They are all about the "Best of" various aspects of Doctor Who but they all only cover the history from when Matt Smith took over. This is ridiculous and the Companion special really soured me on Amy and Rory. I like them both, but all three of Tennant's companions are ahead of both of them in my opinion, and don't even get me started on companions from before the relaunch.