Pick Me Up

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1 The _, 2020 film starring 11 Across, 15 Across, 21 Across, 23 Down & 25 Down (6) 4 Secret or confidential (4-4) 10 Commemorative inscription on a tomb (7) 11 Anthony _, Welsh actor with two Oscars to his name (7) 12 Second Greek letter (4) 13 Happe

Country Life

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Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), the son of a stone mason, first trained as an architect. Moving to London in 1862, he worked for Arthur Blomfield, a distinguished Victorian architect noted for his churches. Back in his native Dorset by 1867, Hardy's first

TIME

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WHEN YOU’RE TRYING TO SELL A SCRIPT, THE NAME Sherlock Holmes evidently helps. Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jr., Ian McKellen and Jonny Lee Miller have all played versions of the character in the past decade, and last year’s Netflix hit Enola

Orion Magazine

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PERHAPS the most obvious example is Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay’s Gothic pastoral about a group of girls who venture to the top of a mountain and fall into a kind of metaphysical sleep. But it’s as much a tradition, the story of uncertain wo

How It Works

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Genealogists have discovered that many celebrities share a family tree with some very important historical figures. Meghan Markle and Winston Churchill are sixth cousins five times removed, while actress Helena Bonham Carter is related, by marriage,

Chat

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Adrian Dunbar, Vicky McClure and Martin Compston return as AC-12 regulars Superintendent Ted Hastings, DI Kate Fleming and DS Steve Arnott in the much-anticipated sixth series of the police corruption drama. The seven-parter also stars Trainspotting

SFX

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UK/US Netflix, streaming from 26 March ▶ Creator Tom Bidwell ▶ Cast Thaddea Graham, Darci Shaw, Jojo Macari, McKell David, Harrison Osterfield, Royce Pierreson EPISODES 1.01-1.08 “Sherlock Holmes is a wanker!” It’s not the sort of line you usually he

Total Film

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SHERLOCK AT THIS! MORI-ARTFUL ARTH-DECENT SEE WATSON ELSEWHERE SIGN OF THE BORE MOVIE OF THE MONTH WHY MILLIE BOBBY BROWN’S ENOLA IS A TRUE DETECTIVE

PLAY

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FORMAT PS5, PS4 / ETA 12 MAY PUB SQUARE ENIX / DEV HAND INC. PLAYERS 1 If the words ‘live-action game’ and ‘Square Enix’ make you think of the The Quiet Man, know that the publisher has been involved with FMV games much longer, and much more successf

PC Gamer

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The great dry spell continues this month – big budget releases remain few and far between, with the handful that were scheduled already frantically delayed to later in the year and beyond. But as with last issue, it certainly doesn’t mean there’s not

Time Magazine International Edition

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WHEN YOU’RE TRYING TO SELL A SCRIPT, THE NAME Sherlock Holmes evidently helps. Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jr., Ian McKellen and Jonny Lee Miller have all played versions of the character in the past decade, and last year’s Netflix hit Enola

PC Gamer

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There are lots of things I want to do in a Sherlock Holmes game. I want to recline indolently in an opioid haze; to steeple my fingers and examine shirt cuffs. What I never want, however, is to stop being Holmes and instead control a reeking urchin t

WHO

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In the raunchy period drama about King Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), Dormer was first to get the chop as Anne Boleyn. As Margaery Tyrell in the fantasy epic, she had Cersei (Lena Headey) on her toes for a while before meeting an explosive end

PC Gamer (US Edition)

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There are lots of things I want to do in a Sherlock Holmes game. I want to recline indolently in an opioid haze; to steeple my fingers and examine shirt cuffs. What I never want, however, is to stop being Holmes and instead control a reeking urchin t

Woman

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David Tennant stars as Phileas Fogg in this new adaptation of Jules Verne’s novel. Phileas is joined on his voyage by sidekick Passepartout (Ibrahim Koma) and journalist Abigail Fix (Leonie Benesch).  The cookery show returned earlier this year afte

The Atlantic

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The BBC show seems to have difficulty fitting female characters into its universe. But it isn’t Arthur Conan Doyle’s fault.

Empire Australasia

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OUT NOW (NETFLIX) / CERT M / 123 MINS DIRECTOR Harry Bradbeer CAST Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill Well-intentioned if sometimes simplistic, Millie Bobby Brown’s feminist spin on Sherlock Holmes is often sweet, family fun. The Stranger Things s

Womankind

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When Patrick Brontë died at age 84, he outlived his wife and six children by decades. Born ‘Brunty’, Patrick changed his surname in adulthood to the more intriguing ‘Brontë’ complete with the diaeresis over the letter ‘e’. The motivation, thought his

Edge

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Not all clues wait politely to be plucked from the crime scene. Mystery substances are identified in an equation-balancing minigame, while eavesdropping on residents enables you to sift through snippets of idle chatter to find vital nuggets, some rev

PC Gamer (US Edition)

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In one trial, you defend famous Japanese novelist Soseki, who visited Great Britain in the 19th century. Another Conan Doyle character, Lestrade is the surname of the Scotland Yard detective who consults Sherlock. This is a witch who makes waxwork mo

Total Girl

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Catch Millie as Enola Holmes in a fun mystery-adventure set in 1884. You’re probably thinking, ‘Hmmm, Holmes sounds very familiar’, and that’s because Enola is the young sister of Sherlock Holmes, the world famous detective. Looks like Sherlock is up

Los Angeles Times

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In the rare moments when the mystery spoof "Holmes & Watson" clicks, the movie is like a cross between a raunchy '80s comedy and a Daffy Duck cartoon. As super-detective Sherlock Holmes, Will Ferrell is just like Daffy, the overconfident hero, bluste

NPR

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This bright and breezy Netflix adaptation of a YA novel finds Millie Bobbie Brown starring as the brilliant, fourth-wall-busting little sister of Sherlock Holmes.

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! Publisher Titan Comics Writer Lavie Tidhar Artist Paul McCaffrey ISSUES 1-3 Bringing to mind a “League Of Extraordinary Gentlewomen”, Adler’s cast of classic, mostly Victorian characters means it explores a well-worn furrow, but Lav

Pretoria News Weekend

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MILLIE Bobby Brown makes a high-spirited leading-role movie debut in Enola Holmes, which on paper might sound like a starchy exercise in feminist revisionism, but winds up executing that agenda with wit, pacey storytelling and an overarching mood of

Saturday Star

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MILLIE Bobby Brown makes a high-spirited leading-role movie debut in Enola Holmes, which on paper might sound like a starchy exercise in feminist revisionism, but winds up executing that agenda with wit, pacey storytelling and an overarching mood of

World Coin News

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The Royal Mint will be commemorating 160 years since the birth of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, with a coin dedicated to his most famous creation – the detective Sherlock Holmes. The sleuth’s profile, complete with pipe and deerstalker will appear on a 50p

Country Life

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Planning a Dickens dinner party is an enjoyable mental game. John Jarndyce and Miss Betsey Trotwood would be excellent hosts. Could Mr Fezziwig lighten the heart of ‘the lone lorn creetur' Mrs Gummidge with his jollity? Sydney Carton would be a good

The Rake

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Those on even nodding terms with literature’s greatest detective (sorry, Hercule) will know that Irene Adler has intrigued fans of Sherlock Holmes for generations — in everything from the original prose to some rather risqué manga of the now. Her con

History Revealed

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In the 1870s, postal workers in the Belgian city of Liege attempted to train 37 cats to deliver the mail (fastened around their necks in waterproof bags). The experiment was not a success: the cats just wandered off. In 1903, Sherlock Holmes creator