Failure is always an option. But not for long.

Here I am. It's been ten months since my last confession, and I'm feeling it - the gnawing at the back of my head, the din of voices telling me that I should throw in the towel.

The voices are completely right, and wrong.

The movie blog will continue, and this time (hold on to yer seats!) it'll actually persist. Watch this space for a revamp as well as a 2010 overview. Don't expect the usual suspects. I didn't see them. Hopefully I'll be able to offer something eclectic. Until then, go see "Piranha 3-D" (or, as one student wrote, "that film where fish sometimes eat people, 'Parnnanalna'." I'm not making this up.)

It's really, really elementary.

What to make of Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes”? It’s fast moving and instantly forgettable. It’s a film of no consequence. There are funny scenes as Holmes (Robert Downey Jr) and Watson (Jude Law) bicker and investigate the strange case of Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong), who poses quite a threat to the London establishment. There’s Rachel McAdams as a plot device that operates to help set up the sequel. Oh, and a handful of well filmed action scenes, some of which happen against CGI backdrops a la “The Golden Compass”.

It’s far from a bad movie, but it’s not a particularly memorable one. Ritchie is a fine director and Downey Jr a great actor, but this one is somewhat below par for both. By the way, I find it interesting that my favourite line from the trailer, where McAdams says, “They’ve been flirting like this all day”, which I took to refer to the constant bickering between the detective and the good doctor, is not in the film. Did someone fear a homophobic backlash?