Tag: benedict cumberbatch
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Movie review: The Imitation Game
I don’t share our 16 year old daughter’s obsession with Benedict Cumberbatch (it would be difficult to aspire to those heights), but I do think he’s an excellent actor, so I was looking forward to seeing this movie, which stars the actor as Alan Turing, a brilliant British mathematician, who invented the predecessor to the…
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Movie review: The Desolation of Smaug (Hobbit II)
While I’m a huge J.R.R. Tolkien fan, “The Hobbit” has always been my least favorite of his Lord of the Ring series of books. And I simply could not fathom how anyone could make three movies out of such a short book. I liked but didn’t love the first Hobbit movie (you can read that…
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Movie Review: The Fifth Estate
The Fifth Estate” has done poorly in movie theaters, but it stars Benedict Cumberbatch, so I indulged our 14 year old daughter in her obsession of all things Benedict and took her to see it last night. (Jim and our 12 year old went to see “”Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2”.) I was…
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Obsession, Part 2
To be fair, this is not my obsession. This is the obsession of our teenage daughter (whose two favorite phrases are “to be fair” and “awkward”). I introduced her to the BBC show “Sherlock” starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as John Watson. The show is excellently written and acted and a…