So many adaptations have been done of Mark Twain’s seminal novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequels that Tom and his pal Huckleberry Finn have long since become two of American literature’s most famous characters of all time. In this way, Tom and Huck could be called the ...

Guy Ritchie has always been, if anything, a very stylish director. He launched his career with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, two very idiosyncratic films that wielded their surprising lowlife vulgarity as a kind of cinematic street art; these early films established Ritchie as an auteur with ...

Sherlock Holmes is without a doubt a character that filmgoers are more than a little familiar with. Beyond the classic stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, this is a brand that has been adapted for screen again and again — and, with the BBC series starring Benedict Cumberbatch, the CBS series ...