{"id":50426,"date":"2015-05-06T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/06\/waiting-for-mr-holmes.html"},"modified":"2015-05-06T08:00:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T14:00:04","slug":"waiting-for-mr-holmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/06\/waiting-for-mr-holmes.html","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for &quot;Mr. Holmes&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many charmingly odd things about this movie that it will either be a horrible train wreck or positively wonderful. With Ian McKellan, I suspect the latter.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#39;1947, an aging Sherlock Holmes returns from a journey to Japan, where, in search of a rare plant with powerful restorative qualities, he has witnessed the devastation of nuclear warfare. Now, in his remote seaside farmhouse, Holmes faces the end of his days tending to his bees, with only the company of his housekeeper and her young son, Roger. Grappling with the diminishing powers of his mind, Holmes comes to rely upon the boy as he revisits the circumstances of the unsolved case that forced him into retirement, and searches for answers to the mysteries of life and love &ndash; before it&#39;s too late.&#39;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WhPPq9cmPCc' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/dNtP3wPcb6m'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many charmingly odd things about this movie that it will either be a horrible train wreck or positively wonderful. With Ian McKellan, I suspect the latter. &#39;1947, an aging Sherlock Holmes returns from a journey to Japan, where, in search of a rare plant with powerful restorative qualities, he has witnessed the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/06\/waiting-for-mr-holmes.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Waiting for &quot;Mr. Holmes&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46227,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/04\/sherlock-holmes-detective-extraordinaire-and-public-domain.html","url_meta":{"origin":50426,"position":0},"title":"Sherlock Holmes, Detective Extraordinaire (and Public Domain)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 4-Nov-14 8:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The US Supreme Court has decline an appeal by the Conan Doyle Estate, leaving standing a ruling that fifty of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, published before 1923, have entered the public domain. 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