OPINION the Journal

Meanwhile...Elsewhere
Disney
Studios Takes
Over Galaxy

BY LINDSEY DUGAN
Staff Writer

Disney has been an entertainment giant for as long as

many can remember, but now
it seems it
is becoming
too big for
comfort.
In the last
few
years
it has made
some
big
purchases,
including the
animated movie studio Pixar in
2006 and the comic book giant
Marvel in 2009.
Disney just recently purchased Lucasfilm Ltd., gaining
rights to the Star Wars and
Indiana Jones franchises.
According to Yahoo! News,
Disney plans to release an
Episode 7 in 2015 and will
follow it with Episode 8 and
Episode 9 in the following
years.
These recent acquisitions
have only added to Disneys
impressive resume and raises
the question of how much
more it plans to obtain.
The company already has
its fingers in many areas of the
entertainment industry and this
latest purchase adds another
popular genre in the film industry.
There will certainly be
many Star Wars fans who
worry whether their beloved
franchise will continue to have
the unique feel of its creator,
George Lucas, now that it belongs to a media corporate giant.
Its very hard to believe
any company assimilated into
another can maintain its true
original identity.
If Disney continues to gobble up franchises at this pace
the entertainment industry
might soon sprout metaphorical Mickey Mouse ears and
lose all of the unique personalities who have colored and
diversified the business.

Nov. 8 - Nov. 14, 2012

Sherlock Is Criminally Good

REVIEW Detective
Series Offers More
Than Mystery

BY MARY NEWPORT
Editor-in-Chief

A man in a long black coat

stares out the window of his
flat. Bullet holes pock the wall
beside his head, experiments
bubble on the table and a plastic container of human eyeballs
sits in the microwave.
Quiet. Calm. Peaceful,
he observes, glowering at the
London street outside. Isnt it
hateful?
Contrary to what his dislike
of peace and the severed head
in his fridge indicate, this isnt
a murderer or a mad scientist.
This is Sherlock Holmes in the
BBCs epic series, Sherlock.
Directed by Mark McGuigan, the show follows the
modern-day consulting detective and his flatmate, former
Army physician John Watson,

ILLUSTRATION/SALVADOR JASSO
Sherlock can play Clue, but he prefers the original Cluedo.

Sherlock by Mark McGuigan

Amazing

Rated: Not Rated

Where: Available on DVD
When: Broadcast Jan. 8, 2012
Cost: $50 for the complete series on DVD
as they solve crimes the police
cant, face dangers no one else
will and occasionally harpoon
a pig in the name of science.
Benedict Cumberbatch is
wonderful and utterly believable as the arrogant, unflappable genius Sherlock. Audiences will follow breathlessly as

one-minute critic

Amazing - Recommended
Average -Waste of Money

Submarine

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Richard Ayoade, who many may recognize from his role as Moss in
the British TV series The IT Crowd, directed this movie. It follows
Oliver Tate as he takes his first strange steps into dating and investigates
the possibly failing marriage of his parents. Love is examined in a fresh,
quirky and oddly mundane way. British wit and humor eloquently flow
from scene to scene.
Brandon Frye

he hunts hit men in dark alleys,

walks confidently through
Buckingham Palace in a sheet
and wakes to find assassins in
the sitting room.
Martin Freeman is equally
perfect as John. He plays to the
hilt a normal man with a core
of Army-tempered steel as he

berates Sherlock for leaving

body parts in the kitchen, tries
to pay the bills and shoots to
kill without batting an eyelash.
The show is captivating,
action-packed and often hilarious. The plot follows the
original Holmes stories closely
enough to please traditionalists
with episodes like A Study in
Pink and The Hound of the
Baskervilles, but brings more
than enough freshness to keep
watchers engaged and guessing through each case.
Though the quality of the
series is absolutely stunning,
the quantity is dismaying.
There are only six episodes so
far. Each lasts over an hour,
making them more like minimovies, but the average individual will still find it all over
much too fast.
Despite this, most viewers
will consider the series a worthy and immensely satisfying
watch. To steal a few adjectives from the good doctor,
Sherlock is brilliant, amazing and quite extraordinary.

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AMAZING
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