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Weekend Receipts: Sherlock Beats Chipmunks, But Ethan Hunt Wins

Sherlock Holmes may have won the weekend with a modest debut, but was it the real box office winner? Not with Tom Cruise and the Mission: Impossible gang around to flaunt their fab limited release per-screen average in everyone’s faces, a precursor to next week’s Christmastime blitz. And, yeah. The new Chipmunks is out. A moment of silence for all the poor souls who helped it debut in the number two slot. I’d wager even David Cross feels for you.

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Weekend Receipts: Sherlock Beats Chipmunks, But Ethan Hunt Wins

Dark Knight Rises Viral Blitz: Bane’s Gotham Attack Plans Revealed? (PICS)

Heads up, Dark Knight Rises watchers: A cool bit of viral marketing just arrived on my doorstep detailing what appear to be the dastardly plans of Tom Hardy’s S&M baddie Bane . If you’re remaining spoiler-free, I’d advise you not to hit the jump for more… not that I can really make heads or tails of the elaborate map of Gotham City he’s marked up with his dastardly plans. Fire’s about to rise, y’all!

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Dark Knight Rises Viral Blitz: Bane’s Gotham Attack Plans Revealed? (PICS)

REVIEW: Post-Bromantic Attraction in Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows, Or: Holmes + Watson 4eva

Romance! Jealousy! Temptation! There’s an alluring new stranger vying for Sherlock Holmes’s attentions and affections in Guy Ritchie ‘s turn-of-the-century sleuthing sequel, A Game of Shadows , but it’s not the dark and beautiful gypsy woman at the center of Holmes’s latest mystery. For that matter, Holmes’s on-again, off-again ladyfriend Irene Adler doesn’t truly have his heart, either. It’s BFF and hetero life partner Dr. Watson who forms the tale’s real love triangle with Holmes — escalating the first film’s bromantic undercurrent of mutual admiration and ” circumstantial homosexuality ” to overt, unabashed man-love and dangerous attraction — with tantalizingly evil interloper Professor James Moriarty.

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REVIEW: Post-Bromantic Attraction in Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows, Or: Holmes + Watson 4eva