Sentences with phrase «as the genius detective»
What It Is: A comic take on the Sherlock Holmes stories, starring Will Ferrell as the genius detective and John C. Reilly as his sidekick John Watson.
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«No major writer in our history,» he said, «has ever shown such an extent of accomplishment» as this author of essays, parodies, apologetics, criticism, light verse, and memoirs; scholar and author of detective fiction; ecclesiastical historian; translator; and homilist of genius.
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Limited Series Or Movie Ewan McGregor as Ray Stussy / Emmit Stussy, Fargo (FX) Geoffrey Rush as Albert Einstein, Genius (National Geographic) Riz Ahmed as Nasir «Naz» Khan, The Night Of (HBO) John Turturro as John Stone, The Night Of (HBO) Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock: The Lying Detective (Masterpiece PBS) Robert De Niro as Bernie Madoff, The Wizard Of Lies (HBO)
Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock, the «consulting detective» called upon for challenging police cases, is a tetchy, borderline Asperger syndrome genius more interested in a challenge than dispensing justice while Martin Freeman's Watson, an army surgeon home from Afghanistan, is a warm, loyal and often critical assistant to his eccentric roommate as he slips into his role as assistant.
A secretive genius detective tracking down Light, he's played by Lakeith Stanfield as a bundle of eccentricities and nervous tics, a guy who hides behind a hoodie, wolfs down candy by the truckload, somersaults over furniture and has his assistants sing him songs at random.