The Hound Is Loose!

Shown in the UK over Christmas, and in the US last weekend on PBS, the new TV presentation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Hound Of The Baskervilles' was both well-acted and intriguingly adapted, with Richard E. Grant keeping the overacting largely at bay, and some surprising nods to the needle-impelled drug addiction of the main character, Sherlock Holmes himself. Excellent in that role was Richard Roxburgh, surprising many of us who mainly remember him as the villainous Duke from 'Moulin Rouge'. But it looks like Roxburgh's forthcoming movies will distinguish him even further, with an intriguing part in the adaptation of Alan Moore's League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and a stint next year in the next Universal 'classic horror' update playing, of all things, Nosferatu himself.