BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH AS HAMLET

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH!

Happy birthday to Benedict Cumberbatch, who turns 40 today.  Read here.

THE IMITATION GAME

It is a 2014 American historical thriller film directed by  Morten Tyldum, with a screenplay  based on the biography  "Alan Turing: The Enigma"  by  Andrew Hodges.  

During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of 'gross indecency', an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing.  As a matter of fact, Alan Turing had decrypted German intelligence codes for the British government during World War II.

Read  the article “The Imitation Game” Dramatizes the Story of Alan Turing here.

Here you can read an interesting review of this inspiring and sad movie.
Benedict Cumberbatch's excellent performance gives added complexity to a fine account of the life of codebreaker Alan Turing. Continue reading here. 

SHERLOCK

I guess it’s better late than never, but I have only recently discovered  Sherlock  and I must confess I simply love it! This much-admired British television crime drama presents a contemporary adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's  Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, it stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Doctor John Watson.