HOLMES & WATSON Nope, it’s not another entry in the Robert Downey Jr. series. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are played by Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, and any parody is intentional. The first trailer raised eyebrows for not offering any hint of Mr. Hogancamp’s cross-dressing. Mr. Zemeckis, responding to the controversy in The Telegraph, said, “We can’t give everything away.” Leslie Mann and Janelle Monáe co-star. His murder spree is presented as a sort of allegory for Mr. von Trier’s body of work, movies that detractors say revel in cruelty toward women (“Dancer in the Dark,” “Dogville”).

Source: New York Times September 12, 2018 17:57 UTC