As popular as Sherlock is, it was only a matter of time before the hit BBC show became the latest video in Screen Junkies’ Honest Trailers series. The new trailer breaks down the best and worst of the show — which you’ll soon know as “Downton Crabby” — and even throws in a little trick (keep an eye out for Watson’s reaction faces).
Sherlock is “more than a rehash of public domain stories from the 1890s,” according to the trailer. Sure, it may be about the 200th time Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories have been brought to screen, but this time around, we get a self-professed “high-functioning sociopath” who blogs, texts, and inspires words to float around him as he investigates. And that’s just part of what makes it so great.
Sherlock is billed as a mystery series, but don’t be fooled — it is really “a superhero show in disguise.” The trailer backs up this claim, pointing to its key ingredients: “a superpowered main character, a trusty sidekick, a city to protect, and great bad guys.” Who can argue with that?
As for the hero and his sidekick, we get a look back at their dysfunctional relationship. The narrator points out the “endless abuse” that Dr. John Watson (Martin Freeman) puts up with from Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch); it even goes so far as to describe Watson as Holmes’ “Cumberbitch.” Harsh.
With the show’s lead actor having blown up in recent years, the trailer also attempts to answer the question of “Why is Benedict Cumberbatch in everything these days?” We get a chance to see a lot of reasons, from his reverse smile to the way he makes us care about a character that is “all brain and no heart.” As the narrator points out, you can’t help but love him and his “shark face” — not to mention Sherlock itself.
China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?