Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026)

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■ Guy Ritchie
The thing you’ll notice right away is how amazing how they got the 60’s background and mod fashion right. It looked fantastic, and I wonder how director Guy Ritchie made this in our world of modern architectures, fashions, and cars. While I would have liked The Man From U.N.C.L.E. to be a little more realistic and gritty (like the Mission: Impossible series), Ritchie decided to make the tone of the film to be just a silly, fun ride of a movie.

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026)

The much-anticipated Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man movie is available now on Netflix. This is the final conclusion to the television series that began life on BBC Two in 2013.

I never watched the television show, because I didn’t have access to BBC, but I was interested enough to check out the movie. Needless to say, going in blind, as I did, you’re going to be a little confused on who all the major players are. But it’s cool, in my mind, I came up with all the backstory for all the characters, because the film does just enough to give you an idea of who/what these characters are.

For example, our star Cillian Murphy, plays Tommy, an ageing/retired man living in isolation in a remote farm. He’s drawn back into his former life, because of his sister and his “gypsy son” (who is now running the gang called Peaky Blinders). The plot involves Tim Roth bringing in counterfeit money and he hopes to introduce the million of pounds into circulation through the gangs.

It was easy to follow the story, most of it was pretty predictable, including the father/son team-up. Towards the end, it got a little too far-fetched, but you except it for the explosive dramatic ending that ties all the loose ends up.

Despite not having seen any of the television show, I think the movie stands on its own, and although it would be nice to have knowledge of all the characters, you don’t really need it to understand what is at stake. Overall, I enjoyed the movie.

I also really love the soundtrack. It sounds like a bit of the Fall, some Thom Yorke (Radiohead), some bass and drums, a taste of that northern English music. I know sometimes a modern music, set to a historic background (the show is based on real-life street gangs from the late 1800s to 1920s), might not work… but I found myself really digging the music because it sets the pacing and tone of the scene.

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (Official Trailer)

Young Sherlock (2026)

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■ Sherlock & Daughter
Brendan Foley’s Sherlock & Daughter is currently airing on the CW and Discovery+ right now. It started last month, April 16, and will end on June 11th with the eighth episode. I have to say, of all the Sherlock shows, with Elementary being my favorite, Sherlock & Daughter is simply my least favorite.

Young Sherlock (2026)

Let’s just get this out early in the open, I did not like Young Sherlock, the new television series by Guy Ritchie. The series premiered on Amazon Prime earlier in March 2026 and is based on the series of books by Andrew Lane (based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s original Sherlock Holmes stories).

You know my tastes by now, I like a bit of mystery (I love being surprised) and I love Sherlock Holmes. My personal favorite is the Elementary series, because the mystery-of-the-week was always surprising and smart. Unfortunately, many adaptions such as the recent Sherlock & Daughter just sucks.

I normally do like Guy Ritchie, who has a certain English style, mixing modern (more like 90s) British music with modern London street crimes, as you can see from his films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch … but when he takes that same style and applies it to the 1880’s, it doesn’t work (at least for me).

Ritchie is no stranger to the Sherlock series, he was responsible for the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes and its sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. I own both films on steelbooks, but was never happy with its casting of Robert Downey Jr. in the lead. Plus, with Ritchie’s time-slowing, modern filmmaking approach, it just felt like a film of its time. A little too much humor, in the film for me.

With Young Sherlock, it is a story about Sherlock going to school as a night porter at Oxford University. There he meets Moriarty, as a friend. There’s also a Chinese princess (no idea how a royal person can go about without royal guards?) and Sherlock’s brother Mycroft who is working for the government.

If you’ve read any Holmes stories, you know that Moriarty is Sherlock’s rival… so when you see him as a “friend” in the series, it’s natural that you are always so suspicious of Moriarty. I’ve never believed anything he said!

With all my complaints of Ritche’s modern music, modern “Zack Snyder” school of filmmaking, modern language… I think the worst is that the story is just not compelling or very good. I also did not enjoy the comedy-tone of the series. To me, Sherlock is never supposed to be funny. He’s like Batman.