Counting Sheep Is Better than Watching The Sheep Detectives

Counting sheep is better than watching The Sheep Detectives

Once every 20 years, Hugh Jackman lends his considerable screen power to the summer’s friendliest murder mystery. In the summer of 2006, Jackson channeled the ruthlessness that surely hides behind every matinee idol as the Tarot Card Killer in Woody Allen’s London-based trifle Scoop, which, despite its grisly premise, was a charmer of a comedy. Now, Jackman shifts from killer to victim in director Kyle Balda’s The Sheep Detectives, which is far …

Who Should Be the Next “Sheep Detective”?

In a bit of slightly unhinged fare for your week, here is our dream casting for the next strangely poignant animal movie.

The Sheep Detectives: ‘ludicrous’ cosy crime caper

This “tame-by-design, family-friendly comic thriller”, set in England, is about a flock of sheep whose kindly shepherd, George (Hugh Jackman), is found dead in a field one morning, said Robbie Collin in The Telegraph. So the sheep do what any sheep would do and “trot off to the nearby village to work out who killed him”. ‘Eccentric characters’It’s an “odd viewing experience”: the film is “pleasant” and “easily absorbed”; but “every so often you …

The Detectives Are Sheep (No, That’s Not a Metaphor)

Sarah Lyall in the New York Times: Sometime in the 2000s, the producer Lindsay Doran asked her doctor for a book recommendation. “I’m reading that book everybody’s reading,” the doctor replied. “You know, the one about the shepherd who’s murdered and the sheep solve the crime.” Doran had not heard of the book, “Three Bags Full,” a best-selling novel by a German graduate student (“No one’s reading it,” she recalls responding, inaccurately), but s…