Solomon Kane Directed by Michael J. Bassett Written by Michael J. Bassett France, the Czech Republic, and the UK, 2009 These days, it’s hard for a film to avoid being cynical, to be purely sincere in its aims. Earlier in 2012, the pulpy science-fiction adventure John Carter sought to be a massive piece of mainstream …
Solomon Kane Directed by Michael J. Bassett Written by Michael J. Bassett, Robert E. Howard France/Czech Republic/UK, 2009 Solomon Kane is lugubrious, inclement, drab, dour, dark, violent and macabre. The eponymous character, played by James Purefoy, epitomizes all of the above and is very much the same. Having had its world premiere at the Toronto …
In October of 2010, Sound on Sight asked me to do my first commemorative piece on the passing of filmmaker Arthur Penn. I suspect I was asked because I was the only one writing for the site old enough to have seen Penn’s films in theaters. Whatever the reason, it was an unexpectedly rewarding if …
Today we learned of some really sad news. According to Reuters, one of my favorite actors Pete Postlethwaite has died. Postlethwaite passed away Sunday from Cancer complications. Postlethwaite, 64, was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1993 for his work in In the Name of the Father. Postlethwaite remained friends with his co-star …