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 …
The Toronto International Film Festival has unveiled more major components of its 2009 lineup, as today organizers have announced the documentary films, the popular Midnight Madness series and Wavelengths, the festival’s “moving art” program. This is the section of the fest dedicated to horror, sci-fi and cult cinema and everything else we here at Sound …