As far as I am aware, it was Lord Dark Helmet who said: “…now you see why evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.” That’s oddly the sentiment that most accurately encompasses my feelings about Michael J. Bassett’s “Solomon Kane.” The movie begins with Kane and his men invading a fortress – who’s defenders look vaguely […]
““Silent Hill: Revelations” by relying so much on the exposition from the original film, suffers.” The first thing that you’re probably asking is: Why is he reviewing “Silent Hill: Revelations?” Didn’t that come out last year? It did, though in my defense I intended to review it when it first appeared in iTunes a few months ago, […]
I imagine it’s hard to make a horror film involving war, because war in and of itself is such a horrific experience that there’s little that you can add to make it any worse, which is probably why there aren’t too many of them. In fact, for awhile Su-chang Kong’s “R-Point” and Michael J. Bassett’s […]
The first Silent Hill film, directed by Christophe Gans, was–from what I hear, stylistically loyal to the game–but I thought that the story stalled when the characters were captured by the cult midway through the film. The second time around, Michael J. Bassett is at the helm, and judging from his past efforts, “Deathwatch” (in […]
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