Howard's Kane

SOLOMON KANE-2009-Robert Howard's Puritan witch hunter is a violent, greedy idiot who believes his soul is damned and has symbols on his body to protect him from evil. Kane (James Purefoy) renounces his ways and lives in a monastery but the monks throw him out. Acting a like a cross between Hugh Jackman and Wilhem DeFoe he wanders the countryside in the 1600's. Flashbacks reveal his father (Max von Sydow) disowned him when he refused to join the clergy. After being beaten up he's taken in by a guy (Pete Postlethwaite) and his family. An evil sorcerer named Malachi (Jason Flemyng) kidnaps the daughter and kills the rest of the family. Kane scourers everywhere looking for her while Mal crucifies people who oppose him. Later he finds his father in a dungeon. He leads a group of villagers to their deaths then fights his own brother. After that he fights a demon that looks like the one in the video game Quake 2! He rescues the daughter and becomes a hero. 

Dark dirty shit from director MJ Bassett (Cable's ASH VS. EVIL DEAD).

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What A Town!

THE TOWN-2010-It's hard for me to believe this preposterous, clichéd talkfest was actually on a lot of critics top ten list.

Apparently a suburb of Boston called Charlestown has produced loads of armed bank robbers. This is a story about some of them (it's based on a novel "Prince of Thieves"). Co-scripter/director/star Ben Affleck is Doug MacRay, a career thief who with his dirt bag buddies rob a bank. They take the female bank manager (Rebecca Hall) hostage. Later after letting her go they discover she lives right near them and could cause problems later so Doug is dispatched to so something about it. He winds up falling in love with her and blah, blah, blah. Pete Postlethwaite is good as the florist who backs all the robberies and Chris Cooper has one scene as MacRay's father. Also with Jon Hamm, Blake Lively and Titus Welliver. This also has to have one of the nuttiest disclaimers I've ever seen:

"Charlestown's reputation as a breeding ground for armed robbers
is authentic. However, this film all but ignores the great majority
of the residents of Charlestown, past and present, who are the
same good and true people found most anywhere. This film is dedicated to them."

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