{"id":820,"date":"2007-10-02T09:57:06","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T16:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=820"},"modified":"2007-10-03T15:02:10","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T22:02:10","slug":"a-little-touch-of-harry-in-the-akaana-haunted-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/a-little-touch-of-harry-in-the-akaana-haunted-night\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Touch of Harry in the Akaana-Haunted Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Knowles of <em>Ain&#8217;t It Cool News <\/em>weighs in on the casting of James Purefoy as Solomon Kane in the Michael Bassett project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aintitcool.com\/node\/34265\">here<\/a>. Although Purefoy&#8217;s Mark Antony was never able to dominate that hypothermia-inducingly cold, ceaselessly calculating cyborg-of-a-Caesarean-heir Octavian during the second season of HBO&#8217;s <em>Rome<\/em>, the actor&#8217;s performance bestrode the show like a colossus. Unfortunately, Purefoy&#8217;s thespian firepower may be wasted on a snipe hunt; given the signs and portents so far, it is not especially reassuring that Bassett has promised Knowles &#8220;a unique and darkly powerful heroic fantasy adaptation which also does full justice to REH.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Knowles of Ain&#8217;t It Cool News weighs in on the casting of James Purefoy as Solomon Kane in the Michael Bassett project here. Although Purefoy&#8217;s Mark Antony was never able to dominate that hypothermia-inducingly cold, ceaselessly calculating cyborg-of-a-Caesarean-heir Octavian during the second season of HBO&#8217;s Rome, the actor&#8217;s performance bestrode the show like a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-and-reh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}