Ken Metzger

Silent Hill

One of the most disturbing trends in film over the past 15 years is the sheer abundance of cinematic bilge that has been churned out to cash in on a popular video game. Take for instance House of the Dead, Resident Evil, and Alone in the Dark. These steaming piles of celluloid are from the past few years alone. Such films set the bar so…

Casanova

The plot, however flimsy it is, unfolds when Casanova is captured after yet another conquest at a local nunnery. The local magistrate is eager to finally be rid of him, thus Casanova is and sentenced to be hanged for his debauchery. Guilty though he may be, Casanova has friends in high places…

The Ice Harvest

The story opens in the present with Charlie scanning the frozen plains near Wichita, Kansas while he waxes philosophical about the possibility of pulling of the perfect crime. As the film flashes back to the previous day in which the story unfolds you’ll soon realize that Charlie’s definition of “perfect” is about as accurate as that of a drunken frat boy wearing…

Doom

Video games have never been my forte, but that fact did not keep me from spending hour after hour playing Doom 2 on my girlfriend’s computer during my first Junior year of college. I was a terrible, terrible player – but my hand/eye coordination issues were supplemented by my brazenly unabashed use of “cheat codes” that were built into the game for players such as me. This approach worked fine for me because my object in playing…