Salt Movie Review

Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action. Runtime: 1oo min. Directed by: Philp Noyce Written by: Kurt Wimmer  Starring: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schrieber, Chiwetel Ejofor, Daniel Olbryski, August Diehl PCN REVIEW: Philip Noyce’s Salt is a whirling wind-up toy of an action movie. Inexplicably, it isn’t all that exciting.  Angelina Jolie is in [...]

Inception Review

Rating: PG-13 for sequences of violence and action throughout. Running time: 146 minutes Directed and written by: Christopher Nolan Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Ken Wattanabe, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Michael Caine, Tom Berenger, Dileep Rao PCN review:    Two architects walk through a dream. The first architect—retired—tells the other the rules of [...]

Movie Review: ‘Predators’ remembers the thrill of the hunt

Movie Review: ‘Predators’ remembers the thrill of the hunt

Nimrod Antal’s Predators isn’t original but it is a fun-filled blast from the past, picking up where the original classic left off

Summer Flashback 1999: Run, Lola, Run

Summer Flashback 1999: Run, Lola, Run

Tom Tykwer’s Run, Lola, Run hit the indie film scene like a speeding train, charging in on a film audience that didn’t associate indie with action. The rest, of course, is history.

Animation Spotlight: The Sky Crawlers

Animation Spotlight: The Sky Crawlers

‘Ghost in the Shell’ director Oshii flies high with ‘The Sky Crawlers’, a sci-fi mashup of human drama and aerial dogfights

Summer Flashback 1999: The Blair Witch Project

Summer Flashback 1999: The Blair Witch Project

Remember 1999? A time of kung-fu, mummies, Jedis, kids who saw dead people, and the Blair Witch.

DVD Dojo: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Review

DVD Dojo: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Review

The film adaptation of Stieg Larrson’s ‘The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ hits dvd today, and boy is it a doozy.

The Weekly Creepy: A hand-made case of ‘Parasomnia’

The Weekly Creepy: A hand-made case of ‘Parasomnia’

William Malone’s ‘Parasomnia’ is a visually inventive throwback to the fiendishly goofy and imaginative horror thrillers of the 1980s.

Summer Flashback 1998: Blade Review

Summer Flashback 1998: Blade Review

Wesley Snipes kicks and slashes his way through the vampire hordes in the movie that re-energized the superhero movie, 1998′s Blade

Movie Review: Jonah Hill is an Oedipal wreck in the dark-comic gem ‘Cyrus’

Movie Review: Jonah Hill is an Oedipal wreck in the dark-comic gem ‘Cyrus’

The Duplass Brothers’ Cyrus is a dark but sincere drama, and Reilly, Tomei and Hill deliver real pathos to this familial battlefield

Movie Review: Silence would be golden for ‘Airbender’

Movie Review: Silence would be golden for ‘Airbender’

M. Night Shyamalan continues his descent into absurdity with ‘The Last Airbender’, a film so silly it evokes memories of ‘Solar Babies’