Centurion Review

Running time: 97 minutes Rating: Rated R for sequences of strong bloody violence, grisly images and language. Written and directed by: Neil Marshall Starring: Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko, Imogen Poots, David Morrissey, Andreas Wisniewski, Dave Legeno, Axelle Carolyn    If Neil Marshall’s Centurion can be believed, than the Celtic tribe of Picts, circa 117 AD, [...]

Awesome ‘Red Hill’ trailer is quick on the draw!

The new trailer for Ryan Kwanten’s gritty new modern western Red Hill rides into town and brings awesome with it.

Sy-Fy Ate My Brain: Lake Placid 3 Review

Another SY-FY Original storms through Saturday night, dredging up the stangant remains of Lake Placid, that dubious creature feature about the giant crocodiles.

DVD Spotlight: Burning Bright

In Carlos Brooks’ Burning Bright, Briana Evigan must protect herself and her autistic brother from a Bengal tiger roaming the house. Armed with a deeply crazy premise, this indie chiller delivers some suprisingly effective thrills.

Get Low Review

Running time: 103 min. Rating: PG-13 for some thematic material and brief violent content. Directed by:Aaron Schneider Written by: Chris Prvenzano and C. Gaby Mitchell Starring: Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray, Lucas Black, Gerald McRainey, Bill Cobb PCN Rating: “Forgiveness is free. You don’t have to pay for it. But, you do have to [...]

The Lottery Ticket Review

Running Time: 95 min. Rating: PG-13 for sexual content, language including a drug reference, some violence and brief underage drinking. Directed by: Erik White Written by: Abdul Williams Starring: Bow Wow, Brandon T. Jackson, Naturi Naughton, Ice Cube, Keith David, Loretta Williams, Charlie Murphy, Terry Crewes, Mike Epps PCN Rating: In a summer full of absurd geekshows lacking coherence, [...]

See the alien ships in new ‘Skyline’ poster!

 After that compelling trailer landed last week, the Strauss brothers’ Skyline has suddenly come to the fore of geek speculation and anticipation. The good: those giant starships are apparently equipped with human hoovers strong enough to suck up all the Earthlings in a city block but accurate enough to leave the block and all the [...]

J.J. Abrams looking to give you ‘7 Minutes in Heaven’

Looks like J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot are heading into the closest for 7 Minutes in Heaven. When I originally heard the news, I feared that the Star Trek helmer had picked up the rights to some Hallmark-esque afterlife slop, but as it turns out the truth is even daffier. The film, based on an [...]

Brad Anderson’s ‘Vanishing on 7th St.’

If anyone can take an Outer Limits worthy premise like this one–most of the world has vanished and the shadows are coming for us– and make it work, it’s Brad Anderson. From Happy Accidents to Session 9 to The Machinist, almost everything the guy has done has been riveting in some way.  I like too [...]

New trailer descends for Wes Craven’s ‘My Soul to Take’

  Wes Craven has been having a less than stellar run of it for the past ten years or so. Looks like that Meryl Streep violin movie Music of the Heart might have jinxed him. Since then, we’ve gotten Scream 3, Cursed, Red Eye, Hills Have Eyes 2, and now this one, My Soul to [...]

Vampires Suck Review

  Running Time: 77 minutes.Rating:  PG-13 for crude sexual content, comic violence, language and teen partying.  Written and Directed by: Jason Friedberg/Aaron Seltzer.  Starring: Jenn Proske, Matt Lanter, Diedrich Bader, Chris Riggi, Arielle Kebbel, B.J. Britt, Charlie Weber PCN Rating:  (zero stars) They prey on the unsuspecting, the naïve, the weak, feeding off the life-force [...]

The Expendables Review

Running Time: 103 min. Rating: R for strong action and bloody violence throughout, and for some language. Directed by: Sylvester Stallone Written by: Sylvester Stallone and Dave Callaham Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Terry Crews, Dolph Lundgren, Eric Roberts, Randy Coutre, Steve Austin, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzeneger, Charisma Carpenter, Giselle Itié [...]

Natalie Portman loses her mind in ‘The Black Swan’ trailer

Insanity! Ballet!  Creepy masks! Natalie Portman sprouting feathers! Fox Searchlight has released the first trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s The Black Swan, a psychological thriller with Natalie Portman as a talented but possibly unstable ballerina.  Barbara Hershey is her domineering mother, Vincet Cassel her older dance master, and Mila Kunis is the sexy competition. The imagery [...]

Scott Pilgrim VS The World Review

Running time: 112 min. Rating: PG-13 for stylized violence, sexual content, language and drug references. Directed by: Edgar Wright Written by: Michael Bacall and Edgar Wright Starring: Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Brandon Routh, Chris Evans, Jason Schwartzman, Kieran Culkin, Ellen Wong, Allison Pill, Mark Webber, Anna Kendrick PCN Rating: In the hyperactive world of [...]

Mic Macs Review

Running time: 105 min. Raing: R for some sexuality and brief violence. Directed by: Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by: Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Gilluame Laurant Starring: Danny Boon, André Dussollier, Nicolas Marié,  Jean-Pierre Marielle, Yolande Moreau.  PCN rating:   The inner child of French director Jean Pierre-Juenet must be one wild and wacky little brat. Jeunet’s newest, Micmacs [...]