PCN RATING: Crazy, Stupid, Love is the romantic comedy I’ve been waiting all summer for. Not necessarily that I’ve been anticipating this specific movie, but what the final result represents; a gentle, clever comedy about people we like, sympathize with, and root for. There’s no excessive hostility aimed at the characters or the instituiton of marriage, [...]
PCN RATING: Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens is a decidedly old-fashioned movie. Although the title drums up comic-book imagery and the special effects are the state of the current art, everything else about the film suggests it could have been made some 40 years ago, perhaps starring Steve McQueen in the Daniel Craig role and [...]
PCN RATING: When you go to a movie called King of Devil’s Island at the Fantasia Film Festival, you walk in expecting either supernatural warriors or maybe a giant monkey or dinosaur. But Marius Holst’s new Norwegian drama is a good reminder that the festival is just as successful at programming solid storytelling as it [...]
Ahh, the return of ‘The Howling’ series. It was only a matter of time. This trailer looks like what one would expect to see after the success of the ‘Twilight’ franchise. More ‘Scream’ than ‘The Howling’, this entry has the gall to trash the Meyer’s series at the same time it’s slavishly referencing it in [...]
So, if you aren’t familiar with the source material, would you know this shortened title is actually referencing John Carter…of Mars? Right now looks sort of like John Cater of Utah. Still, this is directed by Andrew Stanton and mounted by the Pixar folks, and I’m mostly liking the design and the Peter Gabriel Cash [...]
Although it’s initially startling (or is it disheartening?) to see Martin Scorsese’s name plastered on a 3D holiday flick aimed at kids, there’s a good chance ‘Hugo’ will be worth seeing. Although the trailer itself is a pretty standard cut-and-paste job, it hides the secrets and wonder that went into Brian Selznick’s Caldecott winning book [...]
One of the most beloved children’s books characters of all time returns with ‘Winnie the Pooh’…in glorious 2D!
Steven Soderbergh, who recently announced his retirement, has a new film on the horizon, and according to this trailer, it just might be a doozy. Working with the ideas of viral contamination, government quarantine, and societal disintegration, the director looks to have crafted a multi-faceted view of a modern plague. Think Traffic, but trade up [...]
For a brief moment yesterday, it seemed like the unthinkable would happen. Might we get an Evil Dead 4, some 18 years after the last film? Bruce Campbell was confirming a new Evil Dead on via his twitter account. And then, Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures issued a press release revealing what was happening. The [...]
The final installment of one of the longest running fantasy series finally arrives. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 isn’t just a worthy send-off, it’s a triumphant adventure in its own right.
If you are a genre fan, and if you are here at PCN you probably are, there is no bigger or better cinema event than Canada’s FanTasia Film Festival. Since 1996( halting only once in 2002 when the fest was canceled), over 70,000 festival attendees travel every summer to FanTasia to take in the latest and [...]
PCN Rating: Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face is a true original, built from the familiar. With its French art-house sensibilities and Universal horror movie tropes all jammed together into a crusty old shell of pulp contrivance, the movie is a monster mash gone wild. Rejected by the snobby French critics of the time and [...]
Warner Bros. Pictures has released two new posters for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows on the Yahoo! Movies site. Hitting theaters this winter on December 16th, with Guy Ritchie directing, the sequel to the 2009 adaptation stars Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris, Eddie Marsan, Stephen Fry and Gilles Lellouche. Although I’m a bigger fan of the current [...]
With Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows wrapping up that franchise this week, it’s nice to be reminded that there’s more epic fantasy following it shortly next year. Peter Jackson, whose first installment of the Rings trilogy followed the first Potter movie by a month, has just released his second video diary for The Hobbit. [...]
John Sayles is an American original. Whether it’s a tale of a downed space alien hiding out as a human, a disenchanted small-town sheriff solving a mystery, or an estranged family lost in the wilderness, Sayles brings a distinct and realistic touch to all his work. Starting out with Roger Corman cheapies, Sayles eventually became a distinguished writer and [...]
