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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Well, it’s finally happened. Adam Sandler has followed in the steps of Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams and become a legitimate parody of himself. Truthfully, this trailer needs no introduction. There’s nothing I can say in any way that could be a better commentary than the fact this movie exists. I will only add that [...]
Experience ‘An age undreamed of’ in the latest poster forMarcus Nispel’s Conan the Barbarian.
Lately South Korea has been producing a surprising amount of what could be called summer popcorn flicks. This one, Sector 7, has been making headlines because it’s being marketed as the first big 3D Korean film. Woo-hoo! You’ve taken America’s worst movie-going gimmick and ported over seas! That being said, Sector 7 looks like a good [...]
Remake and sequel hysteria has hit an all-time high these past few years and it isn’t showing any signs of stopping. With Raja Gosnell’s The Smurfs set to destroy more of our collective childhood in a few weeks, and the third installment of Transformers smashing its way into theaters, exploiting children’s television shows from yesteryear is [...]
Ah, Emma Stone. She fought the undead in Zombieland and skewered classic literature in Easy A. Now, it seems, she might be set to do both at the same time. Stone, who has this summer’s The Help coming up, as well as her role as Mary Jane Watson in the next Spiderman, has been [...]
I’m not still completely sure how to take Craig Gillespie’s remake of Fright Night. The original film is probably the definitive horror movie of my childhood; one of those creepy flicks that bridged my love of older films and the newer, edgier variety that I was just discovering at the time. In my opinion, [...]
Ramping up for the Emmy nominations, The Hollywood Reporter has posted this nifty little article that features make-up artist Greg Nicotero walking through the steps he uses to create one of The Walking Dead’s rotting monsters. Nicotero, who also serves as consultimg producer on the AMC horror series, is as varied and prolific as special effects [...]
Second ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ trailer puts spotlight on Weta’s special effects and the angry, riled-up simian stars.
As a fan of cinema in whatever form it happens to take, I’m always interested in seeing another country’s approach to a genre they don’t normally tackle. I had a lot of fun with last year’s Spiderman-esque flying car flick Black Lightning from Russia, and now India looks to throw a big, amped-up version of Iron [...]
Didn’t quite get enough of Marvel’s badass vampire hunter from the Wesley Snipes films or the short-lived tv series? If not, then you might be interested in what Japanese studio Madhouse is doing with the iconic character. Following in the footsteps of Iron Man, the X-Men and Wolverine, everyone’s favorite Daywalker will get the anime [...]