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‘Oblivion’ Review (2013)

April 19 Featured, Film Reviews 1 comment

PCN Rating: Who will save us from our machines? For the past fifteen years or so, this is has been the overarching theme of most modern science fiction. Arguably, the tension between humanity and technology had been pul...

‘Extraterrestrial’ Review: Quién va allí?

June 25 Film, Reviews no comments

There are no alien creatures in Nacho Vigalondo’s Extraterrestrial. It’s better to know that up-front. Still, this isn’t some ironically titled Merchant Ivory film about the alienation of being, but a story about a guy a...

Icarus may have been a better name: The ‘Prometheus’ Review

June 19 Featured, Film, Films, news, Reviews no comments

*Warning: There will be Spoilers here* Now that Prometheus has been out for a few weeks, much has been said about it. Some good, some bad, mostly indifferent. In a way this is a film that was almost as doomed from...

‘John Carter’ Review: A Disney Princess of Mars?

March 8 Film, Films 4 comments

[rating:3.5/5] The opening scenes of Disney’s John Carter will likely trouble any audience members who, thanks to the nondescript title, thought they were getting anything other than a pulpy tale of outer space fa...

Top Ten Horror Films of 2011

January 4 Film, Films, Uncategorized 9 comments

Like many other genres, when horror movies are bad, they can be very bad. However, when they are good they can sometimes be great. The horror films of 2011 seemed to fall mostly along this divide; there was either main...

AMAD Sci-Fi Septemeber: Freaky Faron (2006)

September 7 Film, Films no comments

John Ross’ Freaky Faron is not the movie that the poster or the Netflix synopsis are trying to sell you. This is a subdued and very slight indie feature that feels like a juvenile take on film noir, produced, wr...

Sci-Fi AMAD September: Cargo (2009)

September 1 Film, Films 5 comments

Seeing a movie like Cargo at the start of a 30 day sci-fi binge is very fortunate. The unassuming Swiss thriller by Ivan Engler is a sweet sort of surprise and a reminder of how real science fiction can be concocted on ...

‘Cowboys and Aliens’ review: The sky falls on Arizona

July 29 Featured, Films 6 comments

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 s...

Movie Review: I Am Number Four

February 18 Film, Films 3 comments

PCN RATING: The aliens have arrived among us and they have officially claimed our movie theaters . Leading the next wave of interstellar cinematic invasions is the wispy little teen thriller I Am Number Four. Based off a...

Summer Flashback 1997: Contact

June 20 Film 16 comments

PCN travels beyond the infinite with Carl Sagan and Jodie Foster in the brainiest sci-fi of 1997, 'Contact'

Avatar Review

December 17 Films no comments

Running time: 162 Minutes Rating: PG-13 for intense epic battle sequences and warfare, sensuality, language and some smoking. Written and Directed By: James Cameron Staring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver...