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‘Bullhead’ Review: A noir thriller with some real meat

February 18 Featured, Film, Films no comments

[rating:4/5] Jacky is a quiet and solitary guy, but he’s not exactly a likable one; working as a low-level thug for the Belgian hormone mafia, he spends his days intimidating cattle farmers into using steroid inje...

Movie Review: Ghost Rider sucks with a ‘Vengeance’

February 17 Featured, Film, Films 5 comments

[rating:1/5] The curse of Nicolas Cage continues in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, a movie so uninspired and disjointed that it makes its crummy predecessor look like The Dark Knight in comparison. Although the...

PCN’s Top 10 Romantic Horror Films

February 13 Featured, Lists 2 comments

Valentine’s Day. It can be a nightmare. Maybe you have that someone special and the holiday ratrace is driving you mad. Maybe your flying solo and the endless parade of candy hearts and goopy sentimental slop have you ho...

‘Journey 2’ Review: Island built on a Rock

February 10 Featured, Films, Uncategorized no comments

One of my most cherished childhood birthday presents was a collector’s edition of Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth, complete with handsome ink illustrations. It was given to me by intrepid relatives who g...

See first ten minutes of new ‘Berserk’ series online

February 9 Film, news no comments

Studio 4C have released their animated film Berserk Golden Age Arc I: Egg of the Supreme Ruler (Berserk Ougon Jidaihen I: Hao no Tamago) in Japanese theaters this weekend and are promoting it by way of putting the openin...

‘Putty Hill’ Review

March 4 Films no comments

Matthew Porterfield's elegaic and insightful look into one of Baltimore's working class neighborhoods in the wake of the death of one of it's younger members. A stirring and potent drama.

This Is It! A fitting eulogy for the once and future King of Pop

June 26 Film 1 comment

One year after his death, PCN looks back at 'This Is It!', the last performance footage of Michael Jackson the world will ever see

Cinema Retro-1939: Dark Victory Review

May 16 Film 3 comments

DARK VICTORY (Not rated-probably G equivalent) 104 min. Directed by: Edmund Goulding. Written by: Casey Robinson from the play by George Emerson Brewer Jr. Starring: Bette Davis, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Humph...

Vision Quest: Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus Review

May 16 Film no comments

The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (PG-13) Directed by: Terry Gilliam. Written by: Terry Gilliam & Charles McKeown Starring: Christopher Plummer, Lily Cole, Heath Ledger, Tom Waits, Verne Troyer, Jude Law, Johnny Depp,...

Sauna Review

September 5 Films no comments

PCN Rating: A.J. Anila’s Sauna is an odd and challenging film. The Finnish horror feature is the second for its director and like his first, Jade Warrior, it’s a melding of genres; supernatural horror, hist...