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Summer Flashback: The Gate (1987)

Summer Flashback: The Gate (1987)

The Gate  Release date: May 15th 1987 Rating: If there’s anything that one remembers about 1987’s The Gate, it’s that it beat mega-dud Ishtar at the box office twenty-four years ago. Well, that and it had one of the creepiest video covers ever to adorn a PG-13 flick. Any kid that ever walked into a [...]

First image from Ang Lee’s ‘Life of Pi’ shows Richard Parker

First image from Ang Lee’s ‘Life of Pi’ shows Richard Parker

I remember reading Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi several years ago in the summer of 2003, as part of a summer bookclub thing with a few fellow college friends. It seemed like a safe bet; popular, vague aspirations of being literary, and suitably weird.  In reality, it’s something a fable, with a young boy—Piscine Molitor [...]

‘The Lucky One’ Review: Luck has nothing to do with it

‘The Lucky One’ Review: Luck has nothing to do with it

Rating: The world of Nicholas Sparks is not one of my preferred cinematic vacation spots. I’ll admit this up front, and concede that the author has absolutely perfected this white-washed but utterly contrived universe as a safe haven for his hungry fans. If you are wary of clichés and emotional manipulation that suck away at [...]

‘Lockout’ Review: Escape from Outer Space

‘Lockout’ Review: Escape from Outer Space

Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace fight their way through a smorgasboard of bad dudes aboard a futiuristic space prison in Lockout.

Monster Mash #2: Gargoyles (1972)

Monster Mash #2: Gargoyles (1972)

A cult favorite from the golden days of TV movies, Gargoyles pits Cornell Wilde against demonic beasties in Arizona

‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ gets fairest trailer yet!

‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ gets fairest trailer yet!

Although Tarsem Singh’s take on Snow White–the sillier Mirror, Mirror–releases next weekend, it’s this darker more fantastical version that looks like it was directed by him. Instead, this one, Snow White and the Huntsman, is helmed by newcomer Rupert Sanders.

Michael Bay wants Teenage Mutant Ninja ALIEN! Turtles?

Michael Bay wants Teenage Mutant Ninja ALIEN! Turtles?

“When you see this movie, kids will believe one day that these turtles do exist, when we’re done with this movie. These turtles are from an alien race, and they’re going to be tough, edgy, funny and completely lovable.”–Michael Bay on the planned demolishment of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles So you are telling me that [...]

‘Project X’ Review: Animal House Party

‘Project X’ Review: Animal House Party

  Rating: Project X is like any infamous, out-of-control, teen party; it sounds a lot more interesting in anecdotes than it actually was. Produced by Todd Philips, still trying to be John Hughes of the You Tube generation, Project X gets just the right crazed energy for the party itself but lacks strong characters and [...]

‘Act of Valor’ Review: Call of Duty

‘Act of Valor’ Review: Call of Duty

Rating: Reviewing a movie like Act of Valor is like walking a tightrope. A film about the behind-the-scenes heroism of the Navy SEALs starring  active-duty SEALs engaging in fictional but realistic campaigns is going to be something of a sacred cow.

‘This Means War’ Review: Nothing fair about it

‘This Means War’ Review: Nothing fair about it

  Rating: I personally don’t care how many millions of dollars ‘This Means War’ brings in at the box office; it’s hands down the worst movie of the year so far. Supposedly a romantic comedy about two spies who end up fighting over the same woman, there’s nothing romantic or funny about it. I guess [...]

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

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

  Rating: 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 injections on their livestock. In his down time, he’s injecting testosterone cocktails of his own into his burly body, [...]

PCN’s Top 10 Romantic Horror Films

PCN’s Top 10 Romantic Horror Films

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 howling at the moon and wanting to disembowel Cupid.

‘Journey 2’ Review: Island built on a Rock

‘Journey 2’ Review: Island built on a Rock

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 gambled on an 19th century adventure novel being of interest to a kid of the video game era, and [...]

See first ten minutes of new ‘Berserk’ series online

See first ten minutes of new ‘Berserk’ series online

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 opening ten minutes online.

‘Contagion’ Review: Soderbergh makes paranoia infectious

‘Contagion’ Review: Soderbergh makes paranoia infectious

The most foreboding image in Steven Soderbergh’s new outbreak thriller Contagion is an uncovered bowl of bar peanuts. I mean that as a compliment. At the heart of this star infested, globally minded, medical thriller, there’s a maniacal—even healthy if you will—sense of paranoia and anxiety surrounding our habits and social structures. Soderbergh takes a [...]