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‘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...

PCN Great Movies: Eyes Without A Face (1960)

July 10 Films 2 comments

 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 o...

Cool new poster for this summer’s ‘Conan the BarbarianR...

July 10 news 1 comment

Experience 'An age undreamed of' in the latest poster forMarcus Nispel's Conan the Barbarian.

‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ Review: Car Wars, A New H...

June 29 Featured, Films 3 comments

  PCN RATING: Transformers: Dark of the Moon may be the ultimate Michael Bay movie. Featuring skull-rattling action sequences, state-of-the-art special effects, over-heated set pieces and a severe lack of anything preten...

Is Emma Stone ready for more ‘Zombies’?

June 23 Film, news, Uncategorized no comments

  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 he...

‘Tree of Life’ Review: Texas and beyond the infinite

June 12 Featured, Films 6 comments

Terrence Malick's Tree of Life is his magnum opus; a work of significant beauty, that expands the notion of what movies can be, what they may reveal, and how they can inspire us to feel.

Second trailer for Fox’s ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes&#...

June 5 Featured, news no comments

Second 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' trailer puts spotlight on Weta's special effects and the angry, riled-up simian stars.

Take a peek at Shah Rukh’s Indian sci-fi film ‘Ra. OneR...

June 4 news no comments

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 Spider...

‘X-Men: First Class’ Review: Vaughn and team go for extra ...

June 2 Featured, Films no comments

PCN RATING:  My big problem with the first three Marvel X-Men movies—indeed, with most comic book films in general—really comes down to the costumes. No, I’m not talking about fidelity to whatever threads the characters ...

‘The Hangover II’ Review: In over their heads again

May 26 Featured, Films 2 comments

The Hangover II might just be more of the same, but when everything is this crazy and outrageous, that's not exactly a bad thing.

MFF 2011 Review: ‘The Beast Pageant’

May 6 Featured, Films 1 comment

Filled with crazy creatures and wacky visions, The Beast Pageant is an surrealist's dreamland. This might be the first would-be Eraserhead to out-Lynch the Lynch.

Supernatural 6.19: ‘Mommy Dearest’ Review

April 30 Featured, Television 2 comments

Wow! All worries of how Supernatural was going to address their big season plot threads is answered. The writers, more or less, have pulled the pieces together in a single ep. And meet the newest, baddest monster around:...

TFF 2011′Saint’ Review: Fright Before Christmas

April 28 Featured, Film, Films 1 comment

Who has been naughty and who has been nice? Sure it's late spring, but that's not gonna stop the Sinterklaas, Netherland's Kris Kringle by way of Freddy Krueger.

Does Zack Snyder’s ‘Superman: Man of Steel’ have its...

April 27 news no comments

The casting game on Zack Snyder’s Superman: The Man of Steel continues. German actress Antje Traue is currently in the lead for the role of a super-powered Kryptonian villainess. Traue, sharing screentime with Denn...

The Dark Corner: Quicksand (1950)/Drive a Crooked Road (1956)

April 25 Featured, Films no comments

Mickey Rooney starred in two criminally overlooked and under-appreciated noirs:Quicksand and Drive a Crooked Road. Few people even know they exist, let alone have seen them, but that is something I hope to rectify here t...