Tag Archives: fantasy

PCN Games: ‘Darksiders 2′ Review–Don’t fear th...

August 30 Featured, Games 1 comment

Written by: Kevin Maczis First off, let me say that my expectations for this game were only moderate. I played through the first title when it was first released back in 2010 and found it enjoyable, but overall it wasn’t...

Final Fantasy VII is back… in all its polygon glory

August 29 Featured, Games, Reviews, Video Game 1 comment

As a debut game review for PCN, I give you one of the best RPG’s of all time! When Square Enix leaked that Final Fantasy VII may be coming out as a Steam download a month ago, I about had to change my pants. This w...

‘ParaNorman’ Review: Seeing the dead, dealing with the liv...

August 17 Featured, Film, Nathan's Reviews, Reviews 1 comment

It may only be mid August, but there’s already a new Halloween classic in town. ParaNorman, the new stop-motion animation from Laika studios (the people behind Coraline), is a welcome late summer surprise and one of the ...

Blu-Ray Review: ‘The Lorax’ lands in your living room

August 7 DVD/Blu-Ray, Featured, Reviews no comments

Despicable Me creator Chris Renaud’s The Lorax was one of the year’s earliest box-office hits. Now, it’s available on home video. Does this colorful take on Dr. Suess’s slender children’s bo...

DVD Review: Detention (2012)

August 1 DVD/Blu-Ray, Featured, Reviews no comments

Written by: James Green I am not even sure where to begin with this one. Detention is either terrible or genius, perhaps even terrible genius. I will have to watch it again to actually decide. The film was directed by Jo...

Christopher Nolan bids a written farewell to Batman

July 25 news no comments

The trilogy has completed, the fullness of Nolan’s take on the Caped Crusader has been revealed, and the Batman has temporarily faded back into the shadows of Gotham. As a keepsake, we all have the best comic book ...

Ang Lee’s ‘Life of Pi’ trailer promises fantastic im...

July 25 Featured, Uncategorized 1 comment

20th Century Fox has been a long time making the cinematic version of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi.  Over the last eight years or so, everyone from M Night Shyamalan to Jean Pierre Jeunet to Tarsem Singh has courted th...

Netflix Roulette: Ink (2009)

July 17 Film, Nathan's Reviews, Reviews 3 comments

God Bless Jamin Winans and his filmmaking team. Their indie effort ‘Ink’, a fantastical mish-mash of children’s bedtime stories, surrealistic imagery and sci-fi action is an honest to goodness sleeper. You won’t see it, ...

We’re not in Kansas anymore! First trailer for Sam Raimi’s...

July 14 Featured, news no comments

As a big fan of Sam Raimi and a lifelong admirer of The Wizard of Oz, arguably my favorite film as a young child, it pains me to say that I don’t see too much of either in Disney’s trailer for Oz, the Great a...

Set pics from George Miller’s ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’

July 8 Film, news 1 comment

Years of talk, speculation and false starts made it seem like a new Mad Max movie would never happen. Finally, here are set pics to prove that it really is going forward, once more directed by George Miller, who helmed t...

Gandalf approaches in ‘The Hobbit”s Comic Con poster

July 8 news 1 comment

San Diego’s Comic Con 2012 is about to go into full-swing this week and all the big ticket franchises are showing up to tout their wares. Of particular excitement this year is the return of Peter Jackson and The Ho...

‘Brave’ Review: Not your typical princess

June 22 Featured, Films, Reviews 3 comments

Reviewed by: Ginny Foran “Princess defies parents’ order to marry a proper suitor and runs away” could be the tagline for Pixar’s Brave. At first glance this Scottish fairy-tale has a less than or...

‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ Review: Fairly frightening t...

June 3 Nathan's Reviews, Reviews 1 comment

[rating: 3/5] Phantom armies. Hulking trolls. A female warrior who communes with forest spirits. These may not be the visions one conjures when hearing the title Snow White and the Huntsman, but then this version of the ...

The Birthday Series: Iron Sky (2012)

May 30 Featured, Films, Nathan's Reviews, Reviews 4 comments

Following in the footsteps of some online comrades that have explored the same foolish experiment, I’ve decided to do a Birthday Series column where I review a movie released on or around my birthday starting with ...

Summer Flashback: The Gate (1987)

May 15 Featured, Nathan's Reviews, Reviews 4 comments

The Gate  Release date: May 15th 1987 [rating:3/5] 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...