Tag Archives: science fiction

‘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...

Willis and Levitt face-off in clip from Rian Johnson’s ‘Lo...

September 3 Featured, Film no comments

As I was sitting here compiling the Fall Movie Preview for PCN, my mind kept going back to Looper. It’s a science-fiction action thriller from the director of Brick and The Brothers Bloom. It has an interesting conceit i...

See the truth behind the lies in ‘Branded’ trailer

August 22 Trailers 11 comments

Jamie Bradshaw and Alexander Doulerain‘ Branded seemingly arrived out of the blue, heralded with a trailer at last month’s Comic Con and suddenly hitting the radar of sci-fi nerds everywhere. And why not, it&...

Alphas 2.1: ‘Wake-Up Call’ Review

July 24 Featured, Reviews 4 comments

When SyFy’s Alphas showed up last summer, it went from feeling like one more sedate attempt at superhero drama—joining The Cape and No Ordinary Family in the BestBuy discount bin—to a show with real potential and promise...

Netflix Roulette: Ink (2009)

July 17 Film, 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, ...

Comic Con unveils trailer for Fringe’s fifth and final season!

July 15 Featured, news no comments

The fifth and final season of Fox’s ”Fringe” will start airing on Friday, September 28. Based on the trailer that aired at Comic Con, that can’t come soon enough.

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...

The Birthday Series: Iron Sky (2012)

May 30 Featured, Films, 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 ...

‘The Sound of My Voice’ Review: Martha Marty McFly Marlene...

May 29 Featured, Films, Reviews, Uncategorized 1 comment

Brit Marling stars and co-writes another sci-fi head-turner with The Sound of My Voice, an exploration of cult leaders and their ability to ensnare followers.

Disney releases new cut of ‘John Carter’ for churches

April 1 news 2 comments

Here’s an interesting turn of events for Walt Dinsey’s much maligned box office bomb ‘John Carter’. Looks like the pulp character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs has finally found religion…s...

Trailer for indie sci-fi thriller ‘Sound of My Voice’

March 19 Featured, news no comments

Low budget science fiction films are my bread and butter, and Sound of My Voice looks right up my alley. Zal Batmanglij’s debut thriller features secretive cults, possible time travel, and the lovely Brit Marling a...

‘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...

12 Minutes of sci-fi thriller ‘The Sound of My Voice’ onli...

February 28 Film, news, Uncategorized 1 comment

Until recently, The Sound of My Voice wasn’t even on my radar. Debuting at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, the indie thriller was one of two films co-written by and starring Brit Marling. As some of you might know...

More ‘John Carter’ trailers and a four minute preview

February 28 Film 4 comments

There’s an interesting vibe surrounding Disney’s ‘John Carter’ right now. From the sci-fi geek side of things, I’m constantly running into people who are interested in it. From film fans dow...

‘Melancholia’ Review: Depression is a rogue planet

November 17 Featured, Films no comments

  Welcome to Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, where the end of the world never looked so pretentious. Von Trier, that Dane of the Dismal, delivers another art house exercise in glossy banality that’s much less pr...