‘The Sound of My Voice’ Review: Martha Marty McFly Marlene...
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.
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Blu-Ray Review: Liam Neeson takes on ‘The Grey’
Film [rating:4/5] All through Joe Carnahan’s survival thriller The Grey I was unable to warm myself up. I kept staring at that merciless and cold Alaskan wilderness, thinking of Jack London and reconsidering my ex...
‘The Raven’ Review: Eat my shorts!
[RATING:2/5] He was the father of the modern detective fiction and a morbid pioneer in the fields of horror and science fiction. Edgar Allan Poe may have left his distinct and immortal mark upon literature and culture, b...
‘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.
‘On the Ice’ Review: Life and Death in Barrow, Alaska
[rating:3/5] An insular community entwined with its environment is the most ominous suspect in Andrew Okpeah MacLean’s On the Ice, a murder mystery of sorts set amongst the Iñupiaq people of Barrow, Alaska. Based...
Top Ten Horror Films of 2011
Like many other genres, when horror movies are bad, they can be very bad. However, when they are good they can sometimes be great. The horror films of 2011 seemed to fall mostly along this divide; there was either main...
‘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, th...
Monster Mash #1: ‘Q: The Winged Serpent’
Running time: 94 min. Rating: R for language, violence and brief nudity Directed by: Larry Cohen Written by: Larry Cohen Stars: David Carradine, Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark PCN Rating: As everyone already knows, 1982 w...
‘I Saw The Devil’ Review
Disturbing, sad and mean-spirited, J-Woon's I Saw The Devil is a superbly made thriller that falls flat due to sheer excess.
‘Unknown’ Movie Review
PCN RATING: Dr. Martin Harris has big problems. He’s not exactly sure who he is. An American in Berlin for a biotechnology conference, Martin finds himself headed back to the airport for a missing piece of luggage ...
Dreamworks listens to Conan Doyle and Houdini in’Voices from the...
Ready for a mystery thriller with Holmes author Arthur Conan Doyle teaming up with magician Harry Houdini to solve a serial murder? Changeling scribe and Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski has just sold his scr...
PCN’s 10 Thrillers for A Long Winter
It’s shaping up to be another cold, cold winter. Snow has beenfalling here in Baltimore since late December andwhite flakes have been raining down indiscriminately from the heavens all around us. Although we have y...
Buried Review
Running time: 94 minutes. Rating: R for language and some violent content. Directed by: Rodrigo Cortés Written by: Chris Sparling Starring: Ryan Reynolds PCN Rating: Sometimes, one finds inspiration in the least likely o...
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Review
Running time: 122 min. Rating: PG-13 for brief strong language and thematic elements. Directed by: Oliver Stone. Written by: Allan Loeb & Stephen Schiff Starring: Michael Douglas, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Brolin, Carey Mul...
Devil Review (2010)
The first of the proposed Night Chronicles, Devil functions like a super-sized installment of the Twilight Zone, hitting the same twitchy nerves of spiritual hysteria and moral choice that the classic series was known fo...