September 2nd AMAD–Sci-Fi: Love (2011)
AMAD continues with William Eubank’s Love, a thought-provoking space adventure that asks big questions about the universe and human existence. Maybe love, maybe hate. It all depends on the viewer and...
View ArticleSeptember 3rd AMAD–Sci-Fi: Frequently Asked Questions about Time Travel
Gareth Carrivick’s FAQ About Time Travel has a terrific opening scene: An armada of spaceships is closing in on a big blue planet. Inside one of the ships, a British star-trooper is informing his crew...
View Article‘The Last Stand’ Review
PCN Rating: You can’t keep a good action star down. In fact, scratch good, we’ll settle for just burly, a fact which helped pave the way for not one but two Expendables movies, and Arnold...
View Article‘Warm Bodies’ Review
PCN Rating: Zombie movies could take a lesson from Jonathan Levine’s ‘Warm Bodies’ and its rejuvinated undead hero, R; a little heart goes much further than a ton of guts. Levine, who started his...
View Article‘Tabu’ Review
PCN Rating: The opening of Miguel Gnomes elaborately conceived and hypnotically mounted Tabu, sets the stage for what we are about to experience; a potpourri of metaphorical and cinematic techniques...
View Article‘Emperor’ Review
PCN Rating: Peter Webber’s Emperor is the 1940′s war film that era never made, taking place after WWII and focused not on the military angle, but on the investigation of Japan’s Emperor Hirohito for...
View Article‘The Croods’ Review
PCN Rating: Lets face it, finding laughs in the Stone Age really went out with the likes of Quest for Fire and Ringo Starr’s Caveman!, none of them mining the bedrock as well as the original...
View Article‘The Host’ Review (2013)
In the future according to The Host, humanity will have its identity and free will overthrown by powerful alien invaders. Featuring effective but wasted helming by director Andrew Niccol and a...
View Article‘Evil Dead’ Review
The flesh is indeed weak, but no one involved in Fede Alvarez’s Evil Dead has a problem with ripping and shredding it in the name of entertainment. The goo and the guts fly more freely than the ideas...
View Article‘The Place Beyond the Pines’ Review (2013)
The opening of The Place Beyond the Pines asserts itself as the work of a director striving to be noticed. The audience is introduced to a peroxided Ryan Gosling as he makes his way across a...
View Article‘Oblivion’ Review (2013)
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...
View Article‘Iron Man 3′ Review
PCN Rating: ‘Nothing’s been the same since New York.’ That’s Tony Stark on the events that closed out last summer’s The Avengers, but he might as well be expressing the exasperation of everyone and...
View Article‘The Great Gatsby’ Review
PCN Rating: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” If you are Baz Luhrman’s The Great Gatsby, those striving vessels are then tossed to and fro in a...
View Article‘Fast and Furious 6′ Review
PCN Rating: If a tank crushes down the wrong side of a crowded highway and no one sees it, does it leave a mark? Given the ridiculous box-office of Justin Lin’s last Fast and Furious movie, and the...
View Article‘The Purge’ Review
PCN RATING: America 2022; the crime rate is at a record low, unemployment a shocking 1%, and the economy has rebounded with a vengeance. The trade-off for all of that prosperity—the dark secret of...
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