ReviewFilms
Welcome To The Punch (Frank’s Take) (film review).
Writer-director Eran Creevy (‘Shifty’) delivers an edgy yet disjointed British crime drama in the convoluted ‘Welcome To The Punch’. Although sporting an inspired…
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March 2013
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation (Frank’s Take) (film review).
Okay…so one realises that the acquired taste for the turgid testosterone-driven ‘G.I. Joe: Retaliation’ is not quite sophisticated for the cash crowd on…
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Jack the Giant Slayer (film review) (Frank’s Take).
Fee…Fi…Foe…Fum…I detect an unfavorable critique from the blood of a disenchanted American movie critic! What do you know…some giants are rather perceptive after…
December 2012
NewsFilms
The Impossible film review (Frank’s Take).
The genre of the disaster film has always maintained a sense of destructive visual surrealism, penetrating action sequences, roguish intrigue and the occasional…
November 2012
NewsFilms
Red Dawn film review (Frank’s take).
This is just what the cinema world was really clamoring for at this moment…a pointless and protrusive generic action war movie update based…
ReviewFilms
Skyfall – Frank’s take (film review).
As the cinema world celebrates the 50th anniversary of the badass British superspy known internationally as Agent 007, craggily-faced Daniel Craig achieves a…
October 2012
ReviewFilms
Alex Cross – Frank’s take (film review)
The good news is that Tyler Perry has temporarily exchanged his trademark frumpy ‘Madea’ gowns for masculine guns in his latest trite conventional…
NewsFilms
Taken 2, film review (Frank’s Take).
Liam Neeson is out for blood yet again in the sequel ‘Taken 2′, a frenzied follow-up to the original 2008 spy actioner that…
NewsHorror
Solomon Kane film review (Frank’s Take).
Writer-director Michael J. Bassett’s brooding and bloated fantasy adventure ‘Solomon Kane’ is rather ambitious in its fire-and-brimstone presentation. The bone-crushing and blood-splattering spectacle…
September 2012
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Dredd 3D (Frank’s take).
The forgettable 1995 film ‘Judge Dredd’ (or as a majority of film critics and fans deemed it Judge Dread-ful) starring Sylvester Stallone was…
NewsHorror
Resident Evil: Retribution (Frank’s Take).
The predictable ritual of enduring the Resident Evil film franchise is a critical cross that most film critics have to bear. Think of…
NewsFilms
The Cold Light of Day (Frank’s Take).
The toothless spy thriller The Cold Light of Day has a snappy movie title which sounds like it belongs attached to a James…