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Captive State (2019) [a film review by Frank Ochieng].

If one is going to call its edgy alien invasion SF flick as compelling and intriguing as ‘Captive State’ , then

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The Disappointments Room (film review by Frank Ochieng).

So here we go again…another derivative suburban haunted house horror showcase featuring a harried heroine’s beleaguered state of mind from

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When The Bough Breaks (film review by Frank Ochieng).

The woefully generic ‘When The Bough Breaks’ has the gloss factor going for it to a certain extent. Truthfully, its presentable package

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Transcendence (film review by Frank Ochieng).

Cinematographer-turned-director Wally Pfister (a close film-making collaborator with movie mastermind Christopher Nolan) decides to take on the realm of technology

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Pompeii (2014) (film review by Frank Ochieng).

Filmmaker Paul W. S. Anderson’s misguided molten-driven melodrama Pompeii is not as explosive in conception as one would imagine based upon its

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Winter’s Tale (2013) (film review by Frank Ochieng).

Naturally, love is all around now that the seasonal Valentine’s Day spirit is floating in the air. Of course, this

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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (a film review by Frank Ochieng).

The late Tom Clancy’s literary works chronicling the dynamic adventures of his beloved spy-hero Jack Ryan certainly has been decent

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All Is Lost (film review by Frank Ochieng).

Survivalist tales at the movies are kind of tricky to execute because you are basically asking the audience to invest

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12 Years A Slave (film review by Frank Ochieng).

On those rare, bold and special occasions cinema has a definitive way of capturing the historical hideousness of human despair

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Gravity (film review) by Frank Ochieng.

If anything else, the movie-going experience should pander to our visual expectations in the omnipresent genre of Science Fiction. The

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