NewsScifi
Turbo Kid (film review by Frank Ochieng).
Now who would think that the kiddie-inspired, Science Fiction post-apocalyptic ‘Turbo Kid’ could motivate one’s appetite for nostalgic cheese-ridden action yarns? Well, the directing/writing…
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May 2014
NewsComics
X-Men: Days Of Future Past (film review by Frank Ochieng).
Summertime cinema is in the air and the extravagant strides of escapism are in full force. Time travel. Mutants. Killer robots. Superheroes. Days…
February 2014
NewsScifi
RoboCop (film review by Frank Ochieng).
The late 1980s was an ideal time for Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven’s original sci-fi techno-crime thriller ‘Robocop’ to make its presence known in the cynical…
NewsHorror
Vampire Academy (film review by Frank Ochieng).
The giddy vampire vixens showcased in director Mark Waters’s horror fantasy ‘Vampire Academy’ do not seem to have any considerable choppers while sinking their fangs…
January 2014
NewsHorror
I, Frankenstein (film review by Frank Ochieng).
Sure, horror movies are supposed to be hideous by nature…you know…grotesque, macabre, twisted, unhinged and off-the-wall. However, co-writer/director Stuart Beattie’s disjointed disaster ‘I, Frankenstein’ gives…
NewsFantasy
The Legend Of Hercules (film review by Frank Ochieng).
Greek mythology’s famous strongman ironically fails to bust out of director Renny Harlin’s weak-kneed and corroded costume drama ‘The Legend Of Hercules’, a…
December 2013
NewsFantasy
47 Ronin (film review by Frank Ochieng).
Okay folks…here is the riddle of the moment: what do you get when an expressionless Keanu Reeves moping around in a tedious and…
November 2012
ReviewBooks
Agent To The Stars by John Scalzi (book review)
I first came across John Scalzi when I read ‘Old Man’s War’. This book made a big impression on me and is one…
October 2012
NewsScifi
Frankenweenie film review (Frank’s Take).
Luscious and skillfully presented, filmmaker Tim Burton’s ‘Frankenweenie’ is a highly exquisite black-and-white stop motion animated 3D creepy caper that radiates in wicked-minded…
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
NewsScifi
Looper film review (Frank’s Take).
Mind-bending time travel movies routinely have a robust and surrealistic edginess that caters to the absolute essence of science fiction fanatics. Still, that…
NewsScifi
Animal Magnetism.
Okay TV watchers…your fellow human beings are not the only ones that can bring some drama and comedy to a science fiction/fantasy television…