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Ma (2019) [a film review by Frank Ochieng].
Mother Nature has a stormy forecast of hackneyed horror cloudiness on the pseudo-suspenseful radar courtesy of director Tate Taylor’s sketchy macabre maternal thriller…
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June 2019
April 2019
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The Curse Of La Llorona (2019) [a film review by Frank Ochieng]
While the protagonists in director Michael Chaves flimsy frightfest ‘La Llorona’ feel the so-called ominous curse at large, some moviegoers may feel…
February 2019
NewsHorror
Happy Death Day 2U [2019] (a film review by Frank Ochieng).
Due to the unexpected success of the original 2017’s ‘Happy Death Day’ outing the cheekily fun and frolicking fright farce was tasty frosting on the…
January 2019
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Widows (2018) (a film review by Frank Ochieng)
Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen (’12 Years a Slave’) commits a notable heist of his own that has nothing to do with his capable…
March 2016
NewsScifi
The Divergent Series – Allegiant (2016) film review by Frank Ochieng.
The first compulsion is to reach for an unflattering label when dubbing the third installment of the ‘Divergent’ series as ‘the poor man’s Hunger Games’. Sure,…
December 2014
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Inherent Vice trailer (that’s not nice).
Inherent Vice,” is the seventh feature from Paul Thomas Anderson and the first film adaption of a Thomas Pynchon novel. When private eye…
April 2013
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The Numbers Station (Frank’s Take) (film review).
The figures simply do not add up in director Kasper Barfoed’s sleepy-eyed spy thriller T’he Numbers Station’. Uneventful and sluggish, ‘The Numbers Station’…
October 2012
ReviewHorror
Sinister (film review) – Frank’s Take.
Director/co-writer Scott Derrickson (‘The Exorcism Of Emily Rose’) creates a slow burn of macabre-oriented mayhem in the creepy caper ‘Sinister’. Derrickson and fellow…
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V/H/S film review (Frank’s Take).
It is one thing to grasp the copycat concept of capitalising on a clever trend in horror moviemaking and extending the gruesome appeal…