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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

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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

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Happy Death Day 2U [2019] (a film review by Frank Ochieng).

Due to the unexpected success of the original 2017’sย ‘Happy Death Day’ย outing the cheekily fun and frolicking fright farce was tasty

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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

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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 theย ‘Divergent’ย series as ‘the poor

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Inherent Vice trailer (that's not nice).
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Inherent Vice trailer (that’s not nice).

Inherent Vice,โ€ is the seventh feature from Paul Thomas Anderson and the first film adaption of a Thomas Pynchon novel.

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The Numbers Station (Frank’s Take) (film review).

The figures simply do not add up in director Kasper Barfoedโ€™s sleepy-eyed spy thriller T’he Numbers Station’. Uneventful and sluggish,

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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’.

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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

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