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Frank Ochieng is a strong believer that films--much like music--are the universal language of communication and creativity. Frank is a member of the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and Internet Film Critics Society (IFCS). A graduate of Suffolk University in Boston, MA (USA), Frank has occasionally appeared as a media commentator/guest on WBZ Radio 1030 AM in Boston, MA. Previously, Frank was the Arts & Entertainment film critic for The Bay State Banner (Boston, MA). Frank has contributed to other online movie sites such as The Critical Movie Critics and SF Crowsnest. Frank's motto: "One can only review a single film at a time so just go with the flow".

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Burden (2020) Film Review

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Hollywood has had its fair share of tackling the societal pariah known as racism in potent melodramatic narratives meant to reinforce the passion and poison behind such inhumane atrocities. Although some of these "based-on-a-true-story"…
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Swallow (2020) Film Review

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There is no doubt that feminist angst-ridden themes of psychological complexities resonate when striking the truthful foundation of a troubled woman wounded soulfully through her haunting spirit. Writer-director Carlo Mirabella Davis'…
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Seberg (2020) Film Review

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One can never get tired out of the sordid expose' of Hollywood trappings rich with scandalous accounts of freaky sex, over-indulgent drug abuse and alcoholism, the casting couch practices, diversity misrepresentation, seedy payoffs...the…
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Buffaloed (2020) Film Review

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It is one thing to be bamboozled and feel kind of ridiculed about the whole affair. However, to be Buffaloed...well that is another kettle of fish worth frying in the pan. Director Tanya Wexler's bubbly blue-collar comedy Buffaloed is a…
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Fantasy Island (2020) Film Review

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What is the sudden preoccupation with reviving nostalgic prime time shows from the American ABC-TV network line-up from the 1970's and 1980s? One guesses that revisiting Charlie's Angels for the umpteenth time was not good enough. Now the…
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Downhill (2020) Film Review

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The dwindling dramedy Downhill is indeed a figurative slippery slope for the comedic powerhouse pair of Julia Louis Dreyfus and Will Ferrell. As a surfacing frustrated married couple whose shaky marital relationship is tested on a skiing…