
By Kevin Makokha
This is a comedy centered on three old museum guards who have come up with a plan to steal some of the best pieces of artwork on their museum as they are being transferred to another museum.
The three Roger (Christopher Walken), Charles (Morgan Freeman) and George (William H. Macy) who have been coworkers for the longest time come up with unique strategies to perfectly execute the robbery having met for the first time.
By Kevin Makokha
Thirty of the world’s deadliest assassins are brought together in a credulous town where they are to kill each other for a cash prize of ten million dollars.
The killers have trackers surgically implanted in them so that they can track one another and eliminate their opponents in a time span on twenty four hours or else the trackers will explode and kill the remaining contestants.
DVD Review: Worst Week
Imagine having to spend a whole week getting to know your in-laws and portray a good image, but everything that could go wrong goes utterly and completely wrong...in the worst week of your life.
By Annie Arogo
The first time I watched this show, I did not really understand why a beautiful young woman who had everything going for her would stay with a man who had bad luck as his shadow until I realized that whenever this man tried to please her and make her happy, that was when things went awry.
DVD Review: The War at Home
It is a nightmare raising children in this contemporary era where parents have been ‘there’ and done ‘that’ with the nightmare being that our children will do the same things we have done and maybe invent even more…
By Annie Arogo
DVD Review: Til Death
So what happens the first time when people are married? Ask Jeff (Eddie Kaye Thomas) and Steph Woodcock (Kat Foster), a couple who have been married for only 12 days. Everything is all rosy, colorful and the focus is on the moon that stirs the seeds of romance in couples.
For years Friends dominated our screens, eliciting laughter from us even as we looked forward to the Tuesday nights slotted for it to air again with our ‘Friends’ lives being a subject of great fascination…well, with the class comes another sitcom that is both hilarious without raunchy sex jokes and unsurprisingly so as these two sitcoms have the same creator – David Crane
By Annie Arogo
What happens when you meet your classmates 20 or so years down the line?
DVD Review: Brothers and Sisters
One thing I like about American Soaps is their unpredictability and interesting storylines that break all the rules of love and breakups while focusing on other equally compelling if not more pertinent issues.
By Annie Arogo
Brothers and Sisters is a blend of all that is first-rate.
By Annie Arogo
In the USA where it is was originally aired, the Bernie Mac show has had uncertain ratings, competing with more seasoned comedies until the show finally carved a niche for itself. In Kenya, Bernie Mac’s return is welcome as it has always been an all time favorite in the Kenyan household, a chance to view ‘America’s’ disciplining methods.
Film Review: Tsotsi
Screened at: Goethe-Institut
Length: 90 minutes
Producer:Peter Fudakowski
Directed: Gavin Hood
Film Review: Tsotsi
Nothing prepares the audience for a scene where a young beautiful African woman sits breastfeeding an infant at gun point. The scene while proudly beautiful and exotic has a tinge of sadness and danger to it.
TV review: Everybody Hates Chris
“Story of my life” is one of those phrases that we often use to express our frustrations when things are not going our way in all aspects of our lives. ‘Everybody hates Chris’ takes us on a hilarious and touching journey where everything that can go wrong actually does.
By Annie Arogo
This thirty minute sitcom is inspired by Emmy Award winner, comedian Chris Rock’s teenage experiences while growing up in Brooklyn, USA in the early 1980s.