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 Fantastic Four (Frank's Take)
01/08/2005. In director Tim Story’s (Barbershop, Taxi) banally bloated sci-fi fantasy Fantastic Four, the storytelling is so anemically conceived that this soulless superhero saga has all the thrilling vibes of an elevator ride at your local shopping mall, says Frank.
Farscape 3.5 and 3.6
01/09/2002. Farscape Double DVD Box Set 3.3 - DVDs 3.5 and 3.6
Kult-TV: KLT81913. 183 minutes. Price: £19.99 (UK)
Stars: Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Anthony Simco, Wayne Pygram, Gigi Edgley, Paul Goddard & Lani Tupi.
Farscape Season 1 Limited Edition
01/11/2004. DVD: Hallmark KLT8910E. Price: £99.99 (UK) although it is possible to get it from half to two-thirds cheaper, so shop around for the best deal. stars: Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Anthony Simcoe, Virginia Hey and Gigi Edgley.
 Farscape: The Complete Season 2 Limited Edition
01/05/2005. DVD: Hallmark KLT89102. Price: £99.99 (UK) although it is possible to get it from half to two-thirds cheaper, so shop around for the best deal) stars: Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Anthony Simcoe, Virginia Hey and Gigi Edgley.
 Final Cut: Mark's Take
01/05/2005. Final Cut is intelligent and literate as very few science fiction films are, says Mark. Five percent of the population have chips implanted in their bodies that record and play back everything that they see and hear. Robin Williams plays a "cutter." A cutter copies the life movies of the recently departed and edits them down to one or two hour home movies.
 Final Destination 3: Frank's Take
01/03/2006. The reliable formula for pitting carefree teens with terrorizing forces has been an instrumental plot device in the horror genre for what seems to be an eternity in cinema, says Frank. For some inexplicable reasoning, there's a perverse pleasure in watching clueless adolescents meet their Maker in slaughterhouse fashion. Is this some hidden grim wishful thinking that slyly comments on the welcomed eradication of expendable vapid youths?
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
01/09/2001. The Final Fantasy movie makes it to the big screen.
Finding Nemo (Frank's Take)
01/07/2003. In the movie Finding Nemo, our Frank finds a vibrant stroke of color and candidness in a simple little story based in Australia's Great Barrier Reef regarding the emotional connection between a worried father and his free-spirited son ... who both happen to be clownfish.
 Fireball XL5 DVD boxset
01/07/2005. DVD: Carlton 37115 04233. 39 black and white episodes on 5 DVDs. 16.25 hours. Price: £26.95 but prices vary so check around for the best deal.
Firefly - The Complete Series
01/09/2004. DVD: Twentieth Century Fox. 25498DVD. Price: £34.99 (UK) - shop around for the best deal.
 Flatland The Film: Mark's take
01/04/2007. Edwin Abbott's 1884 fantasy is adapted to the screen. Like the book the film seems deceptively simple. In Flatland the inhabitants are figures from plane geometry who do not believe there ever could be a third dimension. Abbott's political satire is updated for the screen, but the story loses none of its charm or its bite. This is a unique animated film that takes on race, gender, class, and political corruption while entertaining and perhaps even teaching a little mathematics.
 Forbidden Planet: 50th Anniversary Two-Disc Special Edition
01/09/2007. Region 2 DVD. pub: MGM/Warner Bros Z1 66912. 2 DVDs 2 x 94 minute films with loads of extras. Price: £ 9.98 (UK) if you know where to look) stars: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielson and introducing Robby, the Robot.
 Fred Claus (Frank's take)
01/12/2007. In Bad Santa, Billy Bob Thornton's obnoxious antics were cleverly utilised as an undercurrent cynicism for the holiday hoopla designed to plant a plastic smile on the consumerism craze that is the festive Christmas season. Now, says Frank, the anaemically kooky coal-in-the-stocking comedy Fred Claus feebly employs the same tactics ... but with less than mediocre results.
Freddy vs. Jason
01/10/2003. In an interesting yet sordid way, the invention of wanting to put together a couple of the big screen's most prolific slayers and have them duke it out for warped fun definitely had its advantages. After all, who wouldn't want to see the morbid mayhem between Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger and Friday the 13's Jason Voorhees?
 From Other Worlds
01/02/2007. This light, amiable science fiction film has a woman encounter two kinds of aliens, finds Mark: one from the Ivory Coast and one really from out there. A Brooklyn housewife and mother is sort of permanently zoned out until she is focused by being abducted by aliens, having a romantic fling, and going on a quick mission to save the Milky Way Galaxy.
 Fu Manchu Double Bill DVD: Castle Of Fu Manchu And Blood Of Fu Manchu
01/05/2007. region 2 DVD. Optimum Home Entertainment OPTD0814 180 minutes 2 films 90 minutes each. Price: £12.99 (UK). stars Christopher Lee.
 Full Metal Alchemist 9: Pain And Lust. Episodes 33-36
01/06/2007. region2 DVD: pub: Revelation Films. FUN72211. 1 DVD 95 minutes 4 episodes plus extras. Price: £15.99 (UK).
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