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 V for Vendetta (Frank's take)
01/05/2006. Let's face it ... V could also stand for vivaciously inviting, Frank discovers. First-time director James McTeigue oversees this wondrous, eye-opening piece of pumped-up popcorn entertainment. In the stylish and roguish comic book thriller V for Vendetta, robust imagery and wildly drawn English-laden anarchy go hand-in-hand in this radical escapist spectacle.
 V For Vendetta: Mark's Take
01/04/2006. Tyranny breeds groovy anarchy, finds Mark. A future Britain is ruled by a repressive right-wing totalitarian government. But it is about to be challenged by an anarchist swashbuckling hero in a Guy Fawkes mask. Alan Moore's graphic novel is adapted to the screen in a brash adventure. This film is a funhouse of political ideas, some of them intentionally repugnant. You may not entirely agree with the politics, but the film is darkly colourful and fun.
 Vacancy (Frank's take)
01/07/2007. The film's generic title may be called Vacancy but it echoes that very same sentiment as well-there's nothing worth checking in for regarding this empty, half-hearted horror flick. Woefully tedious, unoriginal and cheaply executed, Vacancy is about as scary and random as a facelift procedure performed in downtown Beverly Hills. This flimsy fright fable is trivial and trite at best.
Vampire Blood and Egyptian Assassins
01/05/2002. Rod weighs in with some neck-biting action from the cult movie Blade II, and tops it off with a trip to see the Scorpion King too. Truly, he is the king of the bhucket-sized pop-corn.
 Venom (Frank's Take)
01/10/2005. Venom is indeed a horror show but for other reasons entirely, says Frank. Considerably meagre and dubiously dull in its hair-raising high jinks, this brain-dead boofest of a movie is just another colourless creepy tale right off the conveyor belt of sluggish imagination.
 Village Of The Damned/Children Of The Damned
01/05/2006. DVD- US release. Warner Bros 66918. Price: $12.99 (US). Village: 77mins. Children: 89mins. both black and white films with audio commentaries). Village Of The Damned stars: George Sanders and Barbara Shelley. Children Of The Damned stars: Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris and Alfred Burke.
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