• STORIES WRITTEN BY: PHILIP MATOGO

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    SPOILERS AHEAD: “Red Notice” is a coat of many colours

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    SPOILERS AHEAD: “The Harder They Fall” rises to the occasion

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    MOVIE REVIEW: Dear Evan Hansen goes unexpected places gracefully

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    MOVIE REVIEW: An army demobilized by an anticlimax

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    MOVIE REVIEW: “Hypnotic” is weak beer

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    MOVIE REVIEW: Fuqua works his magic once more

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    Movie Review: South of Heaven is slightly west of hell  

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    Movie Review: “Old Henry” is ageless

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    MOVIE REVIEW: A cop movie that puts the “No” into Tarrantino

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    MOVIE REVIEW: Queenpins is a movie which abdicates its potential royalty

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    MOVIE REVIEW: “There’s Someone inside Your House,” and it’s frightening 

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    MOVIE REVIEW: “The Exchange” is more comedy than drama yet more drama than comedy

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    MOVIE REVIEW: “Best sellers” will leave you sold

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    Dave Chappelle takes risks with The Closer, delivers comedy gold

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    MOVIE REVIEW: “The Last Mercenary” is Van Damme Bad

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    MOVIE REVIEW: Free Guy is an unconfined joy

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    REVIEW: Malignant is sure to grow on you

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    REVIEW: William Pike’s Bush War book is “Unputdownable”

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    MOVIE REVIEW: "Hitman Wife’s Bodyguard" is bad, very bad indeed

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    REVIEW: Christian poetry to inspire and elevate

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    BOOK REVIEW: Mwebasa’s book of quotes is a sparkling gem of wisdom

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    FILM REVIEW: “Vacation Friends” is long on screen time but short on jokes

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    MOVIE REVIEW: A truly watchable Billy Crystalline-Haddish performance

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    BOOK REVIEW: Ronald Ssekajja’s poetry is a Katogo of treats

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    MOVIE REVIEW: “The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2” is awful

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    BOOK REVIEW: Top Ugandan engineer shares his struggle with Bipolar disorder

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    Review: “Lansky” is a portrait of the mafia boss you thought you knew

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    REVIEW: A journalist's account of War in Northern Uganda proves invaluable

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    REVIEW: The Werewolf Within is something you can do without

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    REVIEW: No Time to Mourn gives South Sudanese women writers a voice

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    REVIEW: When love is a final resort 

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    REVIEW: There are forty-one reasons to buy this book

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    REVIEW: Fast and Furious is crap, the Fast and Furious kind

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    Review: Edgard The Bard’s Smoking Hot Poetry

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    An app to facilitate business growth during the pandemic  

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    Book Review: A book about love for those looking for love

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    Movie Review: “Good on Paper” is not bad on screen 

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    MOVIE REVIEW: Kevin’s performance is truly heartfelt

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    BOOK REVIEW: Poet Hawa Kimbugwe’s buffet of poetry

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    Movie Review: "Hitman Wife’s Bodyguard" is bad, very bad indeed

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    Book Review: Christian Poetry to inspire and elevate 

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    Movie Review: “One Night In Miami” is a Classic film

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    Book Review: Carolyne Acen’s Dry Parched Land

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    Tom Mboya's son remembers his father, 52 years after his assassination

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    Movie Review: The Conjuring is only scary, if you scare easy

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    Book Review: Milton Allimadi’s new book takes on Western Media

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    Book Review: After 20 years, FEMRITE remains evergreen

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    Movie Review: Chris at Rock Bottom

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    Book Review: Sheep With Golden Teeth has plenty of literary bite

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    Book Review: Christmas comes early, in the shape of poetry 

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    Movie Review: Wrath of Man is mostly mindless mayhem 

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    Book Review: When Dreams Die

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    Movie Review: “The Unholy” must be rebuked in the name of good cinema

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    Book Review: Joyce Ataro finds personal growth in her faith

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    Movie Review: “Woman in the Window” is a big fat fail 

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    Book Review: Meddy Progress: Bees and Their Flowers

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    Movie Review: SAS: Red Notice: Much ado about nothing

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    Movie Review: “No Remorse” is remorselessly average  

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    Book Review: Col Kisembo tries to make sense of the soldier's role in Uganda

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    Movie Review: Chaos Walking is no run-of-the-mill movie

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    Book Review: Spit my Heart is written for the impatient, modern reader

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    Book Review: Light and shadow are the dance of Nassur Tab’an El-Tablaz’s poetry

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    Nyanzi brings a fresh voice in his new standup special 

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    Movie Review: “Wrong Turn 2021” is a minor classic 

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    Movie Review: “Nobody” is John Wick and then some

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    Book Review: Ssemaganda’s poetry speaks to the ages

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    Book Review: Storming of the Rwenzururu kingdom palace retold in anthology

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    Movie Review: Denzel Washington is reduced to The Little Things 

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    Movie Review: “White Tiger” wittily explodes India’s caste system

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    Book Review: Banana Republic, a tale of torture 

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    Movie Review: The “Crisis” that never was

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    Book Review: Ronald Ssekajja’s Echoes of Tired Men is poetry with ‘swag’

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    Ugandan-Brit actor Kaluuya shines as Black Panther revolutionary 

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    Kenyan poet set to take Uganda by storm

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    Coming 2 America: A victim of its own success

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    Richard Otwao's Lamenting Sirens: The spiritual power of playing God

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    Book Review: Namagunga writers club deals with teenage angst, adulthood

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    Gerald Kisaparwot’s poetry hits home with a bang instead of a whimper 

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    Review: Dennis Ssesanga’s Ivory Footprints

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    Seeta High School’s poetry anthology

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