Frankie's Blog — Disney

Written by Angela Rairden Disney+’s new Obi-Wan Kenobi miniseries begins with a four-minute recap segment that quickly portrays some of the pertinent events in the three Star Wars prequel movies that were released in the early 2000’s. For someone like me, who maybe hasn’t watched those movies all too recently, it was a welcome sequence that reminded audiences of how close Obi-Wan and Anakin Skywalker once were, a tie that seems likely to drive this entire series. Because Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor, as it should be) vowed to hide out on Tatooine and watch over Luke from a distance, I anticipated...

Written by Angela Rairden I have to be completely honest at the start of this blog and admit that I have never read a Moon Knight comic, which is a large part of why it’s taken me until four episodes in to write about it here. For the uninitiated, the plot of Disney+’s Moon Knight series is perhaps best described as being a bit chaotic. Our main character (portrayed rather brilliantly by Oscar Isaac) suffers from dissociative identity disorder (DID), a fact which casts him as an unreliable narrator. In episode one, we are introduced to Steven Grant, a somewhat...

On Tuesday, Marvel released the trailer for one of their newest Disney+ shows, Ms Marvel, which is set to release on June 8th. The show is centered around one of Marvel’s newer superheroes, spunky and imaginative Pakistani-American teenager Kamala Khan, who will be played by Iman Vellani. The trailer looks to tell the story of how Kamala becomes known as Ms Marvel. However, before we can talk about that, we need to back track a little and talk about a different Ms Marvel – the one who would later become known as Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers. Carol Danvers as Ms...