Frankie's Blog — movie review

Written by Angela Rairden (This review contains one small spoiler that doesn’t much pertain to the plot of the movie but is something that hardcore comic book fans may want to be surprised by while watching the film. However, it’s a detail that I’m certain mainstream media will not be keeping a secret for long anyway and I will put a small warning before I mention it in this blog.) Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a film steeped in emotion, love, and loss. As we know, Chadwick Boseman, who portrayed T’Challa/Black Panther, sadly and unexpectedly passed away in August of...

By Angela Rairden Hello, Frankie’s Fans! October is upon us, which means that the Frankie’s blog is going to get even spookier than it usually is. Expect a month of horror comic reviews, mysterious tales, witchy magic, and things that go bump in the night! Since it’s still early in the month, I thought that I would start readers off with something a little less horrifying and a little more campy cute nostalgic. On September 30th, Disney + released Hocus Pocus 2, the long-anticipated sequel to 1993’s cult classic Hocus Pocus. Debuting nineteen years after the original film, Hocus Pocus...

Written by: Angela Rairden In a sense, Marvel’s latest installment in the MCU, Thor: Love and Thunder is a call back to the very first Thor film. In that movie, released all the way back in 2011, audiences were first introduced to Chris Hemsworth’s god of thunder – young, brash, and not entirely aware of what life had in store for him. That Thor was one who needed to do a lot of growing up in order to reach his full potential.   Now, in 2022’s Love and Thunder, we are reacquainted with a Thor has been through a lot...

ATTENTION: This blog contains a slight spoiler concerning who the villain of the movie is (which will not be a spoiler to fans of the Morbius comic). Read on at your own risk.   Morbius, which is based on a Marvel character but distributed by Sony, plays out more like a horror film than it does the typical sort of superhero film that we’re used to seeing about Marvel characters. The third film in Sony’s Spider-man Universe (following Venom and Venom: Let There Be Carnage), Morbius features a darker, bloodier theme and the creepy reality of its protagonist needing to...

The Batman is the sort of dark and gritty Batman film that fans of Gotham’s greatest detective should appreciate. Although it took me a little while to get into this nearly three-hour cinematic showcase, the film is ultimately a multi-layered detective noir meets action movie that might just be one of the best Batman flicks to date. In the beginning of the film, we are greeted with a voice over by Robert Pattinson (who portrays Batman/Bruce Wayne) explaining why he does what he does as Batman. This was a little off putting to me because it felt as though the...