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TCA Interview: Phil Lord and Chris Miller on The Lego Movie 2 and Bless the Harts
Just weeks after we saw Phil Lord and Chris Miller at a screening of The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part I got another chance to talk to them. Fox held a table read of their upcoming animated series Ble...
TCA: Meet the Doom Patrol
Doom Patrol is a new superhero team on the DC Universe streaming service. Perhaps even lesser known than the Suicide Squad, Doom Patrol will introduce viewers to Cliff Steele (Brendan Fraser), Larry T...
Sundance 2019: The Blair Witch Project 20th Anniversary – I Like It Now
I did not like The Blair Witch Project when it came out in the summer of 1999. I even called it The Blair Shit Project because I was clever. Like, nice job selling a pile of rocks and a bundle of stic...
Sundance 2019: Judy and Punch Movie Review – #notmyPunchandJudy
Inspired by the classic Punch and Judy puppet show, Judy and Punch is a tonal and narrative mess. I believe there is a story one could adapt but this is not it. In Seaside, which is not by the sea, Mr...
Taken 10 Years Later: The Liam Neeson Industry Begins
When Taken opened 10 years ago today, it created a new genre. The Liam Neeson action movie has been going strong for a decade now, surviving even the actor’s suggestions he’d retire from action. I thi...
Sundance 2019: Franchise Fred Remembers Memory: The Origins of Alien
Alien is not only one of the most studied films in cinema history, it is also a franchise that is still continuing with new entries. So Franchise Fred is pretty well versed on the original Alien, but ...
Franchise Fred Reviews The LEGO Movie 2: Building Upon The Original
The LEGO Movie was a stunning achievement in franchises. Phil Lord and Chris Miller were able to use a branded toy line to tell a story about the way we tell stories, and satirize franchise tropes. Sp...
Franchise Fred News: 24 Jump Street Is Being Developed
22 Jump Street may be the most Franchise Fred sequel ever made. It’s a sequel about having sequelitis repeating the formula and setting up more sequels. I thought the idea of a Jump Street/Men in Blac...
Franchise Fred Interview: Glass Spoilers With Sarah Paulson
Franchise Fred approved Glass, M. Night Shyamalan’s long-awaited sequel to Unbreakable, and shorterly awaited follow-up to Split. The thing is, most fans don’t want to talk about Shyamalan’s movies be...