Action Comedy
In Defense of City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold
25 years ago today, A sequel to City Slickers opened. Three years before, City Slickers was a summer comedy phenomenon. Billy Crystal got right to work after he finished his passion project Mr. Saturd...
The Chase 25th Anniversary: The Fastest, Most Furious Movie of 1994
The spring of 1994 was an interesting time at the box office. The number one movie of the weekend would make around five million dollars most weekends until May. One exception was Ace Ventura: Pet Det...
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...
Anthony C. Ferrante on THAT Last Sharknado Cameo
This is going to be a spoiler interview for people who have already seen The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time. Since we don’t want to spoil any of the surprises in any Sharknado movie, director Anthony...
The Last Sharknado Movie Review: Franchise Fred Approves The Finale
Even though Franchise Fred always wants to see more sequels indefinitely, I do enjoy a good “final chapter.” Mainly because I’ve learned it’s never the last one anyway. So I don’t believe we’ll never ...
Even The Last Sharknado Director Anthony C. Ferrante Agrees Sharknado Will Continue
When I heard that Sharknado 6 was going to be The Last Sharknado, I was inspired to write a Freditorial about how nothing guarantees another sequel like calling the next one “final.” Sharknado franchi...
License to Drive 30th Anniversary: The Fastest Most Furious Comedy of 1988
Listen, we know better than our favorite 80s movies now. Sixteen Candles and Revenge is the Nerds have rape scenes. ‘80s movies frequently used “fag” as a derogatory term for straight men, as if being...
Ant-Man and the Wasp Movie Review: Franchise Fred C-ant Find Fault
Part of the philosophy of Franchise Fred is that even if I don’t like a movie, a sequel to it is automatically more interesting because it is building off the history of another movie. This proves tru...
Last Action Hero 25th Anniversary: Fictional Franchise Fred Approves
For most people 1993 was the summer dinosaurs came to life. For me it was the summer Arnold Schwarzenegger came out of the screen. Seeing a kid go into an Arnold movie and break all the rules and vice...