First thing I thought: Marvel and Columbia Pictures. I’m sold on both.

I also heard this movie was not good. You know I had to judge it for myself.

I saw the library copy.

Look, baby. This is Marvel. I’ve never seen a bad movie from them.

Dakota Johnson plays a Manhattan paramedic, Cassie Webb, who develops clairvoyant abilities and forms a relationship with and has to protect 3 powerful girls who need training in how to use their powers. Her mother years earlier tried to look for and harness the healing power of a rare spider in the Amazon. Ezekiel Sims, the man who killed her mother and became a billionaire because of the attibutes of the spider venom.

And, there is a spiritual aspect concerning the spider people who protect the secret which was revealed to Cassie Web, who becomes Madame Web when she re-visited her mother’s site after she grew up. So, the rest of the movie is the fight between Ezekiel and her and the three girls.

According to Wikipedia, “Cassandra Webb first appeared in Marvel’s American comic books, The Amazing Spider-man #210 (November 1980).

“Humor, comedy, explosions, connections in the future”. I don’t discourage easily. I expect the next installment to get better reviews. We each have a right to our opinion.

Director: S..J. Clarkson.

Rosa Griffin

10/15/24

92 minutes

“If death is a disease then, there’s a cure…and I’m going to find it.”

Story is one of a kind..a different take on Mary Shelly’s “Frankenstein” monster.

Fresh take that centers around a brilliant Black teen named Vicaria who tries to reanimate her brother who was killed in the drug trade. How she got that smart I will never know–supposedly, she is smart enough to do so. Her plan backfires because the reanimation experiment took so long that her brother revived as a terrorizing, murdering and noncommunicating monster instead. He can only communicate with her little niece. This experiment prepares her for the next one.

Wonderful imagination.

Written and directed by Bomani J. Story. Filmed in Charlotte, N.C. with mostly local actors.

Great actors in this film:

Laya De Leon Hayes as Vicaria.

Denzel Whitaker as head drug dealer, Kango.

Keith Holliday as Jamaal, opposing drug dealer.

Chad Coleman as their father, Donald.

Robin Michele Lee as mother Evy.

These are among the great actors in the movie. I forrowed the movie from the library.

Written by Rosa Griffin, 10/17/24.