Evil Dead Rise (2023) ***/****. starring Lily Sullivan, Alyssa Sutherland, Gabrielle Echols, Morgan Davies. written and directed by Lee Cronin. by Walter Chaw Lee Cronin's Evil Dead Rise is mean. It's that scene from The Exorcist (1973) where little Regan McNeil masturbates with a crucifix and then shoves her mom's face into her crotch mean.For movie lovers, there’s no better way to watch a great movie than on Tubi TV. With thousands of movies available for streaming, Tubi TV has something for everyone. Whether you’re...Super Troopers (2002) ½/****. starring Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter. screenplay by Broken Lizard. directed by Jay Chandrasekhar. by Walter Chaw From the self-satisfied pens of LA/NY sketch comedy troupe "Broken Lizard" springs Super Troopers, fully formed like some Plutonian messenger from midnight-movie hell.Air (2023) */****. starring Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Viola Davis. written by Alex Convery. directed by Ben Affleck. by Walter Chaw The irony of a film celebrating the taking of chances being so absolutely afraid to take any chances is so conspicuous it feels a little like bullying to point it out, but here goes: Ben Affleck's Air ...With the rise of streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime, it’s easy to forget that there are still plenty of great movies available to watch online for free. YouTub...Feb 7, 2023 · Wen is on vacation with her dads, aggro Andrew (Ben Aldrige) and over-thinker Eric (Jonathan Groff), at a remote cabin at the end of the world, and Leonard is soon joined by the other three horsemen of the apocalypse: Redmond (Rupert Grint), Sabrina (Nikki Amuka-Bird), and Abby (Abby Quinn). Do you remember when the yellow Power Ranger was the ... If you’re interested in the latest blockbuster from Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm or anyone else making great popcorn flicks, you can go to your local theater and find a screening comi...With the rise of streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime, it’s easy to forget that there are still plenty of great movies available to watch online for free. YouTub...Jul 19, 2023 · Oppenheimer (2023) **½/****. starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh. written and directed by Christopher Nolan. by Walter Chaw Stolid, classical in form, stately in a way some would say is boring yet so precisely parcelled out in perfectly measured, oppressively scored, bite-sized mic-drop morsels that it holds one's ... If you’re ready for a fun night out at the movies, it all starts with choosing where to go and what to see. From national chains to local movie theaters, there are tons of differen...Jan 11, 2022 · The miracle of our otherwise meaningless existence is when, through your agency, you somehow get the worm to notice you. And then it's over and you're gone, a pebble in a well of limitless time. That's what Dune is about. Fuck, it's good. Originally published: September 21, 2022. THE 4K UHD DISC. | Film Freak Central ***½/****starring Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebswritten and directed by Christian Petzold by Walter Chaw In …A Walter Hill Film, Walter Chaw's critical biography of filmmaker Walter Hill (The Warriors, 48Hrs., Streets of Fire), is now available in paperback from MZS Press. Featuring photos from Hill's personal archives, introductions by James Ellroy and Larry Gross, an afterword by Edgar Wright, and cover art from the acclaimed Ganzeer, it's A …- Film Freak Central. Read More | Posted Oct 27, 2023. 3.5/4. Priscilla (2023) Priscilla is a Sofia Coppola joint; if it's predictable, at least it's predictably great. - …Perfect Days (2023) ****/****. starring Kôji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano, Tomokazu Miura. written by Wim Wenders, Takuma Takasaki. directed by Wim Wenders. by Walter Chaw Hirayama (Kôji Yakusho) notices little things. Like the sunlight dappling the trees. Or the doomed sproutling, too close to its mother to survive, pushing its way out ... Nobody (2021) ***/****. starring Bob Odenkirk, Aleksey Serebryakov, Connie Nielsen, Christopher Lloyd. written by Derek Kolstad. directed by Ilya Naishuller. by Walter Chaw I spent a lot of my freshman year in college in the shadow of post-trauma from a failed suicide attempt, untreated depression, and what felt like hardwired self-loathing.If you’re ready for a fun night out at the movies, it all starts with choosing where to go and what to see. From national chains to local movie theaters, there are tons of differen...Nov 22, 2021 · starring Carrie Coon, Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace. written by Gil Kenan & Jason Reitman. directed by Jason Reitman. by Walter Chaw In Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza, John Michael Higgins plays real-life restaurateur Jerry Frick, proprietor of "The Mikado." Frick is married to a severe and disapproving Japanese woman (Yumi ... Nov 19, 2023 · Napoleon (2023) **½/****. starring Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim, Rupert Everett. written by David Scarpa. directed by Ridley Scott. by Walter Chaw I wish Ridley Scott's Napoleon was weirder, kinkier, as perverse as it seems like Joaquin Phoenix, who plays the diminutive emperor, wants it to be. At the risk of being premature in my assessment, I think Demián Rugna is the real deal. His Terrified from 2017 was confident and brilliant: a strange, alchemical product of the unimaginable and the familiar; a "fun" extreme gore/horror exercise that crossed the line so often it rewrote it. Now, six years later, here's Rugna's follow-up: When Evil Lurks, …Feb 7, 2023 · Wen is on vacation with her dads, aggro Andrew (Ben Aldrige) and over-thinker Eric (Jonathan Groff), at a remote cabin at the end of the world, and Leonard is soon joined by the other three horsemen of the apocalypse: Redmond (Rupert Grint), Sabrina (Nikki Amuka-Bird), and Abby (Abby Quinn). Do you remember when the yellow Power Ranger was the ... starring Melissa Berrera, Mason Gooding, Jenna Ortega, Neve Campbell. written by James Vanderbilt & Guy Busick. directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett. by Walter Chaw Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven's Scream cycle, in terms of its influence on modern film, constitutes the most important metatext of the last 25 years in that it's not ...THE 4K UHD DISC Paramount's 4K Blu-ray of Coming to America contains all of the supplementary material that first appeared on DVD and then Blu-ray, hence there are no other discs bundled with the 4K platter (although the studio still saw fit to include a voucher for a digital copy). Extras begin with "Prince-ipal Photography: The Coming …Nope (2022) **/****. starring Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun, Michael Wincott. written and directed by Jordan Peele. by Walter Chaw I don't think you ever see the heroes getting hurt, but they limp around a lot, and I couldn't stop wondering why. Just because it's more dramatic to be out of breath and limpy?Jun 30, 2020 · starring Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Richard Harris. screenplay by David Franzoni and John Logan and William Nicholson. directed by Ridley Scott. by Bill Chambers. Jul 21, 2022 · Nope (2022) **/****. starring Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun, Michael Wincott. written and directed by Jordan Peele. by Walter Chaw I don't think you ever see the heroes getting hurt, but they limp around a lot, and I couldn't stop wondering why. Just because it's more dramatic to be out of breath and limpy? TIFF '21: Dune. Dune Part One****/****starring Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Javier Bardemscreenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth, based on the novel by Frank Herbertdirected by Denis Villeneuve. by Walter Chaw I couldn't get through the Lord of the Rings trilogy when I was a kid, but I devoured …Oct 15, 2012 · starring Harrison Ford, Kate Capshaw, Ke Huy Quan, Amrish Puri. screenplay by Willard Huyck & Gloria Katz. directed by Steven Spielberg. INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989) **½/**** Image A+ Sound A+ Extras C. starring Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Denholm Elliot, Alison Doody. screenplay by Jeffrey Boam. Film Freak Central's Top 10 of 2011. 2011 was a turning point for me. Two films--Red Cliff and The Tree of Life--did it, the one returning to me a measure of my identity, the other giving me a sense that I'd avoided asking ultimate …Nope (2022) **/****. starring Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun, Michael Wincott. written and directed by Jordan Peele. by Walter Chaw I don't think you ever see the heroes getting hurt, but they limp around a lot, and I couldn't stop wondering why. Just because it's more dramatic to be out of breath and limpy?Feb 10, 2016 · ****/**** Image A Sound A Extras A- story adaptation Ted Sears, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander, Dick Richard, Earl Hurd, Merrill De Maris, Dorothy Ann Blank, Webb Smith supervising director David Hand by Bill Chambers Walt Disney was shooting for the moon with 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, not just his first but the first animated feature. He of the Silly Symphony wanted it to have ... Recent posts by Film Freak Central. Date. Unlock 53 exclusive posts and join a community of 335 members. Starting at. $5. / month. Join now. creating in-depth reviews of new films and Blu-rays.As seen in: Film Freak Central, The New York Times, MSN (US), Post Outlook, NPR, Flipboard, Newsday, Vulture, RogerEbert.com, WBUR-FM (Boston, MA), …½*/**** starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo screenplay by Jordan Peele & Win Rosenfeld and Nia DaCosta directed by Nia DaCosta by Walter Chaw An old urban legend, it goes like this: an amorous pair of youths spirit themselves away to a remote Lovers Lane when, lo, the girl hears …May 30, 2023 · The Little Mermaid (2023) */****. starring Halle Bailey, Jonah Hauer-King, Daveed Diggs, Melissa McCarthy. screenplay by David Magee. directed by Rob Marshall. by Walter Chaw I have long, disquieting thoughts about Ursula the Sea Witch's anatomy in the live-action version of Disney's The Little Mermaid. As I understand it, with octopi, the ... Sep 21, 2021 · TIFF '21: Dune. Dune Part One. ****/****. starring Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Javier Bardem. screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth, based on the novel by Frank Herbert. directed by Denis Villeneuve. by Walter Chaw I couldn't get through the Lord of the Rings trilogy when I was a kid, but I devoured ... Telluride 2019: A Hidden Life. ****/****. starring August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Matthias Schoenaerts, Bruno Ganz. written and directed by Terrence Malick. by Walter Chaw Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life takes its title from George Eliot's Middlemarch: ...for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things ...HONEY BOY ***½/**** starring Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe, FKA twigs written by Shia LaBeouf directed by Alma Har'el THE LIGHTHOUSE ***½/**** starring Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe written and directed by Robert Eggers by Walter Chaw There is a suggestion in Alma Har'el's haunted, raw Honey Boy that the only …Recent posts by Film Freak Central. Date. Unlock 53 exclusive posts and join a community of 335 members. Starting at. $5. / month. Join now. creating in-depth reviews of new films and Blu-rays.Silence (2016) ****/****. starring Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Tadanobu Asano, Liam Neeson. screenplay by Jay Cocks & Martin Scorsese, based on the novel by Shusaku Endo. directed by Martin Scorsese. by Walter Chaw Martin Scorsese's Silence is Martin Scorsese's Silence. Not Shusaku Endo's Silence.THE 4K UHD DISC To commemorate the 20 th anniversary of Gladiator, Paramount has reissued its 2018 4K Ultra HD release of the film in a handsome steelbook adorned with Russell Crowe's Maximus in full fight stance, prepared to cut a bitch.When Gladiator first came out on Blu-ray, it was met with controversy for being overzealously …FILM FREAK CENTRAL turns 24 this month and I became curious what our 24 most-read reviews might be. Unfortunately, we didn't sign up for Analytics until 2014, and any record of our traffic before then has evaporated from the Internet. So, uh, here's a countdown of our 24 most-read reviews since, um, 2014. Few surprises on here (longtime ...The Film Freak Central Blog; FFC Hot Docs Blog; FFC TIFF Blog (2005-2011) ~Master Review Index~ "Miracle Mile" by Walter Chaw; Follow Us. Film Freak Central's Bookstore. January's Most-Read. FILM. Les Miserables Django Unchained The Last Stand. VIDEO Cosmopolis The Apartment Frankenweenie E-Mail Us.starring Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Baldwin, James Ray. written and directed by John Hughes. by Bill Chambers I rented She's Having a Baby the moment it hit video out of brand loyalty to John Hughes, whose teen movies had had an epic and indoctrinating influence on my peers and me. And I was largely indifferent to it up until the ...starring Elena Kampouris, Kate Moyer, Callan Mulvey, Bruce Spence. based upon the short story by Stephen King. written and directed by Kurt Wimmer. by Walter Chaw Kurt Wimmer's Children of the Corn prequel/reboot is drab, uninspired, witless I.P.-sploitation.Originally published: March 6, 2019. THE 4K UHD DISC. by Bill Chambers Arrow has reissued their deluxe Blu-ray of Twelve Monkeys on 4K UHD disc with identical bonus features but a new 2160p transfer of the film complete with 12-bit (Dolby Vision) and 10-bit (HDR10) HDR encoding. The piercing green text that teletypes itself onto the …FILM FREAK CENTRAL turns 24 this month and I became curious what our 24 most-read reviews might be. Unfortunately, we didn't sign up for Analytics until 2014, and any record of our traffic before then has evaporated from the Internet. So, uh, here's a countdown of our 24 most-read reviews since, um, 2014. Few surprises on here (longtime ...A book of film reviews by critics from FilmFreakCentral.net, published in 2005. It includes an essay on Matthew Barney's The Cremaster Cycle and a foreword by E. Elias Merhige.Wen is on vacation with her dads, aggro Andrew (Ben Aldrige) and over-thinker Eric (Jonathan Groff), at a remote cabin at the end of the world, and Leonard is soon joined by the other three horsemen of the apocalypse: Redmond (Rupert Grint), Sabrina (Nikki Amuka-Bird), and Abby (Abby Quinn). Do you remember when the yellow Power …Originally published: March 6, 2019. THE 4K UHD DISC. by Bill Chambers Arrow has reissued their deluxe Blu-ray of Twelve Monkeys on 4K UHD disc with identical bonus features but a new 2160p transfer of the film complete with 12-bit (Dolby Vision) and 10-bit (HDR10) HDR encoding. The piercing green text that teletypes itself onto the …Briony says it came with a huge amount of shame and was extremely difficult to manage given the body needs food to survive. "It's like having to take a tiger out for a …“Freaking,” according to Dictionary.com, is an adverb or adjective form of freak that is used to emphasize a point. In this regard, it is not a bad word, but profanity is often con...As of 2015, there is no known movie about “Bud, Not Buddy.” However, the book has been modeled into multiple theatre productions around the U.S.Nov 26, 2023 · Saltburn (2023) */****. starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant. written and directed by Emerald Fennell. by Walter Chaw People keep expressing in the weariest, archest way how disappointing Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) has turned out to be, or, if they're more passive, how they do hope he doesn't end up like the ... ***/**** starring Paul Mescal, Francesca Corio, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Brooklyn Toulson written and directed by Charlotte Wells by Walter Chaw My parents are dead; my in-laws, too. Us outliving them is how they would've wanted it, and that's the wonder of surviving, isn't it, that this is what happens when everything works out? My dad has been dead for 19 years …At the risk of being premature in my assessment, I think Demián Rugna is the real deal. His Terrified from 2017 was confident and brilliant: a strange, alchemical product of the unimaginable and the familiar; a "fun" extreme gore/horror exercise that crossed the line so often it rewrote it. Now, six years later, here's Rugna's follow-up: When Evil Lurks, …Ford Lightning is a name that resonates with truck enthusiasts and speed freaks alike. It’s a name that has become synonymous with power, performance, and style. In the early 1990s...Since it wasn’t too early to start enumerating some of our favorite TV shows of 2022 a couple of weeks ago, we decided it’s also not too early to take inventory of what movies we’v...Dec 31, 2021 · Azor points to a place just beyond the line of sight where vast and implacable machinery turns as these minor players sit several degrees removed from the puppetmasters and power brokers. Matters of pennies, mistaken for matters of life and death. In many ways, this is the year's best horror film. starring Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom. screenplay by Jeffrey Boam, based on the novel by Stephen King. directed by David Cronenberg. by Walter Chaw Michael Kamen's score for The Dead Zone sounds so much like Howard Shore's work that if I didn't know better... The following Ten Best list reflects only the opinions of Bill Chambers--Film Freak Central's webmaster--and not necessarily those of this site's other contributors. 10. Henry Fool. Hal Hartley movies never make Top 10 lists; they're considered pompous and pretentious by people who are just those things.Recent posts by Film Freak Central. Date. Unlock 53 exclusive posts and join a community of 335 members. Starting at. $5. / month. Join now. creating in-depth reviews of new films and Blu-rays.May 27, 2014 · click any image to enlarge DEATH WISH ***½/**** Image A Sound A starring Charles Bronson, Vincent Gardenia, William Redfield, Hope Lange screenplay by Wendell Mayes, based on the novel by Brian Garfield directed by Michael Winner STONE COLD **/**** Image C+ Sound B- starring Brian Bosworth, Lance Henriksen, William Forsythe, Sam McMurray screenplay by Walter Doniger directed by Craig R ... It's a horrifying distraction, because once the leads step out of their cruiser, "True Detective" becomes a showpiece for HBO's Blu-ray output. The 1.78:1, 1080p image maintains crispness, depth, mild grain, colour warmth, and the crucial chiaroscuros of nighttime crime scenes illuminated by floodlights.Telluride '23: Poor Things. ****/****. starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef. screenplay by Tony McNamara, based upon the novel by Alasdair Gray. directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. by Walter Chaw Ex Machina by way of Anaïs Nin, Yorgos Lanthimos's Poor Things is a libertine exercise-cum-fable about the …THE BLU-RAY DISC. by Bill Chambers Released in June of 2012, Warner's Blu-ray edition of A Perfect World is a good but possibly revisionist rendering of a neo-classic I remember as a vibrant study of baby-blue skies and emerald-green grass. The oft-muted 2.40:1, 1080p transfer appears to reflect, with some admitted inconsistency, a new …Dec 31, 2021 · Azor points to a place just beyond the line of sight where vast and implacable machinery turns as these minor players sit several degrees removed from the puppetmasters and power brokers. Matters of pennies, mistaken for matters of life and death. In many ways, this is the year's best horror film. Scream Factory brings Ghost Story to Blu-ray in its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio. The 1080p transfer appears to look as good as it possibly could--good enough to throw a few focusing anomalies into relief--with the exception of some overlooked print debris. Brown is the movie's colour scheme and so, brown it is.Laura Moss's Birth/Rebirth is the second of three distaff takes on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein set for release in 2023. As the United States reckons with a series of strikes, the loudest calls for labour reform in recent memory, these new reads of the novel, notable also for seizing on the social progressiveness of the text, seem of a piece with a cultural …Elemental (2023) ****/****. screenplay by Peter Sohn & Kat Likkel and Brenda Hsueh. directed by Peter Sohn. by Walter Chaw I tell this tale over and over again as I see echoes of it pop up now in a landscape temporarily interested in the particulars of the immigrant story, but my parents came to the United States in the early '70s to complete ...THE 4K UHD DISC Paramount's 4K Blu-ray of Coming to America contains all of the supplementary material that first appeared on DVD and then Blu-ray, hence there are no other discs bundled with the 4K platter (although the studio still saw fit to include a voucher for a digital copy). Extras begin with "Prince-ipal Photography: The Coming …Jul 7, 2023 · Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) ****/****. starring Tom Cruise, Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Henry Czerny. written by Christopher McQuarrie & Erik Jendresen. directed by Christopher McQuarrie. by Walter Chaw I've liked every film in this series to some extent, the last few very much. Yet, pressed, I couldn't tell you what ... Mar 31, 2022 · Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) ****/****. starring Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis. written and directed by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert. by Walter Chaw When I tell my parents' story to myself, I never tell it as a love story. It's an immigrant story--a typical one, I've come to learn through reading, yes ... Watchers II is the 1990 sequel to the 1988 horror film Watchers. Starring Marc Singer and Tracy Scoggins , the film is loosely based on the 1987 novel Watchers by Dean Koontz …Dec 2, 2021 · West Side Story (2021) ****/****. starring Ansel Elgort, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez, Rachel Zegler. screenplay by Tony Kushner, based on the stage play by Arthur Laurents, with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. directed by Steven Spielberg. by Walter Chaw West Side Story is the perfect vehicle for all of Spielberg's ... Lightyear (voiced by Chris Evans) and his partner Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) are members of the elite Space Rangers, the tip of the spear in deep-space exploration, awakened Alien -like from subspace hibernation when their ship, carrying a crew of 1,200 specialists, is diverted off-course by lifeform readings on an uncharted planet.Are you looking for a great way to stay up to date on the latest movies? Going to the theater is one of the best ways to watch new releases and get an immersive experience. But wit...Originally published: March 6, 2019. THE 4K UHD DISC. by Bill Chambers Arrow has reissued their deluxe Blu-ray of Twelve Monkeys on 4K UHD disc with identical bonus features but a new 2160p transfer of the film complete with 12-bit (Dolby Vision) and 10-bit (HDR10) HDR encoding. The piercing green text that teletypes itself onto the …Oct 22, 2023 · Rosemary's Baby (1968) - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray. by Walter Chaw Rosemary is everything. He's just Guy. It's that tension--between a woman fully actualized and a man forever frustrated, the Grail vs. the Knights of the Round Table--that serves as the tightrope in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby. As portrayed by Mia Farrow, Rosemary is precious ... THE 4K UHD DISC The King's Man docks on 4K UHD disc in a 2.39:1, 2160p transfer with HDR10 encoding. I struggled to find fault with the image, which liberally utilizes HDR but also knows when to dial it back. Take the scene where Polly surprises Conrad with a birthday cake, the candles evoking heat and flickering brightly enough to be a …LETHAL WEAPON 4 (1998) */**** Image A Sound B+ Extras D. starring Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo. screenplay by Channing Gibson. directed by Richard Donner. by Walter Chaw It's tough to convey exactly how …Originally published: March 29, 2021. THE 4K UHD DISC. by Bill Chambers Warner shepherds Godzilla vs. Kong to 4K UHD disc after a brief theatrical/HBO Max window. The 2.39:1, 2160p transfer is among the most flamboyant I've seen of a contemporary title with regards to its use of HDR (Dolby Vision and HDR10+) and …Wim Wenders's Perfect Days is about the grace of being okay when you're not okay--about living out your days for the little things in defiance of the dismal tide. Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest is that dismal tide. 2023 was a marvellous year for the movies and an awful one for the human race.starring Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Will Ferrell. written by Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach. directed by Greta Gerwig. by Walter Chaw Margot Robbie is so good in good movies--and she's also in Greta Gerwig's smug, self-congratulatory, painfully obvious, subtext-free screed Barbie, playing Mattel's signature doll-for-girls ...starring Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Will Ferrell. written by Greta Gerwig & Noah Baumbach. directed by Greta Gerwig. by Walter Chaw Margot Robbie is so good in good movies--and she's also in Greta Gerwig's smug, self-congratulatory, painfully obvious, subtext-free screed Barbie, playing Mattel's signature doll-for-girls ...25 Candles: Film Freak Central Turns the Quarter-Century Mark. by Bill Chambers It's hard for me to remember the BW (Before Walter) times now, but this site was already four years old when Walter Chaw joined it in 2001. In 1997, I was writing reviews for one of my hometown newspapers and living in the only dorm on the campus of York …
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Mar 17, 2022 · It's the early 20 th century. Former soldier Orlando (Ralph Fiennes), the Duke of Oxford, is visiting friend Lord Kitchener (Charles Dance) at a concentration camp in South Africa on behalf of the Red Cross when the Boers attack, leaving Orlando critically wounded, his wife (the overqualified Alexandra Maria Lara) dead, and their little boy Conrad (Alexander Shaw) wishing they'd gone to Wally ... | Film Freak Central ***½/****starring Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebswritten and directed by Christian Petzold by Walter Chaw In …Mar 19, 2021 · Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) ****/****. starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Amy Adams. screenplay by Chris Terrio. directed by Zack Snyder. by Walter Chaw It opens with soundwaves visualized as ripples in the air--Superman's (Henry Cavill) death cry touching every part of a blasted world as the protection and decency he ... screenplay by Ryoo Seung-wan, Kim Jeong-yeon. directed by Ryoo Seung-wan. by Bill Chambers Jason Yu's Sleep had me at hello. Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi) and Hyun-su (Lee Sun-kyun) are a young couple expecting their first child. One night, out of the blue, Hyun-Su starts talking in his sleep. "Someone's inside," he says.Nov 22, 2021 · starring Carrie Coon, Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace. written by Gil Kenan & Jason Reitman. directed by Jason Reitman. by Walter Chaw In Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza, John Michael Higgins plays real-life restaurateur Jerry Frick, proprietor of "The Mikado." Frick is married to a severe and disapproving Japanese woman (Yumi ... Feb 19, 2016 · The Witch (2016) The VVitch. ****/****. starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Nelson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw. written and directed by Robert Eggers. by Walter Chaw Robert Eggers's The Witch details a young woman's coming-of-age as a thing of wonder and, to her Puritanical community, an incalculable and infernal threat. THE SHORT FILMS OF DAVID LYNCH Image A Sound A Extras B-. DUMBLAND Image B Sound A-. by Bill Chambers One is tempted to appropriate Jean-Luc Godard's oft-misquoted "The cinema is Nicholas Ray" in discussing the origins of David Lynch, whose blossoming sophistication unwittingly paralleled that of film itself. From the …starring Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Michael Keaton. screenplay by Michael McDowell and Warren Skaaren. directed by Tim Burton. by Bill Chambers Although Walter Chaw and Alex Jackson already covered The Goonies and Beetlejuice (hereafter Beetle Juice ), respectively, for our humble little website, I feel …“Freaking,” according to Dictionary.com, is an adverb or adjective form of freak that is used to emphasize a point. In this regard, it is not a bad word, but profanity is often con...directed by Sam Mendes. by Walter Chaw For me, the James Bond films are the literalization of a very particular Conservative fantasy in which a suave, quippy, emotionally-arrested sociopath battles Cold War foes, beds beautiful women without consequence, always has the latest technology, and engages in the endless murder of …Jul 12, 2021 · The film is a mess, an ideological jumble and a disaster of narrative that reduces its able cast to half exposition dump, half glazed reaction shots. It doesn't have anything to say and even... Film Freak Central - Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Code The Wild West has been a source of fascination for generations, and now you can explore it in all its glory with full free western movies. From classic westerns to modern takes on ....