What Judas and the Black Messiah gets right--and what lingered with me after watching the film--is its atmosphere of literal warfare waged on America's streets between the FBI and the Black Panthers, whose movement promised, among other things, violent upheaval of the status quo. I've read about Fred Hampton, of course, and how even though he was …| Film Freak Central ***½/****starring Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebswritten and directed by Christian Petzold by Walter Chaw In …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, …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 …The Film Freak Central Blog (2005-2012) Loose Frames (tumblr.) Australia September 6, 2023. Telluride '23: The Royal Hotel **½/**** starring Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, James Frecheville, Hugo Weaving written by Kitty Green & Oscar Redding directed by Kitty Green.Scream (2022) ***½/****. 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 …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, …TIFF '21: Flee. by Angelo Muredda The past is as fluid as the rotoscoped animation used to bring it to life in Jonas Poher Rasmussen's Flee, a high-concept work of creative nonfiction whose unconventional style promises an immersiveness it can't really deliver. Rasmussen's animated documentary profile of his childhood friend, pseudonymously ...Cherry (2021) ***/****. starring Tom Holland, Ciara Bravo, Jack Reynor, Michael Rispoli. screenplay by Angela Russo-Otstot and Jessica Goldberg, based on the novel by Nico Walker. directed by Anthony Russo & Joe Russo. by Walter Chaw When you hit someone coming and going, I think that either it's personal or you don't know what …Contributor, Film Freak Central. Denver. Arts and Entertainment, U.S. Regional. As seen in: Film Freak Central, The New York Times, MSN (US), Post Outlook, NPR, Flipboard, …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 …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 …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...Aug 16, 2021 · starring Emilia Jones, Eugenio Derbez, Troy Kotsur, Marlee Matlin. screenplay by Sian Heder, based on the original motion picture La Famille Belier by Éric Lartigau. directed by Sian Heder. by Walter Chaw It says something, something terrible, that the Deaf community has expressed gratefulness for CODA because it's some kind of representation ... Apr 26, 2023 · 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. Jun 16, 2023 · The Flash (2023) *½/****. starring Ezra Miller, Sasha Calle, Kiersey Clemons, Michael Keaton. screenplay by Christina Hodson. directed by Andy Muschietti. by Walter Chaw Andy Muschietti's jittery, frenetic The Flash has about it the feeling of someone getting away with something. Some of that's extratextual, given the tribulations of its ... Priscilla (2023) ***½/****. starring Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Dagmara Dominiczyk. based on the book Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley with Sandra Harmon. written and directed by Sofia Coppola. by Walter Chaw Sofia Coppola takes a lot of heat for making movies about what she knows. This strikes me as peculiar, because I don't really …Nov 25, 2013 · 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 infusion ... Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (2019) ****/****. starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Al Pacino. written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. by Walter Chaw It was a late summer night, humid and low, in the "hill" area of downtown Seattle, outside a coffee shop called "Coffee Messiah" festooned wall-to-wall with tacky …starring Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Christopher Plummer. written and directed by Rian Johnson. by Bryant Frazer Knives Out, a cleverly plotted and star-studded whodunit, is both comfortingly familiar and surprisingly novel--a loving homage to classic English drawing-room mysteries that celebrates its sources while updating their ...The Film Freak Central Blog (2005-2012) Loose Frames (tumblr.) Archives. February 2024; January 2024; December 2023; November 2023; October 2023; September 2023 ... 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 CABIN IN THE WOODS */**** starring Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz screenplay by Joss Whedon & Drew Goddard directed by Drew Goddard LOCKOUT **/**** starring Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Vincent Regan, Peter Stormare screenplay by Stephen Saint Leger, James Mather & Luc …Uncut Gems matches the frantic intensity of Sandler's performance with Daniel Lopatin's driving, experimental score and a restless camera wielded by veteran cinematographer Darius Khondji that acts a little like how a panic attack feels. Viewed a certain way (as a jeweller does a gem, say), the film works as a harsh depiction of how …THE CABIN IN THE WOODS */**** starring Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz screenplay by Joss Whedon & Drew Goddard directed by Drew Goddard LOCKOUT **/**** starring Guy Pearce, Maggie Grace, Vincent Regan, Peter Stormare screenplay by Stephen Saint Leger, James Mather & Luc …FILM FREAK CENTRAL: One of the things that's so insidious about organized religion is that it purports to have the corner on morality, faith, and grace--that without it, those things are impossible or false. It's absolutely evil. It does harm.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 …REGION. 1. DISC TYPE. 2 DVD-9s. STUDIO. Fox. That mythology is reborn here as the story of Rogue (Anna Paquin), a teenaged belle who skips town after a first kiss leaves her boyfriend literally breathless, only to find herself a travelling companion to Logan (smouldering star-on-the-rise Hugh Jackman), an underground boxer with adamantium ...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 …***½/**** Image A Sound A- Extras A- starring Ken Ogata, Kenji Sawada, Yasosuke Bando, Toshiyuki Nagashima written by Paul Schrader and Leonard Schrader (Japanese screenplay by Cheiko Schrader) directed by Paul Schrader by Bryant Frazer A little more than halfway through Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, a fragmented, …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. THE BLU-RAY DISC. Roxanne ripostes on Blu-ray in a perfectly adequate 2.40:1, 1080p transfer. The image is soft and two-dimensional, but credit for not DVNR'ing it to death and/or lathering on the edge-enhancement. While grain is evident in every shot, it's not a distraction for the most part, and flesh tones seem pretty good--even the area ...Please Support Film Freak Central. PATREON: Become a Patron! PAYPAL: E-Mail Us. Recent Posts. Perfect Days (2023) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) - 4K Ultra HD + Digital Code; The Adventures of Renny Harlin: FFC Interviews Renny Harlin; The Bricklayer (2024) + The Beekeeper (2024) ...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 ... Prey (2022) ****/****. starring Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegro, Stormee Kipp. screenplay by Patrick Aison. directed by Dan Trachtenberg. by Walter Chaw There is a complete lack of pretense to Dan Trachtenberg's Prey --lack of pretense being one of the emerging traits of a filmmaker whose two films so far (both …Film Freak Central is a website that offers critical reviews of movies from various genres and countries. Read Walter Chaw's take on Afire, Dream Scenario, Eileen, and The …ZERO STARS/**** starring Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Johnny Depp screenplay by James Lapine, based on the musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine directed by Rob Marshall by Walter Chaw Into the Woods looks exactly like what a legendary Sondheim production would look like were it adapted by that idiot who made …starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Marisa Tomei. written by Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers. directed by Jon Watts. by Walter Chaw SPOILER WARNING IN EFFECT. Peter Parker (Tom Holland), having just been outed to the world as Spider-Man by a dying Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal), finds himself besieged …Mar 18, 2023 · starring Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgård, Laurence Fishburne. written by Shay Hatten and Michael Finch. directed by Chad Stahelski. by Walter Chaw The John Wick franchise is two things: a fantasy world with rules and consequences for breaking them, and a series of films crafted with extraordinary care and meticulous attention to detail. “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...Edge of Tomorrow (2014) ***/****. starring Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, Brendan Gleeson. screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie and Jez Butterworth & John-Henry Butterworth, based on the graphic novel All You Need Is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. directed by Doug Liman.Scream VI (2023) **/****. starring Melissa Barrera, Courteney Cox, Jenna Ortega, Hayden Panettiere. written by James Vanderbilt & Guy Busick. directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett. by Walter Chaw There's a fine line between satire and simulacrum, between an ironic commentary on a thing and the thing itself.Join Film Freak Central on Patreon to access exclusive content and support their in-depth reviews of new films and Blu-rays. For $5 a month, you can unlock 52 posts and join a …Fantasia Festival '23: Birth/Rebirth. ****/****. starring Judy Reyes, Marin Ireland, AJ Lister, Breeda Wool. written by Laura Moss & Brendan O'Brien. directed by Laura Moss. by Walter Chaw In this year of the distaff Frankenstein riff, sandwiched between Bomani Story's exceptional The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster and Yorgos …I fell down a psychic wormhole recently while writing about Luis Buñuel's Belle De Jour (1967) for Film Freak Central.It was one of those chrono-synclastic infundibula that can …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...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 …Babylon (2022) ZERO STARS/****. starring Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart. written and directed by Damien Chazelle. by Walter Chaw If it were only vile, only repulsive, it still would have been a disaster lacking insight and honesty, but at least it wouldn't also be afflicted with bathetic false modesty wet down with spasms of ...NO HARD FEELINGS. ***½/****. starring Jennifer Lawrence, Andrew Barth Feldman, Laura Benanti, Matthew Broderick. written by Gene Stupnitsky & John Phillips. directed by Gene Stupnitsky. by Walter Chaw Nicole Holofcener's You Hurt My Feelings belongs, alongside stuff like Tamara Jenkins's Private Life and Lynn Shelton's Sword of …Oct 9, 2023 · Priscilla (2023) ***½/****. starring Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Dagmara Dominiczyk. based on the book Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley with Sandra Harmon. written and directed by Sofia Coppola. by Walter Chaw Sofia Coppola takes a lot of heat for making movies about what she knows. This strikes me as peculiar, because I don't really have ... ZERO STARS/**** starring Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, James Corden, Johnny Depp screenplay by James Lapine, based on the musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine directed by Rob Marshall by Walter Chaw Into the Woods looks exactly like what a legendary Sondheim production would look like were it adapted by that idiot who made …Nov 16, 2021 · Posted in. ****/**** starring Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Christoph Waltz screenplay by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Cary Joji Fukunaga and Phoebe Waller-Bridge directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga by Walter Chaw SPOILER WARNING IN EFFECT. Cary Fukunaga's No Time to Die, the twenty-fifth canonical James Bond film, is the best one since ... 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. Mar 13, 2019 · starring Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Scott Haze. written by Jeff Pinkner & Scott Rosenberg and Kelly Marcel. directed by Ruben Fleischer. by Bryant Frazer The history of Venom, a rippled black mass of sentient alien muscle with a 'roided-out appearance and a gnarly personality to match, is complicated even for a comic-book origin ... 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.starring Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Christopher Plummer. written and directed by Rian Johnson. by Bryant Frazer Knives Out, a cleverly plotted and star-studded whodunit, is both comfortingly familiar and surprisingly novel--a loving homage to classic English drawing-room mysteries that celebrates its sources while updating their ...***½/**** Image A Sound A- Extras A- starring Ken Ogata, Kenji Sawada, Yasosuke Bando, Toshiyuki Nagashima written by Paul Schrader and Leonard Schrader (Japanese screenplay by Cheiko Schrader) directed by Paul Schrader by Bryant Frazer A little more than halfway through Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, a fragmented, …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 ... Mr. Intense: FFC Interviews James Foley. April 27, 2003|Discovered at a student party by director Hal Ashby, one of the more tragic figures of the American New Wave of the '70s, James Foley is at his best when detailing the brash social textures of the United States and the intricacies of male relationships (and, by extension, male ...Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (2019) ****/****. starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Al Pacino. written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. by Walter Chaw It was a late summer night, humid and low, in the "hill" area of downtown Seattle, outside a coffee shop called "Coffee Messiah" festooned wall-to-wall with tacky …Jan 15, 2022 · Scream (2022) ***½/****. 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 ... 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 …screenplay by Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley and Michael Gilio. directed by Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley. CHAMPIONS. **½/****. starring Woody Harrelson, Kaitlin Olson, Ernie Hudson, Cheech Marin. screenplay by Mark Rizzo, based on the Spanish film Campeones written by David Marqués & Javier Fesser.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.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.starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Marisa Tomei. written by Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers. directed by Jon Watts. by Walter Chaw SPOILER WARNING IN EFFECT. Peter Parker (Tom Holland), having just been outed to the world as Spider-Man by a dying Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal), finds himself besieged …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. Scream VI (2023) **/****. starring Melissa Barrera, Courteney Cox, Jenna Ortega, Hayden Panettiere. written by James Vanderbilt & Guy Busick. directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett. by Walter Chaw There's a fine line between satire and simulacrum, between an ironic commentary on a thing and the thing itself.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 ... 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. Nov 3, 2023 · Note: all framegrabs were sourced from the 4K UHD disc ****/**** Image A Sound A+ Extras B 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 any of them are about. If ... 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.Dec 9, 2020 · Total Recall (1990) - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital. Note: all framegrabs were sourced from the 4K UHD disc. ***/**** Image B+ Sound B+ Extras B+. starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox. screenplay by Ronald Shusett & Dan O'Bannon and Gary Goldman, based on the short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale ... Yu Aier in a still from Some Rain Must Fall (category TBC; Mandarin), directed by Qiu Yang and co-starring Di Shike and Wei Yibo. The Chinese drama showed at the …starring Aaron Eckhart, Nina Dobrev, Tim Blake Nelson, Clifton Collins, Jr. screenplay by Hanna Weg and Matt Johnson, based on the novel by Noah Boyd. directed by Renny Harlin. THE BEEKEEPER. **½/****. starring Jason Statham, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Josh Hutcherson, Jeremy Irons. written by Kurt Wimmer. directed by David Ayer.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.Aug 17, 2000 · Film Freak Central - 25 Candles: Film Freak Central Turns the Quarter-Century Mark. « Top Gun: Maverick (2022) | Main | Mad God: An Interview with Phil Tippett ». May 16, 2023 · 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 ... starring Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, John Magaro, Judd Hirsch. written by Jon Raymond & Kelly Reichardt. directed by Kelly Reichardt. by Angelo Muredda "You're ruining my work day," Michelle Williams's sculptor Lizzy whines to her cat Ricky early in Kelly Reichardt's Showing Up, which might be the most incisive portrait of the artist …There's a double sunrise set to a familiar John Williams motif. When Rey first wields Anakin's lightsaber, her gorgeous theme rises up like the lump in my throat. The Last Jedi feels like something entirely new: a shot across the bow in the form of a message of peace and acceptance. A leap of faith.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 ...starring Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Marisa Tomei. written by Chris McKenna & Erik Sommers. directed by Jon Watts. by Walter Chaw SPOILER WARNING IN EFFECT. Peter Parker (Tom Holland), having just been outed to the world as Spider-Man by a dying Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal), finds himself besieged …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 …We can’t believe it’s already almost April either. 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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 …. Walmart wardrobe rack
cross tattoos for fingers***½/**** Image B+ Sound A+ Extras B starring Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong screenplay by Michael Robert Johnson and Anthony Peckham and Simon Kinberg directed by Guy Ritchie by Walter Chaw On page 31 of the first book of Frank Miller's seminal The Dark Knight Returns, there's a sequence in which …Mar 18, 2023 · starring Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgård, Laurence Fishburne. written by Shay Hatten and Michael Finch. directed by Chad Stahelski. by Walter Chaw The John Wick franchise is two things: a fantasy world with rules and consequences for breaking them, and a series of films crafted with extraordinary care and meticulous attention to detail. TIFF '21: Flee. **½/****. directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen. by Angelo Muredda The past is as fluid as the rotoscoped animation used to bring it to life in Jonas Poher Rasmussen's Flee, a high-concept work of creative nonfiction whose unconventional style promises an immersiveness it can't really deliver. 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. TIFF '21: Flee. by Angelo Muredda The past is as fluid as the rotoscoped animation used to bring it to life in Jonas Poher Rasmussen's Flee, a high-concept work of creative nonfiction whose unconventional style promises an immersiveness it can't really deliver. Rasmussen's animated documentary profile of his childhood friend, pseudonymously ...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.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 ... starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg. written by Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer. directed by Zack Snyder. by Walter Chaw This is what I know: that the first time I saw Kinji Fukasaku's Battle Royale, a friend had to acquire it from some disreputable dealer and send it to me, unmarked, in a brown box.starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, Anthony Michael Hall. written by Scott Teems & Danny McBride & David Gordon Green. directed by David Gordon Green. by Bill Chambers Depending on your perspective, Halloween Kills, David Gordon Green's follow-up to his 2018 Halloween, is the third Halloween II, or the second …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 …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 …Posted in. ****/**** starring Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Christoph Waltz screenplay by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Cary Joji Fukunaga and Phoebe Waller-Bridge directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga by Walter Chaw SPOILER WARNING IN EFFECT. Cary Fukunaga's No Time to Die, the twenty-fifth canonical James Bond …THE BLU-RAY DISC. Roxanne ripostes on Blu-ray in a perfectly adequate 2.40:1, 1080p transfer. The image is soft and two-dimensional, but credit for not DVNR'ing it to death and/or lathering on the edge-enhancement. While grain is evident in every shot, it's not a distraction for the most part, and flesh tones seem pretty good--even the area ...Oct 8, 2023 · When Evil Lurks (2023) Cuando acecha la maldad. ****/****. starring Ezequiel Rodríguez, Demián Salomón, Luis Ziembrowski, Federico Liss. written and directed by Demián Rugna. by Walter Chaw I felt like there was a hand pressing down on my chest during Demián Rugna's When Evil Lurks, a horror film so vicious and uncompromising I wasn't ... 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 …***/**** starring Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Samuel L. Jackson screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely directed by Anthony and Joe Russo by Walter Chaw A fine companion piece to last summer's The Lone Ranger, with another hero whose essential goodness has become anachronistic in a world defined by …Watching movies online is a great way to enjoy your favorite films without having to leave the comfort of your own home. With so many streaming services available, it can be diffic...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 …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 …***/**** starring Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Samuel L. Jackson screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely directed by Anthony and Joe Russo by Walter Chaw A fine companion piece to last summer's The Lone Ranger, with another hero whose essential goodness has become anachronistic in a world defined by …While it is possible to download movies from Putlocker for free, it is illegal to do so. Downloading copyrighted movies without the express permission of the copyright owner is ill...Life (2017) - Blu-ray + Digital. **½/**** Image A- Sound A Extras C+. starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada. written by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick. directed by Daniel Espinosa. by Bryant Frazer If you're going to steal, they say, steal from the best. It almost works out for Life, which borrows the ...starring Lisa Yang, Chang Chen, Chang Kuo-Chu, Elaine Jin. script and dialogue by Edward Yang, Yan Hong-Ya, Alex Yang, Lai Ming-Tang. directed by Edward Yang. by Walter Chaw My family fled mainland China to Taiwan in 1949, just ahead of the communist takeover.***/**** starring Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Samuel L. Jackson screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely directed by Anthony and Joe Russo by Walter Chaw A fine companion piece to last summer's The Lone Ranger, with another hero whose essential goodness has become anachronistic in a world defined by …Originally published: December 24, 2012. THE BLU-RAY DISC. by Bill Chambers Distributed by eOne in Canada and Anchor Bay stateside, the Blu-ray release of Django Unchained presents the film in a 2.40:1, 1080p transfer best described as high-fidelity. Shot in 35mm Panavision (nice to see Quentin Tarantino and DP Robert …There's a double sunrise set to a familiar John Williams motif. When Rey first wields Anakin's lightsaber, her gorgeous theme rises up like the lump in my throat. The Last Jedi feels like something entirely new: a shot across the bow in the form of a message of peace and acceptance. A leap of faith.THE 4K UHD DISC by Bill Chambers Commemorating the film's 55 th anniversary, Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby returns home to Paramount on 4K UHD disc after a sojourn in the Criterion Collection. Though hardly the revelatory upgrade that Criterion's 2012 Blu-ray was, this in-house 4K transfer is rock solid, whatever the …The theme of Rodman Philbrick’s young-adult novel “Freak the Mighty” is the power of friendship and its ability to triumph over adversity. Max tells the “unvanquished truth” of his...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 …Jun 25, 2017 · Life (2017) - Blu-ray + Digital. **½/**** Image A- Sound A Extras C+. starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada. written by Rhett Reese & Paul Wernick. directed by Daniel Espinosa. by Bryant Frazer If you're going to steal, they say, steal from the best. It almost works out for Life, which borrows the ... click any image to enlarge ***/**** Image A Sound A+ Extras C+ starring Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, Tom Wilkinson, Helena Bonham Carter screenplay by Justin Haythe and Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio directed by Gore Verbinski by Walter Chaw What Gore Verbinski's The Lone Ranger has going for it, in addition to a genuinely ugly streak …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 …Apr 8, 2023 · screenplay by Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley and Michael Gilio. directed by Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley. CHAMPIONS. **½/****. starring Woody Harrelson, Kaitlin Olson, Ernie Hudson, Cheech Marin. screenplay by Mark Rizzo, based on the Spanish film Campeones written by David Marqués & Javier Fesser. For ’90s kids, it may come as a shock to learn that Pokémon is over 25 years old. Back on February 27th, 1996, Game Freak’s first installments in the Pocket Monsters — hence Pokémo...½*/**** starring Nicolas Cage, Joel Kinnaman, Kaiwi Lyman screenplay by Luke Paradise directed by Yuval Adler by Walter Chaw A History of Violence for Dummies, Yuval Adler's slow-moving, never-ending Sympathy for the Devil is a Nicolas Cage vanity project in which America's slavering hambone tries on some kind of accent, a scarlet dye-job, and a half …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.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.Yu Aier in a still from Some Rain Must Fall (category TBC; Mandarin), directed by Qiu Yang and co-starring Di Shike and Wei Yibo. The Chinese drama showed at the …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?- 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. - …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 …Scream VI (2023) **/****. starring Melissa Barrera, Courteney Cox, Jenna Ortega, Hayden Panettiere. written by James Vanderbilt & Guy Busick. directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett. by Walter Chaw There's a fine line between satire and simulacrum, between an ironic commentary on a thing and the thing itself.starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli. screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg, based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer. directed by Catherine Hardwicke. by Bryant Frazer Author Stephenie Meyer says she wrote her first novel, Twilight, in three months' time, after the central idea came to her in a dream.Nov 16, 2021 · Posted in. ****/**** starring Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Christoph Waltz screenplay by Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Cary Joji Fukunaga and Phoebe Waller-Bridge directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga by Walter Chaw SPOILER WARNING IN EFFECT. Cary Fukunaga's No Time to Die, the twenty-fifth canonical James Bond film, is the best one since ... ***/**** 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 …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.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 …Hellbender (2022) - Shudder. ****/****. starring Zelda Adams, Toby Poser, Lulu Adams, John Adams. written and directed by Toby Poser & Zelda Adams & John Adams. by Walter Chaw Hellbender is rare and wild, alive with joy, bristling with the energy of its invention. Even though its story of a young woman coming of age and discovering her power is ...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? 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 ...Please Support Film Freak Central. PATREON: Become a Patron! PAYPAL: E-Mail Us. Recent Posts. The Adventures of Renny Harlin: FFC Interviews Renny Harlin; The Bricklayer (2024) + The Beekeeper (2024) The Holdovers (2023) [Collector's Edition] - Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Code "The 50 Best Films of 2023" by Walter Chaw ...There's a double sunrise set to a familiar John Williams motif. When Rey first wields Anakin's lightsaber, her gorgeous theme rises up like the lump in my throat. The Last Jedi feels like something entirely new: a shot across the bow in the form of a message of peace and acceptance. A leap of faith.A blog post by Walter Chaw that reviews various films from December 2023, covering topics such as German cinema, horror, comedy, and drama. The post includes ratings, summaries, and personal opinions of the films, as well as some historical and cultural references. REGION. 1. DISC TYPE. 2 DVD-9s. STUDIO. Fox. That mythology is reborn here as the story of Rogue (Anna Paquin), a teenaged belle who skips town after a first kiss leaves her boyfriend literally breathless, only to find herself a travelling companion to Logan (smouldering star-on-the-rise Hugh Jackman), an underground boxer with adamantium ...FILM FREAK CENTRAL: One of the things that's so insidious about organized religion is that it purports to have the corner on morality, faith, and grace--that without it, those things are impossible or false. It's absolutely evil. It does harm.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...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 …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...Sep 18, 2021 · Telluride '21: The Lost Daughter. ****/****. starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Peter Sarsgaard, Jessie Buckley. screenplay by Maggie Gyllenhaal, based on the novel by Elena Ferrante. directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. by Walter Chaw Leda (Jessie Buckley) is brilliant. She's translating Auden into Italian and, more than just translating, she's ... 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 …Yu Aier in a still from Some Rain Must Fall (category TBC; Mandarin), directed by Qiu Yang and co-starring Di Shike and Wei Yibo. The Chinese drama showed at the …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 …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.. 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