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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 …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.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...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 …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 ... 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 …Mar 19, 2019 · It's perfect. Spider-Verse is the creation story of Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore), a Brooklyn kid, the child of black cop Jefferson Davis (Brian Tyree Henry) and a Puerto Rican nurse, Rio (Luna Lauren Velez), who speaks to him in a lilting Spanglish. He's lotteried into a private school but feels like an outsider. 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 ... 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 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 …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 ...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...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 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. 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 ... SDAFF '21: Drive My Car. ドライブ・マイ・カー. ****/****. starring Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masaki Okada, Reika Kirishima, Tôko Miura. screenplay by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe, based on the short story by Haruki Murakami. directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. by Walter Chaw Haruki Murakami's short story "Drive My Car" is a model of …screenplay by Jennifer Lee & Allison Moore. directed by Chris Buck, Fawn Veerasunthorn. by Walter Chaw It's possible to catch the zeitgeist express and still suck, and here's the proof: Fawn Veerasunthorn and Chris Buck's flaccid, disturbing, Les Miz -for-kids Disney flick, Wish. On the verge of giving her fondest wish to the autocrat King ...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 ...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 …Founder and editor Bill Chambers looks back on the history and evolution of Film Freak Central, a website that covers film reviews, interviews, and essays. He …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 …Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) **½/****. starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons. screenplay by Eric Roth and Martin Scorsese, based on the book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann. directed by Martin Scorsese.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 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.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 ...Streaming movies online has become increasingly popular in recent years, and with the right tools, it’s possible to watch full movies for free. Here are some tips on how to stream ...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 …Jan 13, 2024 · 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. 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 …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 ...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 …Jul 1, 2013 · The Lone Ranger (2013) ***/****. 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 of nihilism and a surprisingly high body ... The Avengers **½/**** starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Samuel L. Jackson screenplay by Joss Whedon directed by Joss Whedon by Walter Chaw Joss Whedon delivers his definitive artistic statement with the completely inoffensive, agreeably stupid Marvel's The Avengers. It's a giant, loud, sloppy kiss planted right on …Film critic Walter Chaw ranks his favourite movies of 2022, from Halloween Ends to Aftersun, with personal reflections and insights. See his list, honourable …Jan 1, 2023 · Film Freak Central is a website for film lovers and critics, run by Walter Chaw, a filmmaker and author. In his latest article, he lists his top 50 films of 2022, ranging from horror to comedy, and explains his choices with personal and cultural insights. 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 ...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 …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 …As seen in: Film Freak Central, The New York Times, MSN (US), Post Outlook, NPR, Flipboard, Newsday, Vulture, RogerEbert.com, WBUR-FM (Boston, MA), …Mar 19, 2019 · It's perfect. Spider-Verse is the creation story of Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore), a Brooklyn kid, the child of black cop Jefferson Davis (Brian Tyree Henry) and a Puerto Rican nurse, Rio (Luna Lauren Velez), who speaks to him in a lilting Spanglish. He's lotteried into a private school but feels like an outsider. 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 ...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...Feb 25, 2020 · 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 ... 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.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. Jan 2, 2024 · 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. 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 ... 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 …starring Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Luke Bracey, Olivia DeJonge. screenplay by Baz Luhrmann & Sam Bromwell and Baz Luhrmann & Craig Pearce. directed by Baz Luhrmann. by Walter Chaw Baz Luhrmann's Elvis is part Perfume, part Immortal Beloved --which is to say, it's horny as fuck and formulates music as mass delusion and mind control.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 ... 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 …A four-year-old girl was taken to hospital with serious injuries following a dog attack. Dyfed Powys Police said officers were called to Cae Grug, Carmarthen, at 18:15 …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 …starring Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, Freya Kreutzkam, Ralph Herforth. screenplay by Jonathan Glazer, based on the novel by Martin Amis. directed by Jonathan Glazer. by Walter Chaw A real sense of evil permeates every nook and cranny of Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest, which is an adaptation of the Martin Amis novel in the same way ...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 ... Less a movie with a plot than with a central intrigue, Dominion is about a proto Elon Musk figure named Lewis Dodgson (Campbell Scott), who has cornered the market on dinosaur engineering, using the privilege to create giant locusts that eat every crop except for the ones also engineered by Lewis's company. "But, famine," protests …starring Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, Mads Mikkelsen. written by Jez Butterworth & John-Henry Butterworth and David Koepp and James Mangold. directed by James Mangold. by Walter Chaw Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (hereafter Indy 5) is sad and tired. Some of that is on purpose, essaying a lonesome old …Film Freak Central. Home. Home ~Master Review Index~ Interview Index; The Film Freak Central Blog (2005-2012) Loose Frames (tumblr.) Sci-Fi January 30, 2024. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) - 4K Ultra HD + Digital Code. Note: all framegrabs were sourced from the 4K UHD discNov 15, 2022 · THE 4K UHD DISC The first of the Conjuring movies to get a physical 4K release, find the 2.39:1, 2160p video transfer of this expensive, mainstream, big-budget, by-the-numbers tentpole franchise garbage horror movie to be predictably eye-shattering. The Film Freak Central Blog (2005-2012) Loose Frames (tumblr.) Streaming December 18, 2023. Afire (2023) ***½/**** starring Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebs written and directed by Christian Petzold.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. 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 ... 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 ... 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 …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 …The main conflict in “Freak The Mighty” is two boys’ battles with themselves and their respective disabilities. Kevin has an extraordinary intellect but has been crippled from birt...****/**** Image B+ Sound B Extras B+ starring Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Jerry Molen screenplay by Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow directed by Barry Levinson. by Alex Jackson From its opening shot of a Cadillac craned across the smoggy Los Angeles skyline as The Belle Stars' iconic cover of "Iko Iko" plays on the soundtrack, Barry …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 ...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.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 ... | Film Freak Central ***½/****starring Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebswritten and directed by Christian Petzold by Walter Chaw In …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 …Nov 6, 2020 · 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 obliged to say something ... 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.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 …Apr 17, 2022 · 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. 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, …Film Freak Central is a website dedicated to film criticism, analysis and commentary. Read reviews of the latest releases, interviews with filmmakers, news and features on various …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 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 …Jul 22, 2023 · 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 ... ***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 …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 …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, …Jul 1, 2013 · The Lone Ranger (2013) ***/****. 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 of nihilism and a surprisingly high body ... ***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, …The Film Freak Central Blog (2005-2012) Loose Frames (tumblr.) Archives. February 2024; January 2024; December 2023; November 2023; October 2023; September 2023 ... 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 …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 ...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) ...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.The Film Freak Central Blog (2005-2012) Loose Frames (tumblr.) Best Picture (Academy Awards) March 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.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 …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 ...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 …Apr 17, 2022 · 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. 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 …We can’t believe it’s already almost April either. But there’s still a lot of 2022 ahead of us and we thought about taking a renewed look at our selection of some of 2022’s most an...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 …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 …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.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 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, …In today’s digital age, it’s easier than ever to watch movies online for free. However, with so many options available, it can be difficult to know which sites are safe and offer t...Walter Chaw interviews Renny Harlin, director of THE BRICKLAYER Renny Harlin is older now. Wiser. He almost made an Alien movie, was thisclose to taking the reins of the James Bond franchise, caught the biggest comedian on the planet in the last ten minutes before his precipitous fall... Harlin was a minute ahead of his time and …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. 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 ...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. 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 …Fallout is about a broken man with delusions of grandeur who moves away from a woman who sees salvation in him to a woman who doesn't. This is a good conversation to have. Originally published: July 18, 2018. THE 4K UHD DISC. by Bill Chambers Paramount's 4K UHD presentation of Mission: Impossible - Fallout is …We can’t believe it’s already almost April either. But there’s still a lot of 2022 ahead of us and we thought about taking a renewed look at our selection of some of 2022’s most an...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 ...Hey, Film Freak Central and Walter in particular just recieved an official endorsement from Roger Ebert. A recent post on his blog: I absolutely love film … | Cdswog (article) | Mfhgxdfb.