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. 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 ... 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 …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.Dec 3, 2022 · The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) ****/****. starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kelly, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan. written and directed by Martin McDonagh. by Walter Chaw I lost a friend this year. Not to death but to no longer having anything of value to offer him, what with time getting short. 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 for film lovers and critics, featuring reviews, interviews, news and more on various genres and directors. Whether you are looking for the latest releases, classics, or cult films, you can find them here with Walter Chaw's insights and recommendations. 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 …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.Film Freak Central - Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Posted in 2017, 2018, 4K Ultra HD, Action, Adventure, Authors: Bill Chambers, Authors: Walter Chaw, Blu-ray Disc, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Superhero | Permalink. Please Support Film Freak Central. PATREON: Become a Patron! PAYPAL: E-Mail UsFilm Freak Central. Home. Home ~Master Review Index~ Interview Index; The Film Freak Central Blog (2005-2012) Loose Frames (tumblr.) Animation January 30, 2024. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) - 4K Ultra HD + Digital Code. Note: all framegrabs were sourced from the 4K UHD discJun 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 ... 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 ... 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. 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 ... The Northman (2022) **½/****. starring Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Willem Dafoe. written by Sjón & Robert Eggers. directed by Robert Eggers. by Walter Chaw That Robert Eggers's latest film proves visually stunning is more expectation than revelation at this point. That it beggars traditional narrative tropes is also no ...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 …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 …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 ... 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 …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 ... 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. 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 …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 ... 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. 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 ...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 …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 ...starring Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Amie Donald, Jenna Davis. screenplay by Akela Cooper. directed by Gerard Johnstone. by Walter Chaw That the Internet works the way it does and evolved as quickly as it did likely had everything to do with it being the finest distributor of pornography the world had ever seen.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... 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. The Film Freak Central Blog (2005-2012) Loose Frames (tumblr.) Archives. February 2024; January 2024; December 2023; November 2023; October 2023; September 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 ...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...In 1997, he started Film Freak Central, which was recognized by the Broadcast Film Critics Association as one of the Internet’s finest movie sites in 2009. Bill has edited and published five books under Film Freak …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 4K UHD DISC Any modern transfer of Ghost in the Shell is going to present a challenge. The very circumstances of the film's making--all of the elements were digitized and assembled in computers before being written out to 35mm celluloid on a film recorder at whatever level of quality was possible in the mid-1990s--limit the clarity of the …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 ... 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 ... 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.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 …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 ...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 ...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.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 ... 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 …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...Eileen (2023) by Angelo Muredda Thomasin McKenzie gives the armpit-sniffing Mary Katherine Gallagher a run for her money as the eponymous weirdo loner in William Oldroyd's Eileen, an admirably icky take on the Ottessa Moshfegh novel of the same name, adapted by the author and her partner, Luke Goebel. An awkward, horned-up femcel, …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 …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 …A Man Called Otto (2022) */****. starring Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Mike Birbiglia. screenplay by David Magee, based on the novel A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman and the film A Man Called Ove written by Hannes Holm. directed by Marc Forster.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.TIFF '23: I Don't Know Who You Are. **½/****. starring Mark Clennon, Anthony Diaz, Nat Manuel, Michael Hogan. written and directed by M.H. Murray. by Bill Chambers Toronto scenester Benjamin (Mark Clennon) is a young, Black artist and musician getting his groove back after breaking up with his boyfriend and performing …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 ...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...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 ... THE BLU-RAY DISCby Bill Chambers Now making its Blu-ray debut, the 2-Disc Director's Cut of Zodiac, which contains nearly three hours of video-based extras, is, believe it or not, a model of restraint for tag-team obsessive Davids Fincher and Prior, last seen gazing into their navels on a 3-disc set of Panic Room.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 ...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 (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 …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 ... 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 …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 …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 ...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. 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 …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.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...Feb 28, 2022 · The Batman (2022) **/****. starring Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Colin Farrell. written by Matt Reeves & Peter Craig. directed by Matt Reeves. by Walter Chaw I love Matt Reeves. I think Cloverfield is exceptional, that I underestimated Let Me In upon its initial release, and that, for as popular as it was, the Planet of the Apes ... Tubi TV is a streaming service that offers a wide variety of movies and TV shows for free. With so many titles available, it can be hard to know where to start. Here are some tips ...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 …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 …| Film Freak Central ***½/****starring Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebswritten and directed by Christian Petzold by Walter Chaw In …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 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 ... The Matrix Resurrections (2021) ½*/****. starring Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Neil Patrick Harris. screenplay by Lana Wachowski & David Mitchell & Aleksandar Hemon. directed by Lana Wachowski. by Walter Chaw I guess I wouldn't mind that The Matrix: Resurrections (hereafter Matrix 4) is so stupid if it didn't …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 …A Man Called Otto (2022) */****. starring Tom Hanks, Mariana Treviño, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Mike Birbiglia. screenplay by David Magee, based on the novel A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman and the film A Man Called Ove written by Hannes Holm. directed by Marc Forster.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 …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.
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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 ... 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 …Burt Weston AKA The Film Freak is a serial-killer enemy of Batman. Obsessed with films, Weston's modus operandi is to recreate famous movie deaths in his killings. Burt Weston …***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, …***/**** 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 …by Walter Chaw Hand in hand with their release of "The Tarzan Collection", Warner issues seven Marx Bros. films on five DVDs in a box set commemorating the comedy team's MGM output. Diving into the films in this collection, one finds the Marx Bros. in clear decline and willing--because the failure of their final picture at Paramount, Duck Soup, neutered a lot …THE 4K UHD DISC Any modern transfer of Ghost in the Shell is going to present a challenge. The very circumstances of the film's making--all of the elements were digitized and assembled in computers before being written out to 35mm celluloid on a film recorder at whatever level of quality was possible in the mid-1990s--limit the clarity of the …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 …THE 4K UHD DISC. by Bill Chambers Universal brings Nope to 4K UHD disc in a 2160p transfer, complete with HDR10 encoding and a variable aspect ratio that toggles, in the fashion of DP Hoyte van Hoytema's collaborations with Christopher Nolan, between 2.20:1 and screen-filling 1.78:1 for IMAX footage. This is a handsome, refined …***/**** 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 …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 …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.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 …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 …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 ...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 ... 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 ...Jul 12, 2022 · 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 screen ... 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 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 …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 ….
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The eagle obituaries | by Walter Chaw Hand in hand with their release of "The Tarzan Collection", Warner issues seven Marx Bros. films on five DVDs in a box set commemorating the comedy team's MGM output. Diving into the films in this collection, one finds the Marx Bros. in clear decline and willing--because the failure of their final picture at Paramount, Duck Soup, neutered a lot …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 Good Person (2023) ZERO STARS/****. starring Florence Pugh, Molly Shannon, Chinaza Uche, Morgan Freeman. written and directed by Zach Braff. by Walter Chaw The answer to a question no one asked (what would happen if you smushed misery porn into eldersploitation and had Zach Braff do it?), A Good Person is, on a scale of 28 …...
Call hr block | 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.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 …...
Baylor scott white mychart | 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...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, …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 ... ...
Tyree funeral home | 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 …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...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 …...
Gif dancing man | 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 ...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 ... 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 ......
Sheriff labrador toys | 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 ... 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 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 ......