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 ...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 …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 ... 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 ...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 …***/**** 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 …Nov 24, 2023 · 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 ... 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 ... 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 ... ****/**** Image A Sound A Extras A- story adaptation Ted Sears, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander, Dick Richard, Earl Hurd, Merrill De Maris, Dorothy Ann Blank, Webb Smith supervising director David Hand by Bill Chambers Walt Disney was shooting for the moon with 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, not just his first but the first …Apr 19, 2019 · starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Nelson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw. written and directed by Robert Eggers. by Walter Chaw Robert Eggers's The Witch details a young woman's coming-of-age as a thing of wonder and, to her Puritanical community, an incalculable and infernal threat. 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, …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 …| Film Freak Central ***½/****starring Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Langston Uibel, Enno Trebswritten and directed by Christian Petzold by Walter Chaw In …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 ... 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? 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.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 …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...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 …***/**** 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 …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 ... 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 …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 ...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 …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 ... 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 ... 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 …Perfect Days (2023) ****/****. starring Kôji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano, Tomokazu Miura. written by Wim Wenders, Takuma Takasaki. directed by Wim Wenders. by Walter …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 …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 ... 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...***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 …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.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 …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.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.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) ...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 …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...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 …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 ». 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.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 …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 …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 …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 ...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 ... 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 ... 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 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 …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 …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.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 …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.Among my favourite Canadian publications to find films are Film Freak Central and Cinema Axis. (Throughout the festival, I maintain an updating list of the best …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. 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 …Nov 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. Landslips are a concern in Looe, this one happened on Tuesday night. Some residents in Looe are concerned about a housing development planned for an area prone to …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 …Professional film critic, instructor and essayist. I have written a monograph on the film MIRACLE MILE and have an upcoming book on the films of Walter Hill. ... FILM FREAK …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 ... Apr 19, 2019 · starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Nelson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw. written and directed by Robert Eggers. by Walter Chaw Robert Eggers's The Witch details a young woman's coming-of-age as a thing of wonder and, to her Puritanical community, an incalculable and infernal threat. 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 …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.Since FILM FREAK CENTRAL is technically a Canadian website, based in southern Ontario, I wanted to take this opportunity to tell you about the 27 th annual Port Hope Vintage Film Festival. Running from September 27-29, it's a rare opportunity to see classic films--such as Top Hat, ...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 ... 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 ...“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.... TIFF '21: Dune. Dune Part One****/****starrin½*/**** starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan 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 Factory brings Ghost Story to Blu-ray in its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio. The 1080p transfer appears to look as good as it possibly could--good enough to throw a few focusing anomalies into relief--with the exception of some overlooked print debris. Brown is the movie's colour scheme and so, brown it is. Nov 19, 2023 · Napoleon (2023) **½/****. starring Joaquin Phoenix, 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. Recent posts by Film Freak Central. Date. U...
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