For ’90s kids, it may come as a shock to learn that Pokémon is over 25 years old. Back on February 27th, 1996, Game Freak’s first installments in the Pocket Monsters — hence Pokémo...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 …A blog post by Walter Chaw that reviews various films from December 2023, covering topics such as German cinema, horror, comedy, and drama. The post includes ratings, summaries, and personal opinions of the films, as well as some historical and cultural references. Bill Chambers – Film Freak Central; Susan G. Cole – Freelance; Thom Ernst – Freelance; Marriska Fernandes – Freelance; Alicia Fletcher - Cinema Scope, A Year in Film; Eli …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 …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 ... 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 …It's a horrifying distraction, because once the leads step out of their cruiser, "True Detective" becomes a showpiece for HBO's Blu-ray output. The 1.78:1, 1080p image maintains crispness, depth, mild grain, colour warmth, and the crucial chiaroscuros of nighttime crime scenes illuminated by floodlights.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 …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 …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 critic Walter Chaw ranks his favourite movies of 2022, from Halloween Ends to Aftersun, with personal reflections and insights. See his list, honourable …THE SHORT FILMS OF DAVID LYNCH Image A Sound A Extras B-. DUMBLAND Image B Sound A-. by Bill Chambers One is tempted to appropriate Jean-Luc Godard's oft-misquoted "The cinema is Nicholas Ray" in discussing the origins of David Lynch, whose blossoming sophistication unwittingly paralleled that of film itself. From the …Join Film Freak Central on Patreon to access exclusive content and support their in-depth reviews of new films and Blu-rays. For $5 a month, you can unlock 52 posts and join a …starring Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance, Michael Stuhlbarg. screenplay by David Kajganich, based on the novel by Camille DeAngelis. directed by Luca Guadagnino. by Walter Chaw Luca Guadagnino's Bones and All is every single thing I like packed into one film: a swooning gothic romance; a gory and …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. THE BLU-RAY DISC. Easy Rider docks on Blu-ray from Sony in a beautiful, glass-clear 1.85:1, 1080p/MPEG-4 transfer that sharpens every frame of the picture without sacrificing its hard textures and no-budget integrity. The 16mm blowup sequences look more virtuoso than ever before, their influence on stuff like Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal ...While it is possible to download movies from Putlocker for free, it is illegal to do so. Downloading copyrighted movies without the express permission of the copyright owner is ill...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.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 ... 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.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.What Judas and the Black Messiah gets right--and what lingered with me after watching the film--is its atmosphere of literal warfare waged on America's streets between the FBI and the Black Panthers, whose movement promised, among other things, violent upheaval of the status quo. I've read about Fred Hampton, of course, and how even though he was …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 ... 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 …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. 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 …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 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 ...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 …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, …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 ... 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 …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 …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 …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...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 ... 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 …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 ». 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. Feb 10, 2016 · ****/**** Image A Sound A Extras A- story adaptation Ted Sears, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander, Dick Richard, Earl Hurd, Merrill De Maris, Dorothy Ann Blank, Webb Smith supervising director David Hand by Bill Chambers Walt Disney was shooting for the moon with 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, not just his first but the first animated feature. He of the Silly Symphony wanted it to have ... 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 …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, …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...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 ... 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 ... 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 4K UHD DISC Paramount's 4K Blu-ray of Coming to America contains all of the supplementary material that first appeared on DVD and then Blu-ray, hence there are no other discs bundled with the 4K platter (although the studio still saw fit to include a voucher for a digital copy). Extras begin with "Prince-ipal Photography: The Coming …Elemental (2023) ****/****. screenplay by Peter Sohn & Kat Likkel and Brenda Hsueh. directed by Peter Sohn. by Walter Chaw I tell this tale over and over again as I see echoes of it pop up now in a landscape temporarily interested in the particulars of the immigrant story, but my parents came to the United States in the early '70s to complete ...THE 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.Oct 8, 2023 · When Evil Lurks (2023) Cuando acecha la maldad. ****/****. starring Ezequiel Rodríguez, Demián Salomón, Luis Ziembrowski, Federico Liss. written and directed by Demián Rugna. by Walter Chaw I felt like there was a hand pressing down on my chest during Demián Rugna's When Evil Lurks, a horror film so vicious and uncompromising I wasn't ... Dream Scenario (2023) **½/****. starring Nicolas Cage, Julianne Nicholson, Michael Cera, Tim Meadows. written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli. by Walter Chaw There's so much to like about Norwegian filmmaker Kristoffer Borgli's Dream Scenario, it's a shame it takes such a sharp detour at its end, veering away from existential chaos into a ...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 ...For ’90s kids, it may come as a shock to learn that Pokémon is over 25 years old. Back on February 27th, 1996, Game Freak’s first installments in the Pocket Monsters — hence Pokémo...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 …Join Film Freak Central on Patreon to access exclusive content and support their in-depth reviews of new films and Blu-rays. For $5 a month, you can unlock 52 posts and join a …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. 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 …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 ...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 …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 BLU-RAY DISC. Easy Rider docks on Blu-ray from Sony in a beautiful, glass-clear 1.85:1, 1080p/MPEG-4 transfer that sharpens every frame of the picture without sacrificing its hard textures and no-budget integrity. The 16mm blowup sequences look more virtuoso than ever before, their influence on stuff like Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal ...Join Film Freak Central on Patreon to access exclusive content and support their in-depth reviews of new films and Blu-rays. For $5 a month, you can unlock 52 posts and join a …The Film Freak Central Blog (2005-2012) Loose Frames (tumblr.) Archives. February 2024; January 2024; December 2023; November 2023; October 2023; September 2023 ... 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 ... As of 2015, there is no known movie about “Bud, Not Buddy.” However, the book has been modeled into multiple theatre productions around the U.S.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.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 ... 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. 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 …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 …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 ...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 …Jan 15, 2022 · Scream (2022) ***½/****. starring Melissa Berrera, Mason Gooding, Jenna Ortega, Neve Campbell. written by James Vanderbilt & Guy Busick. directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett. by Walter Chaw Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven's Scream cycle, in terms of its influence on modern film, constitutes the most important metatext of the last ... 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 ... While it is possible to download movies from Putlocker for free, it is illegal to do so. Downloading copyrighted movies without the express permission of the copyright owner is ill...THE 4K UHD DISC The King's Man docks on 4K UHD disc in a 2.39:1, 2160p transfer with HDR10 encoding. I struggled to find fault with the image, which liberally utilizes HDR but also knows when to dial it back. Take the scene where Polly surprises Conrad with a birthday cake, the candles evoking heat and flickering brightly enough to be a …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.THE BLU-RAY DISC. Easy Rider docks on Blu-ray from Sony in a beautiful, glass-clear 1.85:1, 1080p/MPEG-4 transfer that sharpens every frame of the picture without sacrificing its hard textures and no-budget integrity. The 16mm blowup sequences look more virtuoso than ever before, their influence on stuff like Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal ...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...Aug 16, 2021 · starring Emilia Jones, Eugenio Derbez, Troy Kotsur, Marlee Matlin. screenplay by Sian Heder, based on the original motion picture La Famille Belier by Éric Lartigau. directed by Sian Heder. by Walter Chaw It says something, something terrible, that the Deaf community has expressed gratefulness for CODA because it's some kind of representation ... Apr 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. “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...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 ...
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.. Alliance review
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.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 Elena Kampouris, Kate Moyer, Callan Mulvey, Bruce Spence. based upon the short story by Stephen King. written and directed by Kurt Wimmer. by Walter Chaw Kurt Wimmer's Children of the Corn prequel/reboot is drab, uninspired, witless I.P.-sploitation.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 …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 ... 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 ... 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 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 …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. 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 ... 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 …Nov 26, 2023 · Saltburn (2023) */****. starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant. written and directed by Emerald Fennell. by Walter Chaw People keep expressing in the weariest, archest way how disappointing Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) has turned out to be, or, if they're more passive, how they do hope he doesn't end up like the ... starring 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. 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 discstarring Elena Kampouris, Kate Moyer, Callan Mulvey, Bruce Spence. based upon the short story by Stephen King. written and directed by Kurt Wimmer. by Walter Chaw Kurt Wimmer's Children of the Corn prequel/reboot is drab, uninspired, witless I.P.-sploitation.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 ….