It’s infectious, the love “Freaky Tales” has for the Oakland, California, of the mid-1980s. You need not have grown up then ...

The new indie from co-writer-directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden keenly evokes a Bay Area of the 1980s, a settling that ...

Anyone who longs for the ‘80s will gobble up Anna Boden and East Bay-born Ryan Fleck’s “Freaky Tales,” a berserk quartet of ...

Personality goes a long way, and “Freaky Tales” has a lot of it, particularly its well-executed throwback look.

Freaky Tales” certainly delivers on its title. It's a collection of tales that are freaky indeed. And nostalgic, and chaotic, ...

Freaky Tales is an American action-comedy anthology film comprising four stories taking place in Oakland in 1987. The stories ...

I think Oakland needs this movie right now,” the Berkeley-born Fleck said during an interview with Boden at one of the film’s ...

"Freaky Tales" is a weirdly cool love letter to 1980s B-movie cinema, but the best part is a Tom Hanks cameo different than ...

Crammed to the margins with peaceable punks, vicious skinheads, ambitious rappers, racist police — oh, and a green supernatural whatsit — Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s “Freaky Tales” is a nostalgic ...

Nazis, drugs, and something resembling the supernatural. These are all the crazy things someone signs up for when they walk ...

We just lost a lot of people … the Oakland A’s. I think (this film) is just a celebration.” And how. “Freaky Tales” made a splashy debut at the Sundance Film Festival in 2024 and last ...

It’s infectious, the love “Freaky Tales” has for the Oakland, California, of the mid-1980s. You need not have grown up then and there — as one of the film’s co-writers and -directors ...