Crammed to the margins with peaceable punks, vicious skinheads, ambitious rappers, racist police — oh, and a green ...

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

Starring: Pedro Pascal, Jay Ellis and Ben Mendelsohn Directors: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck Rated: R (Strong bloody violence, ...

I think Oakland needs this movie right now,” the Berkeley-born Fleck said during an interview with Boden at one of the film’s star locations — the venerable Grand Lake Theatre. “The city’s gone ...

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

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

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 VHS-like tales that celebrates Oakland’s raucous vitality and creative ...

Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's tip of the hat to a specific place and time will even entertain those who know little of the city ...

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, Ryan ...

As soon as the beat from Too $hort’s Freaky Tales comes on during the intro of the movie, Freaky Tales, you know that you are ...