***½/**** Image A Sound A+ Extras B+ starring Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jessica Lucas screenplay by Fede Alvarez & Rodo Sayagues, based on the screenplay by Sam Raimi directed by Fede Alvarez by Walter Chaw SPOILER WARNING IN EFFECT. The greatest irony of Fede Alvarez’s otherwise laudably straightforward reboot of Sam Raimi’s Spam-in-a-cabin classic The Evil Dead is that the moments where it references its primogenitor are actually the movie’s weakest. I’m thinki...| FILM FREAK CENTRAL
****/**** Image A Sound A- starring Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Kruger screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel by William Makepeace Thackeray directed by Stanley Kubrick by Alex Jackson If The Shining has dated the most of Kubrick’s films, Barry Lyndon, which immediately preceded it, has dated the least. In 1976, Barry Lyndon was nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award alongside Jaws, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Dog Day Afternoon, and Nashville...| FILM FREAK CENTRAL
BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA Dracula **/**** DVD – Image B Sound B+ BD – Image C Sound A Extras A+ starring Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves screenplay by James V. Hart directed by Francis Ford Coppola MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN **½/**** DVD – Image D Sound B+ BD – Image B+ Sound B starring Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham Carter screenplay by Steph Lady and Frank Darabont directed by Kenneth Branagh by Walter Chaw The first thirty minut...| FILM FREAK CENTRAL
CHANDU THE MAGICIAN (1932) ***½/**** Image B- Sound C Extras A- starring Edmund Lowe, Bela Lugosi, Irene Ware, Henry B. Walthall directed by Marcel Varnel and William Cameron Menzies DRAGONWYCK (1946) **/**** Image A Sound A Extras B+ starring Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the novel by Anya Seton directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz DR. RENAULT’S SECRET (1942) */**** Image A Sound A- Extras B starring J. Carrol Naish, John...| FILM FREAK CENTRAL
THE V.I.P.S (1963)½*/**** Image C+ Sound Bstarring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Elsa Martinelli, Margaret Ruthefordscreenplay by Terence Rattigandirected by Anthony Asquith THE SANDPIPER (1965)½*/**** Image B Sound B- Extras C-starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint, Morgan Masonscreenplay by Dalton Trumbo and Michael Wilsondirected by Vincente Minnelli WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (1966)****/**** Image A+ Sound A- Extras Bstarring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton...| FILM FREAK CENTRAL
Note: all framegrabs were sourced from the 4K UHD discs SUPERMAN (1978) ****/**** Image B+ Sound A- Extras A- starring Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty screenplay by Mario Puzo, David Newman, Leslie Newman and Robert Benton directed by Richard Donner SUPERMAN II (1981) ***/**** Image A+ Sound B+ Extras A- starring Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper screenplay by Mario Puzo, David Newman and Leslie Newman directed by Richard Lester SUPERMAN II ...| FILM FREAK CENTRAL
2019 will be defined for me by two things–one is interesting, the other is not. The “not” is that my friend Sam killed himself. He used a gun. Sam and I disagreed about guns. He had been in various levels of law enforcement, retired to be a 9-1-1 operator, found himself traumatized after his service, and moved across the country to be closer to his young daughter and ex-wife. To be a dad, you know. Sam owned a lot of guns, but in the last couple of years, he began to ask me about statis...| FILM FREAK CENTRAL
