**½/****starring Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon, Nic Cassim, Miranda Tapsellwritten by Thomas Martindirected by Lorcan Finnegan by Walter Chaw A time or two during Lorcan Finnegan’s The Surfer, I wondered if it wasn’t at least a spiritual cousin to Frank Perry’s The Swimmer, seeing as how both films offer an overarching metaphor of going home while examining an aimless, tortured masculinity on the existential skids. Indeed, there’s a literary quality to The Surfer that smells like the ...| 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
ZERO STARS/****starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Tom Hiddleston, Annalise Basso, Mark Hamillwritten by Mike Flanagan, based on the short story by Stephen Kingdirected by Mike Flanagan by Walter Chaw I admit it: I have an allergy to sentimental treacle. I get that this shit is like mother’s milk to some–that fading stars and, indeed, entire cable channels have tied their strings to the “shameless tearjerker” to great if niche fame and fortune; it’s a “me” problem, and I accept that. I r...| FILM FREAK CENTRAL
