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Grave Expectations: FFC Interviews David Cronenberg

6 days ago | filmfreakcentral.net | Bill Chambers

by Walter Chaw I first interviewed David Cronenberg after the premiere of Spider at the Telluride International Film Festival in 2002. A couple of months later, I hosted a screening of the same at Denver’s Landmark Mayan Theatre and was granted another hour with him to go through his filmography feature by feature.
Holland (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL

2 weeks ago | filmfreakcentral.net | Bill Chambers

*/****starring Nicole Kidman, Matthew Macfadyen, Jude Hill, Gael García Bernalwritten by Andrew Sodroskidirected by Mimi Caveby Walter Chaw Mimi Cave’s Holland is a Fargo knock-off, a quirky fable of midwestern misbehavior featuring middle-aged frumps (and their satellite nebbishes) at the eye of tweedy flare-ups of droll and bloody devilry.
Borderline (2025) + Novocaine (2025)

3 weeks ago | filmfreakcentral.net | Bill Chambers

BORDERLINE***½/****starring Samara Weaving, Ray Nicholson, Jimmie Fails, Eric Danewritten and directed by Jimmy WardenNOVOCAINE*/****starring Jack Quaid, Amber Midthunder, Ray Nicholson, Matthew Walshwritten by Lars Jacobsondirected by Dan Berk and Robert Olsenby Walter Chaw Samara Weaving is the best Bruce Campbell since Bruce Campbell. They even worked together on the “Ash vs Evil Dead” show. Her timing is impeccable, her control over her physicality and facial expressions prodigious.
Snow White (2025)

1 month ago | filmfreakcentral.net | Bill Chambers

ZERO STARS/****starring Rachel Zegler, Andrew Burnap, Gal Gadotscreenplay by Erin Cressida Wilsondirected by Marc Webbby Walter Chaw In the case of live-action Disney reboots, it isn’t a matter of whether they’re a hate crime, but how egregious a hate crime they are. We expect dead-eyed CGI renderings of what were once astonishingly evocative hand-drawn miracles.
O'Dessa (2025) - FILM FREAK CENTRAL

1 month ago | filmfreakcentral.net | Bill Chambers

ZERO STARS/****starring Sadie Sink, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Murray Bartlett, Regina Hallwritten and directed by Geremy Jasperby Walter Chaw Every once in a while, a film comes along that is so not for me I don’t even dislike it. I don’t feel anything towards it. We barely exist in the same dimension. It’s like an animal from the deep ocean presented to me for my approval or condemnation, a cuniform poem written in a dead language; I don’t even have a baseline to test it against.
Mickey 17 (2025)

1 month ago | filmfreakcentral.net | Bill Chambers

***/**** starring Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Mark Ruffalo written and directed by Bong Joon Ho by Walter Chaw Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 is a philosophical sequel to Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers, expanding on that movie’s satire of an overly-militarized American Imperialist fascist state to talk about how we are at the mercy of trillionaire megalomaniacs who, because they’ve been social outcasts their entire lives, have interstellar plans for colonization tied to their...
Nobody Does It Better: FFC Interviews Martin Campbell

1 month ago | filmfreakcentral.net | Bill Chambers

by Walter Chaw I fucking love Martin Campbell’s movies. I find them viscerally engaging and curious. They never shy away from tough subjects or sociopolitical hotspots, and, most importantly, they’re never boring. I rented his futuristic prison movie, 1994’s No Escape, on VHS just because it looked like The Blood of Heroes mixed with some sort of “The Most Dangerous Game” conceit.
The 4:30 Movie (2024) - Blu-ray + DVD + Digital

1 month ago | filmfreakcentral.net | Bill Chambers

*½/**** Image B+ Sound B+ Extras B+starring Austin Zajur, Nicholas Cirillo, Reed Northrup, Ken Jeongwritten and directed by Kevin Smithby Bill Chambers What is Kevin Smith’s most personal film to date? Inveterate online cinephiles trapped in a parasocial relationship with him such as myself might say it’s still his first, Clerks, a comic ode to the plight of the American convenience-store worker shot at the very same Quik Stop that employed him at the time.
The Monkey (2025)

1 month ago | filmfreakcentral.net | Bill Chambers

****/****starring Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Elijah Wood, Sarah Levywritten by Osgood Perkins, based on the short story by Stephen Kingdirected by Osgood Perkinsby Walter Chaw Oz Perkins’s The Monkey plays like WWI frontlines poetry. Like something by Siegfried Sassoon or Wilfred Owen documenting the birth of irony as a literary device–the only appropriate response to mechanized, impersonal, mass and random death.
A City Full of Hawks: On the Waterfront Seventy Years Later―Still the Great American Contender - Books

2 months ago | filmfreakcentral.net | Bill Chambers

A City Full of Hawks: On the Waterfront Seventy Years Later―Still the Great American Contenderby Stephen RebelloFFC rating: 7/10by Walter Chaw I’m not alone in quoting passages from Stephen Rebello’s Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho in lectures and conversation over the years. Written in a user-friendly, almost conspiratorial style, it has a breathlessness that makes old history and twice-told tales alive and urgent again.