FREAKY TALES

Director: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Starring: Jack Campion, Ji-young Yoo, Normani, Dominique Thorne, Pedro Pascal, Tom Hanks, Jay Ellis, Ben Mendelsohn

Anthology stories are big right now in television and movies. The new film Freaky Tales is a collection of four different stories all set in Oakland in 1987. It takes the audience back to a different time. It was hella wild in Oakland in the late 1980s when a bright, green glow emanated from the sky. The narrator ponders what that cosmic green stuff was and what it all meant. The first story is “The Gilman Strikes Back” and features Jack Campion and Ji-young Yoo as two young wannabe punk rockers who attend Gilman Street night club where everyone is welcome. One night they are raided by a neo-Nazi group of skinheads ending in a massive street brawl. The second story is “Don’t Fight That Feeling” featuring Normani and Dominique Thorne who work an ice cream parlor during the day as they fend off harassment by a local cop (Mendelsohn). At night, they are on stage rapping in a club with Too $hort. The third story features Pedro Pascal in “Born to Mack” He’s a former henchman hoping for a new life. He stops by a video store with his pregnant wife only to face his past all over again. The fourth and final story is “The Legend of Sleepy Floyd” which stars Jay Ellis as a professional basketball player who becomes the victim of a deadly home robbery when a motorcycle gang robs his house while he’s playing a game. In theaters

Here’s my review