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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 or the era ...

The new indie from co-writer-directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden keenly evokes a Bay Area of the 1980s, a settling that ...

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

The film premiered at Sundance in 2024, but you just brought it to its hometown audience — what was that Oakland premiere like? Ryan Fleck: It was perfect. Angus Cloud’s mom was there, and she brought ...

It’s infectious, the love “Freaky Tales” has for the Oakland, California, of the mid-1980s.

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 ...

Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are the filmmaking duo behind six movies released between 2006 and 2024, and which have varied in ...

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