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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.

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

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 ...