After “Insecure,” Jay Ellis was ready for his action-hero moment. Enter “Freaky Tales” — and a role as a sword-toting NBA star.

Robert Trebor, who portrayed the serial killer known as the Son of Sam in a CBS telefilm and the scheming merchant Salmoneus ...

"Freaky Tales," a choppy curio from the writing-directing team of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck ("Half Nelson," "Captain Marvel") ...

The movie Stephen King knew was doomed from the start was a 1982 film because it was a homage to 1950s horror comics, and ...

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

She took the title of her 2009 Civil War novel, “All Other Nights,” from the Passover Haggadah, which she calls a book about ...

In South of Midnight, you play as Hazel Flood, a young woman searching for her mother after a hurricane devastates the town ...

Jack Black and Jason Momoa star in the first attempt to adapt the blockbuster video game for the big screen. And Pedro Pascal returns in a real-life inspired Bay Area anthology with a lot going on.

Freaky Tales” — 2 stars Remember what it was like growing up in the East Bay in the ’80s? Ryan Fleck sure does, and vividly.

This year's festival contains a handful of Chicago-area productions, including short films from nonprofit theater company ...