It’s infectious, the love “Freaky Tales” has for the Oakland, California, of the mid-1980s. You need not have grown up then and there — as one of the film’s co-writers and -directors ...

We just lost a lot of people … the Oakland A’s. I think (this film) is just a celebration.” And how. “Freaky Tales” made a splashy debut at the Sundance Film Festival in 2024 and last ...

On Friday, April 4, moviegoers finally get to see what the buzz was about when Freaky Tales, an anthology movie by Berkeley-born and Oakland-raised Ryan Fleck and co-writer Anna Boden, opens ...

Oakland plays a starring role in the new film Freaky Tales, and Berkeley has a handful of cameos too. Prominent spots like the Grand Lake Theatre and Gilman in Berkeley show up in the film ...

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 ...

and a green supernatural whatsit — Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s “Freaky Tales” is a nostalgic homage to the music, movies and personalities of the 1980s. Set in 1987 in Oakland, where Fleck ...

The Grand Lake Theater in Oakland turned into Hollywood for a night, for the special red carpet showing of "Freaky Tales." The Town shows off its beauty and uniqueness on the silver screen.

Fans crowd the sidewalk for the ‘Freaky Tales’ special screening at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland on March 19, 2025. (Gina Castro/KQED) Pedro Pascal poses on the red carpet before the ‘Freaky ...

It’s infectious, the love “Freaky Tales” has for the Oakland, California, of the mid-1980s. You need not have grown up then and there — as one of the film’s co-writers and -directors ...

But this ode to Oakland contains more than memories. It's not about the way things happened, Fleck says, but about the way he chooses to remember them. Set in 1987, “Freaky Tales” is certainly ...