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Thursday, February 1, 2018

‘Freak Show’ movie review: If John Hughes were alive today …

Posted Feb 1, 2018 5:02 am by Mister D

Times Picayune
‘Freak Show’ movie review: If John Hughes were alive today …
Updated Jan 30, 9:41 AM; Posted Jan 30, 9:41 AM

Ask anyone who was a teenager in the 1980s, and they’ll tell you that if one filmmaker more than any other seemed to be speaking directly to them, it was John Hughes. The maker of such films as “The Breakfast Club,” “Sixteen Candles” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” — while perhaps not a technical master of the filmmaking arts — knew a whole lot about how to talk to kids. Read More

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Saturday, January 27, 2018

A Powerful Film Is Putting The Struggles Of A Genderfluid Teen Front And Center

Posted Jan 27, 2018 6:01 am by Mister D

Huffington Post
A Powerful Film Is Putting The Struggles Of A Genderfluid Teen Front And Center
By James Michael Nichols
01/26/2018 04:35 pm ET

A new film from director Trudie Styler is placing the story of a genderfluid teen in the limelight and humanizing the struggles of young people living outside of binary notions of gender.

“Freakshow” tells the fictional story of Billy Bloom (Alex Lawther). Billy is a young, queer teen who suddenly has to deal with the painful realities of a quintessential American high school after his mother (Bette Midler) pushes the responsibility for his well-being onto her husband (Larry Pine) years after their divorce. Read More

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Wednesday, January 24, 2018

“Freak Show” – the tale of a boy who would be queen; Midler provides a strong presence

Posted Jan 24, 2018 6:01 am by Mister D

Los Angeles Blade
“Freak Show” – the tale of a boy who would be queen
January 22, 2018 at 7:28 pm PST | by John Paul King

Not so long ago, there was a tremendous need for movies that told the stories of LGBTQ young people.

The need is still there, of course; but in recent years, as queer moviemakers have emerged from the shadows of a cultural landscape that had long suppressed them, we have seen a bountiful crop of such films.

The latest is “Freak Show,” the directorial feature debut of Trudie Styler. Adapted by screenwriters Patrick J. Clifton and Beth Rigazio, from the book of the same name by James St. James, it’s the story of a fabulously non-conforming teen-ager named Billy Bloom (Alex Lawther). Read More

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Sunday, January 14, 2018

Trudie Styler and James St. James Shine Light on Teen Bullying In The New Movie “Freak Show”

Posted Jan 14, 2018 7:01 pm by Mister D

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The Advocate
Trudie Styler and James St. James Shine Light on Teen Bullying
BY DAVID ARTAVIA
JANUARY 10 2018 5:25 AM EST

A new hero has risen in the form of eccentric teenager Billy Bloom, the character at the center of Freak Show, a film based on the award-winning cult novel by James St. James and the directorial debut of actor and activist Trudie Styler.

The film, which can be seen across most digital platforms on Friday, follows Billy (Alex J. Lawther), who once lived a fabulous life in Connecticut with his equally eccentric mother, Muv (Bette Midler). After he is shipped off to his father (Larry Pine)’s Southern mansion, his integrity is put to the test when he chooses to fight back against intolerance at an ultraconservative high school. Read More

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Saturday, January 13, 2018

Trudie Styler’s ‘Freak Show’ Is a Laudable Plea for Tolerance; Midler Gives Rich Performance

Posted Jan 13, 2018 8:01 am by Mister D

The Observer
Trudie Styler’s ‘Freak Show’ Is a Laudable Plea for Tolerance
By Rex Reed • 01/12/18 12:45pm

The hot-button topic of gender transfer, not always neatly accomplished by anything as simple as surgery, is addressed, re-dressed and undressed in Freak Show, about an unconventional teenager who has no interest in being a boy, or in acting out any of the socially accepted behavior connected with being normal, whatever that is. He would rather wear zombie mascara, bridal veils and pomegranate lipstick than baseball caps and Wrangler jeans, and the movie follows him through episodes both harrowing and hilarious to declare his independence. The results are a mixed bag of charm and calamity, marking the feature-length directorial debut of Trudie Styler who, in real life, is the wife of singing star Sting. She’s a talent worth watching. Read More

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Film Review: Freak Show – Movie delivers nicely on both entertainment and emotional fronts

Posted Jan 13, 2018 7:01 am by Mister D

Film Journal
Film Review: Freak Show
Although it has its serious, even harrowing moments, this quirky, glitteringly gussied-up treatise on teen bullying keeps things likeably frothy and delivers nicely on both entertainment and emotional fronts.
By David Noh Jan 12, 2018

 

The hallways of high school in the Deep South constitute something like the Stations of the Cross for young, flamboyantly cross-dressing Billy Bloom (Alex Lawther), who has been taken from his alcoholic Connecticut mother, Muv (Bette Midler), by his far more conventional and less fun dad (Larry Pine). In a sharp departure from the East Coast (“where,” in our hero’s words, “Chloë Sevigny is from”), the teenage yahoos at Billy’s new home as a senior hate anything unusual or even vaguely transgender. The daily bullying—amidst barrages of spitballs—is pretty ferocious. Read More

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Friday, January 12, 2018

How Bette Midler single-handedly saved ‘Freak Show’

Posted Jan 12, 2018 1:01 pm by Mister D

Metro
How Bette Midler single-handedly saved ‘Freak Show’
Director Trudie Styler also discusses its rather chaotic journey to the big-screen
By Gregory Wakeman
Published : January 11, 2018

Trudie Styler wasn’t supposed to direct Freak Show. But when its original director dropped out at the last minute Styler, who has previously produced the likes of “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” “Filth,” and “Moon,” decided to step up from producer to director.

“Celine [Rattray] and I were always onboard as ‘Freak Show’s’ producers,” Styler told me earlier this week. “We had a director onboard who had to excuse himself at the 11th hour. Happily for me, the producers took me on as replacement director. That’s how I came to be directing it.” Read More

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Review: In ‘Freak Show,’ the Boy Who Would be Homecoming Queen

Posted Jan 12, 2018 1:01 pm by Mister D

NYT
Review: In ‘Freak Show,’ the Boy Who Would be Homecoming Queen
FREAK SHOW Directed by Trudie Styler Comedy, Drama 1h 35m
By GLENN KENNYJAN. 11, 2018

What can you say about an adolescent American boy who is able to accurately quote Oscar Wilde? You can call him precocious, but in the case of Billy Bloom (Alex Lawther), who we first see quoting the Irish writer and dandy in a flashback recalling sunnier times in his childhood, that’s not enough.

Born into great wealth, the hero of “Freak Show” initially rhapsodizes to the audience about his mother (Bette Midler, going big in her scant screen time), whom he calls “Muv,” praising her as “a living testament to grace, glamour and Gucci.” Life with Muv was sweet, but after she enters rehab, Billy must reside at the mansion of his father (Larry Pine), who’s not happy about Billy’s rejection of conventional masculinity. Read More

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“Freak Show” Opens Today In Limited Release & On YouTube As A Rental ($6.99); More Reviews; More Dates

Posted Jan 12, 2018 7:01 am by Mister D

“Freak Show” Opens Today In Limited Release & On YouTube As A Rental ($6.99). Also check iTunes, VUDU and VOD. International release dates coming soon.

Links To Some Reviews

Freak Show Premiere Was  Held Wednesday Night

The stars were out on the red carpet at last night’s NYC Premiere of #FreakShowMovie! See this rallying cry for the misunderstood from director @trudiestyler in select theaters and on demand TOMORROW! Buy Tickets: [link in bio] (Photos by @patrickmcmullan) Read More

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Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Bette Midler is fabulous in Trudie Styler’s Freak Show opening in theaters and OnDemand January 12

Posted Jan 3, 2018 5:01 am by Mister D

Bette Midler is fabulous in Trudie Styler’s Freak Show opening in theaters and OnDemand January 12

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