The End of Oak Street Wants to Party Like It’s 1982

Review: The End of Oak Street

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REVIEW: ‘The End of Oak Street’

The new Anne Hathaway movie, The End of Oak Street, is an exercise in Larry Tate-ism. To explain to those who aren’t 147 years old like me, Larry Tate was the advertising executive on the sitcom Bewitched whose opinions would shift drastically depending on what his client would say. When his underling Darrin came up...

The End of Oak Street Wants to Party Like It’s 1982

The End of Oak Street is set in the Year of Our Lord 1982 A.D., concurrent with a genre movie renaissance so profound and consequential that critic Chris Nashawaty wrote a very good book about it more than four decades later.  Since there’s no particular story reason for this flick about a suburban Michigan neighborhood […]

REVIEW: 'The End of Oak Street'

The new Anne Hathaway movie, The End of Oak Street, is an exercise in Larry Tate-ism. To explain to those who aren't 147 years old like me, Larry Tate was the advertising executive on the sitcom Bewitched whose opinions would shift drastically depending on what his client would say. When his underling Darrin came up with a slogan, Larry Tate would say, "That's ridiculous." Then the client would say, "I find it intriguing." At which point Larry T…

SGN:: Triumphant End of Oak Street roars to life with prehistoric gusto

The best popcorn film of the summer is writer-director David Robert Mitchell’s wildly entertaining Spielbergian throwback, The End of Oak Street. Like some surreal, creative melding of a 1960s episode of The Outer Limits, Jurassic Park, Poltergeist, and Gremlins, this wickedly shrewd sci-fi slice of creature-feature terror is a crowd-pleasing adrenaline blast. Mitchell isn’t afraid to mix melodramatic cheese with authentic, character-driven thrills and chills with confident aplomb, all while displaying a me