Freaky Tales will blow your mind.

From frame one, you already know the vibes - a trippy 80's blast from a past that very few of us lived through, but that somehow feels like a shared cultural place, somewhere we can all remember. It's Oakland, it's 1987, and things are about to get Freaky.

Featuring satisfying Nazi-skinhead takedowns, a star-making performance from Normani alongside Dominique Thorn as the iconic 'Danger Zone', one of the creepiest Ben Mendelsohn characters committed to camera, and a samurai fight sequence helmed by the stoic and grounded performance of Jay Ellis that Beatrix Kiddo herself would envy – you will not stop reacting, from start to finish.

Those reactions will turn on a dime - disgust to heart warmth to heart break to f*ck-yeahs to cameos abound; balancing dark circumstances with a sharp wit and comedy. Not every story needs to be bombastic to make an impact - and it's actually the balance of low and high stakes, the interweaving of characters across plot lines, sprinkled with some of the best action scenes filmed in the last decade, that really sends Freaky Tales over the edge into outright brilliance.

At a time of rising Fascism, it is so important to remind ourselves that we don't have to reinvent the wheel, or re-discover tactics. Sometimes, the only answer available to fire is fire. The near-orgasmic catharsis won across the span of these stories is something you just can't buy. It's a beautiful experience.

This is an instant classic - an A movie pretending to be a B movie (replete with cigarette burns on a digital file), meticulously crafted with care and audacity, with a playful and experimental style that really electrified me. The soundtrack needs to be released as an album...

and I'm going to need Danger Zone to hit the studio and make the debut album immediately.

I already have my ticket for opening night here in the UK, April 18th at the Prince Charles, and trust, I will be seated once more.

...oh yeah, and Pedro Pascal is in this too. (Be prepared to cry, but not for the usual reasons. Career best from him, but what’s new, he just keeps getting better.)