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REVIEW: Assassination Nation Fascination Dissipation

September 20th, 2018 Eric D. Snider

Assassination Nation, based on the hashtags #woke and #metoo, is an in-your-face, self-consciously...

TIFF Report: Political, Not Polemical

September 17th, 2018 Marshall Shaffer

I skipped out on the big political event of the Toronto International Film Festival, the premiere...

REVIEW: Be Sure to Catch The Predator If You Like Movies That Are Good Enough But Just Barely

September 14th, 2018 Eric D. Snider

Unlike the late entries in some horror franchises, The Predator doesn't pretend any of its...

REVIEW: A Simple Favor Reveals a Complicated Relationship

September 14th, 2018 Eric D. Snider

Based on Darcey Bell's novel, which must have been inspired by Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl, A Simple...

Surely you can't be serious

Oscar Predictions from Someone Who Definitely Went to the Fall Film Festivals, For Sure

Like all film fans, I was ecstatic when the lineups for the Toronto, Venice, and Telluride film festivals were announced. There were so many movies...

September 18th, 2018Davey Peppers

Peppermint Vs. Other Vengeful Ladies

This weekend, the female guerrilla rises again with the release of Peppermint, the story of a woman who wakes from a coma to get jacked and find the...

September 5th, 2018Adrianne Frost

Pitches We Rejected in Summer 2018

Here at Crooked Marquee, we are open to pitches from all writers, regardless of experience. Why, the number of pitches we get per week must be...

August 28th, 2018Eric D. Snider

PSA: Your Odds of Surviving an Encounter with Various Aquatic Movie Monsters

If you faced The Meg (opening this weekend), a 75-foot prehistoric shark properly called “Megalodon,” odds are you wouldn’t survive. In that...

August 9th, 2018Adrianne Frost

How Will Hollywood Screw Up the Effort to Cash in on <i>Black Panther</i>'s Success?

How Will Hollywood Screw Up the Effort to Cash in on Black Panther's Success?

Now that Black Panther has dispelled the long-held belief that African-American movies don't do well overseas, Hollywood is scrambling to green-light...

August 6th, 2018Kaia Alderson

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Films That, Like, Get Me: Cinema's Realistic Teenage Girls

Films That, Like, Get Me: Cinema's Realistic Teenage Girls

In Praise of Ninotchka, Gateway to Garbo and Lubitsch

Rounders and Lessons for Modern Gamblers

Sanctioned Buffoonery: Cartoonish Action Comedies and the Masculinity Crisis of the 1990s

Which Baseball Movie Fits Your Mood? A Handy Guide

All of Kevin Costner's Sports Movies: A Beginner's Guide

What Happened to the Young Adult Franchises?

Craig J. Clark Says Don't Forget: The Void

Consider This: Jurassic Park a Feminist Remake of Jaws

Zach Vasquez Says Don’t Forget: Colossal

Presidential Movies, According to Amazon Users

The World's Longest Yard Sale and the Value of VHS