Derek Faraci, Author at Crooked Marquee

Our Movie-Themed Amusement Park

The time of year has come when we dutiful Americans shove our families into tightly packed cars and head off to […]

Whether Nazis, Communists, or Thuggees, Indiana Jones fights them all, and he gets his share of bruises and beatings. But just how much damage […]

Movie audiences love great action, and they love it more when they care about the characters. From Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman […]

For close to 90 years, the world of pop culture has been influenced by four brothers from New York. Their look […]

If we were playing Family Feud and the question was “Name a Kevin Costner movie,” your best bet would be to […]

Welcome back! Last time, we took a look at movies based on U.S. history from Columbus to the end of the […]

George Santayana isn’t a household name, but something he said is one of the best-known quotations in human history: “Those who cannot […]

There are certain movies that filled my teen years. Some of these, like Sixteen Candles and The Lost Boys, are staples […]

I’m not sure there is another book series like the Harry Potter novels. J.K. Rowling’s sprawling, seven-year epic captured the hearts […]

Product placement has been around for a long time. Like, super-long. We tend to think of it in terms of movies […]