Eric D. Snider, Author at Crooked Marquee

The Pitch Meeting for The Mummy

Sometimes you see a movie and think, “How did this get made?” Fortunately, we have listening devices planted in the offices […]

It Comes at Night opens on the lesioned face of a dying old man surrounded by tearful loved ones wearing gloves […]

You don’t want to read too much into these things, but after DC Comics’ bleak creative stumbles in establishing a shared […]

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales is the fifth chapter in the apparently immortal franchise, and like most […]

To watch the Alien prequels — Prometheus (2012) and now Alien: Covenant — is to marvel at the changes in astronaut-hiring practices that must […]

English dude-bro Guy Ritchie, having made his mark on the Sherlock Holmes mythos, turns his attention now to a famous Brit […]

In this week’s episode of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, entitled Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, the ragtag group of space-rogues […]

A certain breed of movie fan knows immediately why something called The Overlook Film Festival would be held at a place […]

Stipulated: The Armenian genocide, in which some 1.5 million Armenians were murdered by the Ottoman government (we call it Turkey now) […]

The most prominent theme in the Fast and the Furious movies isn’t family (they didn’t come up with that until a few […]

What kind of lazy, lowest-common-denominator movie is Going in Style? The kind where the one F-word in the script is delivered […]

Many hours of scientific research have yielded the following data, suitable for citation in academic journals. Speculation as to what any […]