The description of a new film recently caught our attention. The movie is called High on the Hog, and the Los Angeles Times' logline was: "A hog farmer and his cadre of attractive young women defend their marijuana-growing operation against federal agents." Do you get it? "High on the Hog"? They...

Crooked Marquee is thrilled to be the EXCLUSIVE host of a brilliant parody video in which regular CM contributor Bill Bria plays a significant role: that of Ash Ketchum, opposite Tommy Kang's Pikachu, who in this imagining is Matthew McConaughey's character from HBO's "True Detective." (His...

If you’re looking for a recap of the Marvel Cinematic Universe facts you absolutely need to know before Avengers: Endgame, then face front, true believer: Here comes my mom, Lee Bria, to once again save the day. An MCU fan for several years now, she’s back to finish what she started last year,...

The latest film to earn the distinction of being #1 at the box office and universally disliked is Dumbo, from Disney, the studio that's usually responsible for highly successful movies that everybody hates. How did this happen? Well, we snuck into the Disney offices a few years ago and planted a...

Since the dawn of that guy who tried to cut all women out of The Last Jedi, we’ve entered a new era of fandom. An era of thankless course correction, where anyone with a childhood sculpted by a certain piece of art gets to tell the artist how it really belongs to them, and they have notes. The...

J.K. Rowling continues to make waves by revealing details about the sex lives of her characters that were never mentioned in the books or the movies, but there's a lot more where that came from. As a gay, I have finely tuned gaydar that extends even to film characters. Here are my latest findings...

It was one of Walt Disney’s great disappointments that Fantasia (1940) under-performed during its original release, and when it did find an audience, in the 1960s, it probably wasn’t the one Walt would have imagined: people on drugs. Critic Danny Peary documented this strange phenomenon in...

OK, Marvelinos! You've seen Captain Marvel and reveled in its 1990s awesomeness! (Remember how everyone back then had cats?) But you're still wondering about a few things -- and that's where we come in! Buckle up and keep reading as we answer your burning questions about the latest entry in the...

Reek HastyNetflix CEO and co-founder (Guest columnist.) As CEO and co-founder of Netflix, I wanted to address some concerns that have come up recently. We don't like to be in the news except for ordinary things like capriciously raising our prices, or for the daffy emails I used to send in...

After the now billion-dollar-grossing Aquaman defied critics of good taste everywhere, executives at every major studio are wondering how to reproduce its success. How do I know? Because I'm the clinical psychologist for dozens of them, and I don't believe in doctor-patient confidentiality. The...

The final scene in 2017’s Split revealed that the movie, thought to be a self-contained M. Night Shyamalan thriller, had been a secret sequel to the writer-director’s own Unbreakable from 17 years earlier. While that twist was a very novel one at the time, it has been recently revealed to me...

Christmas stories and tales of space exploration both appeal to an audience’s sense of wonder, so it’s only natural that filmmakers have occasionally gone to both wells simultaneously. There’s a world of difference, however, between crass kiddie fare like Santa Claus Conquers the Martians...

You know how some movies end with freeze-frames of each of the main characters and a brief summary of where their lives went after that? And you know how most movies don't do that but should? We want to fix that. We'll start with A Christmas Story. (We're ignoring the two sequels, which cancel each...

It’s a specific kind of agony: You’re holding court at a party and synopsizing your favorite episode of Clarissa Explains It All. Naturally, everyone is interested, but then you go and accidentally call Melissa Joan Hart “Melissa Michelle Gellar.” The party guests’ faces fall. It’s bad....

I have a VHS problem. They are my Chapstick; bought frequently, replaced before sufficient use, and lost from my pockets as collateral damage when I retrieve change overzealously. Adventures in Home Video™ is an attempt to subsidize that problem and justify its consuming ruin by digging into...