Here's what we know. It, an adaptation of half of Stephen King's bestselling 1986 novel, had a record-breaking opening weekend and will finish its run at or near the top of the list of the highest-grossing horror movies of all time. Featuring no major stars, It was directed by Andy Muschietti, who...

Stephen King’s It enjoyed a monstrous opening weekend, and a big part of what makes it work is the thing of the title, the titular it — the “tit,” if you will. (You won’t? We understand.) Audiences know it best in the form of Pennywise the clown, but the It in It takes multiple shapes...

Numerous clowns have turned up on the big screen over the years, and with the release of It, there's no sign of appearances slowing down. But the ultimate proving ground for a clown isn’t the big screen, it's the Big Top. Here, then, are cinema’s most prominent clowns, definitively ranked by...

Earlier this year, critics and fanboys the world over hailed James Mangold’s Logan as one of the great comic book films. A dark, violent look at a hero’s last days in a world that has forgotten him, Logan does for superhero movies what Unforgiven did for Westerns — it may be the dawn of a new...

It is very long for a horror movie (135 minutes), yet covers only half of the Stephen King novel it's based on, yet is full of half-mentioned details that seem to have been crammed in hurriedly. I guess it's fitting that a nostalgic tale set in a childhood summertime would seem both eternal and not...

“Anything in particular you lookin’ for?” The old woman in the lawn chair asked with more exasperation than curiosity. I stood over a box of plastic clamshell VHS cases, the kind usually reserved for Disney movies, the kind that makes a primally satisfying pop when opened, and lied. ...

Twin Peaks: The Return managed to both exceed and confound its viewers’ expectations. This feat is doubly impressive considering how little was known about the plot or structure of the show before it aired beyond Showtime CEO David Nevins’ description of it as “an emotional story about...

Two of the best movies from this summer, Wonder Woman and Atomic Blonde, have been called by some the "girl version" of earlier movies about characters like Superman or James Bond. Some critics and audiences have argued that if it weren't for the protagonists' gender, these movies wouldn't be...

A handful of innocent sheep are stalked by a coyote at the beginning of Wind River, an intense, somber mystery-thriller set on the Wyoming Indian reservation of that name. But the coyote is soon dispatched by a greater predator, or at least a better-armed one: Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner), a hunter...

This month marks the 30th anniversary of John Sayles’s Matewan, an American classic that fell through the cracks upon release and remains criminally under-seen to this day. The film details the events leading up to 1920 Battle of Matewan (alternatively known as the Matewan Massacre) in West...

There’s a lot to like about Matt Spicer’s Sundance darling Ingrid Goes West (now in theaters), a darkly comic tale about an emotionally unstable Instagram obsessive (Aubrey Plaza) who moves to California to insinuate herself into the private life of social media “influencer” Taylor Sloane...

Crooked Marquee stands proudly as one of the top 100,000 U.S.-based movie websites on the Internet. As you can imagine, with credentials like those, we get thousands of story pitches from freelance writers. Many of their ideas are insightful and original, but some just aren't what we're looking...

“No pointy hats, but plenty of pointy heads.” That’s how the jaded FBI man played by Gene Hackman sums up the Jessup County chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Alan Parker’s Mississippi Burning. Sure enough, the Klansmen in the 1988 film eschew the organization’s traditional robes, although...

Daniel Craig is somehow a leading man. He’s not particularly suave, but he certainly looks good in suits. He’s not particularly romantic, but he’s certainly magnetic. Hollywood has tried him out in a few different ways, but none more successful than when realizing Craig is best as a grimier,...

Steven Soderbergh tried to retire a few years ago, but it didn't take. Perhaps he can relate to Jimmy Logan (Channing Tatum), the lovable West Virginian ne'er-do-well at the center of Logan Lucky who tries to make an honest living but keeps coming back to the bullet-pointed plan for robbing a bank...