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Taylor Sheridan Is the Worst: A Woman's Perspective

Taylor Sheridan Is the Worst: A Woman's Perspective

Jul 3rd, 2018 Kristen Lopez
If you search the depths of Film Twitter, you’ll discover something about me: I hate everything written by Taylor Sheridan. His films — Hell or High Water, Wind River, Sicario, and Sicario: Day of the Soldado — hearken back to classic cinema, particularly the Western, so it’s disappointing...
Halftime Report: 2018 in Movies (So Far)

Halftime Report: 2018 in Movies (So Far)

Jun 28th, 2018 Eric D. Snider
Statistics! Who doesn't love 'em?? We're going to look at the movies released in the first half of 2018, but let me warn you: There are probably a lot more than you realize. If you want to see a list of every movie released in the U.S. in a particular year, all you have to do is go to the...
Home Is Where the Horror Is

Home Is Where the Horror Is

Jun 14th, 2018 Bill Bria
The horror genre is a way of processing our fears and anxieties, and as a result tends to reflect the issues that exist at the time the stories or films are written. During the Reagan era, in the early 1980s, horror films tended to depict attacks on innocence, with grisly deaths befalling wayward...
Anything Guys Can Do, Girls Can Do Also

Anything Guys Can Do, Girls Can Do Also

Jun 11th, 2018 Craig J. Clark
Nestled among this spring’s blockbusters, two mid-tier comedies – Overboard and Life of the Party – provided audiences with alternatives in more ways than one. In addition to being options that didn’t involve genocidal giants or mouthy mercenaries, they’re also gender-swapped variations...
The 20 Most Shocking <i>Solo: A Star Wars Story</i> Spoilers

The 20 Most Shocking Solo: A Star Wars Story Spoilers

May 16th, 2018 Bill Bria
Solo: A Star Wars Story opens in a few days, and everyone is supremely excited because making a prequel to Star Wars is a slam-dunk idea that can’t fail. Most fans are content to sit back and wait for the film to open, but true fans know that waiting is for “nerf herders.” Secrecy is at an...
Tribeca Report: High-Stakes Parenting

Tribeca Report: High-Stakes Parenting

Apr 30th, 2018 Marshall Shaffer
“She really is so hard on herself,” remarks a relative of the titular character in Kent Jones’ Diane. A gaggle of cousins have come to Diane’s rescue after a drink to unwind for self-care spirals into raging drunkenness. Diane can easily attend to the needs of others, but when it comes to...
Tribeca Report: The Life of the Female Artist

Tribeca Report: The Life of the Female Artist

Apr 27th, 2018 Caroline Madden
In The Great Pretender, Mona (Maëlle Poesy-Guichard) insists that her autobiographical play is honest but her ex-boyfriend (Linas Phillips) says it's "confessional.” “Is there a difference?” she asks. “Yeah, honesty is hard,” Nick replies, vocalizing a standout theme in the 2018 Tribeca...
<i>Lean on Pete</i> and <i>The Rider</i>: Foreign Visions of a Diminished American West

Lean on Pete and The Rider: Foreign Visions of a Diminished American West

Apr 26th, 2018 Marshall Shaffer
Two new films released in April, Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete and Chloé Zhao’s The Rider, take place in the American West and contain plenty of obvious signifiers: rustic communities, wide open spaces, horses. Yet neither really feels like a Western. When I asked both directors (in separate...
7 Keys to Blumhouse’s Success

7 Keys to Blumhouse’s Success

Apr 18th, 2018 Max Covill
Blumhouse. The name has become synonymous with horror over the last decade. From macro-budget success stories to projects that make other production houses tremble, Blumhouse has proven itself repeatedly, with hits that include the Insidious, Sinister, and The Purge franchises. What makes the...
<i>The Death of Stalin</i> and the Canon of Dystopian Farce

The Death of Stalin and the Canon of Dystopian Farce

Apr 17th, 2018 Zach Vasquez
'If you think this country’s bad off now, just wait till I get through with it.' — Rufus T. Firefly, Duck Soup  Armando Iannucci's historical farce The Death of Stalin — which traces the madcap scramble for power between members of Russia’s ruling Central Committee in the days...
<i>Rampage</i> and the Politics of Movie Monsters

Rampage and the Politics of Movie Monsters

Apr 16th, 2018 Kristen Lopez
Movie monsters have always symbolized our hidden fears and desires. It’s impossible to dissociate the hulking behemoth of Godzilla from the atomic bomb and Japan’s perception of the good ol’ U.S. of A. Bela Lugosi’s Dracula represented our fear of foreigners in the early ‘30s; the pod...
Friday Movie Pile & Slang Terms for Being Drunk

Friday Movie Pile & Slang Terms for Being Drunk

Apr 13th, 2018 Eric D. Snider
Howdy, amigos! Looks like the Earth spun around seven times and brought us to another edition of the Friday Movie Pile & Slang Terms for Being Drunk, the long-running weekly feature that is the Internet's top source for new movie releases and euphemisms for intoxication. Accept no substitutes...
<i>A Quiet Place</i> Reviewed by Jim Halpert Reaction Shots

A Quiet Place Reviewed by Jim Halpert Reaction Shots

Apr 9th, 2018 Bill Bria
A Quiet Place was released this weekend to big acclaim and even bigger box office. The movie is not only impressive for the fact that it’s an original non-franchise horror film that’s largely dialogue free, but that the co-writer and director is none other than John Krasinski of The Office...
Friday Movie Pile & Pictures of Chris Evans As Captain America

Friday Movie Pile & Pictures of Chris Evans As Captain America

Apr 6th, 2018 Eric D. Snider
It's the end of the week, so you know what that means: time for the Friday Movie Pile & Pictures of Chris Evans As Captain America! (It may be time for other things as well, but they are of no concern to us.) We've provided this same combination of services -- a rundown of the weekend's new...
Friday Movie Pile & Do-It-Yourself Woodworking Instructions: March 30, 2018

Friday Movie Pile & Do-It-Yourself Woodworking Instructions: March 30, 2018

Mar 30th, 2018 Eric D. Snider
Happy Easter/Passover/unaffiliated weekend, everyone! This is your Friday Movie Pile & Do-It-Yourself Woodworking Instructions, a weekly guide to the new films plus directions for building handsome, functional furniture. Let's see what treasures await us! Ready Player One (PG-13,...
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A weekly podcast of movie reviews by Jeff Bayer and Crooked Marquee editor Eric D. Snider.

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Sins of the Father: The Unfair Orphaning of The Fly II

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How Studios Will Repeat Aquaman’s Success

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REVIEW: Fantasy Adventure The Kid Who Would Be King

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