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How <i>Marie Antoinette</i> Paved the Way for <i>The Favourite</i>

How Marie Antoinette Paved the Way for The Favourite

Dec 19th, 2018 Alicia Kort
In The Favourite, Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) stuffs a piece of cake into her face, then promptly vomits it back into a bucket. Despite this setback, she continues to eat it. Her favorite, childhood friend and lover Sarah (Rachel Weisz), is not afraid to point out that the Queen of England is stupid...
Scott Weinberg's Crooked Horror Corner #6

Scott Weinberg's Crooked Horror Corner #6

Oct 24th, 2018 Scott Weinberg
It's Halloween week, and you know what that means! You forgot to buy candy for the trick-or-treaters! Also you're probably knee-deep in horror movies because that's how late October works for movie nerds: We are beholden to watch at least a few extra horror flicks. Now would be a good time to head...
Screenlife — Why You Should Care About Movies Like <i>Unfriended</i>

Screenlife — Why You Should Care About Movies Like Unfriended

Oct 22nd, 2018 Amber Friend
Screenlife — the screen-capture-style gimmick-turned-medium used in movies like Unfriended (2014) and Searching (2018) — feels like a textbook bad idea. The style was largely pioneered by Russian director and producer Timur Bekmambetov, whose studio, Bazelevs, developed technology to propel...
EXCLUSIVE: Demo Recording of Randy Newman's Song for <i>A Star Is Born</i>

EXCLUSIVE: Demo Recording of Randy Newman's Song for A Star Is Born

Oct 18th, 2018 Eric D. Snider
Fans of A Star Is Born are already listening to the soundtrack on repeat, but here's something new to add to the mix! Warner Bros. has released this demo recording of one of the songs, originally written and performed by Randy Newman. Why they changed the lyrics and style to the version heard in...
Remaking Romances with the <i>A Star Is Born</i> Formula

Remaking Romances with the A Star Is Born Formula

Oct 8th, 2018 Adrianne Frost
A Star Is Born has changed from the story of an actress (1937) to the story of a musical actress (1954), then a rock star (1976), and now a pop diva. One thing that hasn’t changed, though, is the casting of a gay icon and a hot leading man in the central roles. Since that formula works, we’re...
EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Marketing Plans for <i>A Star Is Born</i>

EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Marketing Plans for A Star Is Born

Oct 8th, 2018 Bill Bria
A Star Is Born, the story of a romance between a fading male celebrity and a rising female artist so good it’s been told four times already, is in theaters now. Based on the incredible buzz the film has been getting from critics on the festival circuit, Warner Bros. smells Oscar gold as well as...
Scott Weinberg's Crooked Horror Corner #5

Scott Weinberg's Crooked Horror Corner #5

Oct 3rd, 2018 Scott Weinberg
The Horror Corner took a week off to enjoy the amazing Fantastic Fest, where there were lots of horrors afoot, and I don't just mean Eric D. Snider wearing a wacky wrestling singlet for three days. (He lost a bet!) Several of these horror films will be hitting VOD services and/or Netflix some time...
A Report from Fantastic Fest 2.0

A Report from Fantastic Fest 2.0

Sep 29th, 2018 Eric D. Snider
After last year's bumpy edition of Fantastic Fest, roiled by revelations that its founder had continued working with employees and associates who'd been credibly accused of sexual assault, this year's raucous genre celebration felt almost normal — well, "normal" for an event that includes a...
Oscar Predictions from Someone Who Definitely Went to the Fall Film Festivals, For Sure

Oscar Predictions from Someone Who Definitely Went to the Fall Film Festivals, For Sure

Sep 18th, 2018 Davey Peppers
Like all film fans, I was ecstatic when the lineups for the Toronto, Venice, and Telluride film festivals were announced. There were so many movies to sink my teeth into that I knew I had to go. So, I set up a GoFundMe to pay for my trip, and agreed to write a report for Crooked Marquee. As it...
TIFF Report: Political, Not Polemical

TIFF Report: Political, Not Polemical

Sep 17th, 2018 Marshall Shaffer
I skipped out on the big political event of the Toronto International Film Festival, the premiere of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9, a screening at which the director brought out Flint residents and Parkland survivors to drive home the immediacy of the documentary. Moore’s films are designed...
TIFF Report: The Addiction Obsession

TIFF Report: The Addiction Obsession

Sep 12th, 2018 Marshall Shaffer
“Addiction is our new default,” quips Juliette Binoche’s Selena in Non-Fiction, a special presentation at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. She’s talking about the rise of binge-watching culture changing viewing patterns, but she might as well be referring to a good chunk...
Peppermint Vs. Other Vengeful Ladies

Peppermint Vs. Other Vengeful Ladies

Sep 5th, 2018 Adrianne Frost
This weekend, the female guerrilla rises again with the release of Peppermint, the story of a woman who wakes from a coma to get jacked and find the people who killed her family. Peppermint, aka Riley North (aka Jennifer Garner), hunts down and kills a lot of bad guys with knives, guns, and her...
Scott Weinberg's Crooked Horror Corner #4

Scott Weinberg's Crooked Horror Corner #4

Sep 5th, 2018 Scott Weinberg
We've hit sort of a dry spell in the horror field these past few weeks. Not much in the way of theatrical releases, although you can still catch The Meg (Eric’s review) if the idea of Jason Statham beating up a prehistoric shark sounds amusing. (It is.) New on DVD, we got the quietly awesome...
Spike and Quentin Feud, But Their Movies Overlap

Spike and Quentin Feud, But Their Movies Overlap

Aug 23rd, 2018 Zach Vasquez
Sorry to Bother You writer-director Boots Riley recently took to social media to criticize Spike Lee’s new movie BlacKkKlansman — based on the true story of a black Colorado Springs police detective’s undercover infiltration of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s — for what he perceived as the...
Scott Weinberg's Crooked Horror Corner #3

Scott Weinberg's Crooked Horror Corner #3

Aug 22nd, 2018 Scott Weinberg
If you're looking for something scary at the multiplexes, you can check out The Meg (Eric's review) which is not all that scary but it is kind of fun, or Slender Man (Eric's review) which is neither scary nor fun. But if you're willing to go digging through the VOD channels you can always find a...
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