Crooked Marquee — Page 31 of 244 — Delightfully unique (crooked) movie perspectives.

01/24/202501/23/2025inClassic Corner, Looking Backby Sean Burns5 min read

Classic Corner: Dont Look Back

With the Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” nabbing 8 Oscar nominations, this week’s pick is the 1965 documentary that captures Dylan at his trickiest.

01/23/202501/27/2025inLooking Backby Steve Erickson5 min read

Pilgrim, Farewell: Staring Down Premature Death

More than 40 years after it aired on PBS, Michael Roemer’s intense chamber drama is the latest of his films to receive a much-delayed arrival in theaters.

01/23/202501/22/2025inReviewsby Jason Bailey4 min read

Review: Presence

For my money, what makes Steven Soderbergh special — what makes him, second only to Martin Scorsese, our greatest living filmmaker — is his career-long dedication to experimentation. He’s a tinkerer, willing to try just about anything, and often willing to make an entire movie just to play with something new. After working with some […]

01/22/202508/02/2025inLooking Backby Craig D. Lindsey6 min read

Harvey’s Hellhole: Sundance ’95

On this Sundance eve, let’s travel back 30 years to find out what Miramax and their competitors were up to in Park City.

01/21/202501/23/2025inReviews, VODepthsby Josh Bell5 min read

VODepths: What to See (and Avoid) on Demand This Week

Our mini-reviews of “La Pietà,” “A Legend,” “Into the Deep,” and more of this week’s VOD and limited-release treasures and trash.

01/20/202501/19/2025inMoviesby Marshall Shaffer6 min read

What Was Biden-Era Cinema?

As his administration comes to an end, what do the movies of the past four years reflect about Joe Biden’s successes and failures?

01/17/202501/16/2025inClassic Corner, Happy Birthday, Looking Backby Craig J. Clark5 min read

Classic Corner: Dark Star

John Carpenter and Dan O’Bannon’s debut feature hit theaters 50 years ago this week, but it took a while for the heady sci-fi comedy to take off.

01/16/202501/15/2025inReviewsby Kimber Myers4 min read

Review: I’m Still Here

Newly minted Golden Globe winner Fernanda Torres is a force in this historical drama.

01/15/202501/23/2025inHappy Birthday, Looking Backby Will DiGravio6 min read

Assault on Precinct 13 and the Limits of the Remake

On the 20th anniversary of its release, the remake of John Carpenter’s classic offers the opportunity to examine the durability of an oft-told tale.

01/15/202501/14/2025inLooking Backby Edwin Arnaudin5 min read

Cutters’ Chance: The Enduring Appeal of Breaking Away

“When one townie falls in the forest, can anyone hear it?” — The Hold Steady, “One for the Cutters” Arriving near the end of film’s most exciting decade, the coming-of-age cycling dramedy Breaking Away may not carry the cultural cache of some of its more famous ’70s peers, or even its 1979 classmates — but […]