Crooked Marquee — Page 8 of 244 — Delightfully unique (crooked) movie perspectives.

11/21/202511/20/2025inHappy Birthday, Looking Backby Max Borg4 min read

Casino at 30: An Eye for Vise

Martin Scorsese’s Vegas mob drama features the single most wince-inducing sequence of his entire filmography.

11/21/202511/20/2025inClassic Corner, Looking Backby Sean Burns5 min read

Classic Corner: Sweet Smell of Success

Alexander Mackendrick’s noir-vember essential was a flop upon its initial release in 1957 — but its weathered, weary cynicism has aged like a fine wine.

11/20/202511/20/2025inReviewsby Kimber Myers4 min read

Review: Zodiac Killer Project

A failed attempt at a true crime fuels this entertaining meta documentary.

11/20/202511/19/2025inLooking Backby Steve Erickson5 min read

The Red Spectacles: A Brutal Cop Trapped By His Own Fantasies

For a director who’s experienced great popular success, Mamoru Oshii is a remarkably eccentric artist. He’s lamented the fact that his live-actions films have been cursed to relative obscurity. But his first one, The Red Spectacles, is seeing a new re-release, following a crowd-funded restoration. Made in 1987, it weaves influences from Franz Kafka, Seijun […]

11/19/202511/19/2025inLooking Back, Happy Birthdayby Craig J. Clark5 min read

Even After 50 Years, Pasolini’s Salò Retains the Power to Shock and Repulse

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final film is just as hard to watch as it was half a century ago, but it’s even more necessary today.

11/18/202511/17/2025inReviews, VODepthsby Josh Bell8 min read

Christmas VODepths: What to See (and Avoid) On Demand This Holiday Season

Our mini-reviews of ‘Animal Tales of Christmas Magic,’ ‘Fragilé,’ ‘SuperClaus,’ ‘12 Toys of Christmas,’ and more direct-to-video holiday fare.

11/17/202511/16/2025inHappy Birthday, Looking Backby Marshall Shaffer7 min read

20 Years Later, Can Walk the Line Escape the Shadow of Walk Hard?

“Walk Hard” was a diss track in cinematic form that dismantles the script of “Walk the Line” so thoroughly that it might as well be a beat-for-beat remake

11/17/202511/16/2025inLooking Backby Craig D. Lindsey5 min read

Harvey’s Hellhole: Shall We Dance?

Welcome to Harvey’s Hellhole, a monthly column devoted to spotlighting the movies that were poorly marketed, mishandled, reshaped, neglected or just straight-up destroyed by Harvey Weinstein during his reign as one of the most powerful studio chiefs in Hollywood. Since the director’s cut of Shall We Dance? is coming to Blu-ray this month, let’s revisit […]