Crooked Marquee — Page 82 of 244 — Delightfully unique (crooked) movie perspectives.

03/13/202303/02/2024inHappy Birthday, Looking Backby Bill Bria6 min read

Mad Dog and Glory and the Importance of Breaking Typecasting

In this seriocomic drama, released 30 years ago this month, both Robert De Niro and Bill Murray tinkered with their established personas in ways that would re-direct their careers.

03/10/202303/07/2023inLooking Back, Classic Cornerby Josh Bell5 min read

Classic Corner: The Baby

You will believe a man can be an infant in the delightful cult oddity ‘The Baby,’ released 50 years ago this week.

03/09/202303/09/2023inReviewsby Kimber Myers5 min read

Review: Scream VI

Moving the ‘Scream’ franchise to New York City isn’t the fresh start the slasher series needs.

03/09/202303/02/2024inLooking Backby Craig D. Lindsey6 min read

Harvey’s Hellhole: The 2003 Oscars

With the Oscars around the corner, let’s go back twenty years, when Miramax basically ruled the Academy Awards – and Harvey was determined to get another Best Picture win.

03/08/202303/07/2023inLooking Backby Chelsea Spear10 min read

Burt Bacharach: The Movie Maestro

The recently departed composer’s ability to set a mood through memorable melodies and canny vocal arrangements added to the timelessness and relatability of beloved feature films, while elevating some of the tackier basic-cable fare of the 1980s and beyond.

03/07/202303/02/2024inVODepths, Reviewsby Josh Bell5 min read

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

Our mini-reviews of ‘The Donor Party,’ ‘The Year Between,’ ‘Punch,’ and more of this week’s straight-to-VOD fare.

03/06/202303/02/2024inLooking Backby Will DiGravio5 min read

Mel Brooks’ ‘History of the World’ Was Always (Basically) Television

As ‘History of the World, Part II’ debuts on Hulu, we look back at Mel Brooks’s original film, which is a wonderfully strange and funny tale told at the expense of history’s sacred cows.