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02/21/202403/02/2024inLooking Backby Craig J. Clark7 min read

Dario Argento’s Killer Style

With new documentary “Dario Argento Panico” on Shudder, there’s no better time to dig into the Italian Master of Horror’s back catalog.

02/19/202403/02/2024inHappy Birthday, Looking Backby Audrey Fox5 min read

“Scotty Doesn’t Know” at 20: A Mediocre Sex Comedy, A Celeb Cameo, and an Improbable Earworm

There’s only one reason to talk about “Eurotrip” two decades on: the pitch-perfect adultery anthem at its center.

02/16/202403/02/2024inClassic Corner, Looking Backby Sean Burns7 min read

Classic Corner: Baby It’s You

An appreciation of the under-appreciated Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano vehicle that was writer/director John Sayles’s first and last studio film.

02/15/202403/02/2024inHappy Birthday, Looking Backby Josh Spiegel5 min read

It All Started With Gertie the Dinosaur

On her 110th birthday, an appreciation of the groundbreaking animated dinosaur whose influence is still keenly felt.

02/14/202403/02/2024inLooking Backby Sara Batkie5 min read

Crooked Marquee’s Bad Romances: Chilly Scenes of Winter

This fraught but funny anti-rom-com was so ahead of its time, it was deconstructing a genre before it even truly existed.

02/14/202403/02/2024inLooking Backby Craig D. Lindsey6 min read

Jean-Pierre Jeunet prevented Harvey Weinstein from recutting “Amelie,” which eventually became an Oscar-nominated, worldwide hit. As it’s re-released in theaters this week, Craig D. Lindsey looks back at the too-damn-whimiscal French movie that was also “a soothing bit of hope and happiness during a very dire time in 21st-century history.”

02/13/202403/02/2024inLooking Backby Will DiGravio5 min read

Crooked Marquee’s Bad Romances: Angel Face

The collision of Jean Simmons and Robert Mitchum in “Angel Face” led Jacques Rivette to call the film the secret to understanding director Otto Preminger’s work. Here we look at this gem of film noir.

02/12/202403/02/2024inLooking Backby Julia Sirmons5 min read

Crooked Marquee’s Bad Romances: Abuse of Weakness

In its unsparing depiction of a con job, the dynamic between the conman and his victim is both depressingly transparent and truly mystifying.

02/12/202403/02/2024inLooking Backby Anna McKibbin5 min read

Crooked Marquee’s Bad Romances: Sweet Charity

Our round-up of anti-Valentine’s fare continues with Bob Fosse’s feature directorial debut, adapting his hit stage musical into an unconventional musical comedy.