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A delightfully crooked publication about movies. @jasondashbailey.bsky.social, editor-in-chief.
“Looking back over Neill’s long career, what made him unique among actors of his generation was his willingness to be upstaged by his female co-stars,” @splicedpersonality.bsky.social writes. crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...
Nicolas Winding Refn’s first movie in a decade marks a return to the medium but not a return to form. Our review of “Her Private Hell”: crookedmarquee.com/review-her-p...
“Theirs was a harmonious collaboration, and the drawn-out development process allowed them to make sure their sensibilities meshed,” @hoodedjustice.bsky.social writes of Daniel Clowes, Terry Zwigoff, and “Ghost World”: crookedmarquee.com/daniel-clowe...
”In this week’s low-profile VOD releases, Kelsey Grammer goes on a walkabout, Amy Madigan and Loretta Devine chew Southern scenery, and both lesbian influencers and stoner best friends make everyone around them amusingly uncomfortable,” @signalbleed.bsky.social writes. buff.ly/XgwoRN1
Our mini-reviews of “Bull Street,” “Lars Shrike Walks the Night,” “Sour Party,” and more new under-the-radar on-demand offerings. crookedmarquee.com/vodepths-wha...
Our bi-weekly look at the best new titles on Blu-ray, 4K, and your subscription streaming services includes “Obsession,” “The Drama,” “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,” “Strange Journey: The Story of Rock Horror,” and more: crookedmarquee.com/the-best-mov...
“The film is perhaps not the finest of the MGM musicals, but this song is cinematically akin to De Niro and Pacino facing off in Michael Mann’s ‘Heat’: two legends going toe to toe on the big screen for at least one brief moment,” @mousterpiece.bsky.social writes of "High Society." buff.ly/MS4HdZC
The twists and controversies of Neil Jordan’s political thriller “The Crying Game” (new to the Criterion Collection this week) kept most studios far away — but proved catnip to the Miramax boys. crookedmarquee.com/harveys-hell...
“Ultimately, Neil Jordan made a movie where he figuratively and literally laid it all bare and, for a brief moment in time, dared people to not talk about it,” @unclecrizzle.bsky.social writes of ‘The Crying Game.’ crookedmarquee.com/harveys-hell...
The 80th anniversary of the Czech film event Karlovy Vary was a suitably grand and celebratory affair. Our report: crookedmarquee.com/max-borgs-ka...
Made in anticipation of Y2K, Tsai Ming-liang's “The Hole” is a prophetic survey of loneliness amidst disease and climate change. The 1998 film sees its first-ever dedicated New York theatrical release this weekend: crookedmarquee.com/raindrops-ke...
“Contrary to the title, ‘Remake’ isn’t really about the ins and outs of the adaptation process,” @jasondashbailey.com writes. “But it allows McElwee to explore, late in his career, the dynamics and dialectics of documentary cinema itself.” buff.ly/CPqFCz1
Made in anticipation of Y2K, Tsai Ming-liang's “The Hole” is a prophetic survey of loneliness amidst disease and climate change. The 1998 film sees its first-ever dedicated New York theatrical release on Friday: crookedmarquee.com/raindrops-ke...
“This week’s low-profile VOD releases feature teenage summertime misadventures in suburban Germany and at a tropical resort, plus aliens on a plane, post-apocalyptic battles for dominance, and the making of an Asylum movie,” @signalbleed.bsky.social writes. crookedmarquee.com/vodepths-wha...
“Long before liminal spaces became a buzzword, ‘The Hole’ transformed Taiwan into one,” @callinamagician.bsky.social writes. crookedmarquee.com/raindrops-ke...
Richard Linklater’s animated take on Philip K. Dick’s classic novel “A Scanner Darkly” remains disturbingly relevant two decades later. crookedmarquee.com/the-stylish-...
Don't let Harvey Weinstein win. Here's why James Gray's ‘The Immigrant,’ which the disgraced distributor attempted to bury over a decade ago, deserves to be recognized as both a masterpiece and a canonical work of American cinema. crookedmarquee.com/for-america-...
Degaussed documents, time travel, stunt-casting: And you thought Freedom 250 was a fiasco. A look back at “The Spirit of ’76”: crookedmarquee.com/the-spirit-o...
“The over-scaled, elephantine heedlessness of the film becomes part of its charm,” @splicedpersonality.bsky.social writes. “There will never be another movie like ‘Hudson Hawk.’ Studios now have entire departments whose jobs are to make sure something like this never happens again.” buff.ly/y2tYIjb
Our bi-weekly look at the best new titles on Blu-ray, 4K, and your subscription streaming services includes “Jackie Chan’s Breakout Hits!,” “Crime 101,” “Desperate Living,” “Hairspray,” “Magnificent Bodyguards,” “The Lost Man,” and more: crookedmarquee.com/the-best-mov...
“The over-scaled, elephantine heedlessness of the film becomes part of its charm,” @splicedpersonality.bsky.social writes. “There will never be another movie like ‘Hudson Hawk.’ Studios now have entire departments whose jobs are to make sure something like this never happens again.” buff.ly/y2tYIjb
Witty bickering buoys this black comedy about marital dysfunction starring Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen, Penélope Cruz, and Edward Norton. Our review of “The Invite”: crookedmarquee.com/review-the-i...
“Ruthless People” is “a great premise for a movie,” @splicedpersonality.bsky.social writes, “one of those ideas that’s so good, as soon as you hear it you wonder why nobody thought of it before.” crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...
“Releasing The Invite during Pride Month is a diabolical choice,” @kimbermyers.bsky.social writes. “This comedy about marital dysfunction could also be called ‘Are Straight People OK?’ (The answer is no, we are not.)” crookedmarquee.com/review-the-i...
Ahead of this week's “Supergirl” release, a remembrance of Matthias Schoenaerts's cinematic supremacy, a lament for his ongoing fallow period, and a hope that there's the end to it in sight. crookedmarquee.com/longing-for-...
Raoul Walsh’s chronicle of the Prohibition era is a thrilling American epic in miniature. “The Roaring Twenties” is streaming on HBO Max, Hoopla, and Tubi: crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...
“EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert,” “Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial VS That’s the Weight of the World),” “Five Easy Pieces,” “Explorers,” “The Front,” “West Indies,” and more of the best movies to buy or stream this week: crookedmarquee.com/the-best-mov...
From the start of her music career, Courtney Love engaged with the mythos and toxicity of Hollywood. It was inevitable that Hollywood would eventually come calling. crookedmarquee.com/miss-world-c...
Some movies are classics for a reason. Carol Reed's 1949 thriller “The Third Man,” back in theaters in a new 35mm re-release, is one of them. crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...
Some movies are classics for a reason. Carol Reed's 1949 thriller “The Third Man,” back in theaters in a new 35mm re-release, is one of them. crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...