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Review: The Shrouds — Crooked Marquee

1 week ago | crookedmarquee.com | Jason Bailey

It’s nothing more significant than coincidental timing, but it’s certainly unfortunate that David Cronenberg’s latest picture, The Shrouds, arrives in theaters just as Karina Longworth’s You Must Remember This is finishing its current season, titled “The Old Man is Still Alive.” In it, she examines the late careers of a handful of Hollywood legends (including Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Frank Capra, and Vincente Minnelli) who were superstars in the industry’s Golden Age, and...
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Blends Style, Substance, and Vampirism in a Highly Millennial Manner — Crooked Marquee

1 week ago | crookedmarquee.com | Kayleigh Donaldson

Vampires never truly go out of style, but the trends of pop culture move in cycles that made our most beloved bloodsucking creatures rather passé for several years. Following the Twilight boom, and the slew of sexy teen romances that followed, many complained that vampires had lost their bite. In the 2020s, however, they’re back with a vengeance with films like Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and the lavish TV adaptation of Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire.
Nostalgia and Cultural Decay: Eephus and the State of Independent Cinema — Crooked Marquee

1 week ago | crookedmarquee.com | Zach Vasquez

Studio movies of the last 20 years have been driven and defined by fake nostalgia. Endless remakes and reboots and sequels and prequels and sidequels. Superhero movies, video game movies, toy movies; movies about every true-crime phenomenon or celebrity tragedy. Movies about brand-name consumer goods. Movies about people’s favorite childhood snacks. It’s a dire time for American cinema. As ever, if it has any sort of future, it’s through the independents.
The Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: The Brutalist, One of Them Days, Dog Man, and More — Crooked Marquee

1 week ago | crookedmarquee.com | Jason Bailey

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalogue titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This twice-monthly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.
Marty and the Male Loneliness Epidemic — Crooked Marquee

2 weeks ago | crookedmarquee.com | Audrey Fox

The male loneliness epidemic is a trendy buzzword (buzzphrase?) these days, framed as a uniquely modern problem. It’s in the same conversation as the idea that Gen Z doesn’t date, dating apps make it impossible to actually meet anyone anymore, and that the higher standards of women is bad news bears for the average man. But then you look at Marty, a film turning 70 years old this month, and there’s such a compelling universality and timelessness to his plight.
Classic Corner: 52 Pick-Up — Crooked Marquee

2 weeks ago | crookedmarquee.com | Sean Burns

The sleaziest major Hollywood release of 1986, John Frankenheimer’s 52 Pick-Up is an ugly, urgent thriller made by a director with something to prove. Based on Elmore Leonard’s 1974 novel, it’s about what happens when a trio of low-rent, wannabe criminal masterminds try to blackmail the wrong guy. Roy Scheider stars as Harry Mitchell, a self-made Los Angeles machine parts magnate who isn’t too many years off the assembly line himself.
We've Reached Peak Beatle Movie — Crooked Marquee

2 weeks ago | crookedmarquee.com | Jason Bailey

If it hadn’t already been announced, the proliferation of news items and social media discussion about Sam Mendes’s Beatle-biopic quartet on April 1 would’ve felt like a particularly strained April Fools gag. It was merely unfortunate timing, the announcement of key additional details at the annual studio hype-fest CinemaCon, that caused us all to consider this ill-advised venture, in which Mendes will make not one, but four biographical dramas, each one focusing on a member of the Fab Four.
VODepths: What to See (and Avoid) on Demand This Week — Crooked Marquee

2 weeks ago | crookedmarquee.com | Josh Bell

In this week’s minor VOD releases, Sigmund Freud faces Adolf Hitler, a Filipino drag queen seeks redemption, and Ron Perlman and Willem Dafoe half-heartedly add to their villain résumés. Play Dirty (Tubi April 4): The cops and criminals in this desultory thriller are mostly just playing at being dirty, because director and co-writer Tom DeNucci can’t come up with anything convincing or authentic.
A Goofy Movie at 30: Listening to the Film's Big Musical Finale — Crooked Marquee

3 weeks ago | crookedmarquee.com | Josh Spiegel

The 1990s were a boom period for Disney feature animation, kickstarted by The Little Mermaid. Though many films of the era display some similar aspects or traits, from modern takes on classic stories to technologically groundbreaking uses of computer animation in key sequences, it’s the music that makes so many of these titles stand out.
Classic Corner: Red Beard — Crooked Marquee

3 weeks ago | crookedmarquee.com | Jason Bailey

Of all the great, longstanding director/actor partnerships – think Scorsese/De Niro or Ford/Wayne – perhaps the most fruitful was between Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune, which lasted from 1948 to 1965, and encompassed 16 features. Mifune even made his screen debut in a film Kurosawa wrote, 1947’s Snow Trail, in which his co-star was Takashi Shimura.