Other than the made-for-television movie Prescription: Murder, all reviews of Columbo are exclusive for Patreon subscribers. Click here to support Alternate Ending through Patreon. Prescription: Murder (20 February, 1968) A- Pilot Ransom for a Dead Man (1 March, 1971) B Season 1 (1971-1972) Murder by the Book (15 September, 1971) A Death Lends a Hand (6 […]
Declaring Dark Glasses to be the best film directed by the legendary Italian horror master Dario Argento in 20 years is almost literally meaningless. First and foremost, he hasn’t made anything for the last ten of those years, since 2012’s dreadful Dracula 3D threatened to be the final film of his illustrious career. And that came […]
Let’s at least give Don’t Worry Darling this much credit: it’s easy to imagine this being a much drearier and more haranguing social satire than it is. In large part, this is because the film has such an extraordinarily hard time keeping any of its many ideas straight, or developing any of them to any […]
Barbarian is the kind of film whose boosters (of which I don’t entirely count myself one, though I think it’s a pretty easy recommendation for anyone with a more than passing interest in grotty horror-thrillers) would have it be the case that even mentioning that it has a story constitutes an unforgivable spoiler, or some […]
There probably aren’t more than a half-dozen movies in the history of American cinema more sacrosanct than Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho from 1960, a film standing proudly alone as such a defining achievement in cinema that the mere notion of ever trying to cash in on it in any way is genuinely immoral. Which hasn’t stood […]
Many people (including Tim, which is why I’m the one covering this movie), have been turned off by the trailer of Bodies Bodies Bodies because of its artless display of the characters misappropriating Gen Z “woke” language. That’s not not part of it, to be fair. But, like pretty much any A24 genre film, the publicity […]
The 2018 novel Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens was a massive bestseller, whose 15 million copies sold make it by far one of the biggest literary successes of the 2010s and among the 100-odd bestselling novels of the last hundred years.* It’s also a book I hadn’t heard of prior to the spring […]
I would claim, and I would certainly appear to be in a very small minority in doing so, that with Nope, Jordan Peele has officially entered the realm of wildly talented directors whose work is all but guaranteed to be interesting and visually striking on a rare and potent level, but who are also fucking […]
Whatever else is true of it, Hellraiser: Deader has an extremely dumb title. Formally speaking, “deader” is correct English, but it’s not a word that I think anybody uses except in those moments when it is useful to compare things to doornails. And in the context of a horror movie sequel, it’s not just awkward, […]
The story of how Hellraiser: Hellseeker came into being as the sixth film in the Hellraiser franchise, the second to go direct-to-video, is rather more complicated than it ought to be. The short version is that it’s a heavily rewritten version of a script, titled Hellraiser: The Hellseeker (note the definite article), that was commissioned […]
Among those people invested enough in the ongoing development of the Hellraiser franchise for such issues to matter, the direct-to-video era of the franchise that started in the year 2000 – four years after the last theatrical release, the much-disliked whipping boy Hellraiser: Bloodline – is also accused of being the “we just stuck Pinhead […]
First, the positivity: the direct-to-Disney+ film Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers, a sort of update-reboot-remake of the 1989 cartoon TV show of the same name, is so much better than I expected it to be. It’s still bad in many ways and good in virtually none, but the standard of comparison here is 2021’s Space […]
