Discovering good movies, one bad movie at a time

It’s going to sound like I’m crabbing and bitching and pissing and moaning and harboring all sorts of ill will towards Blade Runner 2049, so let me please clarify one important thing: it’s a fine movie. And that’s already most of the battle won. Given the uncountable number of ways that a decades-later sequel to […]

29 years ago, when Child’s Play was young, I would have laughed and laughed and laughed if you suggested that the movie would even be remembered in a decade, let alone three; and I would laughed all the harder if you suggested that there it was going to birth the strongest movie franchise of all […]

Kingsman: The Secret Service is the quintessence of the kind of movie that I haven’t thought about from basically the moment I hit “publish” on my review back in 2014, but I remember thinking it was sufficient enough as junk food. It had the right amount of saltiness, it was greasy but not, like slick […]

The first and least useful observation I have to make about Tam Cam: The Untold Story is that it suggests that Vietnam has much better fairy tales than the rest of the world. Here’s what I mean: the film, directed by Veronica Ngô Thanh Vân from a script whipped together by a small army of […]

A review requested by Andrew Milne, with thanks for supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon. Do you have a movie you’d like to see reviewed? This and other perks can be found on our Patreon page! We now live in a world where it seems like goddamn near every movie has massive CGI […]