The biggest problem with Strong Island – but oof, what a terrible way to frame it. The movie has problems, of course; very few movies have absolutely no problems. But not so many movies are good at sympathetically displaying a range of human despair in a tight, intimate way that makes you feel like weeping […]

A review requested by Nathan Morrow, 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! There is a tradition of “the bureaucracy of Heaven” movies going as far back as 1941’s Here […]

Rings is the horror-movie equivalent of stumbling across a decade-old photo of yourself wearing God knows what kind of fashion disaster. Of course you recognise yourself; it’s so recent that you can easily remember that outfit. And yet it feels impossibly long ago that that was the style, that this once seemed normal. So it […]