Black Friday has two things going for it. First, it is a horror movie that is taking advantage of a, well, let’s not call it a holiday, but a “notable occurrence” that hasn’t been really been used before in the genre. This will ensure that there is some poor sap out there who will doggedly […]
This is a statement that will maybe mean something only to me, but the Princess Switch franchise has had the exact opposite trajectory of the A Christmas Prince movies. Instead of starting with a bland Hallmark knockoff and gradually backsliding into pure, effervescent lunacy, these ones started off as a fever dream riff on The Prince […]
The idea of Kenneth Branagh writing and directing a semi-autobiographical story of his childhood in Belfast, right around the time that tensions between the nationalists and loyalists in Northern Ireland broke out into open violence in 1969, is not one that fills me with any great amount of automatic optimism. Branagh is quite a sufficiently […]
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! As the pinch hitter critic here at Alternate Ending, it is my honor and privilege to take you on a guided tour through the best and worst of the terrible Christmas movies that get disgorged onto an unsuspecting public by the uncaring maw of Netflix every year. […]
King Richard is the kind of film designed to make you feel sweet and warm and nice while you’re watching it, with maybe just a soupçon of self-righteousness, and then to evaporate like the morning dew the literal instant that it’s over. It is a sports biopic, probably my all-time second-least-favorite kind of movie (musician […]
We’re staring down the barrel of After We Fell, and I for one couldn’t be more excited to bring this to everyone. For those of you who haven’t been closely following the After franchise, a quick catchup: After began its life as One Direction fanfiction on the online social writing platform Wattpad, imagining an alternate universe where […]
The text “A fable from a true tragedy” is the very first message that Spencer has for us, and this tells us the most important thing we need to know about it. Namely, this is not a biopic of Diana, Princess of Wales, but an impressionistic psychodrama based on the material of her largely unhappy […]
I would be tempted to say that Last Night in Soho is the film with which director Edgar Wright proves that he needs somebody else to write his screenplays, but then, didn’t we kind of already know that? Specifically, that he needs Simon Pegg to write his screenplays, or co-write them, anyway: the three Wright-Pegg […]
If one is adapting the work of comic book artist and author Jack Kirby, particularly the era of Jack Kirby when he was obsessed with Chariots of the Gods and trying to create extraordinary new cosmologies for first the DC and then the Marvel universe, I think the obviously correct thing to do would be […]
The phrase “elevated horror” gets bandied about pretty freely for something that has no concrete definition beyond “the kind of horror movies distributed by A24”. But there’s certainly something going on that deserves a word to describe it, a strain of unconnected movies that mix in horror with serious character drama. It is a very […]
The French Dispatch isn’t the “best” Wes Anderson movie, and it’s maybe not even the “most” Wes Anderson movie. But I do think it might well be the most “fuck you” Wes Anderson movie, the one where you are either going to follow modern American cinema’s fussiest and most aesthetically controlling director where he is […]
Of all the rides or other attractions in any of the theme parks operated by the Walt Disney Company, if you were going to make a motion picture based on any of them – in this case, “you” are presumably either Chairman & CEO Michael Eisner or President & COO Bob Iger, and in either […]
