A review requested by Kelleson, with thanks to 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! In making the 1965 megabudget epic The Great Race, director Blake Edwards had the avowed goal of making […]
Check out Chris’s video interview with Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney, co-writer/directors of Strawberry Mansion Strawberry Mansion first came to the public’s attention when it virtually premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival in the NEXT category, which focuses on films with bold, challenging content and form. It’s taken a little while, but the film […]
It’s hard to tell whether the original Amazon romcom I Want You Back is serviced by or suffers from the fact that it came out exactly one week after their taps-running snoozefest Book of Love. On the one hand, anything would be preferable to watch than Book of Love. On the other hand, holy shit, another […]
There have now been eight sequels, remakes, prequels, or prequels-to-remakes of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror-redefining masterpiece The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and I think it is relatively easy to argue that every single one of them is bad. Hooper’s own 1986 follow-up The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 has its enthusiastic partisans, among whom I don’t number, […]
In August 2015, four of the world’s top bridge players – Norwegians Boye Brogeland and Espen Lindqvist, and Americans Allan Graves and Richie Schwartz – announced that they were relinquishing three championship titles they had won while playing as a team in 2014 and 2015. One of these was for the 2014 Spingold Knockout Championship; […]
The new adaptation of Agatha Christie’s 1937 novel Death on the Nile written by Michael Green and directed by Kenneth Branagh is an almost perfect lateral move, quality-wise from the 2017 adaptation of Christie’s 1934 novel Murder on the Orient Express, also written by Green and directed by Branagh. In a sense, this already speaks […]
Now, the reason I sign on to check out streaming romantic comedies like Book of Love is not that I assume they will be any good at all. I consider myself to be more like a Gold Rush prospector, sitting on a muddy riverbank for hours waiting for a gold nugget to come up from the […]
Kimi is by no plausible yardstick a stretch for director Steven Soderbergh: the most excessively generous thing I could imagine saying about it is that, for a film which unambiguously and indeed proudly steals elements from Rear Window, The Conversation, and Blow Out, it does so very artfully, and with a good understanding of what […]
For those of you who missed my review of 2019’s Tall Girl last week, please note that it’s a movie that never should have ever received a sequel, and of course I watched said sequel the first second it was possible for me to do so. There’s nothing more intriguing to me than a movie […]
A review requested by Michael, with thanks to 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! “Eraserhead is about David Lynch’s terrified disgust at the thought of being a father” is such a well-worn […]
Here Before, the debut feature from director Stacey Gregg, caught my eye for two reasons. First, it was nominated for the 2021 SXSW Grand Jury Award (pretty prestigious), and second, it stars Andrea Riseborough. After watching the trailer, I knew it was a film I wanted to see. The gorgeous cinematography alone, courtesy of Chloë […]
The Worst Person in the World, according to the film of that title, is a certain young woman living in Oslo, named Julie (Renate Reinsve). We spend a few years with her, from her late 20s to her early 30s, and one important thing is learned in those years, twice: first, we learn that Julie […]
