Jacques Audiard directing a film from a script he co-wrote with Céline Sciamma is one of the biggest-name mash-ups that French cinema is capable of producing right now (they had a third co-writer, Léa Mysius, and the script was adapted from short stories by Adrian Tomine, but from the perspective of the art house movie […]
I’m always a sucker for films that tell us early on how we are to approach them, and The Northman – the third feature film directed by Robert Eggers after 2015’s The Witch and 2019’s The Lighthouse, and the one where I’m comfortable declaring in front of all the world that he’s officially my favorite […]
A review requested by Kevin, 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 later years, Film Twitter has (in its Film Twitter way) decided that M. Night Shyamalan’s 2004 feature […]
Throughout her career, Andrea Arnold has told stories about women in constrictive circumstances who seek liberation via danger, whether that takes the form of stalking someone via CCTV monitors (Red Road), getting involved with a much older man (Fish Tank), or living in a van alongside Shia LaBeouf (American Honey). The subject of Arnold’s latest […]
Return to the complete Party Down index First Airdate: May 1, 2009 Written by John Enbom Directed by Fred Savage I’m going to lay my chips on the table right now. I think season 1, episode 8 of Party Down is the best episode they ever put out. You may notice that we’re not talking about that […]
The genre in which the intermittently great American filmmaker Richard Linklater most consistently demonstrates his greatness (outside of “Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke walk around a city having epistemological debates”) must surely be “Richard Linklater revisits a very particular slice of Richard Linklater’s own life”. And as far as that goes, he’s perhaps never gone […]
A review requested by Brennan, 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! To begin with the low-hanging fruit, I would like to suggest that there should be absolutely no doubt […]
There is something indescribably soothing about the existence of Sonic the Hedgehog 2 in its current form. And that starts right with the fact that it’s been titled Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and not, like, Sonic the Hedgehog: Knuckle Down or Sonic the Hedgehog: Tails I Win, or Sonic the Hedgehog: In the Shadow of […]
Even at their most chameleonic, actors remain fundamentally themselves as every character they play. That’s unavoidable in a profession that involves employing your body as an instrument of sorts—you can tweak every dial of voice, gesture, and posture, but some essence of You remains, irreplicable by anyone else on Earth (even if you have an […]
Thirteen is a pretty cool number of entries for a horror franchise to arrive at: it is the spooky number, and thus very auspicious. And when the Witchcraft movies became the very first horror series ever to arrive at its thirteenth entry in 2008, with Witchcraft 13: Blood of the Chosen, the series minders seemed […]
Return to the complete Party Down index First Airdate: April 24, 2009 Written by John Enbom Directed by Bryan Gordon You know how nostalgia can color a memory and make the entire thing seem golden and rosy, rubbing away any of the more negative parts? And remember how culture can progress over time and make […]
Few things are more frustrating for the ardent cinephile than watching a potentially exciting new filmmaker gradually downshift into mediocrity. Twenty years ago, Peter Sollett’s debut feature, Raising Victor Vargas (then called Long Way Home), made a small splash at Cannes, where it premiered as part of the festival’s Un Certain Regard sidebar; shot on […]
