Was there any sense in which the world was clamoring for a sequel to 1986’s Top Gun? Any indication that the story told in that film was incomplete, or that it would be fruitful to return to its immodestly thin characters and scenario and see what else could be drawn from them? I would say […]
There’s no reason for a film as flat and uninspired as Leatherface to have taken such a painful path into the world as it did. The short version: Lionsgate and Millennium Films acquired the rights to make several Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequels, but ended up dawdling so long on releasing the two it actually paid […]
A review requested by Gavin, 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! Tommy, the 1975 feature film adaptation of the 1969 concept album by The Who, is an erratic, garish […]
Other than the pilot episode, all reviews of The X-Files are exclusive for Patreon subscribers. Click here to support Alternate Ending through Patreon. Season 1 (1993-1994) Pilot (10 September, 1993) B Deep Throat (17 September, 1993) B+ Squeeze (24 September, 1993) A- Conduit (1 October, 1993) A- The Jersey Devil (8 October, 1993) C Shadows […]
Every week this summer, we’ll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to one of the weekend’s wide releases. In the week now ending: Downton Abbey: A New Era is a movie with a script by Julian Fellowes, focused on […]
Why make a feature film based on a TV show? Sometimes, it’s an act of resurrection: Star Trek, Twin Peaks and Veronica Mars all got movies inviting viewers to spend more time in their respective worlds (though David Lynch gave casual fans much more than they bargained for). If the show is ongoing, a big-screen […]
The phrase “elevated horror” is one I am very reluctant to use, since its meaning seems to generally land on something amorphous like “horror movies that people who think they’re too good for horror movies are willing to praise”. But there’s definitely something there, and “elevated horror” is as good a shorthand to describe that […]
Dying is one of the only two entirely universal human experiences (the other is being born), which would in principal make it one of the great subjects of art, but I guess it’s understandable why it isn’t. Death is, after all, depressing. It frequently involves physical suffering. It is something we don’t like to think […]
Some table-setting is necessary before diving deep into RRR. First, while the term “Bollywood” has been freely applied to the film, it is important to note that this film is technically “Tollywood,” a term for cinema in the Telugu language spoken in the Indian states Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. However, Tollywood can also refer to Bengali […]
“If you like watching naked people have sex, it’s incredibly hot.” –-Sharon (Noël VanBrocklin), a character in Witchcraft XVI: Hollywood Coven, reviewing Witchcraft XI: Sisters in Blood, and by extension, every other Witchcraft picture As I write these words, Witchcraft XVI: Hollywood Coven is the last of the direct-to-video Witchcraft movies, and there’s a clear […]
If movies are magic, and magic is misdirection, then…well, you can finish the syllogism yourself. Few things are more satisfying than discovering that apparent miracles have been performed with the left hand while our attention was drawn to the right, and learning in detail exactly how the sleight of hand (or eye) was achieved can […]
Return to the complete Party Down index First Airdate: May 15, 2009 Written by Russell Smith Directed by Fred Savage Two episodes before its season 1 finale, Party Down was rocked by a major upset. Jane Lynch got a gig on a little Ryan Murphy show called Glee, in which she would play the vicious cheerleading […]
