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. This week: Where the Crawdads Sing tells the story of a young woman who lives and thrives in a swampland, away […]
The story of how Hellraiser: Hellseeker came into being as the sixth film in the Hellraiser franchise, the second to go direct-to-video, is rather more complicated than it ought to be. The short version is that it’s a heavily rewritten version of a script, titled Hellraiser: The Hellseeker (note the definite article), that was commissioned […]
There are things in Thor: Love and Thunder – the fourth movie to exclusively focus on the Marvel Comics version of the Norse god Thor, played by Chris Hemsworth, who thus becomes the first individual character to headline a tetralogy in the Marvel Cinematic Universe – that are pretty damn good. And conversely, there are […]
A review requested by STinG, 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! The reputation of Who Killed Captain Alex? unquestionably precedes it. The short version of the story behind what […]
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. This week: at a sufficiently far remove, Thor: Love and Thunder is ultimately based on the legends and mythology of Northern […]
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. This week: at a sufficiently far remove, Thor: Love and Thunder is ultimately based on the legends and mythology of Northern […]
Among those people invested enough in the ongoing development of the Hellraiser franchise for such issues to matter, the direct-to-video era of the franchise that started in the year 2000 – four years after the last theatrical release, the much-disliked whipping boy Hellraiser: Bloodline – is also accused of being the “we just stuck Pinhead […]
It’s incredibly difficult to discuss Flux Gourmet without starting at “this is a film by Peter Strickland”, which isn’t even the most useful way into the film, in this case. One of Strickland’s two biggest identifying characteristics doesn’t apply here: while all three of Berberian Sound Studio, The Duke of Burgundy, and In Fabric (his […]
There are a few different ways we can make sense of the title of Mad God, a new stop-motion animated feature that’s also not very new at all: with some footage dating back to 1989, it’s one of the longest-in-production films to have ever been released. But probably the simplest explanation is the one we […]
Sometimes we Americans get cheated out of a perfect title. Claire Denis’ 14th or 15th solo narrative feature—depends upon whether you want to count 1994’s magnificent, hour-long U.S. Go Home, made for the same remarkable French anthology TV series that gave us Olivier Assayas’ Cold Water and André Téchiné’s Wild Reeds; “Denis’ latest film” would […]
There have undoubtedly been sequels that more thoroughly squandered the glories of a strong original than 1972’s Dr. Phibes Rises Again, though very few that I find more personally irritating. The Abominable Dr. Phibes, from 1971, is a film I greatly cherish, a singular blend of Gothic horror, camp, viciously outré death scenes, dreamily surreal […]
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. This week: Baz Luhrmann directs his first feature in nine years, Elvis. Elvis being Elvis, this isn’t even the first film […]
