Had Steven Spielberg been arrested, for whatever reason, shortly after finishing The Fabelmans, critics would certainly have made note of that fact right up top in their reviews. “Incidentally, this movie’s director currently occupies a prison cell” just isn’t the sort of detail one can omit, however purely gossipy it might be. When it comes […]
The 2019 anti-mystery Knives Out has a game cast and an interestingly annoying structural conceit, buried (but not very deeply!) below some very dumb social satire and “extremely online” cultural touchstones. It is very much a “fix this one thing, and you’ve really got something here” proposition, but unfortunately, it was written and directed by […]
The game I enjoy playing so much, “what happens when Major International Film Auteur X moves outside of their native country and native language for the first time?” has been given a particularly unexpected pair of answers by Kore-eda Hirokazu, the Japanese creator of so many feather-soft stories of people on the edge of the […]
A review requested by Nathan, 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! Tokyo Godfathers, from 2003, is the weirdest of the five major projects completed by the great Japanese animation […]
Diversity. It makes us great. It makes us strong. Quality representation of our many diverse cultures in our many diverse films is so important. And that’s why it’s so wonderful that, thanks to Netflix and a plucky creative team, the broader Latin American community finally has Christmas with You, a sickly-sweet, forgettably mediocre Christmas movie […]
The Parker Family Saga is the franchise you didn’t know existed. You are probably familiar—likely over-familiar—with the crown jewel, Bob Clark’s A Christmas Story (1983), cementing his reputation as a purveyor of perennial Christmas classics. If you are a little more film-savvy (and you are on this website), you might be aware of the multiple […]
There’s plenty of room to do a serious overhaul on the narrative formula of A Christmas Carol, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. As what surely must be the work of English-language fiction to have been adapted into the greatest number of different films, plays, television episodes, and I imagine other […]
It’s a cheap shot to start a review of a movie with such a sturdy, meat-and-potatoes title as Women Talking with some joke about “they sure do!” or “well, you can’t say the movie didn’t tell you what to expect”, or whatnot. But it is, in fact, a movie that is to an extraordinary degree […]
Generally speaking, I prefer to watch films with as little foreknowledge as possible. Don’t seek out trailers, don’t browse movie-news sites; if I’m reading someone else’s review, it’s because I’ve either seen the movie or have pretty firmly decided that I’d rather not. There are many advantages to this approach—the joy of discovery chief among […]
DreamWorks Animation, once the unlovely home of such crimes against animation as Shark Tale and Bee Movie, has been quietly handing Disney and Pixar their asses on a platter for so long now that it should no longer come as a surprise when it happens, but it still feels like Puss in Boots: The Last […]
A review requested by Stephen, 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! I think there is a very strong argument to be made that Leo McCarey was the greatest conservative […]
Other than the first episode, “On Leather Wings”, all reviews of Batman: The Animated Series are exclusive for Patreon subscribers. Click here to support Alternate Ending through Patreon. Season 1 (1992-1993) On Leather Wings (6 September, 1992) A- Christmas with the Joker (13 November, 1992) B- Nothing to Fear (15 September, 1992) A The Last […]
