In 2017, John Wick: Chapter 2 opened by showing footage from the 1924 Buster Keaton comedy Sherlock Jr., one of the greatest stunt-driven movies of all time, and the gesture was an obvious, swaggering brag: “what we’re up to here is just as good as Keaton”. And for the next two hours, director Chad Stahelski […]
A review requested by Valentine, 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! Few films have ever embodied boundless joy at their own creation as much as Chungking Express. It is […]
There are three entirely different ways we can look at Creed III, and the film is more or less of a success or a failure based on which one we pick. Starting from the most failed and going up: as the trilogy-capper to a story begun in 2015’s exceptionally great boxing movie Creed and 2018’s […]
“Wouldn’t it be WILD if a black bear got totally fucked-up on cocaine?” “Yes, it sure would.” “Like, don’t you think that a bear on cocaine would just be CRAZY?” “It, yes, that would be weird, I wouldn’t want to meet that bear.” “Like, it’s a BEAR, and it’s on COCAINE.” “I mean, you said […]
I think it goes without saying that the best answer to the question, “what do you would the right way to remake Kurosawa Akira’s gorgeous 1952 melodrama Ikiru?” would be “I hope you die in a fire”, but setting that aside, Living is actually pretty good. The biggest problem with it, by far, is that […]
The Children of the Corn franchise is a sight to behold. It is perhaps the most iconic horror franchise in which almost everyone in the world has only seen the first entry, a 1984 Stephen King short story adaptation which survives in the public consciousness on the back of some iconic villain performances, a solid […]
The low-hanging fruit first: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is complete garbage as an Ant-Man movie. 2015’s Ant-Man and 2018’s Ant-Man and the Wasp are two of the most perfectly-matched films in the vast corpus of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, now arriving at its 31st feature film, providing almost identical experiences, and in their offbeat […]
A review by M.C. Steffen Part of giving any movie a fair shake is making an effort to grasp the codes it uses to communicate to its intended audience. In a musical, when characters sing, you’re meant to understand that they’re expressing emotions too overwhelming for mere speech; whether that convention is to your taste […]
