A review requested by Dave, 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! History recalls 1983’s Local Hero, the third feature written and directed by Bill Forsyth, as the inspiration for […]
With Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, writer-director James Gunn has achieved something, in my eyes, that I don’t think has ever happened before: he’s completed an entire trilogy of comic book movies where none of the three entries have been a disappointment. Probably the closest we’ve come before now has been the Christopher Nolan […]
A review requested by Kelleson, 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! Midway through director Frank Henenlotter’s sixth and (thus far) last narrative feature, the 2008 Bad Biology, one of […]
The sad thing about Evil Dead Rise is that it is so extremely happy to be an Evil Dead movie. Writer-director Lee Cronin is clearly a huge fan of the series, and has put great effort into making sure his movie evokes all sorts of specific lines and story beats and whatnot. One might say, […]
Scream VI is the first movie in the 27-year-old Scream franchise that strikes me as being very much “a generic Scream picture”, which is already an achievement. Most slasher franchises have felt like “a generic _____ picture” by the time the end credits have started rolling in their first entry. That we have made it […]
The best film of Disney’s ongoing, increasingly worn-out cycle of live-action (and/or photorealistic CGI that the studio stubbornly declares to be “live-action” as a marketing hook) remakes of its classic animated features is 2016’s Pete’s Dragon, which isn’t even a remake of an animated feature anyways, and that probably helped. It also helped that Pete’s […]
