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A review requested by Looneygamemaster, with thanks to supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon. The version of The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T that we have is the hastily-reworked version of a more ambitious and potentially even more bizarre original cut for which the materials no longer exist, so let’s not get excited. […]

So, he we are again. Hallmark’s marathon of brand-new Jane Austen-themed rom-coms has been continuing throughout February. Have I mentioned that they’ve dubbed the month “Loveuary?” It’s a pun so rotten, they barely put any thought in. Anyway, it’s time to take a look at Love & Jane, the second of these four movies, which debuted […]

Categories: love stories, romcoms

It makes one feel at least slightly like an easy mark to be enormously enthusiastic for The Taste of Things, a movie that feels like it was created in a lab for people with middlebrow tastes who felt “sophisticated” when they watched European art cinema in the 1990s. It’s French. It stars Juliette Binoche. Approximately […]

Every single review of The Zone of Interest, the fourth feature film directed by Jonathan Glazer, at some point will reference the subtitle of Hannah Arendt’s 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Banality of Evil. Some reviews will mention it in the context of this being a very powerful illustration of Arendt’s most famous idea. […]

Happy Valentine’s Day, y’all! In honor of the occasion, Hallmark has seen fit to lift their moratorium on Jane Austen-inspired movies. As someone who has made it his mission to watch and review every feature adaptation of her work, I can speak with some authority about the fact that there was a truly unsettling profusion […]

Categories: love stories, romcoms