As of the year of our Lord 2024, there have been three complete film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel Dune, which is a decent number for a book widely regarded as “unfilmable”. One of these, the 1984 Dune directed by David Lynch, is almost completely ineffective as a narrative film, but it sort of […]

A review requested by John, with thanks to supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon. The 1990 comedy-thriller monster horror film Tremors is so, so much better than you’d ever expect it to be, just based on reading up on it. The 1990s were, in retrospect, a halcyon period for whatever we want to […]

Dune: Part Two is as much the payment of a debt as it is a movie. In 2021, director Denis Villeneuve and his co-writers Eric Roth and Jon Spaihts presented us with an adaptation of Frank Herbert’s genre-defining 1965 science fiction novel Dune – which I guess we now ought to formally start calling Dune: […]