A review requested by James, with thanks to supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is weird as hell right from the word “go”. It’s a movie set in Paris but the cast and general sense of slightly dull-eyed polish screams “English prestige picture”, though no money came […]
The Hallmark Jane Austen marathon continues with An American in Austen, which premiered on February 17. It’s the third of four installments in the network’s most ambitious attempt yet to dishonor the legacy of one of the greatest artists to wield the English language. The plot of An American in Austen is pretty high-concept for Hallmark, so […]
A review requested by Brian, with thanks to supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon. “The world of Canadian documentary filmmaking” is a phrase that sounds like I’m being sarcastic, or at least deadpan, but I swear I’m not – the world of Canadian documentary filmmaking is long-lived and important, one of the places […]
Between 1984 and 2018, we got 18 feature films and two anthology segments by “the Coen Brothers”, and despite a wide, eclectic range of genres, stories, and tones, these films collective display an extremely unified creative voice. Between 2021 and 2024, we now have two feature films made by only Joel Coen and only Ethan […]
A review requested by Gavin, with thanks to supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon. The first question that I think would be at the forefront of anyone’s mind upon a first viewing of Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night would be “how could such a thing possibly have come into being in […]
A review requested by Caleb, with thanks to supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon. The 2018 Hindi-language horror movie Tumbbad, we are told, originated in 1993, when director and co-writer Rahi Anil Barve was around 14 years old, and listened in rapt horror as a friend told him a story based in the […]
The question of Dakota Johnson is one I am not prepared to answer. Is she, in any conventional sense, a “good” actor? I honestly don’t know if there’s enough evidence to judge. She is, I think, a very disrespectful actor: when she is handed a bum script, as she has been handed one with Madame […]
