Discovering good movies, one bad movie at a time

Prepare yourself for some serious self-refection when you see the newly released Sci-Fi/Comedy Save Yourselves! The film brings a fresh perspective into our massive over-usage of mobile technology, not in a way that makes you feel punished, but that makes you think about balance. Save Yourselves! Interview We sat down IN PERSON! at Sundance this year (holy smokes that feels like a lifetime ago), with the filmmakers and cast of […]

Big news behind the scenes here at Alternate Ending: Rob and Carrie, our resident film school dropout and casual moviegoer respectively, are taking their continuing film studies up a notch by attending the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT to preview some of the 2020 Sundance movies that will rock our worlds. The festival is the largest American independent film festival and attended by more than 120,000 people and […]

One is practically required by law to start any review of the 1999 version of The Haunting by negatively comparing it to the 1963 version of The Haunting, and how dare I do otherwise. The Haunting ’63 is one of horror’s all-time highest water marks, an immaculate piece of visual storytelling on top of being a superbly freak plunge into ghostly atmosphere and paranormal freakiness. The Haunting ’99 isn’t just […]

One of the agreed-upon narratives of the closing of the 2012 movie year is that, for once, the Oscarbait is really good: not that most people love everything, but damn near everybody loves something, whether it’s the old-fashioned political thrills of Argo, the new-fashioned iciness of Zero Dark Thirty, the austere lushness of Lincoln, the emotionally bruising lushness of Les Misérables. Movies that, in the normal order of things, would […]

One of my favorite intermittent features on this blog, and for some reason one of the hardest for me to keep feeding, were my top ten lists that I tried to keep alive every Monday. The mood struck me to resurrect them for a little while, a month at least: for the Oscars are happening in a few weeks, and there’s very little that makes better list fodder in the […]