To help fill the void in your weekly listening, Carrie and Rob are bringing you Weeklies – a review of the last 7-days of movie new…with a twist! Rob has gathered all the 10 best pieces of movie news and Carrie will only be able to pick 5 ‘The Batman’: Paul Dano to Play The Riddler Live-Action ‘Barney’ Movie Coming from Producer Daniel Kaluuya Blumhouse’s ‘The Craft’ Remake On the […]
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 […]
It’s well-known that George A. Romero’s Dead films are works of cultural inquiry: each of them filmed in a different decade (until, that is, Diary of the Dead), each of them taking a hard look a the social mores and movements of the day, bringing them to bear under the light of sometimes gentle, often piercing satire. Thus it is that even though the events described by the series cover […]
Greetings and welcome back to Raspberry Picking, where we look back at Golden Raspberry Award winners and nominees and decide whether they really deserve to be called the worst movies of all time. This month, we’re having ourselves a little Striptease, nominee for six Razzies, winner of five including worst picture, and derailer of careers in exactly the way the Razzies always dream of being. I’m going to spare everyone […]
Greetings and welcome back to Raspberry Picking, where we look back at Golden Raspberry Award winners and decide whether they really deserve to be called the worst movies ever. This time, we’re looking at Catwoman, nominee for six Razzies, winner of three (including, of course, Worst Picture), and the widely acknowledged Turd Standard for superhero movies of the 21st century. But first! ‘Twas January of last year when the overlords of Alternate […]
There’s plenty of room to do a serious overhaul on the narrative formula of A Christmas Carol, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. As what surely must be the work of English-language fiction to have been adapted into the greatest number of different films, plays, television episodes, and I imagine other tales in other media, A Christmas Carol is a perfect candidate for some radical revisionism: […]
The first FBI bug ever planted was against the mob in Chicago in a tailor shop, circa 1956. When Chicago native Graham Moore, who broke into Hollywood by winning an Oscar for his screenwriting debut, The Imitation Game, learned this fact, the story began to write itself. And now, Moore makes his directorial debut with The Outfit, the story of an expert tailor (or rather, cutter – it is made […]
Asylum might have the single best hook of any anthology film I have seen. The story opens with Dr. Martin (Robert Powell), a young psychiatrist, arriving at a remote insane asylum for a job interview. The man who runs the place, Dr. Rutherford (Parick McGee), seems like a bit of an asshole, the kind of person who usually has a position of authority at a movie asylum, who views the […]
To help fill the void in your weekly listening, Carrie and Rob are bringing you Weeklies — a review of the last seven days of movie news… with a twist! Rob has gathered all the 10 best pieces of movie news and Carrie will only be able to pick 5. Will she hear about the first Wonder Woman 1984 trailer? How Disney remakes may be changing? A super young Golden […]
Look deep inside your heart, consider the matter as bloodlessly as possible, and confront the question of whether a movie can be “objectively good” in the first place, and we must ask ourselves, is Pokémon Detective Pikachu (the lack of a colon in that title makes me sad in my heart) actually a good movie? The answer, I believe, is that it probably isn’t, though I very much enjoyed watching […]
Happy May Day everyone! It feels a bit presumptuous to start looking at a new month of releases when I still have to catch up from April – I hear that there’s been an Avengers picture that made a bit of money. And just as soon as I have any sort of chance to clear five consecutive hours out of my schedule to catch up with it, I’ll be happy […]
