Christmas (or whatever holiday makes you giddy with glee) came early here at Alternate Ending. We’re joined by one of our favorite humans, Catherine Clark! You may have seen some of her writing contributions on ae.com, but she’s also an artist, film producer and officially the best cat Mom on the planet (don’t tell Tim). If there was a contest for the person in our lives who would be the least […]
Greetings Alternate Ending! Many continue to wonder, “what the hell happened to Rob?!”. Well, aside from working tirelessly on making my first feature film, Hauntology, I’ve been trying to figure out how to bring the same amazing experience I’ve been able to get to the masses. You may (or may not) be surprised to find out there are SO many great ideas out there in the movie world. Many […]
Majdoulin Almwaka’s 2022 research into the complexities of female agency in the “final girl” horror trope gave me lots to digest about where we’re at with exploring a role where a woman is left to confront the evil, tell the tale, and more often than not, reinforce existing cultural norms and gender roles. They explore how this particular trope often never acknowledges real male violence, instead representing the villain as […]
If you work in media, you likely know someone like B.J. Novak’s Ben Manalowitz — someone hell-bent on finding a big idea that will propel them to fame and fortune, with or without any actual profundity. Novak has played this semi-punchable character more than once, and in Vengeance, his feature film directorial debut, leans hard into it with a wink. We’ve also seen a few spins on skewering podcasters, especially […]
In Abandoned, we find ourselves in the middle of a marriage in peril. Searching for a reprieve from the chokehold that is mental illness after pregnancy, the couple relocates to a remote farmhouse to somehow cure Sara, a new mother, of her depression and potential hallucinations. This beautiful house full of antiques and mystery somehow doesn’t do the trick and comes with a host of heebie-jeebies of its own. It’s […]
We start where we left off before – on the way to the big investor meeting where the fate of Hauntology would be decided! So, who better to join this episode than a few of our investors, including: Catherine Clark, Chris Trengove and Rachael Scaccia.
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 […]
If you’re into dark alternate origin stories, you might be pretty psyched to see Todd Phillips’ Joker with the most 2020 Oscar nominations at 11 nods including best picture, best director, and best actor. You’ll also see some love for a few of my favorites, Little Women and Jojo Rabbit, along with Marriage Story, The Irishman, Parasite, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and more. Scarlett Johansson in particular had […]
*Spoiler warnings for the book and film versions of The Shining.* After we explored what happened at the end of Doctor Sleep in this Doctor Sleep ending explained, we knew there’d be folks still unclear about what happened at the end of the 1980 predecessor from Stanley Kubrick, The Shining. So I’m back with The Shining‘s ending explained. Did you know there was an alternate ending to The Shining that […]
*Spoiler warnings for the book and film versions of both Doctor Sleep and The Shining.* The bestselling Steven King follow-up to The Shining, Doctor Sleep, has been adapted for the screen and hits theaters on November 8 in the U.S. I got a sneak peek and the Stranger Things meets Logan meets Hocus Pocus vibes all wrapped up in the supernatural zeitgeist of The Overlook Hotel are chilling. But we’ll […]
If you’ve seen Stranger Things or the recently released zeitgeist-embracing adventure The Kid Who Would Be King, you know there’s no shortage of nostalgia for the decades in which most of the folks reading this grew up. The 1980s and ’90s are en vogue and ready to transport you back to your Topanga poster-covered walls of your bedroom. Or whomever you were into at the time. Maybe it was just […]
I was in a rare mood for a rom-com the other day and saw that Nora Ephron’s ye olde You’ve Got Mail was streaming. And pretty old it is — its 20th anniversary is this week. It’s one of those films that you’d think isn’t at all timeless due to its very specific moment in time with technology. The premise, however, of two strangers making a connection from afar, is […]
