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 […]
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A review requested by Valentine, with thanks to supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon. Do you have a movie you’d like to see reviewed? This and other perks can be found on our Patreon page! Few films have ever embodied boundless joy at their own creation as much as Chungking Express. It is […]
Other than the first episode, “On Leather Wings”, all reviews of Batman: The Animated Series are exclusive for Patreon subscribers. Click here to support Alternate Ending through Patreon. Season 1 (1992-1993) On Leather Wings (6 September, 1992) A- Christmas with the Joker (13 November, 1992) B- Nothing to Fear (15 September, 1992) A The Last […]
Return to the complete Columbo index History remembers the 1968 telefilm Prescription: Murder as the de facto pilot episode of Columbo, one of television’s most beloved detective series, but this was neither the intent nor, really, the function of the movie. And its path to its first airing on NBC, on 20 February 1968, in no […]
Other than the made-for-television movie Prescription: Murder, all reviews of Columbo are exclusive for Patreon subscribers. Click here to support Alternate Ending through Patreon. Prescription: Murder (20 February, 1968) A- Pilot Ransom for a Dead Man (1 March, 1971) B Season 1 (1971-1972) Murder by the Book (15 September, 1971) A Death Lends a Hand (6 […]
Park Chan-wook received the Best Director prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, and though I’ve only seen, at this writing, five of the 21 features that screened in Competition, it’s hard to imagine that Vincent Lindon’s jury (which included Asghar Farhadi, Rebecca Hall, Joachim Trier, and Jeff Nichols, among others) didn’t make the correct […]
Hang around long enough as a cinephile and you’ll eventually watch significant filmmakers fade into irrelevance. If you’ve only gotten the bug sometime in the past 15 years, you may be largely unfamiliar with Neil LaBute, who’d once briefly appeared to be a major new filmmaker; after grabbing attention with 1997’s In the Company of […]
To wrap up the summer movie season, we’ll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to a wide-release film from the last few weeks. From August 5: Bullet Train takes place in the highly tense environment of a metal tube […]
To have come so close to losing the rights to the Hellraiser brand that one must quickly rush out a sequel for contractual reasons is sloppiness. To have done this twice begins to feel like deliberate sabotage. And yet, seven years after Hellraiser: Revelations was (barely) released in 2011, Dimension Films once again had to […]
Among those people invested enough in the ongoing development of the Hellraiser franchise for such issues to matter, the direct-to-video era of the franchise that started in the year 2000 – four years after the last theatrical release, the much-disliked whipping boy Hellraiser: Bloodline – is also accused of being the “we just stuck Pinhead […]
