Parting is such sweet sorrow. The After franchise has been in our lives for four years, and while these movies certainly haven’t been the worst thing that has happened to the world in the period between 2019 and 2023, they’re at least in the Bottom 10. But I can’t quite pretend that I’m happy this […]
Bones and All, the seventh feature film directed by Luca Guadagnino, is kind of about cannibalism, and this is where it gets itself into trouble. No film should be “kind of” about cannibalism. Some subjects just don’t allow for half measures. You should never walk out of a film whose protagonists are cannibals – bisexual […]
For those of you just joining us, the story of the After franchise is a long and winding road, getting longer and windier by the minute. This project started its life as an AU (alternate universe) fan fiction by Anna Todd asking the penetrating question of “What if Harry Styles was a sexy, dangerous college student who […]
We’re staring down the barrel of After We Fell, and I for one couldn’t be more excited to bring this to everyone. For those of you who haven’t been closely following the After franchise, a quick catchup: After began its life as One Direction fanfiction on the online social writing platform Wattpad, imagining an alternate universe where […]
I have a serious problem. The more terrible an idea for a movie is, the more I absolutely, postively have to see it right fucking now. This is how I ended up renting 2019’s After, a film adapted from a book series that originated as a Harry Styles fanfiction. In this particular fanfiction, Harry wasn’t […]
A review requested by Brian, 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!. It’s hard not to respect Cruel Intentions for playing its game so well. We have here the collision […]
There us a great deal to admire around the largely French-made Turkish-language film Mustang. It scores two major coups even before you start watching it: it’s a study of adolescent female psychology and sexuality in a cloistered Turkish family, which is rare enough; and it was directed and co-written by a Turkish woman, Deniz Gamze […]
Fifty Shades of Grey is a monumentally boring motion picture. Whatever value there is to a smash hit movie written, directed, and produced by women, and pitched to an audience of women as a way for them to enjoy an expression of sexuality; whatever damage the film threatens to do by seriously misrepresenting the (healthy) […]
What If they made another movie about extravagantly quirky urban white twentysomethings? What if it took place in a loving version of Toronto that somehow still felt exactly like Brooklyn in every other movie in living memory about the same subpopulation? What if it starred Harry Potter, all growed up and able to drink beer, […]
Sofia Coppola’s biggest liability as a filmmaker is typically identified as her immensely cloistered upbringing as an untouchable scion of Hollywood royalty, someone for whom moneyed Southern California celebrity life is so utterly normalised and unexceptional that she’s literally incapable of imagining what it might be like to live like the enormous majority of human […]
Full disclosure: my feelings towards director Harmony Korine (without, admittedly, having seen every last one of his features) are largely hostile. I’m not terribly much a fan of filmmakers who are outright provocateurs to begin with, but where as your Lars von Trier or your Michael Haneke at least have unmistakable talent and a kind […]
I was all set to open up with a little historical primer about how in the mid-’90s, director Richard Linklater, and actors Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke had various things to prove, that they could be more than Gen X chroniclers in the men’s case, and Euroart sexpots in Delpy’s. But movies like Before Sunrise […]
