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I would say that Thanksgiving is the best version of itself I can imagine, but even that’s selling it short: I couldn’t even imagine it turning out as well as it did. The film originated as a parody trailer directed by Eli Roth for the 2007 exploitation film homage Grindhouse, written by himself & Jeff […]

I will say this about Five Nights at Freddy’s, an extremely unlikable piece of shit movie whose enormous, instantaneous box-office success has filled me with the gloomy suspicion that we’re staring down the gun barrel of a new epoch where the only movies that become hits are the ones that can  be turned into memes: […]

Over the course of its 27-years-and-counting lifespan – a geological epoch, by summertime movie standards – the Mission: Impossible movies have tried on many different guises and been many different things. But one of the things they have been the most consistently, going back at least to the free-climbing and knife-against-the-eyeball scenes in 2000’s Mission: […]

A review requested by Michael, 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! We have absolutely no evidence that this is actually how it went down (arguably, we have evidence to […]

“Wouldn’t it be WILD if a black bear got totally fucked-up on cocaine?” “Yes, it sure would.” “Like, don’t you think that a bear on cocaine would just be CRAZY?” “It, yes, that would be weird, I wouldn’t want to meet that bear.” “Like, it’s a BEAR, and it’s on COCAINE.” “I mean, you said […]

A review requested by Benjamin, 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! Rear Window is a film about the prurient voyeurism of watching movies. You know this. I know this. […]

For the U.S. film industry to have produced a knockoff of Child’s Play retooled to make the observation, “huh, did you know that there are dolls connected to the internet these days? What won’t they think of next” that is actually a good and watchable movie counts as a small miracle. For it to have produced […]

We’re living through a golden age of “the rich are evil and out of touch, and must be destroyed!” pop culture objects being made by people who are, themselves, extremely rich and out of touch, and are acting (one suspects) less out of a place of good honest class betrayal than a neurotic need to […]

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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 […]

Declaring Dark Glasses to be the best film directed by the legendary Italian horror master Dario Argento in 20 years is almost literally meaningless. First and foremost, he hasn’t made anything for the last ten of those years, since 2012’s dreadful Dracula 3D threatened to be the final film of his illustrious career. And that came […]