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, televisio...

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The most obvious way to sum up Violent Night - and when I say "most obvious", I mean "so obvious that the film itself does so, explicitly" - is that it combines modern cinema's two foremost Christmas classics that aren't really in any significant way about Christmas, 1988's Violent Night (2022) appeared first on Alternate Ending.

The text "A fable from a true tragedy" is the very first message that Spencer has for us, and this tells us the most important thing we need to know about it. Namely, this is not a biopic of Diana, Princess of Wales, but an impressionistic psychodrama based on the material of her largely un...

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Every film director in the history of the medium has made, or will have made, their final film. Most of them scrape out some dumb nonsense, the kind of half-assed project that a fading, aging artist can get financed. The lucky ones are able to do so at least semi-knowingly, ending their career on a ...

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I cannot think of many questions less burning than "what if Santa Claus was a resentful, embittered survivalist who had been almost completely ruined by the weak economy of the 2010s, and the only thing that reignited his desire to live at all was being hunted by an extraordinarily proficient assass...

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I have certainly not seen every single movie released in 2020, but I have an extremely hard time imagining any of them beginning with a more profoundly horrible bit of screenwriting than Godmothered, a Disney thing that clearly hoped to capture some of that old Godmothered (2020) appeared first on Alternate Ending.

To begin with the only issue of any real importance: in the Netflix original movie The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two, Kurt Russell isn't nearly as much pure, weightless fun in the role of Santa Claus as he was in 2018's The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two (2020) appeared first on Alternate Ending.

It is a truth that I think to be self-evident that 1972's Tales from the Crypt is the best-known and most widely-seen of Amicus Productions's seven horror anthology films - maybe even their best-known and most widely-seen film, period. How...

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