To help fill the void in your weekly listening, Carrie and Rob are bringing you Weeklies – a review of the last 7-days of movie new…with a twist! Rob has gathered all the 10 best pieces of movie news and Carrie will only be able to pick 5 ‘Aeronauts’ Trailer Sees Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne Fighting for Their Lives in Hot Air Balloon New ‘Purge’ Thriller Finds Lead in […]
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 […]
The Alternate Ending team proudly presents our predictions for the winners in all 24 categories at the Oscars this coming Sunday. For the record, we agree on eleven categories, and we have a three-way split on four categories – Costume Design, Original Score, Sound Mixing, and Documentary Feature. How’s that for a reflection of this most exhaustingly uncertain year? TIM’S PREDICTIONS Jump to Rob’s Predictions | Jump to Carrie’s Predictions […]
In matters of taste, there can be no dispute.. except when it comes to the Academy Awards. What started as a Hollywood publicity stunt to bolster box office has become an institution, so no matter how many times we repeat the axiom that art is subjective and shouldn’t be judged, the reality is there are people out there who take Hollywood’s annual give-away of golden statues very, very seriously. As […]
The inscrutably weird awards season we’re in – in which a phenomenal year for movies is being commemorated almost solely by trophies for uninteresting awards bait – finally culminates tomorrow morning in the list of Oscar nominees. Getting in just under the wire, I offer my predictions in all categories Best Picture Black Panther BlacKkKlansman Bohemian Rhapsody The Favourite Green Book Roma A Star Is Born Vice I am officially […]
There are individual moments of goodness littered all throughout Vice, and individual moments of badness, just like with any movie. Unluckily for the film, the moments of badness are all given pride of place, and so what might, in a happier life, have just been a moderately irritating “hip” biopic turns into one of the most wretched, smarmy, shitty movies of the 2018 awards season. Your mileage may vary, of […]
Another year ends, deep in the depths of one of the most banal seasons for Oscarbait in recent memory. It is a bit strange, even upsetting to me, that I’m kind of to substantially excited for some of the popcorn movies coming out this months – ones I should know more than to be excited for, even – and the awards movies, with one bright shining exception, look pretty whiffy. […]
Every month we’re greeted by new movies and bid farewell to old ones on our various streaming services. Here are 5 movies I’m most excited to watch or watch again on Amazon Prime or Netflix along with a full list below. Which ones are must-see for you? 1. Tropic Thunder: I’ve only seen it once in theaters and thinking about it still cracks me up. 2. Kubo and the Two […]
There are many people ready for this strange, essayistic phase of Terrence Malick’s career to be over, and I get that, though it’s not like we’re inundated with associatively-edited mood pieces. Three films out in the entire world in a five-year period doesn’t seem like too many to deal with. But anyway, Malick has been up to some incredibly weird shit ever since he got The Tree of Life out […]
A quarter of the way through Knight of Cups, I was despondent with the thought that Terrence Malick will probably never make a great film again for the rest of his career. Halfway through Knight of Cups, I was convinced that I was watching the most important film of the 21st Century. By the end of the movie, I had no goddamn idea about anything, anymore – Knight of Cups […]
There have been two years in a row where the Oscars have been almost preposterously easy to predict, so we were due for something like this: you can count the wholly locked categories on the fingers of one hand, assuming you have a six-fingered hand, and there at least that many “who the hell knows, throw a dart”-style categories. And that, let us be honest, does make all of this […]
The tedious part first: how did I do on my predictions? Not terrible – a hell of a lot of 4/5 categories, in a weird and hard year. In the Big 8, I went 34/43 (79%), in the whole field excluding the short film categories I was a rather crappy 74/105 (71%) – Best Song murdered me, but who didn’t it murder? – and in all 24 I went 84/120, […]
