From where I stand, the summer movie season of 2019 has just tipped off of a cliff. Godzilla: King of the Monsters was the last popcorn movie I was looking forward to for over two months – and look at how well that turned out for me – and while June isn’t quite the wasteland that July is shaping up to be, it’s been a good long while since the […]
Happy May Day everyone! It feels a bit presumptuous to start looking at a new month of releases when I still have to catch up from April – I hear that there’s been an Avengers picture that made a bit of money. And just as soon as I have any sort of chance to clear five consecutive hours out of my schedule to catch up with it, I’ll be happy […]
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 […]
With the release of The Nun this weekend smashing the box office into tiny little pieces, it’s time to talk about an idea that’s been on my mind for some time now. It seems to be the general consensus that the “shared universe” in movies is a sign of creative decay and isn’t worth any true cinephile’s time. And while it’s true that a lot of companies are attempting them […]
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is pretty well dumb across the board, but there is one respect in which it’s kind of so unexpectedly smart that I absolutely have to assume it’s on purpose. And that precise combination of “almost entirely dumb, but smart in just enough ways that you can see the filmmakers peering through and winking at you” is what have I wanted from a sequel to Jurassic Park […]
The Wall isn’t a movie so much as an amuse-bouche, and one that’s none too amusant. I rescind none of my faith in director Doug Liman, who has made a few good films, a couple of great ones, and only one that’s actually bad, 2008’s Jumper, but this first of his two 2017 releases (the second being American Made) is at best a tossed-off lark that taxes its creator not […]
So, Kong: Skull Island isn’t “bad”, exactly. I don’t know, is it bad? It’s kind of bad. But the thing is, it wants to do one thing, and it does it, the thing promised right there in the title. Not “Kong” – this is closer to the dullest screen depiction of the giant ape Kong than the best, and he’s kept offscreen more than you’d think, based on the film’s […]
An older review of this film can be found here When Peter Jackson, somewhat shockingly, used his brand-new Best Director Oscar and all the accumulated clout from having forced the three massive hit films of the Lord of the Rings trilogy into existence to get Universal to sign off on a new iteration of the 1933 masterpiece King Kong, it was no less than the sixth legally-sanctioned sequel, remake, sequel […]
Things get a little heated when Carrie and Rob parse out the meaning of “giant” and “monster” in this episode of top 5 giant monster movies. Also, Rob squeezes in his thoughts on a series of recent action movies along with a jab at Tim for his thoughts on John Wick: Chapter 2, while Carrie dissects two very different teen movies with The Edge of Seventeen and We Need to […]
A complete list of all Japanese giant monster movie reviews found on Alternate Ending The Godzilla Films –Godzilla (1954) –Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956) –Godzilla Raids Again (1955) –King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) –Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964) –Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) –Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965) –Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) –Son of Godzilla (1967) –Destroy All Monsters (1968) –All Monsters Attack (1969) –Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971) –Godzilla […]
It’s not just that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is my favorite Star Wars movie since The Empire Strikes Back; it’s how damned easy it was for me to come that conclusion. Like, not a fraction of a second of hesitation. For those of you who just wanted the opinion & would prefer to hang back from the actual review (which will, for the record, have its share of […]
The iconic, literally genre-defining run of horror films produced by Universal Pictures in the almost 15 years between 1931’s Dracula and 1945’s House of Dracula was largely founded on five pillars: the vampire Count Dracula, the hideous animated corpse created by the mad Dr. Frankenstein, a self-loathing Welsh werewolf, the ancient Egyptian mummies Imhotep and Kharis, and a handful of different invisible men driven psychotic by their experience. Scattered in […]
