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Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast

385 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 108 ratings

Alternate Ending was formed when three friends realized they all shared a passion for movies. Our goal is to save you time and money by sharing our thoughts and recommendations on which movies to race to theaters for, which to watch at home and those to actively avoid.

What makes Alternate Ending different from other film podcasts? Well, we’re not 5 dudes in a room talking about our passion for Fight Club and Braveheart. We’re two dudes, and a lady, of which our tastes are quite varied. Rob, the film-school dropout, has seen an absurd amount of movies, and if we’re being honest, rounds out our Fight Club fan-base. Tim Brayton, our seasoned film critic, shares a more critical view of film, an appreciation for vintage cinema and perhaps limited-release movies that we might otherwise miss. Carrie, our casual movie-goer, reminds us all that cinema is in fact supposed to be fun and entertaining and that sometimes, just sometimes, happy endings are good.

Too many film sites cater to the same kind of audience, with one overwhelming voice in the writing, but what we treasure at Alternate Ending is diversity: diversity of opinion, diversity in belief about what film should do and how it should do it. We want to celebrate our different opinions, and celebrate yours as well.

This isn't a podcast for people who just want to talk about the latest hot new movies in theaters right this minute. This is a place for people who can't get to the theater until the third week a film is out; a place for people who just want to find something great to stream online after the kids have gone to sleep, a place for people whose favorite pastime is to grab a bunch of classic films on DVD from the library and watch them all weekend. It's a place that believes that every great movie is a wonderful new treasure, whether you see it the night of its premiere or fifty years later. It's a site about discovering good movies... one bad movie at a time.

Join us for our weekly review of movies worth seeing, worth avoiding and our Top 5 lists – and don’t forget to play along at www.alternateending.com.

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Sundance 2021 Preview

January 25, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 90.7 MB

The Alternate Ending gang is going to the Sundance Film Festival! Or, anyway, the Sundance Film Festival is coming to us: due to the ongoing public health crisis, the 2021 edition of the fest is going to be conducted entirely online from January 28-February 3, meaning that we don't even have to brave the snowy mountains of Utah to get a peek at the wide world of indie films. We can do it right from the equally snow fields of Wisconsin. But at least we don't have to deal with mountains! Um......

Best Movies of 2020

January 18, 2021 16:21 - 1 hour - 158 MB

So we've reached the end of another very normal year, full of very normal movies, and there's only one thing to do: painstakingly sort through all the many, many films available to us, to select our top ten best movies of 2020. Join us as we share notes on our many adventures with streaming, our very few (and genuinely nerve-wracking experiences with post-pandemic movie theaters, and all the time we've had to catch up on great movies from years past. Reliving the last 12 months might sound l...

Top 5 Christmas Curmudgeons

December 14, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 118 MB

Almost as much as Santa Claus and reindeer, you can't have a Christmas movie without some miserable SOB who starts out by humbugging their way through throngs of cheerful celebrants and has, by the end of the second hour, learned the True Meaning of Christmas, whatever it might be in this case. To help our own hearts grow two-and-a-half sizes at the end of this tough year, we're looking at our top five curmudgeons in Christmas movies, the bitter old souls who just need a dew-eyed child, or a...

Top 5 British Movies

November 30, 2020 19:17 - 1 hour - 148 MB

This week's podcast topic comes from Patreon subscriber Jack Chivers, who has asked us to look at our favorite films from the United Kingdom, a national cinema broad enough to include stories about nice people laughing while having tea, crying while having tea, and getting shot by gangsters while having tea. There are films as intimate as a working class romance and as epic in their sprawl as the Harry Potter series, as hilarious as the work of Monty Python and as horrifying as a Carry On s...

Behind the Scenes - THE NEST Interview with Director Sean Durkin

November 26, 2020 22:59 - 28 minutes - 39.2 MB

If there's one thing The Nest is not, it's light and breezy. It's heavy and chest tightening and emotionally dense. So naturally, with so much to unpack, our first question for Sean Durkin was if he saw any resemblance between Jude Law and Rob Jarosinski. There was awkward laughter, but no confirmation.    A bit about Sean Durkin Born in Canada (lucky feller), Sean Durkin won his first cinematic accolade at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival for his first feature Martha Marcy May Marlene. ...

Behind the Scenes: RUN with Director Aneesh Chaganty

November 26, 2020 17:55 - 23 minutes - 32.8 MB

I'll admit it, because I'm nothing if not honest, I had no idea who the director of Run, Aneesh Chaganty was by name (I still question how I got roped into this movie podcast thing, but anyway).  But then, I saw that he was the writer/director of Searching, which I really loved and suddenly, the pressure felt a bit greater. Just a bit about Aneesh Chaganty Sometimes you meet people and they just have a presence about them, a magnetic vibe, if you will.  I'm absolutely certain I had a wei...

Behind the Scenes: FREAKY - Interview with Co-Writer Michael Kennedy

November 15, 2020 15:27 - 29 minutes - 46 MB

Freaky Friday the 13th You can't keep a good slasher killer down, so we've got even more Freaky Behind the Scenes coming your way! This time I had the opportunity to sit down with co-screenwriter Michael Kennedy, who notoriously teamed up with director and co-writer Chris Landon in a pitch rehearsal turned creative partnership! We sat down to chat about what it means to write an openly queer character in a slasher movie, some fun sequel ideas, and how it feels to have your debut film sud...

Behind the Scenes: LET HIM GO with Director Thomas Bezucha

November 14, 2020 19:41 - 28 minutes - 39.2 MB

All week, Rob annoyingly wandering around the house talking about our upcoming Let Him Go interview with Thomas Bezucha.  He was using a thick Italian mobster accent and probably mispronouncing his name "Ba-zooooo-ka." By the time we got to the interview, it was so burned in my brain, that there's a fair chance I referred to him as a large rocket launcher weapon. Thomas Bezucha in a nutshell Please, please comment below if you read the above headline and instantly thought about Robin Wil...

Behind the Scenes: FREAKY - Interview with Director Christopher Landon

November 12, 2020 02:31 - 35 minutes - 55.8 MB

I have been extremely lucky in my life as an entertainment personality-type person to have already had the chance to podcast with Chris Landon twice before (most recently about the movie Carrie). Not only is Chris the writer-director of Happy Death Day, Happy Death Day 2U, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, and his new upcoming feature Freaky, co-written with Michael Kennedy, but he’s also one of the most genuinely nice guys working in the industry today. He did nothing to dim that ...

Behind the Scenes: COME PLAY with Director Jacob Chase

November 10, 2020 06:00 - 33 minutes - 45.5 MB

Have you ever noticed the pattern of successful entertainment personalities, having experienced some sort of adversity or hardship when they were young? The comedian whose Dad was an abusive jerk.  The actor who was bullied for their acne or their off-brand jeans or their haircut (you know the important stuff that bullies care about).  As a creator, you can control the narrative and ultimately, the outcome for your characters (what should happen).  For Jacob Chase, Come Play, has a message a...

The Best of Sean Connery

November 09, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 117 MB

Screen legend Sean Connery passed away on October 31 at the age of 90, and we at Alternate Ending celebrate his career by devoting this podcast to the highlights of his career - the best performances, the best movies, and the most sadly appropriate opportunity Carrie has ever had to put Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade at #1 on her top 5 list. In Worth Mentioning we cover Come Play, Let Him Go and The Dark and the Wicked. Don't forget to fill out our survey for a chance to win a free P...

Behind the Scenes: THE DARK AND THE WICKED with Producer Adrienne Biddle

November 06, 2020 20:27 - 46 minutes - 64.1 MB

This week we had the chance to sit down with The Dark and the Wicked producer, Adrienne Biddle.  We talked about the making of the film and our feelings on the movie, but we ended up spending a good chunk of time discussing her path to becoming a film producer.  Schooling, early grunt-jobs, relationship building, the whole thing. It was such an enlightening conversation because I've always wondered what a producer actually does. But before we talk about The Dark and the Wicked Indulge me ...

Behind the Scenes: THE TRUE ADVENTURES OF WOLFBOY with director Martin Krejčí

October 29, 2020 05:00 - 34 minutes - 47.7 MB

Ten minutes into The True Adventures of Wolfboy, we were triggered.  You see, I usually shut off movies about bullying and Rob is super self-conscious about his body hair (he has the perfect amount of body hair), so when a young kid with hypertrichosis gets verbally abused by some douchebags at a carnival, tensions were high. About The True Adventures of Wolfboy The True Adventures of Wolfboy follows a young boy named Paul (Jaeden Martell) who has hypertrichosis, an affliction which caus...

Bride of AE: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

October 28, 2020 05:00 - 57 minutes - 78.5 MB

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Bride of Alternate Ending! Tim and AE contributor Brennan have joined forces for a monthly Patreon show covering everything horror! We’re starting out our run with a special Halloween preview on the main feed dicussing the 1975 cult classic THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW! Topics include unpopular opinions on the live show experience, the largely ignored tributes to 50’s science fiction, whether or not this movie is truly “bad,” and the refractory period...

Top 5 Jump Scares // Borat 2 // The Witches // Synchronic

October 26, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 140 MB

Halloween is almost upon us, which means it's time for our annual dive into the spooky and scary. This year, we're going to be blunt and to the point: our top 5 jump scares in movie history. The simplest, most brutal way a filmmaker can give audiences a good wallop, jump scares sometimes get slagged for being too cheap and artless, but used well, they can be one of the most portent tools in the horror director's arsenal. To prove it, we're going to look at our very favorite examples of the f...

Behind the Scenes: SYNCHRONIC with Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead

October 24, 2020 21:41 - 18 minutes - 25.8 MB

Rob and I got into a marital tift the other night because I made the claim that I never lie.  He didn’t agree.  He contests that I omit details in a way that leads people to believe something that isn’t true. That’s not lying right? That’s just a totally healthy need for people to like me.  So, in our interview with Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead, this plays out something like this, - “I have to tell you, in the first 2 minutes of Synchronic I was totally getting vibes of Midsommar…” and ...

Behind the Scenes: CICADA Interview with Matthew Fifer

October 21, 2020 13:21 - 39 minutes - 54.1 MB

The truth is, if I’d known what Cicada was going to be about, I’m not sure I would have watched the film.  I would have read the three sentence synopsis and surmised that it would be too painful, too grueling and that it would break my heart - and it was, and it did.  Though, beyond the stomach-knots and frustrated tears, there is so much beauty and love I would have otherwise missed.  To me, the cliche of having to know pain to know joy is only sometimes true.  There is nothing purposeful o...

Behind the Scenes - DON'T LOOK BACK - with star Kourtney Bell

October 16, 2020 21:23 - 34 minutes - 47.5 MB

When I was in my mid-twenties, I spent my days in a cubical, mindlessly tinkering with the calculator on my desk, figuring out how much I had to save to retire at 40.  Sometimes, I would organize my post-it notes in rainbow color order, and the pens too, if I wasn't too busy.  There was a coffee shop in my building, so every few hours, I'd sucker a co-worker into grabbing a caramel latte with me.  I'm horrified when I look back on these years, I mean, do you have any idea how many calories a...

Behind the Scenes - LOVE AND MONSTERS with director Michael Matthews

October 16, 2020 05:00 - 39 minutes - 53.6 MB

If you give me just 2 seconds I'm going to blow your mind.  Love and Monsters is going to be your favorite movie of 2020. There I said it.  Admittedly, it's not mine. But it will be yours.  That's because it's TIED for my favorite movie of the year with Spontaneous. Which, I realize it cheating, but there are no rules around here. First a bit about Michael Matthews… I have no idea how old Michael Matthews is, but what I'm coming to find is that by the time you're making great movies in ...

Top 5 Netflix Original Movies // The Personal History of David Copperfield // SCARE ME // Dick Johnson is Dead

October 12, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 144 MB

October is shaping up to be a big month for Netflix original movies, between Radha Blank's Sundance prizewinner The 40-Year-Old Version (premieres 10/9). Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7 (premieres 10/16), Ben Wheatley's Rebecca (premieres 10/21), Glen Keane's Over the Moon (premieres 10/23), and maybe, if the right rumors hold, David Fincher's Mank. To commemorate all of these - as well as the fact that we've all been spending 2020 basically watching nothing but streaming shit, and...

Behind the Scenes: SCARE ME - Interview with Josh Ruben

October 04, 2020 12:53 - 31 minutes - 43.9 MB

Here's the headline, in our interview with Josh Ruben writer/director/star of the new feature SCARE ME, Rob is 95% sure Josh tells him he's good looking. To be sure, you'll need to listen for yourself.  For added hilarity, you can see the live reaction when Rob *thinks* that Josh tells him he's good looking.  Imagine when Charlie sees that he's found the golden ticket. So SCARE ME... Two writers of varying success, end up holed up in a cabin in the middle of nowhere, after a power outage...

Top 5 Women Directors // Cuties // Antebellum // Spontaneous // The Conversation

September 28, 2020 12:59 - 1 hour - 146 MB

Our next podcast topic comes to us courtesy of Patreon subscriber Martha, who wants us to help shed some light on one of the film industry's most notorious shortcomings: the challenges facing women who want to direct movies at every level, from thorny little indies to massive blockbusters (such as Wonder Woman 1984, helmed by Patty Jenkins, which was supposed to open next week till it got pandemicked away). As former Ottawa mayor Charlotte Witton once said, "Whatever women do they must do t...

Behind the Scenes - Spontaneous - Interview with Brian Duffield

September 24, 2020 16:00 - 57 minutes - 78.6 MB

Spontaneous will have you simultaneously contemplating your own mortality and igniting your need to seize the day [Interview with writer/director Brian Duffield ] Director Brian Duffield talks about how he keeps a positive vibe on set, his experience working with the A-Team cast of Katherine Langford, Piper Perabo, Hayley Law and Charlie Plummer and the difficult balance of keeping a movie about exploding teenagers light and breezy Here's what happened. Rob was like "Ohmigosh... we're go...

5 Worst Films of the 1990s

September 14, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 132 MB

Our next podcast topic comes to us courtesy of Patreon subscriber Travis, who has given us a prompt as direct as it is merciless: name our picks for the worst films of the 1990s. It was in some ways a magnificent decade for terrible films, perhaps the last time when truly godawful boondoggles could still sneak their way through the studio system, while the rise of the American indie film scene encouraged people who'd never picked up a camera before to find their cinematic voice, with result...

Top 5 Married Couples // Tenet // Bill & Ted Face the Music

September 04, 2020 16:58 - 1 hour - 144 MB

It was a very special week in the lives of your humble podcast hosts - Carrie and Rob are celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary! So that you can join in the festivities, we've decided to make this episode all about the best, most stable, most loving, and all-around enviable marriages in cinema. We're looking at our Top 5 married couples in the movies, and while there maybe aren't as many candidates as there were when we when we looked at our favorite movies about divorce (whoever woul...

Behind the Scenes: Bombardier Blood Interview

August 20, 2020 03:25 - 39 minutes - 54.9 MB

Bombardier Blood follows the journey of man with a severe bleeding disorder, determined to summit the world's highest 7 mountains [Interview with Chris Bombardier and documentarian Patrick James Lynch] Chris Bombardier talks about the motivation behind risking his life in the making of Bombardier Blood, how his family supported him and how he continues to redefine his mission. Documentarian  Patrick James Lynch, shares his own life experience that moved him to dedicating his film career t...

Spoiler Alert: The Hatchet Films // I Used To Go Here // The Speed Cubers

August 11, 2020 04:49 - 1 hour - 112 MB

If you're anything like us, the months and months of endless quarantining might have you contemplating taking an axe to the people you've been stuck inside with. If only for a chance to do something new for a change. Fortunately, we have a good way too let off some of that steam: a whole bunch of violent slasher movies. By request of Patreon subscriber Brian Fowler, we're going to be taking a look at director Adam Green's Hatchet series, the over-the-top throwbacks to the most excessive  ex...

Behind the Scenes: I Used To Go Here - Interview

August 07, 2020 18:05 - 28 minutes - 39.3 MB

I Used To Go Here is deeply personal for anybody who has struggled with defining and redefining their personal success [Interview with director Kris Rey] Director Kris Rey talks about her own life experiences that inspired the events of her most recent feature film, I Used To Go Here. Kris talks about how she wrangled the all-star cast of Gillian Jacobs and Jemaine Clement and what it's like to promote a film during a pandemic. You know when you watch a movie and you can just tell that t...

Behind the Scenes: 1BR Interview

August 06, 2020 01:14 - 1 hour - 104 MB

1BR Probably Shouldn't Have Been Made [Interview with writer/director/cast] Director David Mamor talks about how this edgy horror/cult-thriller was born of his experience moving to LA, Naomi Grossman gushes over the entire cast (totally neglecting her own awesome performance) and Producer Alok Mishra has us all in tears with his super descriptive stories about the rocky road to 1BR being made If we're being honest, Rob and I were really nervous for the 1BR interview.  We've done a few in...

Top 5 Performances by Children // Greyhound // 1BR // Strasbourg 1518

August 03, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 139 MB

Acting is very hard work even for people who've spent their whole lives honing their craft; it must be unimaginably hard when the whole life in question doesn't span an entire decade. That's why we're using our next episode to celebrate our favorite performances by children: the young actors who go on to become great stars, the one who fizzle out once they hit the ugly part of puberty, the ones who just showed up that one time and blew us all away with a talent that never had a chance to dev...

Top 5 Movies You Can Only Watch Once

July 20, 2020 04:08 - 1 hour - 132 MB

There are some movies that are so great that you make them treasured friends, revisiting them every now and then to appreciate once again how special they are. There are some movies that you obsessively watch over and over again, trying to absorb them right into your soul. And then there are the movies so great that you simply can't go back: one time is all the more you dare risk watching them - maybe to preserve the surprise, maybe to avoid the heartache, or for any other reason that one ti...

Top 5 Acting Debuts // Irresistible // Homecoming

July 08, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 104 MB

We're turning our attention to movie stars for our next episode - specifically, to movie stars right at the beginning of their stardom. We're looking at our all-time favorite acting debuts, the very best performances by new actors who manage to prove in their very first time in front of a camera that they have what it takes to hold our attention, to make us cry, to make us laugh, and to stick around for years to come. In Worth Mentioning we cover Irresistible and Homecoming.

Top 5 Cult Movies // Da 5 Bloods // You Should Have Left // The King of Staten Island

June 23, 2020 15:44 - 1 hour - 147 MB

Some movies become big, beloved successes right off the bat, celebrated by one and all. Some movies need to fight for it: they're overlooked, undervalued, and just plain dismissed, treasured only by a tiny audience biding the day that might never come when the object of their affection finally gets its moment in the sun. For this episode, we're celebrating our favorite examples of these wonderful, idiosyncratic little gems, with our picks for the best cult movies of all time, no matter how b...

Top 5 Dads // The Half of It // Barefoot Gen // The Message

June 08, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 117 MB

We've looked at our favorite movie moms. And we've looked at our favorite example of movies about daddy issues, that most reliable crutch for lazy screenwriters. But with Father's Day coming up, we decided it was long since time that we gave good dads their time in the sun, which is why our next episode is going to be all about our very favorite dads in the movies. Maybe they're kind sources of wisdom, maybe they're fun buddies who teach their children the importance of getting out there an...

Top 5 Guilty Pleasures // Scoob! // The Lovebirds // A Separation

May 26, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 120 MB

Sometimes - when you're feeling a bit gloomy, for example, or when you've locked your doors against the onslaught of a global pandemic - you just need to have fun. And sometimes, that fun is pretty disreputable and embarrassing, but do you care? No! Well... maybe just a little. And that's what makes a guilty pleasure: a film that you're almost not ashamed to love, and certainly the love more than beats out the shame, though you would, perhaps, not want to admit that love to God, the world, a...

Top 5 Time Travel Movies // The Willoughby's // Emma // The Rhythm Section

May 11, 2020 22:46 - 1 hour - 101 MB

We had such a good time re-watching Back to the Future that we've decided to keep the fun going with a whole episode dedicated to our favorite examples of time travel in the movie. Whether it's killer robots from the future, accidentally screwing up the past, or just going on a tour of whatever costume drama sets the producer could get for cheap, we'll be hopping back and forth across the decades. In Worth Mentioning we cover The Willoughby's, Emma and The Rhythm Section.

Top 5 Summer Blockbusters // Extraction // Sonic the Hedgehog // A Brighter Summer Day

April 27, 2020 13:21 - 1 hour - 139 MB

It's time for one of our favorite annual traditions, the summer preview episode! We always love to try to predict what upcoming releases we're going to enjoy the most, out of all the big summer tentpoles and smaller counter-programming. Unfortunately, with no movies coming out until July (at best!), it would be a pretty thin episode. But just because summer 2020 is shot to hell, doesn't mean we can't still have fun thinking about summer blockbusters! So instead of looking ahead, we're goin...

Spoiler Alert: Donnie Darko

April 13, 2020 12:59 - 1 hour - 152 MB

Looking at the world outside our windows - certainly not visiting it- what could be better than watching a movie about the swirling paranoia of a world that is on the brink of collapse and there's nothing you can do about it? Certainly nothing we can think of which is why this episode is about the 2001 cult classic Donnie Darko, by request of Patreon subscriber Gavin. We look at not just at the original version of Richard Kelly's dreamy and nightmarish fantasy about teenage suburban angst, b...

Top 5 Movies to Watch when You're Sick

March 30, 2020 12:45 - 1 hour - 133 MB

There are a lot of ways you can ride out a pandemic. You can gather all of your beautiful rich friends, hole up in a villa outside of Florence, and tell dirty stories to each other for ten straight days. Or you can throw a lavish party with several color-coded rooms that represent the decaying, corrupted soul of the age. Maybe you can keep a diary that will be treasured centuries from now as an irreplaceable historical document. Or maybe you can just masturbate a lot. Here at Alternate End...

Top 5 (Post-)Apocalypses // Onward // Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made // Hook

March 16, 2020 05:26 - 1 hour - 144 MB

Between A Quiet Place: Part II depicting how humanity might look after civilization has been destroyed by blind, man-eating aliens, and COVID-19 preventing us from going out to the movie theaters to see it (EDIT: In a much more direct way than I had initially meant, as it turns out), it's an exciting time for fans of apocalypses. To celebrate - or prepare? - we're taking a look at our favorite films about what happens after the end of everything.  We share our top five apocalyptic and post-...

The Worst Films of the 2010s

March 02, 2020 13:47 - 1 hour - 112 MB

We intended to start the year off on a positive note, with our most favorite films of the 2010's, and leave it at that.  But we would be completely remiss if we didn't slip into the deep, dark, cinematic sadness of the last decade, to look at the worst films of the last 10 years, too.  Hearts are already breaking at the mention of Orson Welles and Fred Rogers' names, but we won't get ahead of ourselves here. We'll be taking a look at our Bottom 10 of the 2010's and we think you should join...

The 2020 Oscars

February 10, 2020 21:38 - 23 minutes - 32.8 MB

With Tim away partying it up with other cinephiles, Carrie and Rob recap the 2020 Oscars. From the musical performances, to the speeches to the upsets, we cover it all. We also announce the winners of our Oscar Ballot contest.

The Best Films of the 2010s // The Gentlemen

February 03, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 124 MB

It's our first-ever Top 10 episode, as we look at our very favorite films of the 2010s: the films that best embody a whole decade's worth of cinema. From game-changing popcorn epics like 2012's The Avengers to delicate art films like 2019's Honeyland; from the austerity of 2011's The Deep Blue Sea to the maximalism of 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road; from the cynicism of 2010's The Social Network to the coziness of 2018's Won't You Be My Neighbor -  it's been a wide-ranging and full decade, a...

Top 5 Movies of 2019 // Cats // Under Water // Light of My Life

January 20, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 128 MB

We're back! And for our first podcast of the new decade, we're looking at all the films of the year that's just wrapped up. From the big Disney blockbusters to the other big Disney blockbusters to the modestly successful films that Disney had nothing to do with; from the most impenetrable art films to the most warmly satisfying crowd-pleasers; from lighthouse keepers' semen to Mr. Rogers' cardigans, we're sharing our picks for the top 5 films of 2019. Plus, we'll be talking about the nomina...

Weeklies - Next 'Mission: Impossible' Movies Cast Nicholas Hoult and more!

January 10, 2020 23:07 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MB

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 The New Mutants Trailer 'Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness' Loses Director Scott Derrickson Next 'Mission: Impossible' Movies Cast Nicholas Hoult Oscars to Go Hostless Again for 2020 Ceremony on ABC Gretel & Hansel Trailer Who Wil...

Weeklies - A Quiet Place 2 Trailer Drops and more!

January 03, 2020 21:06 - 24 minutes - 33 MB

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 A Quiet Place 2 Trailer Women Directed Record 12% of Top 100-Grossing Films in 2019, Study Finds The Climb Trailer Golden Globes 2020 Predictions: Expect Wins for Scorsese, Tarantino and Bong Joon Ho Hollywood Reporter Reader Poll: What Is the...

Top 5 Nicole Kidman Movies // The Report

December 15, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 107 MB

For our last episode of 2019, we're celebrating the career of an Australian superstar Nicole Kidman on the occasion of the release of Bombshell, a media biopic in which she co-stars as former Fox News talking head Gretchen Carlson. In Worth Mentioning, we cover The Report and Carrie finally catches up with Hustlers.

Weeklies - Wonder Woman 1984 Trailer Drops Taking Us Back To the '80s and more!

December 13, 2019 06:00 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MB

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 'Jojo Rabbit' Breakout Archie Yates to Lead ‘Home Alone’ Reboot First 'Wonder Woman 1984' Trailer Brings Back Gal Gadot's Warrior Golden Globes Snubs: Robert De Niro, Shia LaBeouf, 'When They See Us' First 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' Trailer Bring...

Top 5 Movies About Divorce // Marriage Story // Honey Boy // The Farewell // Children of Men

December 09, 2019 13:23 - 1 hour - 129 MB

Just in time for the holidays, Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story premieres on Netflix, documenting in by-all-accounts harrowing detail the psychological torment that befalls a couple as their marriage disintegrates. To celebrate, Rob and Carrie have finally decided we're going to look at all of our favorite films about the inevitable death of love and the acrimony and rage that come when two people violently sever their matrimonial ties, in brazen defiance of God's will. An especially fun and ...

Spoiler Alert: The Wolf Brigade Movies // Frozen II // The Irishman // Knives Out

November 25, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 99.4 MB

As we give thanks to all our listeners on Thanksgiving, we have a special Patreon episode thanks to Andrew Milne we have a fun-filled spoiler episode of both Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade and Illang: The Wolf Brigade. In Worth Mentioning we cover Frozen II, The Irishman and Knives Out. Speaking of Knives Out, if you've seen it and weren't sure what happened, check out: Knives Out ending explained: who was the real killer in this whodunit? (plot and spoilers!)

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