Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast
385 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 108 ratingsAlternate 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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Top 5 Outlaws in Movies // A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood // Ford v Ferrari // Pain & Glor
November 18, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 117 MBThere are few pieces of U.S. mythology more potent than the romantic outlaw - the iconoclastic misfit for, through mischance or their own glamorous antiheroism, has ended up on the wrong side of society, and now has to make their way stealing, cheating, and otherwise scrabbling on the outer fringes of the world. Later this month, Queen & Slim offers up a race-inflected version of the Bonnie and Clyde story, and we're taking the opportunity to share our favorite outlaws in movies - noble hero...
Weeklies - The Little Mermaid Live-Action Remake Casting Complete and more!
November 15, 2019 06:00 - 24 minutes - 33 MBTo 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 'Little Mermaid' Live-Action Remake Finds Its Prince Eric in Jonah Hauer-King Oscars: Why the Animation Race Is the Most Competitive in Years Paul Thomas Anderson Sets 1970s High School Movie for 2020 Production New 'Sonic' Trailer Sees Redesig...
Weeklies - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Sequel Sets Release Date and more!
November 08, 2019 19:48 - 27 minutes - 37.8 MBTo 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 Lionsgate Lands Gerard Butler's 'The Plane' 'The Current War' Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Joins 'Newsflash' Elisabeth Moss Fights Off Abusive Ex in 'The Invisible Man' Trailer Jamie Foxx Encourages Others to Pursue Passions in Pixar's 'Soul' Teaser...
Top 5 Daddy Issues // Doctor Sleep // Terminator: Dark Fate // Parasite
November 04, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 126 MBTo judge from the films that get produced, there's never been a single screenwriter in the history of the art form who had a good relationship with their dad. To mark the occasion, we're taking a look at our own favorite dysfunctional relationships and broken homes in the movies. In Worth Mentioning, we cover Doctor Sleep, Parasite and Doctor Sleep.
Weeklies - The Grudge Trailer Drops // Linda Hamilton Marriage to James Cameron "Terrible on Every Level" // Netflix Plan to Test Play Speeds // How Scorsese Saved 'The Current War' // 'Chernobyl' Creator Tackling 'Pirates of the Caribbean' Reboot
November 01, 2019 19:21 - 25 minutes - 35.5 MBTo 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 Grudge - Official Trailer Drops Terminator Star Linda Hamilton Called Her Marriage to James Cameron "Terrible on Every Level" Anna Faris to Play Twin Sisters in Comedy Summer Madness Olivia Wilde Criticizes Censorship of Booksmart Lesbian Sex S...
Top 5 Zombie Movies // Parasite
October 28, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 124 MBHalloween is right around the corner, and we're in the mood for some horror! This time around, we're going to be talking about our very favorite movies about every low-budget filmmaker's favorite monster: zombies, the brain-hungry reanimated corpses that have been munching guts ever for over half a century, and were busy harvesting sugar crops even before that. As a special guest, we have the creator of several Zombie comic books, Robert Rios. In Worth Mentioning, we cover Parasite.
Weeklies - Blomkamp Sci-Fi Thriller 'Inferno' // Boy Helps Creature in 'Antlers' // 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' Rereleased With Extra Footage // Adam Driver in Talks to Star with Matt Damon in 'The Last Duel' // Disney’s Live-Action ‘Pinocchio’
October 25, 2019 15:21 - 29 minutes - 41 MBTo 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 Ana de la Reguera (Exclusive) Neill Blomkamp Prepping Sci-Fi Thriller 'Inferno,' Taylor Kitsch to Star You...
Weeklies - 'The Batman' Paul Dano to Play The Riddler // ‘The Craft’ Remake On the Way // Ryan Reynolds & John Krasinski Teaming Up for Fantasy Comedy ‘Imaginary Friends’ // New ‘Lady and the Tramp’ Trailer // ‘Jungle Cruise’ Trailer
October 18, 2019 19:57 - 20 minutes - 28.1 MBTo 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 Batman’: Paul Dano to Play The Riddler Live-Action ‘Barney’ Movie Coming from Producer Daniel Kaluuya Blumhouse’s ‘The Craft’ Remake On the Way with David Duchovny (Du-coven-y) Ryan Reynolds & John Krasinski Teaming Up for Fantasy Comedy ‘...
Top 5 Imaginary Friends // Gemini Man // Joker // Monos // The Night of the Hunter
October 14, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 121 MBJojo Rabbit, winner of the TIFF Audience Award and Best Picture Oscar hopeful, hits theaters in which a little boy deals with the stress and confusion of childhood by concocting an imaginary friend, in the form of bloodthirsty dictator Adolf Hitler. Most imaginary friends are a bit more innocuous than that, of course, and we're going to talk about those non-genocidal imaginary friends in our next episode, from invisible rabbits to evil rabbits to bossy rabbits with curious hostility for boun...
Weeklies - Scorecese Say Superhero Movies Aren't Cinema // Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis // Training Day Prequel // Live Action Little Mermaid Casting // Edward Norton's Unmade Hulk Movie // Inspector Gadget Live Action
October 11, 2019 20:41 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MBTo 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 Martin Scorsese's Claim That Marvel Movies Aren't Art Has Sparked a Passionate Debate ‘Matrix 4’ Adds ‘Aquaman’s Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Len Wiseman Set To Direct Female-Centric ‘John Wick’ Spinoff ‘Ballerina’ Robert Downey Jr. Bluntly Turns Down His...
Weeklies - Tom Holland's Save's MCU 'Spider-Man' // ‘Home Alone’ Reboot // How Best to Experience 'Gemini Man' // Matt Damon Says He Turned Down Lead 'Avatar' Role // Timothee Chalamet Seems as Robin
October 04, 2019 18:39 - 23 minutes - 31.8 MBTo 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 Pippi Longstocking Film in Works From StudioCanal, Heyday Films New 'Treasure Island' Movie in the Works at Universal, Mandeville Films Tom Holland's Last-Minute Appeal Helped Seal a 'Spider-Man' Deal ‘Borat’ Writer Dan Mazer in Talks to Direct ...
Top 5 Villains
September 30, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 116 MBBatman's arch-enemy, the Joker, is getting his very own movie, and we're celebrating by looking at our all-time favorite movie villains. From wicked witches to evil space cyborg wizards to petulant octopus women, it's all about the colorful monsters who are the very best at being very bad. In Worth Mentioning we discus Abominable, Hustlers, Batman Ninja and Toy Story 4.
Weeklies - Midsommar Therapy Sessions, Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds Christmas Movie, Princess Bride Remake, Jason Bateman Directing Clue, Will Smith as a Bad Guy
September 27, 2019 05:00 - 24 minutes - 34.3 MBTo 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 Midsommar Therapy Sessions: Article Link, Video Link Casting News for The Batman: Article Link Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds Christmas Movie: Article Link Movie Trailer Survey: Article Link Princess Bride Remake: Article Link Moviepass Ali...
Spoiler Alert: The Godfather Trilogy // Ad Astra // Groupers // My Brother's Wedding
September 23, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 134 MBOur latest podcast topic comes courtesy of Patreon Not Fenimore, who's asked us to take a look at one of film history's most legendary, acclaimed trilogies: The Godfather (1972), The Godfather, Part II (1974), and The Godfather, Part III (1990). And lest you think that the internet can't possibly need another analysis of the Godfather films, there's a twist: for one of our trio (not naming names!) this will be the very first time seeing these monolithic classics. As an added bonus, we ta...
Summer 2019 Recap // Hustlers // It Chapter Two // Set it Up
September 16, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 90.9 MBBefore we get too far into the fall and awards season, we place a bow on the summer by sharing our picks for the best films of Summer 2019! Find out how well we did at predicting what films we'd like (...not so well), and find out what unexpected gems we stumbled into along the way. In Worth Mentioning we cover Hustlers, It Chapter Two and Set it Up thanks to Patreon Ann Yourell!
Fall 2019 Movie Preview // Hobbs & Shaw // Ready or Not // The Peanut Butter Falcon
September 03, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 120 MBWe're recharged from our summer vacation and coming back with the 2019 edition of our annual fall preview: our picks for the releases between now and the end of the calendar year that have us the most excited, be they popcorn extravaganzas, picturesque art films, violent action pictures, or the most unfathomably evil-looking adaptation of a stage musical in the history of cinema. In Worth Mentioning, we cover Hobbs & Shaw, Ready or Not, The Peanut Butter Falcon, and Hangover Square than...
Top 5 Buddy Action Movies // The Lion King // Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
July 29, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 116 MBFast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw looks to redeem a fairly dry summer with its action-packed story of two dudes swapping sarcastic banter while constantly trying to one-up each other and generally getting on each other's nerves. In honor, we'll be sharing all of our other favorite examples of two unlikely figures being thrust together by fate to star in an action film together, quipping all the way. In Worth Mentioning we cover The Lion King and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Top 5 Cats // Crawl
July 15, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 112 MBDisney unveils its remake of The Lion King, a film in which photorealistic lions sing and plot dynastic revolutions. To celebrate - or, for some of us, to take our minds off of the impending death of cinema - we look at all of our favorite felines of filmdom: lions and tigers and everything else down to the proud housecat. In Worth Mentioning we cover Crawl, A Woman's Face and Postcards From the Edge, thanks to Patreon Stephen Swarz.
Spoiler Alert: Yesterday with guest Kevin Andrew Prchal // Toy Story 4 // Child's Play // Rocketman
July 01, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 164 MBJust in time for the new release Yesterday, director Danny Boyle and writer Richard Curtis's celebration of the enduring music of The Beatles, we are joined by the fantastic singer/songwriter Kevin Andrew Prchal, for an episode-length conversation about what the movie tells us about performance, music stardom, and the legacy of the iconic rock band. Be sure to stick around to the end of the episode to check out two hear Settling Cliches from the album "Eat Shirt and Tie" and Look Me in the...
Top 5 Dolls // The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil
June 16, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 106 MBWith both Toy Story 4 and a remake of Child's Play coming out the same weekend, did we even have a choice? We take a look at out all-time favorite dolls in the movies: from beloved child's playthings to unfathomably evil vessels for demonic energy, and everything in between. In Worth Mentioning, we discuss The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, Chernobyl and The Holy Mountain by request of Patreon Dan Prestwich.
Top 5 Movies About TV
June 03, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 93.8 MBWhile the ordinary summer fare of popcorn movies keep whizzing around, next week sees the release of the more subdued Late Night. In its honor we look at the anchormen, broadcast news, faces in the crowd, and networks that have made for so many rich cinematic explorations of the movies' scrappy younger sibling. In Worth Mentioning, we cover our favorite movies from May, flicks we're most looking forward to in June, discuss the Onward trailer and review Love & Friendship by request of Patr...
Top 5 High School Movies // John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
May 20, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 135 MBThere might not be any time quite in a human lifespan quite as beloved to filmmakers as high school: that miraculous cauldron of humiliation and horniness, when every emotion is ramped up to 110%. To celebrate the release of Booksmart, we're looking at our Top 5 High School Movies. In Worth Mentioning, we discuss John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, Lone Wolf and Cub. In addition, thanks to Patreons CRD and Jason Dohla, we look at The Lady Eve and Raising Arizona.
Top 5 Mismatched Couples // Avengers: Endgame // Shazam!
May 06, 2019 14:28 - 1 hour - 142 MBOpposites attract, they say, and that's certainly true in the world of movie romances. Whether it's a world-class beauty and a pudgy schlub, a free-spirited madcap and a stuck-up prig, or any combination that always, for whatever reason, seems to end up with the woman having to settle for some asshole, we look at our favorite examples of true love striking where you'd least expect with our Top 5 Mismatched Couples. In Worth Mentioning we cover Avengers: Endgame, Shazam! and Long Day's Jour...
Summer Movie Preview 2019
April 15, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 94.1 MBMid-April is awfully early to be thinking about summer already, but Marvel and Disney have decided for the rest of us that the summer movie season begins this year on Friday, 26 April, with the release of Avengers: Endgame. To prepare, this episode will be all about the blockbuster movies to come: the superheroes, the living toys, the monsters who fit inside your pocket, the Hobbses and the Shaws. In Worth Mentioning we cover a Patreon pick from Julian DeBerry with North by Northwestas we...
Top 5 Pranks // Us // Apollo 11
April 01, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 106 MBWho doesn't love a good practical joke? Morally decent people, that's who, but that doesn't describe us at all, which is why we're spending April Fool's Day celebrating our very favorite pranks in the movies. Come join us for all the faked dead friends and shit-flavored chocolate pies you can shake a rubber limb at! In Worth Mentioning we cover Us and Apollo 11.
Top 5 Superpowers
March 11, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBFlight. Strength. Eye lasers. Weather control. Spidey-sense. Talking to fish. Talking to squirrels. Captain Marvel makes her big-screen debut this weekend, and it's got us thinking about what it must be like to have the powers of a demigod. In Worth Mentioning, we cover Patreon Paul Royar's selection of Clockers along with Paddleton and The Only Son.
Oscars 2019 // Alita: Battle Angel // How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
February 26, 2019 06:00 - 58 minutes - 80.5 MBThe crew gets together post Oscar to chat about highlights, lowlights and upsets galore! Also, what would the Oscars be without who wore it best? In Worth Mentioning, Alita: Battle Angel and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World make the cut for best of February.
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World - Movie Review
February 12, 2019 13:26 - 5 minutes - 7.73 MBCarrie and Rob review How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World starring Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Gerard Butler and Cate Blanchett. Directed by Dean DeBlois.
Top 5 Movies of 2018 // Glass // Fyre // Westward the Women
January 28, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour - 116 MBThe fourth season of Alternate Ending begins with Carrie, Rob, and Tim sharing their picks for the best movies of 2018, as well as some other musings about the movie year that was. Plus, we have a lot of news about the changes coming to the website in the months to come. While we catch up with everything we missed last year as we finish up our lists. In Worth Mentioning, we cover Glass, both Fyre docs and Westward the Women thanks to Patreon Joy Vigil!
Top 5 Santas // Aquaman // Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse // Leave No Trace
December 17, 2018 12:55 - 1 hour - 109 MB'Tis the season to start thinking about holiday-themed movies, and for the last episode of the third year of Alternate Ending's podcast, we're going to look at our very favorite movie Santas: possibly deranged men at malls, lonely skeletons, suburban dads with the unimaginable power to murder demigods. Or, like actual Santa Claus, if that's your jam for some reason. We're making our lists and checking them twice, and while you wait for us to come down the chimney with our 2018 season finale....
Top 5 Chosen Ones // Tito and the Birds // Sherlock Jr.
December 10, 2018 06:00 - 1 hour - 110 MBThe world is in trouble, and only one very special hero, chosen by fate, can possibly save it. We could be talking about next week's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. We could also be talking about next week's Mortal Engines. We could be talking as well about Aquaman or Bumblebee from the week after that. We could, in fact, be talking about a whole hell of a lot of movies: the Chosen One narrative is one of the most overused tropes in contemporary American filmmaking. But just because somet...
Spoiler Alert: Little Shop of Horrors // The Christmas Chronicles
December 03, 2018 06:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBThanks to Patreon supporter Travis Neeley, this week's episode sends us to a pair of the campiest monster movies ever made. First up is Roger Corman's bizarre 1960 comedy The Little Shop of Horrors, about a lovelorn nebbish who accidentally creates an unstoppable, man-eating plant. Second is the 1986 Little Shop of Horrors, in which Frank Oz tackles Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's cultishly beloved, warped stage musical adaptation of the Corman film. In Worth Mentioning, we cover The Chri...
From the AE Archives: Top 5 Thanksgiving Movies
November 26, 2018 06:00 - 1 hour - 111 MBFamily vacations and holiday plans won't keep us from unearthing another episode from the archives with our Top 5 Thanksgiving movies.
Top 5 Online Movies // Widows // The Ballad of Buster Scruggs // The Grinch
November 19, 2018 06:00 - 1 hour - 119 MBWreck-It Ralph, Disney's lovable villain of an '80s arcade game, goes extremely online in Ralph Breaks the Internet, and to celebrate, we're plugging in with our favorite examples of the relationship between humans, computers, and that amazing, awful thing called the internet. From '90s hackers to '00s social media pioneers, we're going to be counting down all of our favorite examples of people who really probably ought to, like, read a book sometime. In Worth Mentioning, Widows, The Balla...
Top 5 Movies I Wish I Lived In // Suspiria // Bohemian Rhapsody
November 12, 2018 06:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBFantastic Beasts: The Grimes of Grindelwald takes us back to the Harry Potter universe, which love it or hate it, surely we must all agree it's one of the most comprehensively designed movie universes that has ever existed. And in celebration of the amazing feat of production design that this franchise has represented, we're taking a look at our very favorite movie universes: the places so beautiful, so comfortable, so fantastic, so homey, so all-around gosh-darned appealing that, if given t...
Top 5 Political Movies // Beautiful Boy // The Other Side of the Wind // The French Connection
November 05, 2018 06:00 - 1 hour - 97.3 MBThanks to Patreon subscriber Paul Royar, we have a very special Election Week present for you: our picks for the very best political movies ever made! Of course, "political" can mean a lot of things: films about the machinations of doing politics, or about the lives of politicians, or about important political questions of the day. Find out how each of us tackled the tricky business of answering the question, "what is a political movie". In Worth Mentioning we cover Beautiful Boy, The Oth...
Top 5 Films About the '70s // Bad Times at the El Royale // The Old Man & the Gun
October 29, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBWith Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody about to rock its way into theaters, we're thinking about the most glam decade of them all, the 1970s. We look at our favorite films that capture that decade in all its cocaine-fueled highs and equally cocaine-fueled lows. Be they time capsules from the '70s themselves or modern attempts to capture the swagger and madness of that decade, we'll be discoing our way through all of them. In Worth Mentioning we cover Bad Time at the El Royale and T...
Top 5 Witch Movies (AE Archives Episode)
October 22, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 83 MBWith Rob traveling for work the AE crew takes an oldie, but a goodie out of the archives with Top 5 Witch Movies.
Top 5 Killers // Venom // First Man // The Endless
October 15, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 126 MBThe new Halloween (third film of that title) brings back Michael Meyers, one of the most infamous of all movie psycho killers. In anticipation of the piles of dead babysitters sure to follow, we're going to scare ourselves silly by telling tales of all our favorite movie psychos, serial killers, slashers, and every sort of person of murd'rous intent. In Worth Mentioning, the crew covers Venom, First Man and The Endless.
Top 5 Space Movies // A Star is Born // Night School
October 08, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 103 MBNeil Armstrong biopic First Man is about to rocket into theaters, and we're celebrating by talking about our absolute favorite movies set in the inky black vacuum of space. Sci-fi swashbucklers, rigorously sober scientific true stories - if it celebrates the infinite wonders of the universe, it's fair game. In Worth Mentioning we cover two new releases with A Star is Born and Night School.
Top 5 Singers-Turned-Actors // Mandy // Hold the Dark // Life Itself
October 01, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 105 MBLady Gaga goes off the deep end in the fourth version of A Star Is Born. While we watch as she dives in, and wonder if she'll ever meet the ground, we're going to spend some time looking at the other times that musical superstars have taken their turn at acting. From Cher in Moonstruck, to Cher in Silkwood, to Cher in Burlesque, to Cher in The Witches of Eastwickor, if you're some kind of absolute fucking sicko, to somebody who is not Cher. In Worth Mentioning we cover Mandy, Hold the Dar...
Top 5 Sisters // A Simple Favor
September 24, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 113 MBWith the release The Sisters Brothers and a modern take on Little Women also coming to theaters soon, cinema clearly has sisters on the mind right now, and to celebrate, we're look at our favorite screen sisters. Whether it's teaming up to bring your estranged parents back together, working out your sibling rivalry while playing semi-pro baseball, or discovering that you and all your best friends can wear the same pair of jeans, we are excited to discuss all the triumphs and travails of ci...
Fall Movie Preview 2018 // The Predator // To All the Boys I've Loved Before // The Land of Steady Habits
September 17, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 103 MBWe're in the last stage of the year, with family pictures, Oscar hopefuls, and popcorn movies all jostling for attention. To get ready, the Alternate Ending crew picks the films we're most excited to see between now and the end of the year, from Lady Gaga's starring debut to Emily Blunt's attempt to step into Julie Andrews's practically perfect shoes. In Worth Mentioning we cover The Predator, To All the Boys I've Loved Before and The Land of Steady Habits.
Top 5 of Summer 2018 // The Nun
September 10, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 108 MBWe’re back! And recharged from our time off, we’re ready to recap the films of the summer just gone by. Dinosaurs, helicopters, superheroes, crazy rich Asians, racial strife in Oakland, and the beatific face of Fred Rogers – we go over it all on our way to pick our favorite films of the season. In Worth Mentioning, Tim discusses The Nun.
Top 5 Dog Movies // The Spy Who Dumped Me
August 13, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 97.8 MBAlpha is here to teach us all about how dogs were invented by a lonely cave boy who found himself staring down a wolf with a broken leg. Thousands of year's later, man's best friend has been the subject of countless film, almost every one of which is specifically calculated to make you cry buckets. For our last episode of the summer season, we'll be looking our favorite movie dogs in our favorite dog movies. In Worth Mentioning, we cover The Spy Who Dumped Me, Tallulah and Froning: The Fit...
Top 5 Water Movies // Christopher Robin // Blindspotting // Like Father
August 06, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 82.6 MBInspired by the subaquatic lab at the center of the upcoming "Jason Statham vs. a prehistoric shark" movie The Meg, the Alternate Ending crew is happy to announce our most esoteric topic yet. This episode is all about water in movies: the aesthetics of water, the challenges of shooting on water, the things live in the water, Kevin Costner drinking his own piss. In Worth Mentioning we cover Christopher Robin, Blindspotting and Like Father.
Top 5 Children's Literary Adaptations // Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Sorry to Bother You // The Equalizer 2
July 30, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 124 MBDisney's Christopher Robin continues the company's decades-long project of co-opting every last smackeral of A.A. Milne's 100-Acre Wood in the mind of children the world over. While we wait to learn first hand that a little boy and his bear will indeed always be playing, we've decided to take a look at movies based on classic books, with our favorite films based on children's literature. In Worth Mentioning we cover Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Sorry to Bother You and The Equalizer 2.
Top 5 Stunts // Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again // Eighth Grade
July 23, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 109 MBTom Cruise has done everything but commit actual seppukuon-camera for our spectatorial enjoyment, so we're excited to see what he has in store for us in Mission: Impossible - Fallout. While we get more and more hyped to watch him break his damn bones right there in the movie, we're going to take a look at our other favorite stunts from across movie history: the ridiculous car flips, high jumps, and hanging-from-clocks that brazen fucking idiots have put themselves through for the rest of us ...
Top 5 Musicals // Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
July 16, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 121 MBIt's an all-singing, all-dancing episode of Alternate Ending next week, as we celebrate - or at least, acknowledge the existence of - the upcoming Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again by looking through our all-time favorite movie musicals. Whether it's singin' in the rain or singin' in a Nazi biergarten, we pay tribute to the showstoppingest movie genre of them all. In Worth Mentioning we discuss Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacationand White Fang.
Top 5 Vacation Movies // Ant-Man and the Wasp // Sicario: Day of the Soldado
July 09, 2018 05:10 - 1 hour - 103 MBWe're pretty far into summer at this point, and if you haven't already been on vacation, you might be thinking it's about time to take one. In this episode, we discuss our favorite vacation movies. Whether it's exotic destinations and the wacky misadventures that happen there, or maybe just the pleasure of staying home with nothing to do, as long as it's getting out of the daily routine, it's enough of a vacation for us. In Worth Mentioning, we cover Ant-Man and the Wasp, Sicario: Day o...