Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast

5 episodes down, 1 to go! The Falcon and the Winter Soldier S1 E5, brings us... honestly, it's hard to remember.  We recorded the episode 3 days ago and it's already a blur.  If I'm remembering the high points correctly, it went something like: The fake Captain America gets relieved of his hero status and they ask nicely for him to return his shield whenever is convenient for him.  Then the Falcon...

We are literally a week away from the Oscars and we're all ( just Rob and I, actually ) scrambling to see as many Oscar nominees as we can, in advance.  Like all good procrastinators, we're taking our time to look back at years past at the best awards winners in the Academy's history, with our picks for the Top 5 Acting Oscar Winners! For an added treat, Tim also drops in his bottom 5 acting Oscar...

Well, we're still here.  Here at Alternate Ending, we're nothing, if not resilient.  I'm sort of joking, but as we make our way through  The Falcon and the Winter Soldier S1 E4, the lingering feeling that this show was made solely for my Dad, is growing.  I know we mentioned on our last episode that there were quite a few plot points to wrap up, but this episode has chosen to only unravel the spoo...

As a followup to Alternate Ending's Top 5 Rivalries episode, Brennan is sitting down with Take 2 virgin Rob to discuss TWILIGHT , how it ended up on his list, and why he took it right the hell off!

Well, we made our way through The Falcon and the Winter Soldier S1 E3, we're half way there! This episode brought a few fun surprises, a flurry of new characters and a hefty smattering of loose ends.  There is absolutely no way that this show can resolve itself in any sort of satisfying way, in only 3 more episodes, but godspeed to the writers. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier S1 E3 provides us m...

With Godzilla squaring off against King Kong (for the second time !), we've turned our attention to some of the best versus-es in cinema history. We're getting ready to fight about the top 5 rivalries in movie history, the antagonism and fighting and lifelong grudges and discovering that you both have mothers with the first name "Martha", and all of it. In Worth Mentioning, we cover Godzilla vs Ko...

I'm calling it now, I don't think this is going to be my favorite show of all time ( we can't all be Friends ), but nevertheless, we're back with The Falcon and the Winter Soldier S1 E2 , because it's fun to commiserate about the flare and flaws that come with millions of Disney's dollars. Admittedly, we were feeling the love ( well more like, a solid first date where nobody does anything creepy )...

As a followup to Alternate Ending's Top 5 Belated Sequels, Brennan is sitting down with Carrie to discuss a movie both of them just watched for the very first time… ROCKY! Join us as we discuss the moments in the film that haven't aged quite so well, Carrie drops a bizarre truth bombs about the biology of empathy pain, and we generally just have a conversation that certainly won't make anyone mad...

As soon as we hit 4 content feedback survey submissions and with 50% of those saying they were interested in a podcast dedicated to television, Rob deemed it necessary that the Alternate Ending community know our immediate feelings on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier . Unlike Tim, who after a long, stressful day unwinds with a little Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom , sometimes Rob and I just won't...

With a big thank you to Patreon subscriber Carter, we officially had the most fun we've had in a LONG TIME covering our Top 5 belated sequels.  Despite having more overlap than we've had in awhile, we still manage to find ourselves carefully belittling each others picks.  You know, like real friends do. We had a lot to catch up on and lots of news to share! In worth mentioning, Rob reviews Flora &...

As a followup to the Spoiler Alert episode discussing Kurosawa's Kagemusha and Ran, Brennan is sitting down with Tim to discuss the Godzilla franchise, many of which were directed by Kurosawa's compatriot Honda Ishiro! Join us as we discuss the various horrible forms that baby Godzilla has taken throughout the years, our top (and bottom) 3 Godzilla films, and even get a scoop on next week's main f...

I love my kids.  Though, between you and me, I also really loved my life before kids too.  I've definitely sunken into all of the parenting cliches of glueing finger paintings all over my house, seeing my friends almost never and saying things like "because I said so" a million times a day.  The thing is, I swear used to be fun.  I never missed a party ( like never ever, actually, I probably shoul...

Real talk.  The most common question I get from friends about Alternate Ending is, "how do you juggle it all, on top of jobs and kids and the rest of your life?" The motivational speech answer is, we juggle and take on too much, until one of us feels like we're on the verge of a panic attack and then the other person rises to the occasion, if the other breaks.  Feel free to write that down in your...

Our next podcast topic comes courtesy of Patreon subscriber Andrew, who had a simple request: watch and discuss two of the richest, most exhausting costume dramas ever filmed. It's a Spoiler Alert this time around, as we dive deep into the late epics by the legendary Japanese director Kurosawa Akira: the 1980 Palme d'Or winner Kagemusha , and the monumental King Lear adaptation Ran , from 1985. Th...

At the Ready  premiered at Sundance 2021 and I was super excited about it.  It appeared on my most anticipated films of Sundance list , in fact.  The headline reads "a group of seniors train to become border control agents at El Paso's Horizon High School, near the US/Mexico border." I surmised that the film would feature stupid kids that don't have a big-picture view on humanity. Then, over the c...

Welcome to the inaugural episode of Take 2, a sideshow hosted by AE contributor Brennan Klein, where every other week we will dive deep into a movie mentioned on the previous episode. As a followup to the Top 5 Love Scenes episode, Brennan is sitting down with Carrie to discuss a movie she had never seen before: 2005's BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN! Join us as we discuss our differing opinions on who is the...

Wild Indian made it's debut at Sundance 2021 Wild Indian stars Makwa ( Michael Greyeyes) , a young Anishinaabe boy, is dealing with two pretty terrible parents..  He's abused, he's neglected and all of the trauma pours over into his mental health.  He and his only friend, Ted-O, like to escape by playing in the woods, until the day Makwa murders a schoolmate.  It's a shocking and unexpected moment...

Valentine's Day is just behind us, but we're still feeling a little swoony and amorous. That's why our next episode is going to be dedicated to those movie moments that make us feel all tingly and gushy inside, with our picks for the top 5 love scenes in movie history. Maybe they're as sweet as a first kiss on a spring day; maybe they're as hot and steamy as the lead-up to a round of athletic scre...

You've probably never heard of Little Fish and that's a real problem.  It's like when you hear some 14 year old, who is also an Inta-Snap-Tic-Tac-Toe influencer, makes bazillions of dollars singing auto-tuned rhymes, while the actual musical geniuses are eating ramen and playing at dive bars in Chicago. I'll get this out of the way first, the "will love prevail in the face of imminent disaster?" t...

I'll put my hand on the bible right now and tell you right now that Mother Schmuckers will be the weirdest movie you'll see all year.  Weirder than The Holy Mountain . Well, maybe equally weird but in such different ways.  There's fecal consumption and bestiality and plenty of unshaven-body nudity.  What am I even saying, it's exactly The Holy Mountain . I'm going to plagiarize the Sundance's syno...

In the chaos of Sundance we had about 10 minutes to spare.  Luckily Raspberry was just 7 breezy minutes between me and snagging some lunch. At minute 1 my eyes were quickly pooling with water, by minute 2 I had tears streaming down my face, by minute 3 I was laughing, at minute 4 I was laughing through sobs, coming in at minute 5 I was audibly crying and sucking back nose drool, rolling on to minu...

I'm going to tag this post as #journalingforwellness and #freetherpy and hope that you don't throw rotten tomatoes at me as a traverse my feelings on Cowboys .  The last few years has forced me to grapple with some hard truths about myself.  I've spent the majority of my life thinking that I was "good" just because I don't care what you look like, who who love or how you live your life.  But that...

Jockey didn't make my most anticipated list of Sundance , because frankly, horse movies usually depress me.  The horse always gets injured or dies or gets injured and then dies and who amongst us really needs that kind of heartbreak right now? Well shame on me for judging In a surprising turn, I don't even really remember much about a horse in Jockey .  I mean, there definitely is a horse and ther...

Well, Sundance is over and we're all breathing a collective sigh of exhausted relief. Over the course of 5 days, we cumulatively watched over 50 features and shorts.  While our experiences were wildly different, with Tim watching at least 7 films a day and cranking out reviews, while Rob and I averaged 3-4 films a day and stressed about prepping for interviews.  On this episode we talk about some...

Eight for Silver made the Most Anticipated Movies of Sundance lists for both Rob AND Tim.  Despite our often differing tastes, there are still through lines that connect us.  For this film, "extreme violence and gore," meets werewolves, was all they needed to know. I'll tell you my worry, for this  Eight For Silver interview For starters, Boyd Holbrook and Alistair Petrie.  These two edgy bad-guys...