Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast

This week we're continuing to dig the skeletons out of the closets of people nominated for Oscars in 2022, and we're moving on to Best Actress nominee Kristen Stewart's early role in THE MESSENGERS! Tim and Brennan discuss sunflower farming, the career trajectory of K-Stew, and the world's serviceablest cast!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter  and Instagram...

With special thanks to Patreon supporter Brian Fowler, we bring you our Top 5 Best Picture Winners, just in time for the 94th Academy Awards. I don't know if it should make us feel better or worse, that this podcast is aging in reverse. What does that even mean?  You'd think after all these years and with us slowly creeping into our 40's, you'd begin to feel that tug of maturity.  Yet, here we are...

The Top 5 Movies to See Before You Die, it's a catchphrase you've heard before. It's also a catchphrase that you assume has straightforward criteria. Movies critical to cinema? Movies about the afterlife? Movies to see if you have exactly 24 hours to live? If there is something we do well here at Alternate Ending, it's complicate things. So we do indeed come up with our Top 5 Movies to See Before...

This month we're digging the skeletons out of the closets of people nominated for Oscars in 2022, and we're starting by discussing Steven Spielberg's WAR OF THE WORLDS! Tim and Brennan sit down to discuss whether or not the film really qualifies as "horror," their relationship to the copious 9/11 imagery, how Tom Cruise services the movie or not, and much much more!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a...

This week's episode we dive into  The Batman ,  Matt Reeves' grim reimagining of Mr. Bruce Wayne.  As soon as we launched Pass the Popcorn, we knew at the top of our list was to have our old friend and roommate, Josh Elder .  There are few people we know who are bigger fanatics of the comic-craft and we were really eager for his perspective.  He's bringing his expertise on all things Gotham so we...

We're coming up fast on The Batman , the latest film centered around pop culture's famous insanely rich business mogul, Bruce Wayne. I am given to understand he also dresses as a bat. But that's not what we're here for, we're here to take a deeper dive into the Waynes of the world, the ultimate winners of late capitalism: captains of industry, movers and shakers, power brokers, the people whose ex...

We're still covering multi-part sequels thanks to a request from Patreon member Brian Fowler! Today we're talking about Netflix's new film TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, which is the ninth Texas Chainsaw film, the third film with that basic title, the third or fourth film to position itself as a direct sequel to Tobe Hooper's 1974 original, and the first film where Leatherface is put on Instagram Live....

It's Brennan's first official week hosting Pass the Popcorn, and the whole gang joins him for this episode! First, in Worth Mentioning, Brennan talks Annie (1999), Rob brings Uncharted , Tim discusses Teacher's Pet (by Patreon Harold's request), and Carrie discusses The Long Good Friday (by Patreon Jack's request). Then, we dive into a spoiler-free discussion of the HBO Max series Peacemaker , whi...

Happy Valentine's Day, to the subsection of you that don't despise it.  Though, I guess I don't care either way because I'm still going to send you a virtual hug and you're gonna like it! OO This episode comes courtesy of  Patreon subscriber Jack Chivers, who's asked us to carefully select and discuss our top 5 movie endings.  As you can imagine, our opinions on what makes a story complete, vary g...

This month, Bride of Alternate Ending is covering multi-part sequels thanks to a request from Patreon member Brian Fowler! The people have spoken, and they have chosen for Tim and Brennan to discuss 1988's POLTERGEIST III! The pair break down the tragic backstory of the film and how that informs the project, as well as what works and (mostly) what doesn't. Is there a very long digression about bio...

There are so many exciting parts of the our Oscar Nomination Reactions episode, the least exciting part being the Oscar nominees. Ha! This episode, we're joined by Alternate Ending contributors Mandy Albert and Chris Trengove, to share our reactions to the nominees and the biggest snubs.  I had a feeling with this crew I might get a little lost in the shuffle of cinephile-speak. And that did happe...

It's been yet another daunting week for our schedules.  5 minutes before recording we all looked upon each other with the same fatigued question - "remind me, what are we talking about today again?" **90 mins later** It's spit preferences, strategizing how to simplify dissertations, silicone education, new theme song reactions and god only knows what else. Oh, movies! This episode, Carrie and Rob...

Our Best Films of 2021 episode , was a bit contentious and so we had hoped to come back lovingly-aligned for our worst films of 2021 episode, but I guess there's always next time? It wasn't hard to find bad movies from the last year, there were some mega-stinkers, indeed.  What qualifies as a bad movie? What elements of a movie make it bad? All things for which, we do not agree.  I will say though...

This week, Bride of Alternate Ending is double masked and taking to the aisles to discuss SCREAM 5 aka 5CREAM aka SCREAM for reasons that remain unfathomable. Will noted Scream skeptic Tim and Scream megafan Brennan (who recorded this entire podcast without telling Tim that theres a shiny new Scream '22 poster hanging on his wall just out of sight of the Zoom camera) find common ground on this new...

It's a brand new year, and we couldn't be more excited to see what exciting new movies 2022 has lined up for us all to enjoy. But before we can do that, we need to ring out the old year in traditional fashion: our picks for the best films of 2021!

We're not 100% sure why, but you asked for it and we're here to cover TETSUO II: BODY HAMMER! The original film is an indelible work of experimental genius that we had wildly divergent opinions on. Can the same filmmaker apply that genius to a more coherent story and a bigger budget? Let's find out!

o close out our December slate of episodes, Tim and Brennan are sitting at a safe distance so they don't smack each other while discussing SCREAM, a massively influential Wes Craven classic that the two are extremely divided on. Will they find common ground? Only time (and listening to this episode) will tell.

Merry December, everyone! For our Patreon-voted Christmas episode, we're covering the late 80's not-quite-a-slasher ELVES! It's an action-horror thriller about Grizzly Adams as a mall Santa fighting Nazi elves, and he's not even the most fascinating character…

o good to be back this week, with our last Top 5 episode of 2021!  As we celebrate the upcoming release of Guillermo Del Toro's upcoming adaptation of Nightmare Alley, we couldn't help but reflect on our favorite movie con artists.  Fair warning, we had some pent up energy from missing each other the last few weeks, so please excuse the chaos ( or at least we'll use that as an excuse ). Audience T...

On our second belated November episode, we're covering Wes Craven's THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS in honor of its 20th anniversary! Brennan and Tim analyze where the film works and where it doesn't, as well as where it fits in the overall Craven canon.

This year's Oscar race is about to get dressy with House of Gucci , a true crime biopic about the legendary family-run fashion company. To celebrate, we're playing a bit of dress-up ourselves, as we take a look out favorite examples of costuming motion picture history. From the storybook past to the shiny future, costume design is one of the cornerstones of cinematic worldbuilding, and our next ep...

Brennan lost his voice and it took some time to find it again. This week, we're covering Patreon subscriber Carl Beasley's request of a film involving Terrors of the Deep. The poll results pointed in one mystifying direction: 1989's LEVIATHAN. In this episode, we plumb every corner of this deep sea flick that welds Alien to The Thing and calls it a day.

It's was a very long week for all of us, but nothing clears the mind like getting together to Pass the Popcorn about movies! This episode, Carrie talks us into a round of "The Movie Game," based on a recent surge of film knowledge confidence. It's doesn't go well. Rob brings the new Netflix original Red Notice , Carrie brings Home Sweet Home Alone and Tim shares his thoughts on Last Night in Soho...

At the request of Patreon subscriber Brian Fowler, and just in time for Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson about to star in the Netflix action-comedy Red Notice , the Alternate Ending crew is going to tag team on an episode all about the colorful history of wrestlers who've wandered into the movie. Some have just showed up for a random movie or two, Roddy Piper; some have transformed into proper leading me...

This time, it's Brennan's turn to gift Tim with a spooky movie HE hasn't seen! Continuing our accidental double feature of parents grieving the death of their young daughters, we're covering the George C. Scott haunted house film THE CHANGELING! Brennan also reports back on his read through of the Don't Look Now short story he promised to check out last time!