Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast

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!

It's spooky movie season once again, and we're celebrating with a concentrated dose of one of the most iconic monsters in cinema history. This episode focuses on our picks for the top 5 vampire movies, a noble lineage stretching back to the legendary days of German silent cinema all the way to the present day, and beyond. They might be animalistic ghouls, dangerously charismatic noblemen, or goofy...

It's time to Pass the Popcorn again this week! It's what we've been watching and review / spoiler of No Time To Die . We also share our thoughts on Venom: Let There Be Carnage , Diana: The Musical , Bringing Up Baby , Saraband , Midnight Mass and Squid Games . Tune in! Next week's episode: Top 5 Vampire Movies ***************************************************************** Love the Podcast? Leav...

Hello and welcome to the official first main feed episode of Bride of Alternate Ending! We are the horror spinoff show hosted by Brennan Klein and Tim Brayton, and we've graduated from Patreon to the main feed this month! These episodes will be coming the 2nd and 4th Friday of every month! For spooky season, we've decided to gift each other with horror classics that the other hasn't seen. First up...

It's taken us a few extra weeks, but the Alternate Ending crew has finally caught up with all of the big films of the summer movie season, and we're ready to share our picks for the top 5 films of summer 2021. A small, lower-key summer than some of the biggest blockbuster seasons of yore, but anything would feel like a return to form after 2020, and there have been some gems hiding out in the stil...

It's time to Pass the Popcorn again this week! It's what we've been watching, a rousing game of Would You Rather?  and a very, very in-depth review of Lifeforce , requested by Not Fenimore. Tim shares his thoughts on The Card Counter and Rob pretty heavily steers you alway from Buddy Games ... because it's terrible. Tune in! Next week's episode: Top 5 of Summer 2021 *******************************...

2021 is racing by at top speed, and here we are, ready to greet the fall movie season, with all of its Oscar hopefuls and Christmastime blockbusters alike. And a particular packed fall movie season, too, with many of 2020's delayed titles finally appearing alongside a whole wave of new productions. To help you sort through it all, the Alternate Ending crew is here with our most anticipated movies...

It's our inaugural episode of Pass The Popcorn and we while we have many directions we want to take this new format, we just had to review Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings ,  given our respective obsessions with Marvel, Simu Liu and Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, we just had to get this movie out of our system. We've had an eventful last few weeks with COVID super-spreader events, anniversaries and...

We've got another podcast by request of one of our Patreon subscribers, with Hallvar∂ur asking us to take a look at the dark and paranoid world of shadow governments and secret societies with our top 5 conspiracy thrillers. Stories of hapless, helpless protagonists stumbling into serpentine mazes of amoral men in shadowy rooms pulling strings to guide the course of the world to God knows what end...

Our next episode comes at the request of Patreon subscriber Travis, who wants us to think small: we're temporarily putting aside feature-length movies to share with all of you our top 5 short films of all time. From slapstick cartoons to documentaries to the wilderness of the avant-garde, the world of short cinema is every bit as varied as its more visible long-form sibling, and we're going to loo...

In hardly any time at all, we're going to be getting DC's The Suicide Squad , a reboot-sequel that surely somebody anywhere in the whole world was clamoring for. In the meantime, this story of a bunch of colorful weirdoes played by a star-studded cast has us thinking of all the other times that movies have given us a chance to gawk at all our favorite actors gathered in one place, or just to be su...

This month on Bride of Alternate Ending, Tim and Brennan are covering the 1989 experimental body horror masterpiece(?) TETSUO: THE IRON MAN ! Thank you so much for being a patron!

With Escape Room Tournament of Champions  hitting theaters this week, we decided to mix it this episode up a bit.  You see, your respective hosts each have an unfounded confidence that they are, in fact, the most talented Escape Room-ers, that probably ever existed.  I say this because, JUST last weekend, the AE crew traveled to Escape in Time - Madison  to test our wits in their new Cryosleep roo...

Black Widow is coming to theaters next week, and with it, a nearly two-year drought in the theatrical output of the Marvel Cinematic Universe comes to a close (I mean, come now... they don't call it the Marvel Direct-to-Streaming Television Universe, now do they). And with 23 extant films making up this biggest and baddest franchise of modern filmmaking, that's more than enough for us to make our...