Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast

This month on Bride of Alternate Ending, thanks to Patreon subscriber Travis, Tim and Brennan are covering the David Cronenberg classic VIDEODROME ! Thank you so much for being a patron!

This week on Take 2 , Carrie joins Brennan to discuss her official number 1 favorite Studio Ghibli film, PONYO , and how it got that way.

One-third of the Alternate Ending team couldn't possibly be more excited for our next topic, which has been gifted to us from Patreon subscriber Gavin. And since he's the one writing this post, there's not going to be any dissenting views on the idea that Japan's Studio Ghibli is one of the most wonderful, special, spirit-lifting film production companies in the history of the medium (we'll agree...

This week on Take 2, Carrie joins Brennan to nominally discuss 2018's Love, Simon  although it's mainly just tangents about coming out, improving the world, and swallowing.

Our next podcast topic comes to us thanks to Patreon subscriber Not Fenimore, who has left us with an intriguingly open-ended topic: our top 5 movies for parents. Whether this means the top 5 movies for parents who have been conscripted into watching movies with their kids,  the top 5 movies for parents to use as teachable moments about life or morality or such things, the top 5 movies for parents...

This week on Take 2 , Tim joins  Brennan  to break down everything Conjuring, Annabelle , Nun , Llorona , and whatever the hell else James Wan and company throw at the wall to see if it sticks! Join us for our ranking of all 9 films, the struggle to figure out the series timeline, and the Greatest Showmanization of Ed and Lorraine Warren!

Well, we successfully rallied together to compile our Summer Movie Preview 2021 pull ourselves from our pessimistic trenches and look forward towards a new year with new theatrical possibilities! We know you may not share our optimism, just yet, but with the possibility of seeing A Quiet Place Part II together in a theater on the horizon, nothing can crush our spirits.  For fun, we even went back...

There was a tie in the poll for this month's Bride of Alternate Ending, so Tim and Brennan are moving one of those fateful picks on over to the main feed and picking up a Carrie along the way! That's right, we're talking CASPER and the mass Devon Sawa sexual awakening that struck America's tweens in 1995.

With the 14-month freeze at the North American box office starting to melt over the last few weeks, and looking to melt even more over the next few weeks, the Alternate Ending crew thought this would be a great time to celebrate the theatrical experience. Our next episode is dedicated to our picks for the top 5 movies to see on the big screen, the kind of film where watching it even on your fancy...

As a followup to Alternate Ending's Oscars recap episode, Tim is joining Brennan this week to discuss EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: THE STORY OF FIRE SAGA , the Oscar-nominated song "Húsavík," and the state of the Best Original Song Oscar in general!

The Oscars are over and I think we can say a collective "well, that was weird".  The location, the speeches, the music trivia?  On this 93rd Academy Awards dedicated episode we cover all of our Oscars 2021 reactions.  We take a look at the best and worst moments, out thoughts on the upsets and the usual end to the whole affair.  To be fair, it's not all bad.  In fact, we find a whole handful of th...

We made it to The Falcon and the Winter Soldier SEASON FINALE and we're feeling pretty proud.  I guess the old adage is true "misery loves company," because I was feeling pretty solid about the collective AE jabs at the cheesy writing and blatant social commentary.  Though, I overheard a gal tell Rob on a work call that she is "absolutely loving The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,"  that it's her "...

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...