Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast

With 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 disc...

With Rob traveling for work the AE crew takes an oldie, but a goodie out of the archives with Top 5 Witch Movies.

The 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 , F...

Neil 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 .

Lady 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 Eastwick or, if you're some kind of abs...

With 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 friend...

We'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...

We'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 .

Alpha  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...

Inspired 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 Chris...

Disney'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 Wort...

Tom Cruise has done everything but commit actual seppuku on-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,...

It'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 T...

We'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 enou...

Despite it having been made pretty clear in the dialogue of the first three movies in the Purge franchise, we finally to get to see what happened during The First Purge . It's the only excuse we need to look back at our own favorite prequels, that most wonderful narrative form that combines the pandering of a forced sequel with the thrill of knowing exactly how the plot is going to end even before...

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is here, the fourth follow-up to a movie uniquely near and dear to the heart of every '90s kid. We happen to have three such individuals ready to talk about the whole series, from 1993's iconic Jurassic Park  all the way up to the massive 2015 blockbuster Jurassic World , and its shiny new sequel. In Worth Mentioning, the AE crew discusses Hereditary , Tag  and A Kid...

Remake mania claimed its latest victim with Superfly , a new version of the beloved 1972 blaxplotation classic Super Fly that, in keeping with the faster pace of modern life, does away with the space in the title. Over the years, dating all the way back to the silent era, in fact, there have been so many remakes that some of them must have been worth it, and the team is going to bring new meaning...

The Incredibles 2 is coming this weekend, at which point the one Pixar film that people actually want a sequel to will finally have one. This leaves a void: what are the other films in this ridiculous, sequel-mad era of ours that somehow haven't gotten a follow-up, but nonetheless deserve one? In Worth Mentioning, the crew discusses Ocean's 8 and Rob talks about the sci-fi indie flick Upgrade .

Sandra Bullock leads an all-star cast of women thieves as the ringleader of Ocean's 8 . It seems like the perfect opportunity to share our picks for the very best films of Bullock's wide-ranging career: from the fiery Speed to the damp Speed 2: Cruise Control , from outer space in Gravity to the inside of a computer in The Net , from the high-concept charms of Miss Congeniality to whatever the shi...

Our next episode comes courtesy of Patreon  donor Andrew Milne, who wanted to know our thoughts on the Indonesian action movies The Raid: Redemption  and  The Raid 2 . No fair guessing Tim's opinions if you follow those links, but what will Rob and Carrie have to say about two of the very best action movies of the 21st Century, given their ridiculous hesitation to embrace subtitled movies? In Wort...

Word out of Cannes is that Alden Ehrenreich makes for a pretty good Han Solo in Solo: A Star Wars Story , but let's just say that we'll believe it when we see it. But if Ehrenreich does singlehandedly destroy the movie, it wouldn't be the first time. Carrie, Rob, and Tim share their picks for the most damaging performances ever: the times when a movie was actually ruined by bad acting. In Worth Me...

You're only as old as you feel, but if you're pairing Diane Keaton and Jane Fonda in the movie Book Club , you're sure to be a contender for our Top 5 Geriatric movies.  This week we explore the films that best highlight those fine golden years, the highs and lows of aging and everything in between. In Worth Mentioning, we discuss Overboard , Tully and a Patreon requested review of The Red Turtle...

Mother's Day is just around the corner, and it brings with it Life of the Party , a film about a mom humiliating her daughter by going back to college (it's also just shown up as one of Carrie's most-anticipated films of the summer !). To celebrate both of these things, we're celebrating our favorite films about mothers and daughters. Whether it's a loving relationship, a fraught relationship, or...

We're refreshed from our short break, and eager to look ahead to summer. With Summer here, we're sharing our most-anticipated releases of the next four months and the ones we think will crush it at the box office, from popcorn movies about volcanoes and dinosaurs to whatever random-ass art movie Tim wants to force on Carrie and Rob.

Romantic comedies with zombies! Cops who break into song! Cowboys fighting aliens! Vampires who are real-estate billionaires and also mopey high school students! Our last podcast before we take a brief, two-week spring break comes courtesy of Patreon donor Not Fenimore, who asked us to discuss some of our all-time favorite genre mash-ups. Whether it's horror comedies or domestic dramas in space, w...