Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast

April is prom season, as evinced by the upcoming "sex at prom" comedy Blockers , and to get ready, we're took a look at our favorite examples of this quintessential rite of passage for American teenagers. In Worth Mentioning, we discuss Unsane , Zama  and When We First Met .

Hollywood icon Steven Spielberg returns to high-concept popcorn entertainment with Ready Player One , and we're taking the opportunity to look back over the 40 years and then some of one of the most wildly successful directorial careers in the history of the movies. Whether it's his groundbreaking part in co-creating the modern blockbuster, or his late-career political character dramas, Spielberg...

Who didn't love Pacific Rim ? A whole lot of people, actually, and yet Pacific Rim Uprising (not to mention, God help us, Sherlock Gnomes is still coming out. To celebrate - or at least to pause and ask, what the hell ? - Carrie, Rob, and Tim share their picks for the top five unnecessary sequels of all time. In Worth Mentioning, the crew talks about Love, Simon and Forgotten

The quest to make just one good movie based on a video game continues with a new film based on Tomb Raider . The Alternate Ending crew is goes on an even more dangerous quest than Lara Croft's: we're going to try to pick our five favorite movies based on video games. See what we end up with! In Worth Mentioning, the crew talk about another movie to hit the big screen, A Wrinkle in Time .

While some celebrities are still doing the walk of shame from the Dolby Theater, we share our thoughts on everything Oscars 2018 including the winner of our Oscar Ballot Content.

Everybody loves a hero, but sometimes you've just got to hand it to a psychopathic bastard who can get the job done fast and dirty. With Red Sparrow and the remake of Death Wish both hitting theaters next week, we're going to be sharing out picks for the best - worst? - anti-heroes in the movies. The team also shares reviews of Tim and Rob's highly anticipated film  Annihilation, Game Night  and t...

Here's a nice high concept one for you. Annihilation will be just the second film ever directed by screenwriter-novelist Alex Garland, after 2015's Ex Machina . Which is almost enough to get us excited, but second features tend to be difficult: for every one that lives up to the promise of the maker's debut, there are a dozen sodden misfires. Hear us discuss our picks for the best directorial soph...

The dregs of January are behind us, and ahead lie three months (or anyway, two and a half) of the year's cinematic misfits: too odd, or too strange, or too under-budgeted to thrive in the cutthroat summer and holiday frames. Plus a couple of gigantic Disney tentpoles. At any rate, we're choosing to call this transitional period "spring" for the sake of sharing our picks for our most-anticipated fi...

We're almost coming to the climax of the most successful erotic film series of all time, with the release of Fifty Shades Freed . To celebrate, the Alternate Ending team is getting all hot and bothered as our threesome goes all the way in talking about our favorite sex scenes in all the movies. In Worth Mentioning, Carrie talks about Mudbound , while Tim shares his thoughts on both The Greatest Sh...

Did you miss us? Because we missed you, and we're happy to announce that the third season of the Alternate Ending podcast is back! Carrie, Rob, and Tim are refreshed and relaxed, and we've spent the last few weeks cramming in all the movies we missed over 2017, and this first new episode of 2018 celebrates all of our favorite films of the last twelve months.

With Star Wars: The Last Jedi less than a fortnight away, the Alternate Ending crew makes a terrible discovery: Carrie has never seen any other Star Wars film than Rogue One . Clearly, this cannot stand, and so we invite you to join us as three people with very different tastes and very different relationships to this franchise try to tackle the most iconic film series in history. First up: the 19...

Depending on where you live, this past weekend you might have been able to see The Disaster Artist , director-star James Franco's take on the making of the infamous The Room , the movie that taught us all that no matter how upset you are, you can always cheer right up by saying hai to your friend Mark, and that nothing helps a cancer diagnosis like promptly forgetting it. With an excuse like that,...

Oscar season is here, and it brings with it the promise of real-life stories of famous people, doing the thing that made them famous. There's no end of examples of the biopic that we could have tied it to, but this particular week it's the Winston Churchill-during-wartime tale Darkest Hour that'll do the honors for inspiring our topic. And while national leaders make a good subject for this kind o...

By special request of Patreon donor Travis Neeley, we're happy to share our list of the best parody movies ever made. Whether born of love or pure hateful mockery, the desire to parody individual movies or whole genres has resulted in some of cinema's funniest features, and we share our favorites this episode. In Worth Mentioning, we all chat about The Florida Project , Tim discussed The Breadwinn...

The new adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express concerns - avert your eyes, if you're spoilerphobic - a murder that is committed on the Orient Express, the famed luxury train. If you want to know whodunnit, or why they dunnit, you'll just have to go see the movie - or watch the Oscar-winning 1974 adaptation, or read Agatha Christie's original novel - but we reveal a different kind of secret on...

Thor: Ragnarok has quite a few apparent selling points - its bright colors, Cate Blanchett, a robust New Zealand sense of humor, finally being a Thor film that doesn't suck - but surely we can all agree that one of the things the marketing folks at Marvel hope we're really excited for is the promise of a Thor-on-Hulk fight, one on one. No better time, then, to look over the long history of violent...

Halloween is upon us, and it's got the Alternate Ending crew in a spooky mood. In honor of "All Hallow's Eve", we discuss our favorite movies spent in creepy, rotting, abandoned old houses filled to the brim with ghosts and ghouls and unseen presences, or at least Vincent Price playing puppeteer with a skeleton. In Worth Mentioning, the whole team weighs in on seeing newly released flick The Snowm...

Independence Day producer Dean Devlin made his directorial debut this week with Geostorm , a cautionary story about over-reliance on weather-control satellites and self-driving cars, and other issues that speak so deeply to our current moment. More to the point, it's about floods and ice storms and all other manner of splashy natural disasters, and that's why we're devoting our next episode to the...

With Blade Runner 2049 having opened to great acclaim, but nowhere close to great box office, we could hardly pass up the chance to talk about the present and past of one of cinema's most legendary portraits of the future (not to mention, it's one of Rob's most-anticipated films of the fall ). That's why we're looking at both BR2049 and the legendary, groundbreaking Blade Runner , a film that Tim...

Ask the right people - Rob & Carrie's kids, that is - and they'll tell you that there's not going to be any bigger film this autumn than My Little Pony: The Movie . We're certainly not going to call that kind of insight into question, which is why we celebrated that film's release by taking a look at our favorite movies about horses, and the strong bonds they form with humans. Be they stone-cold c...

With only three months left in the year, we're about to plunge headlong into the twinned moviegoing epochs of Holiday Movie Season and Awards Movie Season, that merry time of year when big-budget tentpole movies about blowing shit up for the whole family and low-budget tragedies about Brits with disabilities rub elbows in the multiplex, vying for your dollars and respect. Before we take that plung...

Let us just say that not all of the members of Alternate Ending are equally pumped up for the release of Kingsman: The Golden Circle , but it makes for a great opportunity to look back over the secret history of spies in the movies. From the glamorous nonsense of the James Bond franchise to the grubby bureaucratic gamesmanship of John le Carré, espionage has been a treasured subject for the movies...

All of us at Alternate Ending finally had a chance to catch up with the films we wanted to see from the recently-ended summer, and before awards season and the holiday rush start up, we take a moment to look back over the popcorn movies that were. How did the whole season stack up? How well did our most-anticipated films stand up? In Worth Mentioning, Tim is FINALLY done catching up with all the A...

From the mediocrity of The Dark Tower just a month ago, we swing back to the strong reviews and deafening buzz of It that just arrived in theaters with some of the biggest hype of any Stephen King feature film adaptation ever. And with 2017 shaping up to be the biggest year for King on big and little screens in memory, what better time for us to select our favorite films based on the blockbuster a...

For this Spoiler Alert episode, we field a request from Patreon donor Travis Neely, who invited us to take a look at the 1946 British fantasy film A Matter of Life and Death (initially released in the United States as Stairway to Heaven ). One of the greatest triumphs of the writing-directing-producing team of Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, the film looks at the life and death (and what foll...