Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast

It's rabbit season here at Alternate Ending, thanks to Patreon supporter Hallvarður: this episode centers on our picks for the top 5 Looney Tunes cartoons! Between 1930 and 1969, Warner Bros. released 1000 short cartoons starring such animated icons as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Yosemite Sam, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Speedy Gonzales, Tweety Bird, Cool Cat, Goopy Geer, Merlin the Magic Mouse, and all yo...

To kick off Masters of Horror month, Tim and Brennan break down Tobe Hooper's season 1 episode "Dance of the Dead!"   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter  and Instagram   Follow Brennan on Twitter , Instagram , and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, including voting for the films we cover on this program,...

It's a Patreon-palooza  this week thanks to Gavin ( Society ), Ann Yourell ( The Mirror Has Two Faces ), Travis ( The Hill ) and Carl Beasley ( Secrets of the Hot Spring ).  It was a bit of a Goldilocks story on this episode, with some movies being incredibly enjoyable, some just so-so and then so bad you want to light yourself on fire. Which movie falls where? Tune in to find out! ***************...

"Every movie's a circus", in the words of a song from the proudly mediocre Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Sunset Blvd. But we're going to be a little bit more selective than that. At the request of Patreon supporter Carl Beasley, this episode focuses on on our top 5 circus movies: movies celebrating the wonderful entertainment form that has made such a rich pageant out of exploiting people with unusu...

To close out Disney horror month, Tim and Brennan break down a nostalgic classic that isn't particular nostalgic for either of them. it's 1983's SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter  and Instagram   Follow Brennan on Twitter , Instagram , and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member p...

This episode came a week later than expected, due to unforeseen, lower than expectations reviews of the Indiana Jones series from the Jarosinski children.  With an extra week gone by, we were prepared to face the situation head on. Sort of. Thoughts differ on Indiana Jones: Dial of Destiny, but thankfully Tim finds it in his heart to only break Carrie's heart in written form and mostly spare her f...

In honor of the upcoming release of Disney's Haunted Mansion, Tim and Brennan are covering Disney horror throughout July, beginning with the deeply ludicrous Disney Channel original musical sequel Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter  and Instagram   Follow Brennan on Twitter , Instagram , and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alterna...

Hardcore Alternate Ending heads will remember one of our signature moments early in the life of the podcast was a baffling "Who's On First" style catastrophe of a discussion that swirled around the fact that Pontius Pilate, historical Roman governor of Judaea and major figure in the Christian Gospels, has a name that can be misinterpreted as sounding like he's an airplane pilot. One person who def...

June Bugs month concludes where Guillermo del Toro's English-language career begins. This week, Tim and Brennan are discussing the compromised '90s relic MIMIC!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter  and Instagram   Follow Brennan on Twitter , Instagram , and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, including v...

Tim and Brennan are kicking off June Bugs month with some of the most surreal bug-themed horror you'll ever encounter, the Saul Bass directorial effort PHASE IV!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter  and Instagram   Follow Brennan on Twitter , Instagram , and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, including...

To close out Witchcraft Month, Tim and Brennan are taking you on a journey into one of the most mystifying movies of the great 1980s: it's time for TEEN WITCH!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter  and Instagram   Follow Brennan on Twitter , Instagram , and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, including vo...

This episode of Pass the Popcorn, we're joined by friend of AE, Zev Burrows to catch up on what movies we've been catching up on.  We tried to scare Zev off with our personal burial plans, stomach bugs and the under-appreciated delicacy of spaghetti and cottage cheese ... but he held on like a champ until the end! In worth mentioning, Zev brings his thoughts on There Was a Father .  Tim reviews Ev...

This month, Tim and Brennan are taking a look at films about witchcraft, starting with the 1967 Soviet horror film VIY, based on the Gogol short story of the same name!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter  and Instagram   Follow Brennan on Twitter , Instagram , and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, inc...

Summer is almost upon us! Indeed with Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 already in theaters, summer is arguably already here. But there's still lots of weeks of movies to come, with the most fully-stocked calendar of big tentpoles since 2019. To celebrate, we're casting our gaze forward to share our picks for our most anticipated films of the summer, as well as kick off our annual game of trying to...

AUDIO NOTE: Please forgive the intense hail that was inflicting Wisconsin while Tim recorded.   To conclude musical month, Tim and Brennan are biting into the Disney Channel original musical Z-O-M-B-I-E-S from 2018 and parsing its truly mystifying, yet entirely blunt, themes and design.   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter  and Instagram   Follow Brennan on Twi...

This month, Tim and Brennan are breaking down some classic and not-so classic horror musicals, starting with the 2007 Oscar-winning Sondheim adaptation SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter  and Instagram   Follow Brennan on Twitter , Instagram , and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and...

Thanks to Patreon supporter Harold Bleacher, we're going to be prodding at some of our most sensitive emotional scar tissue in our next episode: by his request, we're going to spend our next podcast talking about the top 5 most traumatizing films we've ever seen. Expect many dead parents of wide-eyed animal children, gore effects whose cheesiness through adult eyes can't quite take the edge off of...

Oscar-level Patron Gavin McDowell has requested that we cover non-Christian religious horror this month, so we're closing March out with a discussion of Haitian voodoo, as oh-so sensitively handled by the 1932 Bela Lugosi outing WHITE ZOMBIE!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter  and Instagram   Follow Brennan on Twitter , Instagram , and Letterboxd Follow Tim...

This week *should* be a big week here at Alternate Ending because it is, in fact, the week of the 95th Academy Awards. Though, it's fair to say that only 33% of us loves the Oscars, another 33% tolerates them and the other % mostly avoids them by sneaking away for snacks, in order to suppress their rage.  Though, that didn't stop our Pringle-eating critic from predicting 16 of the night's 95th Aca...

New month, new topic! Oscar-level Patron Gavin McDowell has requested that we cover non-Christian religious horror, and y'all voted for us to cover the Hindu flick TUMMBAD from 2018!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter  and Instagram   Follow Brennan on Twitter , Instagram , and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our mem...

This week, Carrie and Tim decide to cut the small talk and get-right-to-it with their Oscar predictions for the upcoming awards ceremony.  But then, they didn't do that at all... and somewhere around the 45 min mark they remembered that this is a film podcast *goshdarnit* and got right down to the business of movies. Tune in and we hope you enjoy! **************************************************...

This week, Tim and Brennan are closing out their month of Oscar Nominee Skeletons by watching nominated actress Angela Bassett star opposite Eddie Murphy in the misbegotten Wes Craven production VAMPIRE IN BROOKLYN!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter  and Instagram   Follow Brennan on Twitter , Instagram , and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alter...

This week, Carrie and Tim are on their own. Left to their own devices, the conversation veers from film, to exotic dancers, back to film and back to gastrointestinal struggles, as all good podcasts do. By Patreon supporter Zotch Ross's request, Carrie brings her thoughts on Once Upon a Time in China and thoughts on Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania .  Tim brings his thoughts on THX-1138, at the re...