Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast

This week the gang is back together to share their movies Worth Mentioning, including: Men , Demons (thanks to Patreon Dan Prestwich), Tommy (thanks to Patreon Gavin) and Spud 3 . We also take time to both review and spoiler Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness ! ***************************************************************** Love the Podcast? Leave us a review ! Other places to follow Al...

Rob embarks on his first solo podcast with Amateur Hour sharing the origin story of how the unlikely  movie project Hauntology came to be along with award-winning filmmaker Parker Brennon and team. Rob covers everything from his filmmaking past, finding out about Parker and the early part of building the project through to the looming investor meeting that would decide the fate of the project. Lov...

Around the world, the box office charts are being dominated by Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness , the latest example of Marvel Studios' habit of attempting to shake some of the dust off the formula of formulaic comic book superhero action movies by flavoring them with a little bit of genre. In this case, for the first time in Marvel's history, that genre flavoring is horror, and that's...

It's a brand new month and, per the request of Patreon Carl Beasley, we're discussing the horror output of Edward Furlong! We're kicking off with what is definitely not the most famous franchise part 2 he was in: PET SEMATARY 2, Mary Lambert's sequel to her 1989 adaptation of the classic Stephen King novel!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter  and Instagram  ...

This week, Brennan and Carrie, are flying solo (duo?) to have a book (and everything else) club, catching up on everything in the pop culture sphere that ISN'T cinema, including television, books, and podcasts! Topics include reading journeys, personal revelations, and what cinematic straight couple Brennan can abide.   But first, in Worth Mentioning, Brennan discusses the classic Ryan Reynolds/Sa...

With the arrival in theater of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness next week, the first fully fleshed-out summer movie season since 2019 will be upon us. To celebrate, the  Alternate Ending crew is looking ahead to the next four months of action epics, animated comedies, and the occasional art film from a major director. For our next episode, we offer a Summer 2023 Preview: the films we're...

Thanks to  Patreon subscribers Laura and Chris Trengove, we're here this week talking about our Top 5 Chicago Movies (Not Named "Chicago")!  As Chicago natives, we have big thoughts on what makes Chicago..ChiCAgo. From the food... to the food...and er... hotdogs? We also have thought on: Rob's new movie ventures, if it's ok to call your Daddy, Daddio, eating boogers and the tastiest variety of chi...

For the second episode of Ray Harryhausen month (a topic requested by Patron Gavin McDowell), Tim and Brennan break down the 1969 film THE VALLEY OF GWANGI. The pair discuss its stop motion effects (naturally), how it functions within the realm of dinosaur pictures and Westerns, and where the hell this movie came from, a good 10 years after anyone would have wanted something like it.   Love the Po...

This week, Brennan, Carrie, and Mandy get together for a spicy game of movie-themed Never Have I Ever!   But first, in Worth Mentioning, Brennan discusses the bonkers kaleidoscope of Daniels' Everything Everywhere All At Once, Carrie breaks down the cannibalistic horror comedy Fresh, and Mandy waxes nostalgic about Richard Linklater's Apollo 10 1/2. Plus, we learn that Carrie can spot Short Round...

Thanks to  Patreon subscriber Andrew Milne we're here this week talking about our Top Movies I'm Ashamed I haven't seen. Some, we're embarrassed about and others we've just downright lied to people and said we've seen (only Tim, only Tim would do that). Either way, we bare all on this super fun episode, designed especially to fling ourselves under the bus.  The extra bonus is that Tim arbitrarily...

Brand new month, brand new topic! Patron Gavin McDowell asked us to cover the films of Ray Harryhausen and the people voted for his 1957 effort 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH! Tim and Brennan break down the breathtaking special effects used to create the Ymir, the way the Italian setting makes some of the 50's boilerplate more tolerable, and Brennan tries to impress his friend Hunter by referencing as...

Oscars 2022 Reactions - compelling drama or dramatic disappointment? Well, I won't do what Rob does and crack a joke about starting the conversation with the most shocking thing from the 94th Academy Awards being: CODA winning best picture ( ba-dum-ching and spoiler ), but now 48 hours removed from the event, I think our brains would like to imagine that the actual film winners were the most compe...

This week we're continuing to dig the skeletons out of the closets of people nominated for Oscars in 2022, and we're moving on to Best Actress nominee Kristen Stewart's early role in THE MESSENGERS! Tim and Brennan discuss sunflower farming, the career trajectory of K-Stew, and the world's serviceablest cast!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter  and Instagram...

With special thanks to Patreon supporter Brian Fowler, we bring you our Top 5 Best Picture Winners, just in time for the 94th Academy Awards. I don't know if it should make us feel better or worse, that this podcast is aging in reverse. What does that even mean?  You'd think after all these years and with us slowly creeping into our 40's, you'd begin to feel that tug of maturity.  Yet, here we are...

The Top 5 Movies to See Before You Die, it's a catchphrase you've heard before. It's also a catchphrase that you assume has straightforward criteria. Movies critical to cinema? Movies about the afterlife? Movies to see if you have exactly 24 hours to live? If there is something we do well here at Alternate Ending, it's complicate things. So we do indeed come up with our Top 5 Movies to See Before...

This month we're digging the skeletons out of the closets of people nominated for Oscars in 2022, and we're starting by discussing Steven Spielberg's WAR OF THE WORLDS! Tim and Brennan sit down to discuss whether or not the film really qualifies as "horror," their relationship to the copious 9/11 imagery, how Tom Cruise services the movie or not, and much much more!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a...

This week's episode we dive into  The Batman ,  Matt Reeves' grim reimagining of Mr. Bruce Wayne.  As soon as we launched Pass the Popcorn, we knew at the top of our list was to have our old friend and roommate, Josh Elder .  There are few people we know who are bigger fanatics of the comic-craft and we were really eager for his perspective.  He's bringing his expertise on all things Gotham so we...

We're coming up fast on The Batman , the latest film centered around pop culture's famous insanely rich business mogul, Bruce Wayne. I am given to understand he also dresses as a bat. But that's not what we're here for, we're here to take a deeper dive into the Waynes of the world, the ultimate winners of late capitalism: captains of industry, movers and shakers, power brokers, the people whose ex...

We're still covering multi-part sequels thanks to a request from Patreon member Brian Fowler! Today we're talking about Netflix's new film TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, which is the ninth Texas Chainsaw film, the third film with that basic title, the third or fourth film to position itself as a direct sequel to Tobe Hooper's 1974 original, and the first film where Leatherface is put on Instagram Live....

It's Brennan's first official week hosting Pass the Popcorn, and the whole gang joins him for this episode! First, in Worth Mentioning, Brennan talks Annie (1999), Rob brings Uncharted , Tim discusses Teacher's Pet (by Patreon Harold's request), and Carrie discusses The Long Good Friday (by Patreon Jack's request). Then, we dive into a spoiler-free discussion of the HBO Max series Peacemaker , whi...

Happy Valentine's Day, to the subsection of you that don't despise it.  Though, I guess I don't care either way because I'm still going to send you a virtual hug and you're gonna like it! OO This episode comes courtesy of  Patreon subscriber Jack Chivers, who's asked us to carefully select and discuss our top 5 movie endings.  As you can imagine, our opinions on what makes a story complete, vary g...

This month, Bride of Alternate Ending is covering multi-part sequels thanks to a request from Patreon member Brian Fowler! The people have spoken, and they have chosen for Tim and Brennan to discuss 1988's POLTERGEIST III! The pair break down the tragic backstory of the film and how that informs the project, as well as what works and (mostly) what doesn't. Is there a very long digression about bio...

There are so many exciting parts of the our Oscar Nomination Reactions episode, the least exciting part being the Oscar nominees. Ha! This episode, we're joined by Alternate Ending contributors Mandy Albert and Chris Trengove, to share our reactions to the nominees and the biggest snubs.  I had a feeling with this crew I might get a little lost in the shuffle of cinephile-speak. And that did happe...

It's been yet another daunting week for our schedules.  5 minutes before recording we all looked upon each other with the same fatigued question - "remind me, what are we talking about today again?" **90 mins later** It's spit preferences, strategizing how to simplify dissertations, silicone education, new theme song reactions and god only knows what else. Oh, movies! This episode, Carrie and Rob...

Our Best Films of 2021 episode , was a bit contentious and so we had hoped to come back lovingly-aligned for our worst films of 2021 episode, but I guess there's always next time? It wasn't hard to find bad movies from the last year, there were some mega-stinkers, indeed.  What qualifies as a bad movie? What elements of a movie make it bad? All things for which, we do not agree.  I will say though...