Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast
Alternate Ending was formed when three friends realized they all shared a passion for movies. Our goal is to save you time and money by sharing our thoughts and recommendations on which movies to race to theaters for, which to watch at home and those to actively avoid.
What makes Alternate Ending different from other film podcasts? Well, we’re not 5 dudes in a room talking about our passion for Fight Club and Braveheart. We’re two dudes, and a lady, of which our tastes are quite varied. Rob, the film-school dropout, has seen an absurd amount of movies, and if we’re being honest, rounds out our Fight Club fan-base. Tim Brayton, our seasoned film critic, shares a more critical view of film, an appreciation for vintage cinema and perhaps limited-release movies that we might otherwise miss. Carrie, our casual movie-goer, reminds us all that cinema is in fact supposed to be fun and entertaining and that sometimes, just sometimes, happy endings are good.
Too many film sites cater to the same kind of audience, with one overwhelming voice in the writing, but what we treasure at Alternate Ending is diversity: diversity of opinion, diversity in belief about what film should do and how it should do it. We want to celebrate our different opinions, and celebrate yours as well.
This isn't a podcast for people who just want to talk about the latest hot new movies in theaters right this minute. This is a place for people who can't get to the theater until the third week a film is out; a place for people who just want to find something great to stream online after the kids have gone to sleep, a place for people whose favorite pastime is to grab a bunch of classic films on DVD from the library and watch them all weekend. It's a place that believes that every great movie is a wonderful new treasure, whether you see it the night of its premiere or fifty years later. It's a site about discovering good movies... one bad movie at a time.
Join us for our weekly review of movies worth seeing, worth avoiding and our Top 5 lists – and don’t forget to play along at www.alternateending.com.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 69 minutes
- Episodes
- 431
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Pass The Popcorn: Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings // Don't Breathe 2 // Vacation Friends
It's our inaugural episode of Pass The Popcorn and we while we have many directions we want to take this new format, we just had to review Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, given our respec…
Top 5 Conspiracy Thrillers
We've got another podcast by request of one of our Patreon subscribers, with Hallvar∂ur asking us to take a look at the dark and paranoid world of shadow governments and secret societies with our to…
Top 5 Short Films // Free Guy // Annette // Pink Flamingos // Guess Who's Coming To Dinner // Iron Man
Our next episode comes at the request of Patreon subscriber Travis, who wants us to think small: we're temporarily putting aside feature-length movies to share with all of you our top 5 short films …
Top 5 Ensembles // Jungle Cruise // The Craft: Legacy // The Saragossa Manuscript
In hardly any time at all, we're going to be getting DC's The Suicide Squad, a reboot-sequel that surely somebody anywhere in the whole world was clamoring for. In the meantime, this story of a bunch…
Bride of AE: TETSUO: THE IRON MAN (1989)
This month on Bride of Alternate Ending, Tim and Brennan are covering the 1989 experimental body horror masterpiece(?) TETSUO: THE IRON MAN! Thank you so much for being a patron!
Escape Room 2 with The Game Master // Black Widow // Space Jame: A New Legacy // Pig
With Escape Room Tournament of Champions hitting theaters this week, we decided to mix it this episode up a bit. You see, your respective hosts each have an unfounded confidence that they are, in f…
Top 5 Marvel Cinematic Universe Movies
Black Widow is coming to theaters next week, and with it, a nearly two-year drought in the theatrical output of the Marvel Cinematic Universe comes to a close (I mean, come now... they don't call it …
Bride of AE: Videodrome (1983)
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!
Take 2: Ponyo (2008)
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.
Top 5 Studio Ghibli Films
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, ther…
Take 2: Love, Simon (2018)
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.
Top 5 Movies for Parents
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…
Take 2: The Conjuring Films
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…
Summer Movie Preview 2021
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 …
Take 2: Casper (1995)
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…
Top 5 Movies for the Big Screen // Stowaway // Things Heard and Seen // The Kid Detective
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…
Take 2: Húsavík, Best Original Song, and EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: THE STORY OF FIRE SAGA (2020)
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 stat…
Oscars 2021 Reactions: The Best and Worst Moments
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 Oscar…
A Worthy Binge - The Falcon and the Winter Soldier S1 Ep 6 // This is a Robbery //
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 colle…
A Worthy Binge: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier // Mythic Quest // The Office // Fixer Upper
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 h…