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
Weeklies - The Grudge Trailer Drops // Linda Hamilton Marriage to James Cameron "Terrible on Every Level" // Netflix Plan to Test Play Speeds // How Scorsese Saved 'The Current War' // 'Chernobyl' Creator Tackling 'Pirates of the Caribbean' Reboot
To help fill the void in your weekly listening, Carrie and Rob are bringing you Weeklies - a review of the last 7-days of movie new...with a twist! Rob has gathered all the 10 best pieces of movie ne…
Top 5 Zombie Movies // Parasite
Halloween is right around the corner, and we're in the mood for some horror! This time around, we're going to be talking about our very favorite movies about every low-budget filmmaker's favorite mon…
Weeklies - Blomkamp Sci-Fi Thriller 'Inferno' // Boy Helps Creature in 'Antlers' // 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' Rereleased With Extra Footage // Adam Driver in Talks to Star with Matt Damon in 'The Last Duel' // Disney’s Live-Action ‘Pinocchio’
To help fill the void in your weekly listening, Carrie and Rob are bringing you Weeklies - a review of the last 7-days of movie new...with a twist! Rob has gathered all the 10 best pieces of movie ne…
Weeklies - 'The Batman' Paul Dano to Play The Riddler // ‘The Craft’ Remake On the Way // Ryan Reynolds & John Krasinski Teaming Up for Fantasy Comedy ‘Imaginary Friends’ // New ‘Lady and the Tramp’ Trailer // ‘Jungle Cruise’ Trailer
To help fill the void in your weekly listening, Carrie and Rob are bringing you Weeklies - a review of the last 7-days of movie new...with a twist! Rob has gathered all the 10 best pieces of movie ne…
Top 5 Imaginary Friends // Gemini Man // Joker // Monos // The Night of the Hunter
Jojo Rabbit, winner of the TIFF Audience Award and Best Picture Oscar hopeful, hits theaters in which a little boy deals with the stress and confusion of childhood by concocting an imaginary friend, …
Weeklies - Scorecese Say Superhero Movies Aren't Cinema // Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis // Training Day Prequel // Live Action Little Mermaid Casting // Edward Norton's Unmade Hulk Movie // Inspector Gadget Live Action
To help fill the void in your weekly listening, Carrie and Rob are bringing you Weeklies - a review of the last 7-days of movie new...with a twist! Rob has gathered all the 10 best pieces of movie ne…
Weeklies - Tom Holland's Save's MCU 'Spider-Man' // ‘Home Alone’ Reboot // How Best to Experience 'Gemini Man' // Matt Damon Says He Turned Down Lead 'Avatar' Role // Timothee Chalamet Seems as Robin
To help fill the void in your weekly listening, Carrie and Rob are bringing you Weeklies - a review of the last 7-days of movie new...with a twist! Rob has gathered all the 10 best pieces of movie ne…
Top 5 Villains
Batman's arch-enemy, the Joker, is getting his very own movie, and we're celebrating by looking at our all-time favorite movie villains. From wicked witches to evil space cyborg wizards to petulant o…
Weeklies - Midsommar Therapy Sessions, Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds Christmas Movie, Princess Bride Remake, Jason Bateman Directing Clue, Will Smith as a Bad Guy
To help fill the void in your weekly listening, Carrie and Rob are bringing you Weeklies - a review of the last 7-days of movie new...with a twist! Rob has gathered all the 10 best pieces of movie ne…
Spoiler Alert: The Godfather Trilogy // Ad Astra // Groupers // My Brother's Wedding
Our latest podcast topic comes courtesy of Patreon Not Fenimore, who's asked us to take a look at one of film history's most legendary, acclaimed trilogies: The Godfather (1972), The Godfather, Part…
Summer 2019 Recap // Hustlers // It Chapter Two // Set it Up
Before we get too far into the fall and awards season, we place a bow on the summer by sharing our picks for the best films of Summer 2019! Find out how well we did at predicting what films we'd like…
Fall 2019 Movie Preview // Hobbs & Shaw // Ready or Not // The Peanut Butter Falcon
We're recharged from our summer vacation and coming back with the 2019 edition of our annual fall preview: our picks for the releases between now and the end of the calendar year that have us the mos…
Top 5 Buddy Action Movies // The Lion King // Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw looks to redeem a fairly dry summer with its action-packed story of two dudes swapping sarcastic banter while constantly trying to one-up each other and generall…
Top 5 Cats // Crawl
Disney unveils its remake of The Lion King, a film in which photorealistic lions sing and plot dynastic revolutions. To celebrate - or, for some of us, to take our minds off of the impending death of…
Spoiler Alert: Yesterday with guest Kevin Andrew Prchal // Toy Story 4 // Child's Play // Rocketman
Just in time for the new release Yesterday, director Danny Boyle and writer Richard Curtis's celebration of the enduring music of The Beatles, we are joined by the fantastic singer/songwriter Kevin A…
Top 5 Dolls // The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil
With both Toy Story 4 and a remake of Child's Play coming out the same weekend, did we even have a choice? We take a look at out all-time favorite dolls in the movies: from beloved child's playthings…
Top 5 Movies About TV
While the ordinary summer fare of popcorn movies keep whizzing around, next week sees the release of the more subdued Late Night. In its honor we look at the anchormen, broadcast news, faces in the c…
Top 5 High School Movies // John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
There might not be any time quite in a human lifespan quite as beloved to filmmakers as high school: that miraculous cauldron of humiliation and horniness, when every emotion is ramped up to 110%. To…
Top 5 Mismatched Couples // Avengers: Endgame // Shazam!
Opposites attract, they say, and that's certainly true in the world of movie romances. Whether it's a world-class beauty and a pudgy schlub, a free-spirited madcap and a stuck-up prig, or any combina…
Summer Movie Preview 2019
Mid-April is awfully early to be thinking about summer already, but Marvel and Disney have decided for the rest of us that the summer movie season begins this year on Friday, 26 April, with the relea…