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
Top 5 Pranks // Us // Apollo 11
Who doesn't love a good practical joke? Morally decent people, that's who, but that doesn't describe us at all, which is why we're spending April Fool's Day celebrating our very favorite pranks in th…
Top 5 Superpowers
Flight. Strength. Eye lasers. Weather control. Spidey-sense. Talking to fish. Talking to squirrels. Captain Marvel makes her big-screen debut this weekend, and it's got us thinking about what it must…
Oscars 2019 // Alita: Battle Angel // How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
The crew gets together post Oscar to chat about highlights, lowlights and upsets galore! Also, what would the Oscars be without who wore it best?
In Worth Mentioning, Alita: Battle Angel and How to T…
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World - Movie Review
Carrie and Rob review How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World starring Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Gerard Butler and Cate Blanchett. Directed by Dean DeBlois.
Top 5 Movies of 2018 // Glass // Fyre // Westward the Women
The fourth season of Alternate Ending begins with Carrie, Rob, and Tim sharing their picks for the best movies of 2018, as well as some other musings about the movie year that was. Plus, we have a lo…
Top 5 Santas // Aquaman // Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse // Leave No Trace
'Tis the season to start thinking about holiday-themed movies, and for the last episode of the third year of Alternate Ending's podcast, we're going to look at our very favorite movie Santas: possibl…
Top 5 Chosen Ones // Tito and the Birds // Sherlock Jr.
The world is in trouble, and only one very special hero, chosen by fate, can possibly save it. We could be talking about next week's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. We could also be talking about …
Spoiler Alert: Little Shop of Horrors // The Christmas Chronicles
Thanks to Patreon supporter Travis Neeley, this week's episode sends us to a pair of the campiest monster movies ever made. First up is Roger Corman's bizarre 1960 comedy The Little Shop of Horrors,…
From the AE Archives: Top 5 Thanksgiving Movies
Family vacations and holiday plans won't keep us from unearthing another episode from the archives with our Top 5 Thanksgiving movies.
Top 5 Online Movies // Widows // The Ballad of Buster Scruggs // The Grinch
Wreck-It Ralph, Disney's lovable villain of an '80s arcade game, goes extremely online in Ralph Breaks the Internet, and to celebrate, we're plugging in with our favorite examples of the relationship…
Top 5 Movies I Wish I Lived In // Suspiria // Bohemian Rhapsody
Fantastic Beasts: The Grimes of Grindelwald takes us back to the Harry Potter universe, which love it or hate it, surely we must all agree it's one of the most comprehensively designed movie universe…
Top 5 Political Movies // Beautiful Boy // The Other Side of the Wind // The French Connection
Thanks to Patreon subscriber Paul Royar, we have a very special Election Week present for you: our picks for the very best political movies ever made! Of course, "political" can mean a lot of things:…
Top 5 Films About the '70s // Bad Times at the El Royale // The Old Man & the Gun
With Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody about to rock its way into theaters, we're thinking about the most glam decade of them all, the 1970s. We look at our favorite films that capture that de…
Top 5 Witch Movies (AE Archives Episode)
With Rob traveling for work the AE crew takes an oldie, but a goodie out of the archives with Top 5 Witch Movies.
Top 5 Killers // Venom // First Man // The Endless
The new Halloween (third film of that title) brings back Michael Meyers, one of the most infamous of all movie psycho killers. In anticipation of the piles of dead babysitters sure to follow, we're g…
Top 5 Space Movies // A Star is Born // Night School
Neil Armstrong biopic First Man is about to rocket into theaters, and we're celebrating by talking about our absolute favorite movies set in the inky black vacuum of space. Sci-fi swashbucklers, rigo…
Top 5 Singers-Turned-Actors // Mandy // Hold the Dark // Life Itself
Lady Gaga goes off the deep end in the fourth version of A Star Is Born. While we watch as she dives in, and wonder if she'll ever meet the ground, we're going to spend some time looking at the other…
Top 5 Sisters // A Simple Favor
With the release The Sisters Brothers and a modern take on Little Women also coming to theaters soon, cinema clearly has sisters on the mind right now, and to celebrate, we're look at our favorite sc…
Fall Movie Preview 2018 // The Predator // To All the Boys I've Loved Before // The Land of Steady Habits
We're in the last stage of the year, with family pictures, Oscar hopefuls, and popcorn movies all jostling for attention. To get ready, the Alternate Ending crew picks the films we're most excited to…
Top 5 of Summer 2018 // The Nun
We’re back! And recharged from our time off, we’re ready to recap the films of the summer just gone by. Dinosaurs, helicopters, superheroes, crazy rich Asians, racial strife in Oakland, and the beati…