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 Dog Movies // The Spy Who Dumped Me
Alpha is here to teach us all about how dogs were invented by a lonely cave boy who found himself staring down a wolf with a broken leg. Thousands of year's later, man's best friend has been the subj…
Top 5 Water Movies // Christopher Robin // Blindspotting // Like Father
Inspired by the subaquatic lab at the center of the upcoming "Jason Statham vs. a prehistoric shark" movie The Meg, the Alternate Ending crew is happy to announce our most esoteric topic yet. This ep…
Top 5 Children's Literary Adaptations // Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Sorry to Bother You // The Equalizer 2
Disney's Christopher Robin continues the company's decades-long project of co-opting every last smackeral of A.A. Milne's 100-Acre Wood in the mind of children the world over. While we wait to learn …
Top 5 Stunts // Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again // Eighth Grade
Tom Cruise has done everything but commit actual seppukuon-camera for our spectatorial enjoyment, so we're excited to see what he has in store for us in Mission: Impossible - Fallout. While we get mo…
Top 5 Musicals // Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
It's an all-singing, all-dancing episode of Alternate Ending next week, as we celebrate - or at least, acknowledge the existence of - the upcoming Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again by looking through our a…
Top 5 Vacation Movies // Ant-Man and the Wasp // Sicario: Day of the Soldado
We're pretty far into summer at this point, and if you haven't already been on vacation, you might be thinking it's about time to take one. In this episode, we discuss our favorite vacation movies. W…
Top 5 Prequels // Won't You Be My Neighbor? // Hearts Beat Loud
Despite it having been made pretty clear in the dialogue of the first three movies in the Purgefranchise, we finally to get to see what happened during The First Purge. It's the only excuse we need t…
Spoiler Alert: Jurassic Park Movies // Hereditary // Tag // A Kid Like Jake
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdomis here, the fourth follow-up to a movie uniquely near and dear to the heart of every '90s kid. We happen to have three such individuals ready to talk about the whole s…
Top 5 Remakes // Incredibles 2 // Tomb Raider // Superfly
Remake mania claimed its latest victim with Superfly, a new version of the beloved 1972 blaxplotation classic Super Flythat, in keeping with the faster pace of modern life, does away with the space i…
Top 5 Movies that Need a Sequel // Ocean's 8 // Upgrade
The Incredibles 2 is coming this weekend, at which point the one Pixar film that people actuallywant a sequel to will finally have one. This leaves a void: what are the otherfilms in this ridiculous,…
Top 5 Sandra Bullock Movies // Cargo
Sandra Bullock leads an all-star cast of women thieves as the ringleader of Ocean's 8. It seems like the perfect opportunity to share our picks for the very best films of Bullock's wide-ranging caree…
Spoiler Alert: Raid Movies // Solo: A Star Wars Story // Life of the Party
Our next episode comes courtesy of Patreon donor Andrew Milne, who wanted to know our thoughts on the Indonesian action movies The Raid: Redemption and The Raid 2. No fair guessing Tim's opinions i…
Top 5 Movies Ruined by Bad Acting // Deadpool 2
Word out of Cannes is that Alden Ehrenreich makes for a pretty good Han Solo in Solo: A Star Wars Story, but let's just say that we'll believe it when we see it. But if Ehrenreich does singlehandedly…
Top 5 Geriatric Movies // Tully // Overboard
You're only as old as you feel, but if you're pairing Diane Keaton and Jane Fonda in the movie Book Club, you're sure to be a contender for our Top 5 Geriatric movies. This week we explore the films…
Top 5 Mother-Daughter Movies
Mother's Day is just around the corner, and it brings with it Life of the Party, a film about a mom humiliating her daughter by going back to college (it's also just shown up as one of Carrie's most…
Summer Movie Preview 2018
We're refreshed from our short break, and eager to look ahead to summer. With Summer here, we're sharing our most-anticipated releases of the next four months and the ones we think will crush it at t…
Top 5 Genre Mash-Ups // The Greatest Showman
Romantic comedies with zombies! Cops who break into song! Cowboys fighting aliens! Vampires who are real-estate billionaires and also mopey high school students! Our last podcast before we take a bri…
Top 5 Proms // Unsane
April is prom season, as evinced by the upcoming "sex at prom" comedy Blockers, and to get ready, we're took a look at our favorite examples of this quintessential rite of passage for American teenag…
Top 5 Steven Spielberg Movies // Forgotten
Hollywood icon Steven Spielberg returns to high-concept popcorn entertainment with Ready Player One, and we're taking the opportunity to look back over the 40 years and then some of one of the most w…
Top 5 Unnecessary Sequels // Love, Simon
Who didn't love Pacific Rim? A whole lot of people, actually, and yet Pacific Rim Uprising (not to mention, God help us, Sherlock Gnomes is still coming out. To celebrate - or at least to pause and a…