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: The Animatrix | Meet Me In St. Louis | Birth/Rebirth
This episode, Carrie and Tim meander their way through the last week's happenings and share about a few good movies a long the way too. Carrie brings The Animatrix, thanks to Harold Bleacher and Mee…
Bride of AE - Fair-Haired Child (Masters of Horror S1E9)
To close out Masters of Horror month, Tim and Brennan break down William Malone’s season 1 episode “Fair-Haired Child!”
PS: Please forgive the haphazard audio quality of this episode, it’s tough re…
Top 5 Looney Tunes
It's rabbit season here at Alternate Ending, thanks to Patreon supporter Hallvarður: this episode centers on our picks for the top 5 Looney Tunes cartoons! Between 1930 and 1969, Warner Bros. releas…
Pass the Popcorn: Barbie | Society | The Mirror Has Two Faces | The Hill | Secrets of the Hot Spring
It's a Patreon-palooza this week thanks to Gavin (Society), Ann Yourell (The Mirror Has Two Faces), Travis (The Hill) and Carl Beasley (Secrets of the Hot Spring). It was a bit of a Goldilocks stor…
Top 5 Circus Movies
"Every movie's a circus", in the words of a song from the proudly mediocre Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Sunset Blvd. But we're going to be a little bit more selective than that. At the request of Pat…
Bride of AE - Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
To close out Disney horror month, Tim and Brennan break down a nostalgic classic that isn’t particular nostalgic for either of them. it’s 1983’s SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES!
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Pass the Popcorn: Indiana Jones – The Dramatic Journey | Little Boy
This episode came a week later than expected, due to unforeseen, lower than expectations reviews of the Indiana Jones series from the Jarosinski children. With an extra week gone by, we were prepare…
Bride of AE - Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2 (2020)
In honor of the upcoming release of Disney’s Haunted Mansion, Tim and Brennan are covering Disney horror throughout July, beginning with the deeply ludicrous Disney Channel original musical sequel Z-…
Top 5 Pontius Pilates
Hardcore Alternate Ending heads will remember one of our signature moments early in the life of the podcast was a baffling "Who's On First" style catastrophe of a discussion that swirled around the f…
Bride of AE - Mimic (1997)
June Bugs month concludes where Guillermo del Toro’s English-language career begins. This week, Tim and Brennan are discussing the compromised ‘90s relic MIMIC!
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Bride of AE - Phase IV (1974)
Tim and Brennan are kicking off June Bugs month with some of the most surreal bug-themed horror you’ll ever encounter, the Saul Bass directorial effort PHASE IV!
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Bride of AE - Teen Witch (1989)
To close out Witchcraft Month, Tim and Brennan are taking you on a journey into one of the most mystifying movies of the great 1980s: it’s time for TEEN WITCH!
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Pass the Popcorn: Laura | There Was a Father | Survive Style 5+
This episode of Pass the Popcorn, we're joined by friend of AE, Zev Burrows to catch up on what movies we've been catching up on. We tried to scare Zev off with our personal burial plans, stomach bu…
Bride of AE - Viy (1967)
This month, Tim and Brennan are taking a look at films about witchcraft, starting with the 1967 Soviet horror film VIY, based on the Gogol short story of the same name!
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Summer 2023 Preview
Summer is almost upon us! Indeed with Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3 already in theaters, summer is arguably already here. But there's still lots of weeks of movies to come, with the most fully-stoc…
Bride of AE - Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018)
AUDIO NOTE: Please forgive the intense hail that was inflicting Wisconsin while Tim recorded.
To conclude musical month, Tim and Brennan are biting into the Disney Channel original musical Z-O-M-B-…
Bride of AE - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
This month, Tim and Brennan are breaking down some classic and not-so classic horror musicals, starting with the 2007 Oscar-winning Sondheim adaptation SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET!
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Top 5 Most Traumatizing Films
Thanks to Patreon supporter Harold Bleacher, we're going to be prodding at some of our most sensitive emotional scar tissue in our next episode: by his request, we're going to spend our next podcast…