Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast

"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 Patreon supporter Carl Beasley, this episode focuses on on our top 5 circus movies: movies celebrating the wonderful entertainment form that has made such a rich pageant out of exploiting people with unusual bodies, abusing animals, and of course, the indescribable, unholy nightmare terrors of those funny fellas, the clowns. It'll be fun for girls and boys of all ages, so come check out our favorite examples of all the wonders that can be found under the big top! Carrie's Top 5: Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken  Toy Story 4 The Greatest Showman Water for Elephants Dumbo Tim's Top 5: Dumbo The Circus La Strada Laugh, Clown, Laugh Nightmare Alley (1947) Audience Top 5: Dumbo  Freaks The Circus He Who Gets Slapped  Nightmare Alley This week’s winner for our Top 5 Circus Movies – Grooves Nightmare Alley (2021) Dumbo 

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!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter and Instagram  Follow Brennan on Twitter, Instagram, and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, including voting for the films we cover on this program, via the Alternate Ending Patreon page!

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 prepared to face the situation head on. Sort of. Thoughts differ on Indiana Jones: Dial of Destiny, but thankfully Tim finds it in his heart to only break Carrie's heart in written form and mostly spare her feelings on air. Sort of. With thanks to Patreon M.C. Steffen Tim brings his review of Little Boy.  In retaliation for Tim's recent IJ reviews, Carrie makes Tim sweat by sharing her thoughts on Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, which is assures him will be spoiler-free. Tune in and we hope you have a great week! ***************************************************************** Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Other places to follow Alternate Ending. Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter Tim Letterboxd | Carrie Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, via our Patreon p

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-O-M-B-I-E-S 2!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter and Instagram  Follow Brennan on Twitter, Instagram, and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, including voting for the films we cover on this program, via the Alternate Ending Patreon page!

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 fact that Pontius Pilate, historical Roman governor of Judaea and major figure in the Christian Gospels, has a name that can be misinterpreted as sounding like he's an airplane pilot. One person who definitely remembered that affair was Patreon subscriber Gavin, who has forced us into a reckoning with our past in the form of his selection for our next podcast topic: our picks for the top 5 representations of Pontius Pilate in movies. Or whatever the almighty hell Carrie comes up with instead. It will, if nothing else, surely prove to be one of our most offbeat episodes ever. Tune in! Carrie's Top 5: Monty Python's Life of Brian Dogma The Holy Mountain Jesus Christ Superstar The Ten Commandments  Tim's Top 5: Monty Python's Life of Brian The Last Temptation of Christ Jesus Christ Superstar: Live Arena Tour The P

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!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter and Instagram  Follow Brennan on Twitter, Instagram, and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, including voting for the films we cover on this program, via the Alternate Ending Patreon page!

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!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter and Instagram  Follow Brennan on Twitter, Instagram, and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, including voting for the films we cover on this program, via the Alternate Ending Patreon page!

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!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter and Instagram  Follow Brennan on Twitter, Instagram, and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, including voting for the films we cover on this program, via the Alternate Ending Patreon page!

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 bugs and the under-appreciated delicacy of spaghetti and cottage cheese ... but he held on like a champ until the end! In worth mentioning, Zev brings his thoughts on There Was a Father.  Tim reviews Evil Dead Rise and Survive Style 5+, by Patreon Christophe Romain's request. Carrie reviews the 1944 classic Laura, requested by Zev. Make sure to check out Zev's musical stylings at his site - www.zevburrowsmusic.com Tune in and we hope you enjoy! ***************************************************************** Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Other places to follow Alternate Ending. Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter Tim Letterboxd | Carrie Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, via our Patreon page!

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!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter and Instagram  Follow Brennan on Twitter, Instagram, and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, including voting for the films we cover on this program, via the Alternate Ending Patreon page!

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-stocked calendar of big tentpoles since 2019. To celebrate, we're casting our gaze forward to share our picks for our most anticipated films of the summer, as well as kick off our annual game of trying to see who can come the closest to predicting the biggest hits at the box office (Rob. It's always Rob). We're looking at indie dramas and Indy tentpoles, artistic cartoons and toy commercial for grown-ups, and maybe, just maybe, Tom Cruise will finally manage to kill himself in front of a movie camera for our collective enjoyment. Rob's Top 5:  Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny  The Flash Spider-man: Across the Spider-verse Oppenheimer Barbie Carrie's Top 5: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny  Barbie Joy Ride You Hurt My Feelings White Bird Tim's Top 5: Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part 1 Oppenheime

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-I-E-S from 2018 and parsing its truly mystifying, yet entirely blunt, themes and design.   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter and Instagram  Follow Brennan on Twitter, Instagram, and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, including voting for the films we cover on this program, via the Alternate Ending Patreon page!

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!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter and Instagram  Follow Brennan on Twitter, Instagram, and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, including voting for the films we cover on this program, via the Alternate Ending Patreon page!

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 talking about the top 5 most traumatizing films we've ever seen. Expect many dead parents of wide-eyed animal children, gore effects whose cheesiness through adult eyes can't quite take the edge off of the shock they gave to a child's system, and the odd film that coldly and brutally diagnoses the darkest parts of humanity in ways that can unnerve and unsettle us even now. Tune in! Brennan's Top 5: From Beyond The Normal Heart Mamá Grave of the Fireflies  Seven Pounds  Carrie's Top 5: Titanic  Open Water Saving Private Ryan Grave of the Fireflies  Seven Pounds Tim's Top 5: Dumbo E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial  Raiders of the Lost Ark Se7en The Fly II This week’s winner – DCBH Beauty and the Beast  The Muppet Christmas Carol Who Framed Roger Rabbit The Land Before Time *****************************************

Oscar-level Patron Gavin McDowell has requested that we cover non-Christian religious horror this month, so we’re closing March out with a discussion of Haitian voodoo, as oh-so sensitively handled by the 1932 Bela Lugosi outing WHITE ZOMBIE!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter and Instagram  Follow Brennan on Twitter, Instagram, and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, including voting for the films we cover on this program, via the Alternate Ending Patreon page!

This week *should* be a big week here at Alternate Ending because it is, in fact, the week of the 95th Academy Awards. Though, it's fair to say that only 33% of us loves the Oscars, another 33% tolerates them and the other % mostly avoids them by sneaking away for snacks, in order to suppress their rage.  Though, that didn't stop our Pringle-eating critic from predicting 16 of the night's 95th Academy Awards winners. In worth mentioning, Brennan and Carrie review the newest updates from the Woodsboro crew, in Scream 6.  Tim brings his thoughts on a few of the Oscar noms, but dives deep on his thoughts of the best picture nominee, Blonde. Tune in and we hope the episode sparks a bit of joy, in your week! ***************************************************************** Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Other places to follow Alternate Ending. Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter Tim Letterboxd | Rob Letterboxd | Carrie Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, via our Patr

New month, new topic! Oscar-level Patron Gavin McDowell has requested that we cover non-Christian religious horror, and y’all voted for us to cover the Hindu flick TUMMBAD from 2018!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter and Instagram  Follow Brennan on Twitter, Instagram, and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, including voting for the films we cover on this program, via the Alternate Ending Patreon page!

This week, Carrie and Tim decide to cut the small talk and get-right-to-it with their Oscar predictions for the upcoming awards ceremony.  But then, they didn't do that at all... and somewhere around the 45 min mark they remembered that this is a film podcast *goshdarnit* and got right down to the business of movies. Tune in and we hope you enjoy! ***************************************************************** Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Other places to follow Alternate Ending. Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter Tim Letterboxd | Rob Letterboxd | Carrie Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, via our Patreon page!