Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast

Between that and the gung-ho feature length military advertisement Top Gun: Maverick continuing its jaw-dropping run at the box office (and secondarily, US Independence Day), it seemed like a perfect time to take a look at the long history of movies designed in part, or in full, to celebrate the love of Queen and Country, give or take the Queen. We'll be bringing you our Top 5 patriotic movies, with celebrations of national pride from the U.S. and around the globe (Tim does love his Japanese WWII propaganda films), those films that make you want to stand up and sing the bits of the national anthem that you actually know the words to. Come wave a flag with us, we're not choosy about which one. Tune in! Rob Top 5:  Rocky IV Independence Day  Armageddon Forrest Gump Top Gun: Maverick  Carrie Top 5:  Top Gun: Maverick  Independence Day The American President  Apollo 13 A Hidden Life  Tim Top 5: Casablanca Yankee Doodle Dandy Napoleon 1776 Fascist Boots Audience Top 5 Patriotic Movies The Right Stuff Micha

With Rob down for the count with COVID, Tim and Brennan nowhere to be found, Carrie turns to the only other cinephiles she knows...Abbi and Alice. Listen to this surprisingly insightful and thoroughly entertaining discussion of Lightyear to see why Tim has it wrong. Also discussed is a little inside information about an upcoming fantasy movie in the works directed by Ben Affleck. ***************************************************************** Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! What to grab yourself some AE swag? You can find the goods here! Other places to follow Alternate Ending. Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter Tim Letterboxd – Rob Letterboxd – Carrie Letterboxd Want to support Alternate Ending, you can via our Patreon page! Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code ALTERNATE at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod

Horror comedy month, which was requested by Patreon Oscar-level member Jack, is closing out with a bang! Tim and Brennan head to Fallwell, Massachusetts to discuss ELVIRA, MISTRESS OF THE DARK, the first film to feature the iconic TV horror hostess!   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!

With Lightyear having come out this weekend, bearing the baffling premise that it’s the Star Wars-style movie that inspired the cartoon character that inspired the toy that Andy loves in Toy Story (we think?), Tim, Carrie, and Brennan (subbing in this week for Rob) have decided to discuss their childhood favorites!   Brennan Top 5:  The Little Mermaid X2: X-Men United Airplane! Bartok the Magnificent Big Fat Liar Carrie Top 5:  Mrs. Doubtfire The Little Mermaid The Monster Squad The Mighty Ducks Hook Tim Top 5: Mary Poppins Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs The Princess Bride The Land Before Time The Adventures of Milo & Otis  Audience Top 5 The Land Before Time franchise Aladdin Jurassic Park and Star Wars Indiana Jones franchise An American Tail/An American Tail: Fievel Goes West This week’s winner – Caleb Lord of the Rings The Iron Giant The Emperor’s New Groove Hook Beauty and the Beast ***************************************************************** Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! What

Location, location location! It's not just for real estate. Locations play a critical role in the filmmaking process. Rob is back from another whirlwind trip to Ohio with Parker. Find out how each of the critical locations came together in this episode.

Crimes of Alternate Ending Well, it's not until this very moment that I'm realizing we blew right past the Worth Mentioning segment. We might have also skipped the Patreon shout-outs. It's possible that we zig-zagged our way around the Amazon reads, reviews aaaand pretty much any detail that required preparation. Why? Rob was out of the town this week and the every-5-year-disaster of Tim and I recording an episode alone, did happen. To add to the mayhem, we were joined by some of our favorite Patreon supporters to add to the chat and QA. We kick the episode off with a spoiler-free discussion of Crimes of the Future and then open it up to live QA.  After the break, we dive deep into spoilers and clarifications on erectile stature that we hope either Rob edited out, or, that you've turned it out. Somehow. SOMEHOW.... we made it through, but we're sorry... and we hope to make it another 5 years before it happens again. Tune in! ***************************************************************** Love the Podcast?

Thanks to Patreon Oscar-level member Jack, we are discussing horror-comedies this month! We’re starting with a big one: Mel Brook’s YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, which Tim loves and Brennan finds completely falls flat. Digressions include a discussion of the love required to make a parody and shocking revelations about Nicole Kidman’s AMC Theaters ad bumper.   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!

It's summertime at the movies, and you know what that means: time for all the biggest sequels, brand extensions, spin-offs, and nostalgic cash grabs. In other words: movie franchises! And with one of the all-time biggest franchises preparing to come to an end (till next time) with Jurassic World: Dominion on June 10, we thought it would be a great opportunity to take a look at some of our favorite franchises of all time, classic and ongoing. Rob Top 5:  Indiana Jones Batman  Mission Impossible  Toy Story Alien Carrie Top 5:  Toy Story Before Sunrise Father of the Bride Alien Indiana Jones Tim Top 5: James Bond Godzilla Universal Monsters Alien Mission Impossible  Audience Top 5 Franchises James Bond Mad Max | Godzilla Toy Story Star Wars | Star Trek  Mission Impossible | Child's Play This week’s winner – Bleacher The Dark Knight Trilogy The Shining  Pirates of the Caribbean  The Matrix  Monsters, Inc. ***************************************************************** Love the Podcast? Leave us a r

The long awaited arrival of award winning filmmaker and director / writer producer of Hauntology, Parker Brennon , to the podcast has come! Parker joins Rob as they learn more about Parker's background in film, schooling and early work. They also discuss the launch of the Hauntology Kickstarter launching Wednesday, June 1st through Thursday, June 30th.

Top Gun: Maverick has us all in the clouds We haven't all been this high on a movie since Rob saw Mad Max Fury Road at the Music Box (deep pull joke, but I'm still going with it. IYKYK.).  Gosh, sometimes it's just fun to agree. Full disclosure, we can't really contain ourselves and we go full-spoiler right out of the gate.  Though, even after all the discussion, I can't really say any of it ruins the movie or gives anything away.  Beautiful people, fast planes, Tom Cruise being a bada$$... it's all stuff you know.  Truly, you have to see it to process it. In worth mentioning, Carrie shares the provocative details of Jackass Forever (must to the dismay of every listener), while Rob reviews the latest reimagining of the horror flick Wrong Turn and Tim weighs in on The Bob's Burgers Movie. Tune in to our Top Gun: Maverick spoiler episode and we hope you enjoy! ***************************************************************** Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Other places to follow Alternate Ending. Facebo

Edward Furlong month shambles forward into the mid-90s, where CD-ROM is king and the Trickster might just try to Freddy Krueger his way into your life. Join us as we dive deep into the nonsensical machinations of this film’s plot, break down every single way the Trickster fails as an attempt at creating an iconic horror villain, and discover how low a film has to go in order to not be dragged down by a Furlong performance!   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!

We start where we left off before - on the way to the big investor meeting where the fate of Hauntology would be decided! So, who better to join this episode than a few of our investors, including: Catherine Clark, Chris Trengove and Rachael Scaccia.

This week the gang is back together to share their movies Worth Mentioning, including: Men, Demons (thanks to Patreon Dan Prestwich), Tommy (thanks to Patreon Gavin) and Spud 3. We also take time to both review and spoiler Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness! ***************************************************************** Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Other places to follow Alternate Ending. Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter Tim Letterboxd | Rob Letterboxd | Carrie Letterboxd Mandy Letterboxd | Brennan Letterboxd | Chris Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, via our Patreon page!

Rob embarks on his first solo podcast with Amateur Hour sharing the origin story of how the unlikely  movie project Hauntology came to be along with award-winning filmmaker Parker Brennon and team. Rob covers everything from his filmmaking past, finding out about Parker and the early part of building the project through to the looming investor meeting that would decide the fate of the project. Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! What to grab yourself some AE swag? You can find the goods here! Other places to follow Alternate Ending: Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter Tim Letterboxd – Rob Letterboxd – Carrie Letterboxd Want to support Alternate Ending, you can via our Patreon page! Places to follow Hauntology: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Around the world, the box office charts are being dominated by Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the latest example of Marvel Studios' habit of attempting to shake some of the dust off the formula of formulaic comic book superhero action movies by flavoring them with a little bit of genre. In this case, for the first time in Marvel's history, that genre flavoring is horror, and that's gotten us to thinking about all the other times a not-actually-horror movie got to play around in horror's sandbox. And that's gotten us to our next episode topic: the Top 5 Scary Movies That Aren't Horror. From childhood trauma where it frankly makes no sense to find it, up to movies that disquieted us powerfully as adults without it necessarily being clear why, we're looking for scares where you least expect it. Tune in and we hope you enjoy! Rob Top 5:  Contagion Requiem for a Dream Blindness Pee-Wee's Big Adventure The Neverending Story Carrie Top 5:  Willow E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Edward Scissorhands Powde

It’s a brand new month and, per the request of Patreon Carl Beasley, we’re discussing the horror output of Edward Furlong! We’re kicking off with what is definitely not the most famous franchise part 2 he was in: PET SEMATARY 2, Mary Lambert’s sequel to her 1989 adaptation of the classic Stephen King novel!   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, Brennan and Carrie, are flying solo (duo?) to have a book (and everything else) club, catching up on everything in the pop culture sphere that ISN’T cinema, including television, books, and podcasts! Topics include reading journeys, personal revelations, and what cinematic straight couple Brennan can abide.   But first, in Worth Mentioning, Brennan discusses the classic Ryan Reynolds/Sandra Bullock rom-com The Proposal and Carrie brings the new animated film The Bad Guys to the table.   ***************************************************************** Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Other places to follow Alternate Ending. Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter Tim Letterboxd – Rob Letterboxd – Carrie Letterboxd - Brennan Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, via our Patreon page!

With the arrival in theater of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness next week, the first fully fleshed-out summer movie season since 2019 will be upon us. To celebrate, the  Alternate Ending crew is looking ahead to the next four months of action epics, animated comedies, and the occasional art film from a major director. For our next episode, we offer a Summer 2023 Preview: the films we're excited about (and perhaps the ones we're especially dreading), the films we expect to be big hits or big flops! Plus... Don't forgot! Box Office Prediction Contest is OPEN! Part of the fun of summer is seeing what movies will rake in the biggest pile of money. So in addition to sharing your top 5 picks for what you're looking forward to for the episode, we're also inviting you to share your best guesses for what films are going to make the most money over the next few months. Either in comments here, or via e-mail at contact@alternateending.com, let us know what five films you think are going to make the most money

Thanks to Patreon subscribers Laura and Chris Trengove, we’re here this week talking about our Top 5 Chicago Movies (Not Named "Chicago")!  As Chicago natives, we have big thoughts on what makes Chicago..ChiCAgo. From the food... to the food...and er... hotdogs? We also have thought on: Rob's new movie ventures, if it's ok to call your Daddy, Daddio, eating boogers and the tastiest variety of chizz. It's the most overlap we've had in years! Tune in and we hope you enjoy! Rob Top 5:  Ferris Bueller's Day Off  High Fidelity  Adventures In Babysitting  Candyman The Fugitive Carrie Top 5:  The Fugitive  Adventures In Babysitting The Dark Knight While You Were Sleeping Candyman Tim Top 5: Micky One Thief Ferris Bueller's Day Off  Candyman The Blues Brothers Audience Top 5 Top 5 Chicago Movies (Not Named "Chicago") Candyman The Fugitive Ferris Bueller's Day Off  Thief  Hoop Dreams | The Blues Brothers | The Dark Knight | Widows This week’s winner – Chris Baker  The Fugitive  ***************************

For the second episode of Ray Harryhausen month (a topic requested by Patron Gavin McDowell), Tim and Brennan break down the 1969 film THE VALLEY OF GWANGI. The pair discuss its stop motion effects (naturally), how it functions within the realm of dinosaur pictures and Westerns, and where the hell this movie came from, a good 10 years after anyone would have wanted something like it.   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!