Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast

We’re not 100% sure why, but you asked for it and we’re here to cover TETSUO II: BODY HAMMER! The original film is an indelible work of experimental genius that we had wildly divergent opinions on. Can the same filmmaker apply that genius to a more coherent story and a bigger budget? Let’s find out!

o close out our December slate of episodes, Tim and Brennan are sitting at a safe distance so they don’t smack each other while discussing SCREAM, a massively influential Wes Craven classic that the two are extremely divided on. Will they find common ground? Only time (and listening to this episode) will tell.

Merry December, everyone! For our Patreon-voted Christmas episode, we’re covering the late 80’s not-quite-a-slasher ELVES! It’s an action-horror thriller about Grizzly Adams as a mall Santa fighting Nazi elves, and he’s not even the most fascinating character…

o good to be back this week, with our last Top 5 episode of 2021!  As we celebrate the upcoming release of Guillermo Del Toro's upcoming adaptation of Nightmare Alley, we couldn't help but reflect on our favorite movie con artists.  Fair warning, we had some pent up energy from missing each other the last few weeks, so please excuse the chaos (or at least we'll use that as an excuse). Audience Top 5  1. The Lady Eve 2. Paper Moon 3. The Talented Mr. Ripley 4. The Producers | The Sting 5. Catch Me If You Can | Parasite This week's winner - Rioghnach!  ***************************************************************** Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! 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!

On our second belated November episode, we’re covering Wes Craven’s THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS in honor of its 20th anniversary! Brennan and Tim analyze where the film works and where it doesn’t, as well as where it fits in the overall Craven canon.

This year's Oscar race is about to get dressy with House of Gucci, a true crime biopic about the legendary family-run fashion company. To celebrate, we're playing a bit of dress-up ourselves, as we take a look out favorite examples of costuming motion picture history. From the storybook past to the shiny future, costume design is one of the cornerstones of cinematic worldbuilding, and our next episode is entirely devoted to the most imaginative, most glamorous, and most colorful examples of big screen couture.

Brennan lost his voice and it took some time to find it again. This week, we’re covering Patreon subscriber Carl Beasley’s request of a film involving Terrors of the Deep. The poll results pointed in one mystifying direction: 1989’s LEVIATHAN. In this episode, we plumb every corner of this deep sea flick that welds Alien to The Thing and calls it a day.

It's was a very long week for all of us, but nothing clears the mind like getting together to Pass the Popcorn about movies! This episode, Carrie talks us into a round of "The Movie Game," based on a recent surge of film knowledge confidence. It's doesn't go well. Rob brings the new Netflix original Red Notice, Carrie brings Home Sweet Home Alone and Tim shares his thoughts on Last Night in Soho. ***************************************************************** Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! 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!

At the request of Patreon subscriber Brian Fowler, and just in time for Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson about to star in the Netflix action-comedy Red Notice, the Alternate Ending crew is going to tag team on an episode all about the colorful history of wrestlers who've wandered into the movie. Some have just showed up for a random movie or two, Roddy Piper; some have transformed into proper leading men like The Rock himself; some have become generation-defining legends and genres unto themselves, like El Santo. Any and all of might just show up on our episode dedicated to the top 5 performances by wrestlers in the movies. In Worth Mentioning, we review Sleuth, as requested by M.C. Steffen and commiserate about Dune, The Eternals and The French Dispatch. This week's Amazon rental giveaway winner was McAlister Grant! Audience Top 5: 1. Andre The Giant - The Princess Bride 2. Roddy Piper - The Live! 3. Dave Bautista - Guardians of the Galaxy 4. John Cena - Trainwreck & Harold Sakata - Goldfinger & Dwayne

This time, it’s Brennan’s turn to gift Tim with a spooky movie HE hasn’t seen! Continuing our accidental double feature of parents grieving the death of their young daughters, we’re covering the George C. Scott haunted house film THE CHANGELING! Brennan also reports back on his read through of the Don’t Look Now short story he promised to check out last time!

It's spooky movie season once again, and we're celebrating with a concentrated dose of one of the most iconic monsters in cinema history. This episode focuses on our picks for the top 5 vampire movies, a noble lineage stretching back to the legendary days of German silent cinema all the way to the present day, and beyond. They might be animalistic ghouls, dangerously charismatic noblemen, or goofy cartoon dads: if they rise from the grave to feed on the energies of the living - or at least think they do - they might be coming along to scare us silly during this episode. Tune in! ***************************************************************** Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! 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!

It's time to Pass the Popcorn again this week! It's what we've been watching and review / spoiler of No Time To Die. We also share our thoughts on Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Diana: The Musical, Bringing Up Baby, Saraband, Midnight Mass and Squid Games. Tune in! Next week's episode: Top 5 Vampire Movies ***************************************************************** Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! 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!

Hello and welcome to the official first main feed episode of Bride of Alternate Ending! We are the horror spinoff show hosted by Brennan Klein and Tim Brayton, and we’ve graduated from Patreon to the main feed this month! These episodes will be coming the 2nd and 4th Friday of every month! For spooky season, we’ve decided to gift each other with horror classics that the other hasn’t seen. First up is Tim, who is showing Brennan the 1973 Nicholas Roeg classic DON’T LOOK NOW for the very first time!

It's taken us a few extra weeks, but the Alternate Ending crew has finally caught up with all of the big films of the summer movie season, and we're ready to share our picks for the top 5 films of summer 2021. A small, lower-key summer than some of the biggest blockbuster seasons of yore, but anything would feel like a return to form after 2020, and there have been some gems hiding out in the still-quiet multiplexes.

It's time to Pass the Popcorn again this week! It's what we've been watching, a rousing game of Would You Rather? and a very, very in-depth review of Lifeforce, requested by Not Fenimore. Tim shares his thoughts on The Card Counter and Rob pretty heavily steers you alway from Buddy Games... because it's terrible. Tune in! Next week's episode: Top 5 of Summer 2021 ***************************************************************** Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! 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!

2021 is racing by at top speed, and here we are, ready to greet the fall movie season, with all of its Oscar hopefuls and Christmastime blockbusters alike. And a particular packed fall movie season, too, with many of 2020's delayed titles finally appearing alongside a whole wave of new productions. To help you sort through it all, the Alternate Ending crew is here with our most anticipated movies of fall 2021, the popcorn giant and little arthouse releases alike that we're most eager to see between now and the bitter snows of winter.

It's our inaugural episode of Pass The Popcorn and we while we have many directions we want to take this new format, we just had to review Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, given our respective obsessions with Marvel, Simu Liu and Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, we just had to get this movie out of our system. We've had an eventful last few weeks with COVID super-spreader events, anniversaries and phallic gift deliveries and of course, you know we love to tell you all about those gory details. In worth mentioning Tim and Carrie commiserate about Don't Breathe 2 and Rob tries to sell the new Hulu release Vacation Friends (unsuccessfully). Tune in! Next week's episode: Fall Movie Preview ***************************************************************** Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! 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!

We've got another podcast by request of one of our Patreon subscribers, with Hallvar∂ur asking us to take a look at the dark and paranoid world of shadow governments and secret societies with our top 5 conspiracy thrillers. Stories of hapless, helpless protagonists stumbling into serpentine mazes of amoral men in shadowy rooms pulling strings to guide the course of the world to God knows what end were at their peak in popularity in the 1970s, but they existed before then and continue to exist as long as there's an irresistible tug to the feeling, as you look around the world, that things just aren't... quite... right. In Worth Mentioning, Tim covers Paw Patrol: The Movie, Carrie catches The Jungle Cruise at the drive-in and Rob continues Phase 1 of the MCU with his kids.

Our next episode comes at the request of Patreon subscriber Travis, who wants us to think small: we're temporarily putting aside feature-length movies to share with all of you our top 5 short films of all time. From slapstick cartoons to documentaries to the wilderness of the avant-garde, the world of short cinema is every bit as varied as its more visible long-form sibling, and we're going to look into every corner of that world for our favorite proofs that it's not about size, but about what you do with it. In Worth Mentioning Carrie and Rob review Patreon supporter Ann Yourell's pick - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? and Rob shares his premature introduction of the Marvel series with his young children. Meanwhile, Tim reviews Palme D'or supporter, Travis's pick, Pink Flamingos with additional reviews of Free Guy and Annette.

In hardly any time at all, we're going to be getting DC's The Suicide Squad, a reboot-sequel that surely somebody anywhere in the whole world was clamoring for. In the meantime, this story of a bunch of colorful weirdoes played by a star-studded cast has us thinking of all the other times that movies have given us a chance to gawk at all our favorite actors gathered in one place, or just to be suitably bowled over by the sheer quantity of acting talent. We're taking a look at our Top 5 ensembles in film history, that is to say, from the messy sprawl of Altman to the all-hands-on-deck cross-promotion of the MCU. In Worth Mentioning we cover Jungle Cruise, The Craft: Legacy and The Saragossa Manuscript thanks to Patreon, Gavin!