Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast
Alternate Ending · Timothy Brayton
Show overview
Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast has been publishing since 2016, and across the 10 years since has built a catalogue of 472 episodes, alongside 47 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 550 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence, with the show now in its 10th season.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 54 min and 1h 26m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. The publisher flags most episodes as explicit, so expect adult themes or strong language throughout. It is catalogued as a EN-language TV & Film show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 months ago, with 25 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2022, with 73 episodes published. Published by Timothy Brayton.
From the publisher
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.
Latest Episodes
View all 472 episodesBride of AE - Honeymoon (2014)
Labyrinth at 40
Your Movie Rocks: 1941
June 2026 Movie Preview
Bride of AE - The Black Cat (1934)
Moulin Rouge! at 25
Your Movie Rocks: Marci X
May 2026 Movie Preview
Bride of AE - Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)
Pixar in the 2020s
Your Movie Rocks: The Hottie & the Nottie
April 2026 Movie Preview
EWe're saying goodbye to March by getting in right under the wire with a preview of the films coming out in April 2026, with mere hours to go before The Super Mario Galaxy Movie wall-jumps its way into theaters. Are Tim and Andrew excited about this billion-dollar franchise hopeful? No, they are absolutely not. But they are excited for other things, and if you want to hear what those are, you'll just have to give the episode a listen! Prior to looking ahead, we look behind, in our movie roundtable: Andrew has, uncharacteristically, managed to catch a new release, Project Hail Mary, while Tim has been given a very particular charge by Patreon supporter CRD concerning the great 2004 film Moolaadé.
Bride of AE - Daybreakers (2009)
ETim and Brennan dig a skeleton out of Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke's closet by reviewing his post-Twilight dystopian vampire movie DAYBREAKERS! Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! 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!
The 98th Academy Awards
EFresh of off One Battle After Another and Sinners sharing a combined haul of 10 Oscars, the Alternate Ending crew is here with our thoughts on the ceremony and winners. Tim is joined by Cameron and Caleb to talk about the surprises, the weird technical snafus, and have a hot debate over the inherent distastefulness of the In Memoriam montage.
A look back at 2025
EWith the Oscars coming up fast, it's the time of year we like to take stock of the movie year that was, and so Brennan is joined this week by an extra-large crew, as Caleb Wimble, Cameron Shaw, and Gavin McDowell come along to look at the good, the bad, and the ugly of 2025. For the movie roundtable, Gavin discusses the new Pixar movie Hoppers, Caleb visits Oscar-nominated Belgian animated feature Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, Cameron checks out the niche documentary Tight and Nerdy, and Brennan does his grim duty by viewing Scream VII.
Your Movie Rocks: Super Mario Bros.
EMarch sees the return of Mandy's old podcasting partner (and husband) Josh, who has decided to get timely with his Your Movie Rocks picks and has assigned Mandy the original Super Mario Bros. movie. No, not that one. That one, the one that somehow, at the same time, both launched and killed the video game adaptation blockbuster. As it turns out, that's far from the only bizarre internal contradiction of Super Mario Bros. that comes up in Mandy and Josh's conversation, because this is a movie made of strange - yet beautiful? - contradictions. Come find out what tried Mandy's patience harder: the movie, or Josh's increasingly tenuous attempts to connect it to existing Mario lore.
Podcast Special: Old Testament Movies
EWe have a bonus episode for you this week! To celebrate the recent publication of The Rewritten Bible in Late Antiquity, a new book by regular podcast guest and Sects, Lies, and Videotape columnist Gavin McDowell, he and Tim sit down to have a conversation about the history of movies based on stories from the Old Testament, from the silent era up to the 21st Century. What makes a good one? What, more commonly, makes a bad one? What stories do we want to see on the big screen? All of these questions and more are discussed on this special episode! Find Gavin's book The Rewritten Bible in Late Antiquity here Find Gavin's Letterboxd List "OT on Film" here
March 2026 Movie Preview
EThe Alternate Ending team, led by Brennan, prepares for the movies of March, a surprisingly full schedule of horror movies, among other things. Before the show, Caleb brings the new critical darling The Testament of Ann Lee to the movie roundtable, while Brennan suffers through Return to Silent Hill. Brian, overachiever that he is, has re-watched the entire Jack Ryan movie series, and shares his thoughts.
Bride of AE - The Skeleton Key (2005)
ETim and Brennan dig a skeleton out of Oscar nominee Kate Hudson's closet by reviewing her Southern Gothic horror outing THE SKELETON KEY! Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! 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!
Alternate Ending 10th Anniversary Special
EThe Alternate Ending podcast was born on 3 January 2016, when the husband-and-wife team of Rob and Carrie Jarosinski shared their picks for the top 5 movies of all time. The site and the podcast have both seen a lot of changes since then, and we're taking this moment to look back over all the changes the decade has witnessed here at Alternate Ending, and in the wide world of movies overall. Such a special topic deserves a big sprawling all-star treatment, so Tim is joined by four other members of the Alternate Ending podcast family to take a walk down memory lane: Bride of Alternate Ending's Brennan Klein, Mandy Albert of Your Movie Rocks, Brian Fowler, and Cameron Shaw. Together, the crew talks about the site's history, our favorite moments from the podcast, and more, including Tim's review of the 2006 fantasy film Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses, by request of Patreon supporter Kyrie.