Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast

This week, Carrie, Brennan and Tim discuss the movies that help us get into the Christmas spirit! But first, in Worth Mentioning we catch up on some of the latest 2022 offerings, holiday and otherwise. ***************************************************************** 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!

This month, Tim and Brennan are examining horror films that take place around Christmas without specifically being ABOUT Christmas. To kick it off, we're reviewing the apocalyptic cult comedy NIGHT OF THE COMET! 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, Sight and Sound magazine released their once-a-decade poll of the greatest films of all time, inciting a huge shake-up as neither Citizen Kane nor Vertigo took the top slot! Tim and Carrie are on hand to share their thoughts on this momentous occasion! ***************************************************************** 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!

This week, the main crew is out for Thanksgiving break, so Brennan, Mandy, and Rioghnach have hijacked the feed for a wide-ranging discussion of the Twilight Saga in honor of the tenth anniversary of the release of Breaking Dawn - Part 2. ***************************************************************** 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!

Today Tim and Brennan are closing out Antichrist month, a topic requested by Patreon member Harold Bleacher. They thought it would be a good idea to check out the TV movie sequel to Rosemary's Baby, LOOK WHAT'S HAPPENED TO ROSEMARY'S BABY. They were wrong… 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 many thanks to Patreon subscriber Jack C. we have been given a real doozy of a topic for this week: Top 5 Movies You Hate That Everyone Else Loves Seems pretty innocuous, right? WRONG. This topic is at the foundation of where all blood baths are formed. Tensions where high, but the episode remained *mostly* cordial, due to pure mental and emotional fatigue from our respective hosts. Whose list do you agree with the most? Which one leaves you the most enraged? Tune in to find out! Carrie's Top 5: The Wizard of Oz Spirited Away Citizen Kane E.T. The Extra Terrestrial Mission Impossible: Fallout Tim's Top 5: Cinema Paradiso Forrest Gump Life is Beautiful Shrek Dracula Mandy's Top 5: UP Young Frankenstein It Follows Terminator 2: Judgement Day Casino Royale Audience Top 5 Movies You Hate That Everyone Else Loves: Forrest Gump Life is Beautiful Love Actually Inside Out Midsommar This week's winner – Avaitor Forrest Gump Suspiria The Matrix His Girl Friday Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse ***************************************************************** 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 – Mandy Letterboxd – Carrie Letterboxd Want to support Alternate Ending, you can via our Patreon page!

Christmas (or whatever holiday makes you giddy with glee) came early here at Alternate Ending. We're joined by one of our favorite humans, Catherine Clark! You may have seen some of her writing contributions on ae.com, but she's also an artist, film producer and officially the best cat Mom on the planet (don't tell Tim). If there was a contest for the person in our lives who would be the least likely to get kicked out of a Gen-Z party, Catherine would win in a landslide. Meanwhile, Carrie still uses words like "hip" and "cool whip" in public conversations. Needless to say, their feelings on Bodies Bodies Bodies...differ. Catherine also brings the Triangle of Sadness, which she compares to Parasite only with Woody Harrelson (there are less intriguing ways to describe a movie). The pair round out the conversation with their perspectives on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. We promise and cross-our-hearts that this is a spoiler-free episode. Tune in and have a great week, friends! ----------------------------------------------------- Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Other places to follow Alternate Ending. Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter Carrie Letterboxd | Catherine Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, via our Patreon page!

This month, thanks to Patreon member Harold Bleacher, Tim and Brennan are discussing films about the Antichrist! This time we're taking a trip to 1995 Madrid to discuss Álex de la Iglesia's DÍA DE LA BESTIA, aka THE DAY OF THE BEAST! 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 was a movie-palooza on this week's episode of Pass the Popcorn! Carrie brings her thoughts on Barbarian and by the request of Patreon supporter Brian Fowler, commiserates with Tim on her adoration for Smiles of a Summer Night. Brennan and Tim take their hits on the newest nun-horror flick Prey for the Devil and takes a quick turn to the life and times of Al Yankovic as captured in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. Finally, we turn to Tim who gives us the low-down on the newest remake of All Quiet on the Western Front and by Patreon Kelleson Dale's request, Tim reviews the weird little tale of a brood of animated appliances in The Brave Little Toaster. We also learn exactly what foods irritate our respective bowels, because this is a classy podcast. Tune in and have a great week, friends! ----------------------------------------------------- Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Other places to follow Alternate Ending. Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter Tim Letterboxd | Brennan Letterboxd | Carrie Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, via our Patreon page!

It's Halloween! - so to celebrate, we're doing a deep dive into horror. Specifically the squishy, gooey, gross-out side of horror as we discuss our top 5 gory movies. Cannibals, zombies, particularly messy vampires - if it's accompanied by a whole fuckload of red-dyed Karo syrup, we're going to be splashing around in all of its revolting excess. There will, as the fella said, be blood. Especially, after Carrie tries to defend her number 2 pick. Tune in! Carrie Top 5 Gory Movies: Hatchet Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Demons Saw Dawn of the Dead Tim Top 5 Gory Movies: Cannibal Ferox Martyrs Dead Alive Zombi 2 The Wizard of Gore This week's winner – Felix Gonzalez The Passion of the Christ Audition A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors The Evil Dead The Fury ***************************************************************** 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!

This week, Brennan and Tim are turning their attention to one of the most mysterious objects in cinema history: a prequel to The Turn of the Screw starring Marlon Brando as Peter Quint and Stephanie Beacham as Miss Jessel. Listen as they try to pin down what the hell it even is, let alone how to review 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!

On this week's episode we answer all of your probing questions. How did Carrie survive 2 weeks with Rob "away"? Was Rob really "away" or have Carrie and Tim secretly chopped him into bits and hid him in the floor boards? Why do we keep putting "away" in quotes? Find out when we're joined by an extra special guest to tell all - 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 Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, via our Patreon page!

This week, Carrie, Tim, and Brennan get together for a conversation about the best movies to get you into the Halloween spirit! But first of all, a Worth Mentioning roundup of three films that probably won't: HALLOWEEN ENDS, HOCUS POCUS 2, and LYLE LYLE CROCODILE! This episode is seeded throughout with some of the best Carrie stories you've ever heard, so keep your ears peeled. ***************************************************************** 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!

The lead-up to Halloween has begun, so Tim and Brennan are covering adaptations of one of Western literature's most seminal ghost stories: The Turn of the Screw, starting with the 1961 Deborah Karr classic THE INNOCENTS! 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!

After the tragic loss of our original episode audio, we're a little late this week but Carrie and Tim did their best to lick their wounds and rally to re-record our Fall 2022 favorites episode! In worth mentioning, Carrie brings the new "low budget" high-tower thriller Fall and Tim tries to sell Carrie on the recently released horror flick Smile. Tune in! ***************************************************************** 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 Rob Letterboxd – Carrie Letterboxd Want to gain access to extra perks and support Alternate Ending? You can via our Patreon page! Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code ALTERNATE at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod

One of our favorite episodes of the year is here - where we sit down to debate the merits of the best of the Summer! It was an odd episode, overflowing with mayhem for may reasons, including (but not limited to) Carrie taking the reins as host and having the most overlap with Tim's picks for the season than ever before. How will Tim react? Well, you'll just have to tune in to find out! Rob Top 5: Top Gun: Maverick The Gray Man Bodies Bodies Bodies Bullet Train Nope Carrie Top 5: Top Gun: Maverick Marcel the Shell with Shoes On D.C. League of Super-Pets Both Sides of the Blade Lux Æterna Tim Top 5: The Deepest Cave Lux Æterna Benediction Mad God Three Thousand Years of Longing This week's winner – Paula Three Thousand Years of Longing Lightyear Thor: Love and Thunder Jurassic World Dominion ***************************************************************** 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!

Today we're closing out dinosaur month, which was suggested by Oscar-level Patreon member Johnzilla! We're following Carnosaur with another classic (?), the 2018 dino-ninja-Catholicism mashup THE VELOCIPASTOR! 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!

In 1985, when the first Fletch film was released in theaters, Marcia Gay Harden was a broke NYU grad student who was still 5 years away from her breakout role in Miller's Crossing. In the subsequent 37 years, Lady Marcia Gay Harden (inside joke you'll have to listen to understand) has racked up not only over 120 film and tv credits, but an Academy and Tony Award. But, as she tells it, her proudest achievement is being a mom and as any mom will tell you, a right of passage for kids going off to college is to do a tear filled drop-off, which is exactly where Marcia was on her way to do when she hopped on to chat with me about her latest film, Confess, Fletch. While at a layover, she dished on how she landed the role as The Countess in Confess, Fletch alongside a fun ensemble, including John Hamm (taking the mantle from Chevy Chase), Lucy Punch, Kyle MacLachlan, Lorenza Izzo and John Slattery (who reunites with his Mad Man co-star Hamm). For those who loved the original Fletch series or just a good comedy / PI romp, be sure to watch Confess, Fletch streaming everywhere, now!

It's a bit of a hodgepodge this week here at AE - lots of feelings about movies, theaters, streaming services, return to work, X-rated film reviews and more! We had a real gift bag in worth mentioning this week, too! Thanks to Patreon Julian DeBerry, we get to enjoy the peace and calm that comes with 1985's Soviet war film Come and See. Ann Yourell had us also exploring the debatably racist French film, The Intouchables. Lastly, let us not forget the film requested by M.C. Steffen, that had Tim wanting to quit film criticism altogether, Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas. Tune in! ***************************************************************** 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 Rob Letterboxd – Carrie Letterboxd Want to gain access to extra perks and support Alternate Ending? You can via our Patreon page! Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code ALTERNATE at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod

Thanks to Oscar-level Patreon member Johnzilla, this month is all about dinosaurs! We're kicking things off the only right way, which is to discuss the Roger Corman production CARNOSAUR, which was rushed into production to compete with Jurassic Park, complete with Laura Dern's mom as the villain! 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, thanks to Patreon supporter Carl Beasley, we're taking a look at the phenomenon of the cliffhanger ending, in which a story ends on a moment of greatest tension and excitement, the better to make sure we're good and excited for the next entry. If there is another entry? Or maybe we're left mourning the unknown.... Rob Top 5: 1. Inception 2. Back to the Future - Part II 3. The Empire Strikes Back 4. The Thing 5. Avengers: Infinity War Carrie Top 5: 1. Inception 2. Before Midnight 3. Perfect Senses 4. Joker 5. Broken Flowers Tim Top 5: 1. The Italian Job 2. The Empire Strikes Back 3. Back to the Future 4. Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday 5. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Audience Top 5 1. The Empire Strikes Back 2. The Thing 3. The Italian Job 4. Casino Royale 5. Inception This week's winner – Gavin 1. Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance 2. A Quiet Place 3. Mortal Kombat 4. Casino Royale 5. The Raid 2 ***************************************************************** 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!

This week, Carrie, Tim, and Brennan honor the djinn at the center of THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING by sharing their Top 5 Films We Wish More People Would Watch! An added wrinkle? Which films do each host think sound the best from each other's lists? Brennan Top 5: Ballad of a Soldier Hasta el viento tiene miedo 100 Bloody Acres I Give It a Year Baaghi 3 Carrie Top 5: Sliding Doors The Father Wild Hearts Can't be Broken Cicada The Blue Lagoon Tim Top 5: Shoah Sátántangó Earth Rock and Rule Saló, or the 120 Days of Sodom Audience Top 5 I Am Cuba The Apple A Separation Batteries Not Included Dragon Inn Sour Grapes Pom Poko This week's winner – Salim Garami Applause Begone Dull Care I Am Cuba The Wizard of Speed and Time (1979) Who Killed Captain Alex? ***************************************************************** 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!

Remake month is drawing to a close, and Tim and Brennan have set upon a film that neither of them have seen before: 1990's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD! After procrastinating on actually discussing the topic at hand, they break down exactly why this movie exists and try to figure out why it doesn't ever quite meet its lofty goals. 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!

Well, I'd like to say that Carrie, Tim and Rob are all back this week because the madness of Summer has come to an end, but that wouldn't be true, the madness of Fall is just upon us! Nevertheless, we did find the first week in a month that all of us were either healthy and in cell-phone range and we couldn't be happier about it. The only thing that could possibly spoil this reunion euphoria is having to spend an hour talking about The Billy Jack series - and here we are! Thanks to Patreon supporter Gavin, we slogged our way through about 100 hours (ish) of a very Caucasian man, casting himself as an Indigenous man/Vietnam war vet and leveraging his Korean martial art, Hapkido, to take down real bad guys. If you're not entirely sold here, check out the episode! In worth mentioning, Carrie covers the newly released Thor: Love and Thunder and Rob attempts to ensure you never want to see the decent movie Day Shift. ***************************************************************** 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!

This week, Tim and Brennan are doing another solo episode while Rob and Carrie travel back from vacation! In Worth Mentioning, we cover two very different films about famous musical acts: Elvis (2022) and Can't Stop the Music (1980). Then we dive into a conversation about the medium of television: where it was, where it is now, and why Tim doesn't like most of it. ***************************************************************** 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!

It's a new month, and as summer winds down we thought we'd embrace the blockbuster tradition of the horror remake! We threw five nominees to our patrons, and y'all voted for us to discuss Chuck Russell's remake of THE BLOB! 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, Tim is joined by Brennan and Mandy, as Rob and Carrie are out of town. Sandwiched between the release of movies like They/Them, Bodies Bodies Bodies, and Not Okay, which are all attempting to tell the story of The Youth Today, we're discussing our Top 5 movies about the zeitgeist! Brennan Top 5: Borat Josie and the Pussycats Child's Play Gidget Godzilla Mandy Top 5: The Best Years of Our Lives Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Unfriended Working Girl Singles Tim Top 5: Zabriskie Point A Hard Day's Night The More the Merrier Masculin Féminin Gold Diggers of 1933 Audience Top 5 Trainspotting Clueless Do the Right Thing Night of the Living Dead The Best Years of Our Loves The Rules of the Game This week's winner – Pliny the Millennial The Great Dictator The Rules of the Game The Social Network Children of Men Three Colours: White ***************************************************************** 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 your first month of podcast hosting free with promo code FRIEND at libsyn.com! #ad

This week, Tim and Brennan have taken the reigns and are navigating a solo episode! After Worth Mentioning, the pair dive into a wide-ranging (read: easily distracted) conversation about '80s slashers, retro throwbacks, and what other trends are cropping up in the modern horror film! ***************************************************************** 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!

This week's episode is coming to you a week late, and for that we apologize. Though, fiesty-ness levels are high due to lack of sleep and new-phone-setup drama, so maybe we're not sorry. From just plain defining "aliens" to just generally attacking each other for our alien preferences, the episode gets a little snappy. But we'll let you decide, are Avatar's really aliens? Is Yoda just a really old human? We ask you decide, but there is really only one answer to all these questions. Tune in! Rob Top 5: The Empire Strikes Back Predator Alien Avatar Killer Klowns from Outer Space Carrie Top 5: Men in Black Spaceballs E.T. The Extra Terrestrial Guardians of the Galaxy Aliens Tim Top 5: E.T. The Extra Terrestrial Alien Solaris Mars Attacks! Return of the Jedi Audience Top 5 Patriotic Movies Alien The Thing Under the Skin Superman Lilo & Stitch This week's winner – Grant Hagey Alien Star Wars Predator The Thing Superman ***************************************************************** 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!

It's time to put zombie month to bed with a film that is an old classic for Tim and a new enemy of Brennan's: the early Spanish zombie movie TOMBS OF THE BLIND DEAD!. This is going to be a contentious one, y'all! 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!

Carrie and Rob catch-up on the world of streaming. Rob shares his big concerns about the future of cinema and Carrie squashes them with her certainty that "things always seem to work themselves out." In worth mentioning, we review Demons 2 and Grave of the Fireflies. We will never forgive our patrons for the misery they've caused us. Tune in! ***************************************************************** 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 Rob Letterboxd – Carrie Letterboxd Want to gain access to extra perks and support Alternate Ending? You can via our Patreon page! Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code ALTERNATE at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod

Zombie month has officially risen from the grave, and we're starting with a resolutely peculiar entry, the 2008 Canadian indie PONTYPOOL! Tim and Brennan break down whether or not the core conceit makes sense and if that matters, as well as discussing the subjectivity of horror and following up on a bit of tangential Elvira material! 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!

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 Michael Collins Casablanca Born on the Fourth of July An American Tale This week's winner – Grant Hagey Stripes An American Tale Rocky IV Captain America: The First Avenger Independence Day ***************************************************************** 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

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 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

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? 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!

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 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!

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. Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter Tim Letterboxd | Rob Letterboxd | Carrie Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, via our Patreon page!

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 Powder Raiders of the Lost Ark Tim Top 5: Raiders of the Lost Ark The Seventh Seal Beauty and the Beast Barton Fink Brazil Audience Top 5 Top 5 Chicago Movies (Not Named "Chicago") Inland Empire Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Picnic at Hanging Rock Pee-Wee's Big Adventure Star Wars | Indiana Jones This week's winner – Zev Burrows Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Inland Empire Full Metal Jacket Barton Fink Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ***************************************************************** 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!

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 [email protected], let us know what five films you think are going to make the most money at the U.S. domestic box office, as of the end of day on Sunday, September 4, along with the total amount you think they'll make. Whoever is closest overall will be announced on our summer recap episode in September, and will be crowned the winner of a $25 prize! Rob Top 5: Men Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness Thor: Love and Thunder Bullet Train Nope Carrie Top 5: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Nope Thor: Love and Thunder Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris Tim Top 5: Crimes of the Future Luz Aterna Top Gun: Maverick Benediction Both Sides of the Blade Audience Summer 2022 Movie Preview Nope Men Crimes of the Future Jurassic World Dominion Thor: Love and Thunder | Blank Phone This week's winner – Rocky Peterson! ***************************************************************** 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!