Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast

Disney unveils its remake of The Lion King, a film in which photorealistic lions sing and plot dynastic revolutions. To celebrate - or, for some of us, to take our minds off of the impending death of cinema - we look at all of our favorite felines of filmdom: lions and tigers and everything else down to the proud housecat. In Worth Mentioning we cover Crawl, A Woman's Face and Postcards From the Edge, thanks to Patreon Stephen Swarz.

Just in time for the new release Yesterday, director Danny Boyle and writer Richard Curtis's celebration of the enduring music of The Beatles, we are joined by the fantastic singer/songwriter Kevin Andrew Prchal, for an episode-length conversation about what the movie tells us about performance, music stardom, and the legacy of the iconic rock band. Be sure to stick around to the end of the episode to check out two hear Settling Cliches from the album "Eat Shirt and Tie" and Look Me in the Eye from the album "Love & Summer". In Worth Mentioning we cover our favorite movies of June, including: Toy Story 4, Child's Play and Rocketman (technically a May release). Thanks to Patreon Jaidan Vanmali, we also had the chance to watch All That Heaven Allows. Show Notes: 00:06:00 - Rocketman 00:12:04 - Child's Play 00:17:05 - Toy Story 4 00:29:20 - All That Heaven Allows 00:42:16 - Guest Kevin Andrew Prchal joins the show to talk Yesterday 01:50:16 - Bonus Content: Settling Cliches// Look Me in the Eye

With both Toy Story 4 and a remake of Child's Play coming out the same weekend, did we even have a choice? We take a look at out all-time favorite dolls in the movies: from beloved child's playthings to unfathomably evil vessels for demonic energy, and everything in between. In Worth Mentioning, we discuss The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, Chernobyl and The Holy Mountain by request of Patreon Dan Prestwich.

While the ordinary summer fare of popcorn movies keep whizzing around, next week sees the release of the more subdued Late Night. In its honor we look at the anchormen, broadcast news, faces in the crowd, and networks that have made for so many rich cinematic explorations of the movies' scrappy younger sibling. In Worth Mentioning, we cover our favorite movies from May, flicks we're most looking forward to in June, discuss the Onward trailer and review Love & Friendship by request of Patreon, R W Lovejoy.

There might not be any time quite in a human lifespan quite as beloved to filmmakers as high school: that miraculous cauldron of humiliation and horniness, when every emotion is ramped up to 110%. To celebrate the release of Booksmart, we're looking at our Top 5 High School Movies. In Worth Mentioning, we discuss John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, Lone Wolf and Cub. In addition, thanks to Patreons CRD and Jason Dohla, we look at The Lady Eve and Raising Arizona.

Opposites attract, they say, and that's certainly true in the world of movie romances. Whether it's a world-class beauty and a pudgy schlub, a free-spirited madcap and a stuck-up prig, or any combination that always, for whatever reason, seems to end up with the woman having to settle for some asshole, we look at our favorite examples of true love striking where you'd least expect with our Top 5 Mismatched Couples. In Worth Mentioning we cover Avengers: Endgame, Shazam! and Long Day's Journey Into Night.

Mid-April is awfully early to be thinking about summer already, but Marvel and Disney have decided for the rest of us that the summer movie season begins this year on Friday, 26 April, with the release of Avengers: Endgame. To prepare, this episode will be all about the blockbuster movies to come: the superheroes, the living toys, the monsters who fit inside your pocket, the Hobbses and the Shaws. In Worth Mentioning we cover a Patreon pick from Julian DeBerry with North by Northwestas well as The Fabulous Baron Munchausen.

Who doesn't love a good practical joke? Morally decent people, that's who, but that doesn't describe us at all, which is why we're spending April Fool's Day celebrating our very favorite pranks in the movies. Come join us for all the faked dead friends and shit-flavored chocolate pies you can shake a rubber limb at! In Worth Mentioning we cover Us and Apollo 11.

Flight. Strength. Eye lasers. Weather control. Spidey-sense. Talking to fish. Talking to squirrels. Captain Marvel makes her big-screen debut this weekend, and it's got us thinking about what it must be like to have the powers of a demigod. In Worth Mentioning, we cover Patreon Paul Royar's selection of Clockers along with Paddleton and The Only Son.

The crew gets together post Oscar to chat about highlights, lowlights and upsets galore! Also, what would the Oscars be without who wore it best? In Worth Mentioning, Alita: Battle Angel and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World make the cut for best of February.

Carrie and Rob review How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World starring Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Gerard Butler and Cate Blanchett. Directed by Dean DeBlois.

The fourth season of Alternate Ending begins with Carrie, Rob, and Tim sharing their picks for the best movies of 2018, as well as some other musings about the movie year that was. Plus, we have a lot of news about the changes coming to the website in the months to come. While we catch up with everything we missed last year as we finish up our lists. In Worth Mentioning, we cover Glass, both Fyre docs and Westward the Women thanks to Patreon Joy Vigil!

'Tis the season to start thinking about holiday-themed movies, and for the last episode of the third year of Alternate Ending's podcast, we're going to look at our very favorite movie Santas: possibly deranged men at malls, lonely skeletons, suburban dads with the unimaginable power to murder demigods. Or, like actual Santa Claus, if that's your jam for some reason. We're making our lists and checking them twice, and while you wait for us to come down the chimney with our 2018 season finale. In Worth Mentioning we cover Aquaman, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Leave No Trace.

The world is in trouble, and only one very special hero, chosen by fate, can possibly save it. We could be talking about next week's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. We could also be talking about next week's Mortal Engines. We could be talking as well about Aquaman or Bumblebee from the week after that. We could, in fact, be talking about a whole hell of a lot of movies: the Chosen One narrative is one of the most overused tropes in contemporary American filmmaking. But just because something is ubiquitous doesn't mean it can't be good too, and we're going to sort through the unfathomably large pile of Very Special Unique Magical Angel Babies to find the best and brightest, the Chosen-est Ones of all. In Worth Mentioning, we cover Tito and the Birds and Sherlock Jr.

Thanks to Patreon supporter Travis Neeley, this week's episode sends us to a pair of the campiest monster movies ever made. First up is Roger Corman's bizarre 1960 comedy The Little Shop of Horrors, about a lovelorn nebbish who accidentally creates an unstoppable, man-eating plant. Second is the 1986 Little Shop of Horrors, in which Frank Oz tackles Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's cultishly beloved, warped stage musical adaptation of the Corman film. In Worth Mentioning, we cover The Christmas Chronicles.

Family vacations and holiday plans won't keep us from unearthing another episode from the archives with our Top 5 Thanksgiving movies.

Wreck-It Ralph, Disney's lovable villain of an '80s arcade game, goes extremely online in Ralph Breaks the Internet, and to celebrate, we're plugging in with our favorite examples of the relationship between humans, computers, and that amazing, awful thing called the internet. From '90s hackers to '00s social media pioneers, we're going to be counting down all of our favorite examples of people who really probably ought to, like, read a book sometime. In Worth Mentioning, Widows, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and The Grinch are covered.

Fantastic Beasts: The Grimes of Grindelwald takes us back to the Harry Potter universe, which love it or hate it, surely we must all agree it's one of the most comprehensively designed movie universes that has ever existed. And in celebration of the amazing feat of production design that this franchise has represented, we're taking a look at our very favorite movie universes: the places so beautiful, so comfortable, so fantastic, so homey, so all-around gosh-darned appealing that, if given the opportunity, we'd happily jump right through the screen and live with the characters. In Worth Mentioning we cover both Suspiria (2018) and Suspiria (1977), thanks to Patreon Kevin J. Olson, and Bohemian Rhapsody.

Thanks to Patreon subscriber Paul Royar, we have a very special Election Week present for you: our picks for the very best political movies ever made! Of course, "political" can mean a lot of things: films about the machinations of doing politics, or about the lives of politicians, or about important political questions of the day. Find out how each of us tackled the tricky business of answering the question, "what is a political movie". In Worth Mentioning we cover Beautiful Boy, The Other Side of the Wind and The French Connection thanks to Patreon subscriber Julian DeBerry!

With Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody about to rock its way into theaters, we're thinking about the most glam decade of them all, the 1970s. We look at our favorite films that capture that decade in all its cocaine-fueled highs and equally cocaine-fueled lows. Be they time capsules from the '70s themselves or modern attempts to capture the swagger and madness of that decade, we'll be discoing our way through all of them. In Worth Mentioning we cover Bad Time at the El Royale and The Old Man & the Gun.

With Rob traveling for work the AE crew takes an oldie, but a goodie out of the archives with Top 5 Witch Movies.

The new Halloween (third film of that title) brings back Michael Meyers, one of the most infamous of all movie psycho killers. In anticipation of the piles of dead babysitters sure to follow, we're going to scare ourselves silly by telling tales of all our favorite movie psychos, serial killers, slashers, and every sort of person of murd'rous intent. In Worth Mentioning, the crew covers Venom, First Man and The Endless.

Neil Armstrong biopic First Man is about to rocket into theaters, and we're celebrating by talking about our absolute favorite movies set in the inky black vacuum of space. Sci-fi swashbucklers, rigorously sober scientific true stories - if it celebrates the infinite wonders of the universe, it's fair game. In Worth Mentioning we cover two new releases with A Star is Born and Night School.

Lady Gaga goes off the deep end in the fourth version of A Star Is Born. While we watch as she dives in, and wonder if she'll ever meet the ground, we're going to spend some time looking at the other times that musical superstars have taken their turn at acting. From Cher in Moonstruck, to Cher in Silkwood, to Cher in Burlesque, to Cher in The Witches of Eastwickor, if you're some kind of absolute fucking sicko, to somebody who is not Cher. In Worth Mentioning we cover Mandy, Hold the Dark and Life Itself.

With the release The Sisters Brothers and a modern take on Little Women also coming to theaters soon, cinema clearly has sisters on the mind right now, and to celebrate, we're look at our favorite screen sisters. Whether it's teaming up to bring your estranged parents back together, working out your sibling rivalry while playing semi-pro baseball, or discovering that you and all your best friends can wear the same pair of jeans, we are excited to discuss all the triumphs and travails of cinematic sisterhood. In Worth Mentioning, the crew discusses A Simple Favor.

We're in the last stage of the year, with family pictures, Oscar hopefuls, and popcorn movies all jostling for attention. To get ready, the Alternate Ending crew picks the films we're most excited to see between now and the end of the year, from Lady Gaga's starring debut to Emily Blunt's attempt to step into Julie Andrews's practically perfect shoes. In Worth Mentioning we cover The Predator, To All the Boys I've Loved Before and The Land of Steady Habits.

We're back! And recharged from our time off, we're ready to recap the films of the summer just gone by. Dinosaurs, helicopters, superheroes, crazy rich Asians, racial strife in Oakland, and the beatific face of Fred Rogers – we go over it all on our way to pick our favorite films of the season. In Worth Mentioning, Tim discusses The Nun.

Alpha is here to teach us all about how dogs were invented by a lonely cave boy who found himself staring down a wolf with a broken leg. Thousands of year's later, man's best friend has been the subject of countless film, almost every one of which is specifically calculated to make you cry buckets. For our last episode of the summer season, we'll be looking our favorite movie dogs in our favorite dog movies. In Worth Mentioning, we cover The Spy Who Dumped Me, Tallulah and Froning: The Fittest Man in History.

Inspired by the subaquatic lab at the center of the upcoming "Jason Statham vs. a prehistoric shark" movie The Meg, the Alternate Ending crew is happy to announce our most esoteric topic yet. This episode is all about water in movies: the aesthetics of water, the challenges of shooting on water, the things live in the water, Kevin Costner drinking his own piss. In Worth Mentioning we cover Christopher Robin, Blindspotting and Like Father.

Disney's Christopher Robin continues the company's decades-long project of co-opting every last smackeral of A.A. Milne's 100-Acre Wood in the mind of children the world over. While we wait to learn first hand that a little boy and his bear will indeed always be playing, we've decided to take a look at movies based on classic books, with our favorite films based on children's literature. In Worth Mentioning we cover Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Sorry to Bother You and The Equalizer 2.

Tom Cruise has done everything but commit actual seppukuon-camera for our spectatorial enjoyment, so we're excited to see what he has in store for us in Mission: Impossible - Fallout. While we get more and more hyped to watch him break his damn bones right there in the movie, we're going to take a look at our other favorite stunts from across movie history: the ridiculous car flips, high jumps, and hanging-from-clocks that brazen fucking idiots have put themselves through for the rest of us to say "well, that was cool" as we eat ice cream on the couch. In Worth Mentioning, we all talk Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, Eighth Gradeand Blockers.

It's an all-singing, all-dancing episode of Alternate Ending next week, as we celebrate - or at least, acknowledge the existence of - the upcoming Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again by looking through our all-time favorite movie musicals. Whether it's singin' in the rain or singin' in a Nazi biergarten, we pay tribute to the showstoppingest movie genre of them all. In Worth Mentioning we discuss Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacationand White Fang.

We're pretty far into summer at this point, and if you haven't already been on vacation, you might be thinking it's about time to take one. In this episode, we discuss our favorite vacation movies. Whether it's exotic destinations and the wacky misadventures that happen there, or maybe just the pleasure of staying home with nothing to do, as long as it's getting out of the daily routine, it's enough of a vacation for us. In Worth Mentioning, we cover Ant-Man and the Wasp, Sicario: Day of the Saldodo and American Animals.

Despite it having been made pretty clear in the dialogue of the first three movies in the Purgefranchise, we finally to get to see what happened during The First Purge. It's the only excuse we need to look back at our own favorite prequels, that most wonderful narrative form that combines the pandering of a forced sequel with the thrill of knowing exactly how the plot is going to end even before it starts. In Worth Mentioning, we discuss Won't You Be My Neighbor?and Hearts Beat Loud.

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdomis here, the fourth follow-up to a movie uniquely near and dear to the heart of every '90s kid. We happen to have three such individuals ready to talk about the whole series, from 1993's iconic Jurassic Park all the way up to the massive 2015 blockbuster Jurassic World, and its shiny new sequel. In Worth Mentioning, the AE crew discusses Hereditary, Tag and A Kid Like Jake.

Remake mania claimed its latest victim with Superfly, a new version of the beloved 1972 blaxplotation classic Super Flythat, in keeping with the faster pace of modern life, does away with the space in the title. Over the years, dating all the way back to the silent era, in fact, there have been so many remakes that some of them musthave been worth it, and the team is going to bring new meaning to the phrase "discovering good movies, one bad movie at a time" in trying to separate the wheat from a whole shitload of chaff. In Worth Mentioning, we catch up with Incredibles 2,Tomb Raider and Superfly.

The Incredibles 2 is coming this weekend, at which point the one Pixar film that people actuallywant a sequel to will finally have one. This leaves a void: what are the otherfilms in this ridiculous, sequel-mad era of ours that somehow haven't gotten a follow-up, but nonetheless deserve one? In Worth Mentioning, the crew discusses Ocean's 8and Rob talks about the sci-fi indie flick Upgrade.

Sandra Bullock leads an all-star cast of women thieves as the ringleader of Ocean's 8. It seems like the perfect opportunity to share our picks for the very best films of Bullock's wide-ranging career: from the fiery Speedto the damp Speed 2: Cruise Control, from outer space in Gravityto the inside of a computer in The Net, from the high-concept charms of Miss Congenialityto whatever the shit was up with All About Steve. In Worth Mentioning, Tim shares his love of the Netflix original Cargo.

Our next episode comes courtesy of Patreon donor Andrew Milne, who wanted to know our thoughts on the Indonesian action movies The Raid: Redemption and The Raid 2. No fair guessing Tim's opinions if you follow those links, but what will Rob and Carrie have to say about two of the very best action movies of the 21st Century, given their ridiculous hesitation to embrace subtitled movies? In Worth Mentioning, we discuss Solo: A Star Wars Storyand Life of the Party.

Word out of Cannes is that Alden Ehrenreich makes for a pretty good Han Solo in Solo: A Star Wars Story, but let's just say that we'll believe it when we see it. But if Ehrenreich does singlehandedly destroy the movie, it wouldn't be the first time. Carrie, Rob, and Tim share their picks for the most damaging performances ever: the times when a movie was actually ruined by bad acting. In Worth Mentioning, the crew dishes on Deadpool 2, Carrie chats about The Glass Castleand Tim shares his thoughts on The Book Club.

You're only as old as you feel, but if you're pairing Diane Keaton and Jane Fonda in the movie Book Club, you're sure to be a contender for our Top 5 Geriatric movies. This week we explore the films that best highlight those fine golden years, the highs and lows of aging and everything in between. In Worth Mentioning, we discuss Overboard, Tullyand a Patreon requested review of The Red Turtle.

Mother's Day is just around the corner, and it brings with it Life of the Party, a film about a mom humiliating her daughter by going back to college (it's also just shown up as one of Carrie's most-anticipated films of the summer!). To celebrate both of these things, we're celebrating our favorite films about mothers and daughters. Whether it's a loving relationship, a fraught relationship, or a relationship complicated by the fact that one of them has accidentally been turned into a bear, movies about the difficulties of women's family relationships have been a reliable source of comedy and drama for decades, and we're excited to share our picks for the best of the lot. In Worth Mentioning, Carrie share's her thoughts on Kodachrome, while Rob has a couple of quick hits on Marjorie Prime, Imperiumand Allied.

We're refreshed from our short break, and eager to look ahead to summer. With Summer here, we're sharing our most-anticipated releases of the next four months and the ones we think will crush it at the box office, from popcorn movies about volcanoes and dinosaurs to whatever random-ass art movie Tim wants to force on Carrie and Rob.

Romantic comedies with zombies! Cops who break into song! Cowboys fighting aliens! Vampires who are real-estate billionaires and also mopey high school students! Our last podcast before we take a brief, two-week spring break comes courtesy of Patreondonor Not Fenimore, who asked us to discuss some of our all-time favorite genre mash-ups. Whether it's horror comedies or domestic dramas in space, we're talking about all our favorite unexpected combinations of cinematic flavors. In Worth Mentioning, fresh from the Wisconsin Film Festival, Tim dishes on Godard Mon Amour,Carrie finally catches up with The Greatest Showmanand everyone talks about our Patreon pick from Zev Burrows, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.

April is prom season, as evinced by the upcoming "sex at prom" comedy Blockers, and to get ready, we're took a look at our favorite examples of this quintessential rite of passage for American teenagers. In Worth Mentioning, we discuss Unsane, Zama and When We First Met.

Hollywood icon Steven Spielberg returns to high-concept popcorn entertainment with Ready Player One, and we're taking the opportunity to look back over the 40 years and then some of one of the most wildly successful directorial careers in the history of the movies. Whether it's his groundbreaking part in co-creating the modern blockbuster, or his late-career political character dramas, Spielberg has long been one of the most reliable names in mainstream cinema, and we're excited to share our picks for his best work. In Worth Mentioning, Tim dishes on the Netflix original Forgotten, while Carrie talks a little TV with Ugly Delicious.

Who didn't love Pacific Rim? A whole lot of people, actually, and yet Pacific Rim Uprising (not to mention, God help us, Sherlock Gnomes is still coming out. To celebrate - or at least to pause and ask, what the hell? - Carrie, Rob, and Tim share their picks for the top five unnecessary sequels of all time. In Worth Mentioning, the crew talks about Love, Simon and Forgotten

The quest to make just one good movie based on a video game continues with a new film based on Tomb Raider. The Alternate Ending crew is goes on an even more dangerous quest than Lara Croft's: we're going to try to pick our five favorite movies based on video games. See what we end up with! In Worth Mentioning, the crew talk about another movie to hit the big screen, A Wrinkle in Time.

While some celebrities are still doing the walk of shame from the Dolby Theater, we share our thoughts on everything Oscars 2018 including the winner of our Oscar Ballot Content.

Everybody loves a hero, but sometimes you've just got to hand it to a psychopathic bastard who can get the job done fast and dirty. With Red Sparrow and the remake of Death Wish both hitting theaters next week, we're going to be sharing out picks for the best - worst? - anti-heroes in the movies. The team also shares reviews of Tim and Rob's highly anticipated film Annihilation, Game Night and the Netflix Original, Mute.