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S3 Ep 23Top 5 Musicals // Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation

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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.

Jul 16, 20181h 27m

S3 Ep 22Top 5 Vacation Movies // Ant-Man and the Wasp // Sicario: Day of the Soldado

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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.

Jul 9, 20181h 14m

S3 Ep 21Top 5 Prequels // Won't You Be My Neighbor? // Hearts Beat Loud

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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.

Jul 2, 20181h 25m

S3 Ep 20Spoiler Alert: Jurassic Park Movies // Hereditary // Tag // A Kid Like Jake

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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.

Jun 25, 20181h 36m

S3 Ep 19Top 5 Remakes // Incredibles 2 // Tomb Raider // Superfly

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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.

Jun 18, 20181h 20m

S3 Ep 18Top 5 Movies that Need a Sequel // Ocean's 8 // Upgrade

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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.

Jun 11, 20181h 20m

S3 Ep 17Top 5 Sandra Bullock Movies // Cargo

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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.

Jun 4, 20181h 18m

S3 Ep 16Spoiler Alert: Raid Movies // Solo: A Star Wars Story // Life of the Party

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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.

May 29, 20181h 1m

S3 Ep 15Top 5 Movies Ruined by Bad Acting // Deadpool 2

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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.

May 21, 20181h 23m

S3 Ep 14Top 5 Geriatric Movies // Tully // Overboard

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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.

May 14, 20181h 24m

S3 Ep 13Top 5 Mother-Daughter Movies

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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.

May 7, 20181h 7m

S3 Ep 12Summer Movie Preview 2018

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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.

Apr 30, 20181h 18m

S3 Ep 11Top 5 Genre Mash-Ups // The Greatest Showman

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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.

Apr 9, 20181h 18m

S3 Ep 10Top 5 Proms // Unsane

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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.

Apr 2, 20181h 13m

S3 Ep 9Top 5 Steven Spielberg Movies // Forgotten

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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.

Mar 26, 20181h 10m

S3 Ep 8Top 5 Unnecessary Sequels // Love, Simon

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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

Mar 19, 20181h 9m

S3 Ep 7Top 5 Video Game Movies // A Wrinkle in Time

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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.

Mar 12, 20181h 10m

S3 Ep 6Oscars 2018

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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.

Mar 5, 201847 min

S3 Ep 5Top 5 Anti-Heroes // Annihilation // Game Night // Mute

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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.

Feb 26, 20181h 27m

S3 Ep 4Top 5 Second Films // Black Panther // Early Man // Roman J. Israel Esq.

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Here's a nice high concept one for you. Annihilation will be just the second film ever directed by screenwriter-novelist Alex Garland, after 2015's Ex Machina. Which is almost enough to get us excited, but second features tend to be difficult: for every one that lives up to the promise of the maker's debut, there are a dozen sodden misfires. Hear us discuss our picks for the best directorial sophomore efforts ever. In Worth Mentioning, we catch up with Early Man, Black Panther and Roman J. Israel Esq.

Feb 19, 20181h 27m

S3 Ep 3Top 5 Anticipated Spring Movies 2018 // The Cloverfield Paradox

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The dregs of January are behind us, and ahead lie three months (or anyway, two and a half) of the year's cinematic misfits: too odd, or too strange, or too under-budgeted to thrive in the cutthroat summer and holiday frames. Plus a couple of gigantic Disney tentpoles. At any rate, we're choosing to call this transitional period "spring" for the sake of sharing our picks for our most-anticipated films of Spring 2018. In Worth Mentioning, Tim shares his thoughts on what happened with The Cloverfield Paradox, Carrie dishes on Molly's Game and the crew talk about Patreon Travis Neely's pick of The Innocents.

Feb 12, 20181h 20m

S3 Ep 2Top 5 Sex Scenes // Mudbound

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We're almost coming to the climax of the most successful erotic film series of all time, with the release of Fifty Shades Freed. To celebrate, the Alternate Ending team is getting all hot and bothered as our threesome goes all the way in talking about our favorite sex scenes in all the movies. In Worth Mentioning, Carrie talks about Mudbound, while Tim shares his thoughts on both The Greatest Showman and Marjorie Prime. Also, thanks to Patreon Julian Deberry, the crew talks about In the Mood for Love.

Feb 4, 20181h 26m

S3 Ep 1Top 5 Movies of 2017

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Did you miss us? Because we missed you, and we're happy to announce that the third season of the Alternate Ending podcast is back! Carrie, Rob, and Tim are refreshed and relaxed, and we've spent the last few weeks cramming in all the movies we missed over 2017, and this first new episode of 2018 celebrates all of our favorite films of the last twelve months.

Jan 29, 20181h 41m

S2 Ep 46Spoiler Alert: Star Wars Original Trilogy

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With Star Wars: The Last Jedi less than a fortnight away, the Alternate Ending crew makes a terrible discovery: Carrie has never seen any other Star Wars film than Rogue One. Clearly, this cannot stand, and so we invite you to join us as three people with very different tastes and very different relationships to this franchise try to tackle the most iconic film series in history. First up: the 1977-1983 run of Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi, the generation-defining trio of space operas that is the wellspring for so much of the subsequent history of world cinema. Shhh, everybody! Don't tell Carrie how the second one ends!

Dec 11, 20171h 12m

S2 Ep 45Top 5 Movies So Bad, They're Good // Lady Bird

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Depending on where you live, this past weekend you might have been able to see The Disaster Artist, director-star James Franco's take on the making of the infamous The Room, the movie that taught us all that no matter how upset you are, you can always cheer right up by saying hai to your friend Mark, and that nothing helps a cancer diagnosis like promptly forgetting it. With an excuse like that, how could we possibly pass up the chance to celebrate our all-time favorite bad movies? Whether they involve John Travolta in dreadlocks or gorillas in diving helmets, we're celebrating our favorite examples of movies so bad in every respect that they couldn't be more precious, pleasurable entertainment. In Worth Mentioning, we review Broken Flowers, thank to our patron Tristan Frayling, along with Lady Bird and The Star.

Dec 4, 20171h 43m

S2 Ep 44Top 5 Biopics // Coco // Justice League

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Oscar season is here, and it brings with it the promise of real-life stories of famous people, doing the thing that made them famous. There's no end of examples of the biopic that we could have tied it to, but this particular week it's the Winston Churchill-during-wartime tale Darkest Hour that'll do the honors for inspiring our topic. And while national leaders make a good subject for this kind of treatment, we can hardly forget all the musicians, rebels, authors, movie stars, war heroes, athletes, and people suffering from terrible diseases who've graced our screens in the past. In Worth Mentioning, we have you covered with Coco, Justice League and The Girl Without Hands.

Nov 27, 20171h 16m

S2 Ep 43Top 5 Parodies // The Florida Project

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By special request of Patreon donor Travis Neeley, we're happy to share our list of the best parody movies ever made. Whether born of love or pure hateful mockery, the desire to parody individual movies or whole genres has resulted in some of cinema's funniest features, and we share our favorites this episode. In Worth Mentioning, we all chat about The Florida Project, Tim discussed The Breadwinner and we all celebrate Patreon James Cooper's selection of Some Like It Hot.

Nov 20, 20171h 25m

S2 Ep 42Top 5 Murder Mysteries // Murder on the Orient Express

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The new adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express concerns - avert your eyes, if you're spoilerphobic - a murder that is committed on the Orient Express, the famed luxury train. If you want to know whodunnit, or why they dunnit, you'll just have to go see the movie - or watch the Oscar-winning 1974 adaptation, or read Agatha Christie's original novel - but we reveal a different kind of secret on this episode: our favorite cinematic murder mysteries of all time. It's wall to wall shifty butlers, untraceable poisons, and well-timed thunderstorms. In Worth Mentioning Tim covers the aforementioned Murder on the Orient Express, while the entire crew try managing an episode without Rob.

Nov 13, 20171h 7m

S2 Ep 41Top 5 Fights // Thor: Ragnarok

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Thor: Ragnarok has quite a few apparent selling points - its bright colors, Cate Blanchett, a robust New Zealand sense of humor, finally being a Thor film that doesn't suck - but surely we can all agree that one of the things the marketing folks at Marvel hope we're really excited for is the promise of a Thor-on-Hulk fight, one on one. No better time, then, to look over the long history of violent cinema and pick our favorite movie fights. From boxing matches to back alley brawls, no holds are barred as we select our favorite beatdowns of every sort. In Worth Mentioning, the AE crew dishes on the aforementioned Thor: Ragnarok along with The Killing of the Sacred Deer.

Nov 6, 20171h 27m

S2 Ep 40Top 5 Hauntings // The Snowman

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Halloween is upon us, and it's got the Alternate Ending crew in a spooky mood. In honor of "All Hallow's Eve", we discuss our favorite movies spent in creepy, rotting, abandoned old houses filled to the brim with ghosts and ghouls and unseen presences, or at least Vincent Price playing puppeteer with a skeleton. In Worth Mentioning, the whole team weighs in on seeing newly released flick The Snowman. Carrie gets really excited about sharing her newly found movie The End of the Tour (which the rest of the crew at seen), Rob shares thoughts on Miss Sloane and Tim discusses the highly anticipated The Florida Project.

Oct 30, 20171h 31m

S2 Ep 39Top 5 Disaster Movies // Happy Death Day

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Independence Day producer Dean Devlin made his directorial debut this week with Geostorm, a cautionary story about over-reliance on weather-control satellites and self-driving cars, and other issues that speak so deeply to our current moment. More to the point, it's about floods and ice storms and all other manner of splashy natural disasters, and that's why we're devoting our next episode to the history of the disaster movie: natural disasters, like Earthquake; man-made disasters, like The Towering Inferno; dumb disasters, like The Core. In Worth Mentioning, Tim has deja vu while discussing Happy Death Day while Carrie and Rob catch up on the Netflix streaming movie, Sleeping with Other People.

Oct 23, 20171h 24m

S2 Ep 38Spoiler Alert: Blade Runner

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With Blade Runner 2049 having opened to great acclaim, but nowhere close to great box office, we could hardly pass up the chance to talk about the present and past of one of cinema's most legendary portraits of the future (not to mention, it's one of Rob's most-anticipated films of the fall). That's why we're looking at both BR2049 and the legendary, groundbreaking Blade Runner, a film that Tim has very nearly memorised in two different cuts, Rob saw one time a couple decades ago, and Carrie has never watched at all. And maybe, just maybe, we'll spare a thought for the three promotional short films that came out before the new movie. In Worth Mentioning, Tim shares the indie flick Columbus, while Carrie and Rob caught up with The Mountain Between Us.

Oct 16, 20171h 8m

S2 Ep 37Top 5 Horse Movies // My Little Pony: The Movie

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Ask the right people - Rob & Carrie's kids, that is - and they'll tell you that there's not going to be any bigger film this autumn than My Little Pony: The Movie. We're certainly not going to call that kind of insight into question, which is why we celebrated that film's release by taking a look at our favorite movies about horses, and the strong bonds they form with humans. Be they stone-cold classics like National Velvet, modern crowdpleasers like Seabiscuit, or whatever the hell Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is meant to be, horses have been part of cinema since its very inception, and we're happy to celebrate that long history. In Worth Mentioning, Tim and Rob go share their My Little Pony: The Movie date, Carrie talks about the new Netflix release of Stephen King's Gerald's Game and Tim shares some child's play with Cult of Chucky.

Oct 9, 20171h 26m

S2 Ep 36Fall Movie Preview 2017

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With only three months left in the year, we're about to plunge headlong into the twinned moviegoing epochs of Holiday Movie Season and Awards Movie Season, that merry time of year when big-budget tentpole movies about blowing shit up for the whole family and low-budget tragedies about Brits with disabilities rub elbows in the multiplex, vying for your dollars and respect. Before we take that plunge, the Alternate Ending team is getting ready by looking ahead to our collective most-anticipated films of the fall season. What are we most excited about: the pulp sci-fi pyrotechnics of Thor: Ragnarok? The real-life triumph of Darkest Hour? The arthouse realism of The Florida Project? And just what are our hopes and fears for a certain Star Wars: The Last Jedi? In Worth Mentioning, Tim shares a classic rewatch of Le Million while Carrie and Rob catch up on Gifted.

Oct 2, 20171h 20m

S2 Ep 35Top 5 Spy Movies // The LEGO Ninjago Movie

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Let us just say that not all of the members of Alternate Ending are equally pumped up for the release of Kingsman: The Golden Circle, but it makes for a great opportunity to look back over the secret history of spies in the movies. From the glamorous nonsense of the James Bond franchise to the grubby bureaucratic gamesmanship of John le Carré, espionage has been a treasured subject for the movies since the silent era, and we share our favorites. In Worth Mentioning, everyone catches up with The LEGO Ninjago Movie, Tim catches the Netflix original First They Killed My Father, Carrie dishes on Snatched and Carrie and Rob both share their first concert doc outing with Stop Making Sense thanks to Patreon Travis Neeley.

Sep 25, 20171h 26m

S2 Ep 34Top 5 Summer Movies 2017

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All of us at Alternate Ending finally had a chance to catch up with the films we wanted to see from the recently-ended summer, and before awards season and the holiday rush start up, we take a moment to look back over the popcorn movies that were. How did the whole season stack up? How well did our most-anticipated films stand up? In Worth Mentioning, Tim is FINALLY done catching up with all the Amityville moves with Amityville Exorcism while Carrie chats about No Escape.

Sep 18, 20171h 16m

S2 Ep 33Top 5 Stephen King Movies // It (2017)

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From the mediocrity of The Dark Tower just a month ago, we swing back to the strong reviews and deafening buzz of It that just arrived in theaters with some of the biggest hype of any Stephen King feature film adaptation ever. And with 2017 shaping up to be the biggest year for King on big and little screens in memory, what better time for us to select our favorite films based on the blockbuster author's extensive bibliography? In Worth Mentioning we all made it to theaters to see It (2017), Rob talks The Founder, while Tim bring us Quick Change.

Sep 11, 20171h 9m

S2 Ep 32Spoiler Alert: A Matter of Life and Death // Leap!

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For this Spoiler Alert episode, we field a request from Patreon donor Travis Neely, who invited us to take a look at the 1946 British fantasy film A Matter of Life and Death (initially released in the United States as Stairway to Heaven). One of the greatest triumphs of the writing-directing-producing team of Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, the film looks at the life and death (and what follows) of an RAF pilot in the last days of the Second World War. In Worth Mentioning, the AE crew cross paths with one another to take in very different movies, including: In This Corner of the World, Leap! and Wind River.

Sep 4, 201758 min

S2 Ep 31Top 5 Camping Movies // Wind River

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Before we bid adieu to the summer of 2017, we spend a podcast celebrating that quintessential summertime activity, camping. Just in time for Rob and Carrie to return from their own camping trip, the Alternate Ending crew select our favorite camping films. From kids at day camp triumphing over the bullies from across the lake to horny teenagers fleeing from machete-wielding maniacs in the woods, if it involves cooking food over bonfires, sleeping under the stars, or hiking through clouds of mosquitoes, it has a chance of showing up on our lists. In Worth Mentioning, Tim wraps up all of the anticipated Summer movies with Wind River and Carrie catches up with the short flick World of Tomorrow.

Aug 28, 20171h 15m

S2 Ep 30Top 5 Heists

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Stop me if you've heard this one: a group of colorful figures pool their unique talents to execute a perfect crime, probably involving an elaborately choreographed interchange of people in relation to the world's most advanced security system. This time around, it's Logan Lucky, which of course isn't even the first time that director Steven Soderbergh has visited this genre. That this same man, in this same idiom, gifted Ocean's Eleven onto the world is reason enough for us all to be excited about his newest film. We were so excited in fact, that we celebrated it with our Top 5 Heists episode! No points for guessing in advance whose list will be mostly European movies from the '60s, and who will try to argue "this movie stole my heart - that's like a heist, right?" In Worth Mentioning, Carrie and Rob share their displeasure with Madagascar and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa while Tim heads back to the 80's with a the horror flick Dolls.

Aug 21, 20171h 18m

S2 Ep 29Top 5 Animated Sequels

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After three and a half bitterly long years of waiting, The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature is finally here to answer the questions of what happened at the end of The Nut Job. Did they succeed in killing the nut? Will we ever learn the identity of the nut's parents? Is there truly an entire nut civilization? I never actually saw The Nut Job. Anyway, unwanted and unneeded sequels to animated films are a modern cottage industry, and we're setting ourselves to the task of plucking the gold threads from among the mountains of dross. In Worth Mentioning Carrie and Rob each quickly digest War for the Planet of the Apes, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planet and The Vanishing while Tim dishes on Wolf Warrior 2 which is taking the Chinese box office by storm.

Aug 14, 20171h 6m

S2 Ep 28Spoiler Alert: Ghost in the Shell

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Earlier this year, the classic sci-fi anime film Ghost in the Shell received a long-gestating, hugely unnecessary live-action remake. But hey, necessary or not, we're fans of stylish sci-fi around these parts, so it seemed like a good excuse to finally catch up with the new film. Better still, we're going to be taking a look at both versions of Ghost in the Shell, the 1995 masterpiece as well as the 2017 flop, continuing Rob & Carrie's slow but steady education in the ways of anime. In Worth Mentioning, Tim shares his thoughts on the horror feature Ouija: Origin of Evil and the whole crew dishes on Dunkirk.

Aug 7, 20171h 4m

S2 Ep 27Top 5 Emotional Rollercoasters

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So this weekend, the long-awaited The Emoji Movie finally opened and we're... well... so anyway, The Emoji Movie is definitely coming out. There was nothing any of us can do to stop that, but here at Alternate Ending, we're going to make the best of it anyway. We're celebrating movies that make us feel just all kinds of feelings: movies that make you 🤣 then 😥 - movies that make you 🤔 then 😱 - movies that make you 😍 then 😡 - movies that make you 🤢 then 💩 - movies that make you 🍉 then 🗿. Doesn't matter the emotions, as long as it's a movie that put us through the wringer, we're going to be talking about them. In Worth Mentioning, Rob almost gets ill on the his airplane viewing A Cure for Wellness and Tim share his thoughts on the late George A. Romero's Creepshow.

Jul 31, 20171h 17m

S2 Ep 26Top 5 War Movies

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War! Huh! Good God, y'all! What is good for? Absolutely nothing, other than serving as the backdrop for some of the best & most famous movies in the history of the medium. And with Christopher Nolan's impending Dunkirk self-consciously bringing back the grand-scale production of the war epics of old, we've decided it's the perfect time to share our picks for the best war movies ever made. In the Worth Mentioning segment, Rob and Carrie finally get to Spirited Away, Carrie chats The Big Sick and Tim talks Merantau.

Jul 24, 20171h 33m

S2 Ep 25Spoiler Alert: The Planet of the Apes Movies

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This past weekend, War for the Planet of the Apes made a trilogy out of one of the most unexpectedly satisfying and successful reboots of recent vintage. To get ourselves warmed up for this third round of nihilistic monkey business, the Alternate Ending crew revisited the first two films that got us to this point: 2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and 2014's Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. In worth mentioning, Tim discusses The Big Sick, which is one of Carrie's top 5 anticipated movies of the Summer. Meanwhile, Carrie and Rob return the favor taking on one of Tim's top 5 anticipated movies of the Summer with The Beguiled.

Jul 17, 20171h 13m

S2 Ep 24Top 5 Superhero Movies

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Spider-Man: Homecoming arrived in theaters, the third big superhero vehicle of the summer, and the fifth of the year. With all four of them making it onto the list of the year's six highest-grossing films to date (look for Homecoming to effortlessly join them), I think we can safely say that 2017 is shaping up to be just about the most superheroic year ever. So what better time for the Alternate Ending crew to share our picks for the best superhero movies ever made? In the spirit of superheroes, Tim brings in one of his faves Batman: Mask of the Phantasm to the worth mentioning segment, while Carrie shares her thoughts on the aforementioned Spider-Man: Homecoming and Rob talks about a Wisconsin born film in Feed the Fish.

Jul 10, 20171h 14m

S2 Ep 23Spoiler Alert: Trainspotting

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The maybe-not-so-long-awaited sequel T2 Trainspotting hits DVD recently and we're letting curiosity get the better of us. On this Spoiler Alert episode, we're going to take a look at both T2 and its 1996 predecessor Trainspotting - and just to make things more interesting, it's going to be Carrie's first time seeing either film. In worth mentioning, Carrie discusses a family favorite with Big Hero 6, meanwhile Tim chats about the latest Netflix original movie to drop to streaming with Okja and Rob unpacks whether or not he thinks Baby Driver is worth the all the hype.

Jul 3, 20171h 11m

S2 Ep 22Top 5 Robots

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This week, Transformers: With King Arthur Now, Apparently? Whatever storms its way into theaters, and that's gotten the Alternate Ending crew excited to think about robots. Killer Terminator-style robots; romantic WALL·E-style robots; and all the robots in between. And that's why we're going to be sharing our favorite robots in movie history on our next podcast. From totally inhuman machines, like R2-D2 in Star Wars, to the more-human-than-human tragic killers of Blade Runner, robots of every shape, size, and function will be on our lists, and we'd love to hear you takes as well. During worth mentioning Tim shares Miss Hokusai, while Carrie catches up on one of her top 5 most anticipated movies of the summer with The Book of Henry and Rob finally caves into Netflix and watches War Machine.

Jun 26, 20171h 2m

S2 Ep 21Top 5 Pixar Movies

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Cars 3 is the 18th feature film released by Pixar Animation Studios, and quite possibly the least-anticipated one yet. That said, we're still going to celebrate, by sharing our picks for the five best films in the studio's 22-year history; a harder task than it seems, given how many of those 18 put in a claim to being among the best animated films of the modern age. In addition, Tim brings Train to Busan to the worth mentioning segment while Carrie and Rob catch-up with Beauty and the Beast (2017).

Jun 19, 201757 min

S2 Ep 20Top 5 Tom Cruise Movies

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Universal is making a second Hail Mary throw at establishing a cinematic monster movie universe all in one go, with The Mummy. And this would seem like an obvious bad move, except that somehow, The Mummy has picked up one of the last of the great Movie Stars to headline it, Tom Cruise. Whatever you want to say about the man, there's no doubt that he picks unique projects more than any other actor in his price range, and with his exclusive focus on tentpoles. So to celebrate The Mummy, we're going to share our picks for the best Tom Cruise vehicles, from his early films to his 1983 breakout Risky Business, right on up to last year's Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. The gang also makes good on their commitment to see Wonder Women and each of them share their thoughts as part of worth mentioning. Don't forget to listen to the podcast every week to see if you've won our free Amazon movie rental!

Jun 12, 20171h 0m