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Alternate Ending was formed when three friends realized they all shared a passion for movies. Our goal is to save you time and money by sharing our thoughts and recommendations on which movies to race to theaters for, which to watch at home and those to actively avoid.
What makes Alternate Ending different from other film podcasts? Well, we're not 5 dudes in a room talking about our passion for Fight Club and Braveheart. We're two dudes, and a lady, of which our tastes are quite varied. Rob, the film-school dropout, has seen an absurd amount of movies, and if we're being honest, rounds out our Fight Club fan-base. Tim Brayton, our seasoned film critic, shares a more critical view of film, an appreciation for vintage cinema and perhaps limited-release movies that we might otherwise miss. Carrie, our casual movie-goer, reminds us all that cinema is in fact supposed to be fun and entertaining and that sometimes, just sometimes, happy endings are good.
Too many film sites cater to the same kind of audience, with one overwhelming voice in the writing, but what we treasure at Alternate Ending is diversity: diversity of opinion, diversity in belief about what film should do and how it should do it. We want to celebrate our different opinions, and celebrate yours as well.
This isn't a podcast for people who just want to talk about the latest hot new movies in theaters right this minute. This is a place for people who can't get to the theater until the third week a film is out; a place for people who just want to find something great to stream online after the kids have gone to sleep, a place for people whose favorite pastime is to grab a bunch of classic films on DVD from the library and watch them all weekend. It's a place that believes that every great movie is a wonderful new treasure, whether you see it the night of its premiere or fifty years later. It's a site about discovering good movies... one bad movie at a time.
Join us for our weekly review of movies worth seeing, worth avoiding and our Top 5 lists – and don't forget to play along at www.alternateending.com.
What makes Alternate Ending different from other film podcasts? Well, we're not 5 dudes in a room talking about our passion for Fight Club and Braveheart. We're two dudes, and a lady, of which our tastes are quite varied. Rob, the film-school dropout, has seen an absurd amount of movies, and if we're being honest, rounds out our Fight Club fan-base. Tim Brayton, our seasoned film critic, shares a more critical view of film, an appreciation for vintage cinema and perhaps limited-release movies that we might otherwise miss. Carrie, our casual movie-goer, reminds us all that cinema is in fact supposed to be fun and entertaining and that sometimes, just sometimes, happy endings are good.
Too many film sites cater to the same kind of audience, with one overwhelming voice in the writing, but what we treasure at Alternate Ending is diversity: diversity of opinion, diversity in belief about what film should do and how it should do it. We want to celebrate our different opinions, and celebrate yours as well.
This isn't a podcast for people who just want to talk about the latest hot new movies in theaters right this minute. This is a place for people who can't get to the theater until the third week a film is out; a place for people who just want to find something great to stream online after the kids have gone to sleep, a place for people whose favorite pastime is to grab a bunch of classic films on DVD from the library and watch them all weekend. It's a place that believes that every great movie is a wonderful new treasure, whether you see it the night of its premiere or fifty years later. It's a site about discovering good movies... one bad movie at a time.
Join us for our weekly review of movies worth seeing, worth avoiding and our Top 5 lists – and don't forget to play along at www.alternateending.com.
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We've got a jam-packed month of movies coming our way in November, and Tim is joined by Cameron and Brian in a long fight to talk about as many of them as we possibly can, from Oscarbait to trashy children's movies. Before the main event, Brian catches up with the video animation Aztec Batman, while Tim has been tasked by Patreon supporter emob to watch the absolutely wild Italian horror movie Amok Train AKA Beyond the Door III AKA Amok Train: Fahrts in Nichts AKA... well, it's an Italian film, so AKA a lot of things. Cameron has taken up the slack of watching a big new release, looking at a quasi-documentary that calls into question the basics of documentary form and meaning-making with deadpan cringe comedy. No, the other one, John Wilson's The History of Concrete.
Tim and Brennan kick off a unit on horror movies adapted from comic books with the urtext of modern superhero movies, 1998's BLADE! Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Brennan on 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!
Happy early Halloween from Alternate Ending! This week's episode finds Gavin and Caleb using the long, long-delayed release of the uncut version of Ken Russell's The Devils, a controversial masterpiece about a witch panic, to take a deep dive into cinematic depictions of witches: what defines a witch, why are so many of the best witches in non-horror, and how far we can go in trying to fit non-witches into a witch-shaped box. With both Tim and Brennan distracted by other spooky season obligations, Gavin and Caleb welcome Dan Stalcup and Brian Terrill, co-hosts of The Goods: A Film Podcast. Thanks to Dan and Brian for swinging by, and welcome to the Alternate Ending extended family! To kick off the episode, Caleb brings the new Korean genre-bender Hope to the movie roundtable, while Dan checks out the recent The Rivals of Amziah King. Brian goes back to 1947 for the original Nightmare Alley, and Gavin wraps the roundtable by sputting wrathfully about the divisive new flop Digger.
Welcome to Your Movie Rocks, an Alternate Ending podcast hosted by Mandy Albert. For every episode, Mandy will watch a movie assigned by her guest host, followed by a lively discussion. There's only one rule: no matter what the movie does to her, Mandy is only allowed to love it. In 2003, a singular man made a singular movie, bursting with a singular magic that terrible movie lovers were not sure could ever be replicated. October brings us a special YMR, as regular contributor Zev Burrows joins Mandy to talk about a highly anticipated film in the AE community: Big Shark (2023), Tommy Wiseau's twenty-years-later follow-up to The Room. Swim along with us in the Great White-infested Mississippi River as Mandy and Zev discuss whether that special Wiseau lightning struck twice, the ways in which Tommy Wiseau has genuinely grown as a filmmaker since his astonishing debut, and whether or not Zev should score Tommy's next movie (the answer is obviously yet). You don't want to miss this one; it will definitely occupy your brain forever.
Awards season is revving up, and so is scary movie season, though in keeping with the past few years, October is marked by an odd paucity of horror movies. But the month still has quite a lot coming out, and to help carve your way through it, Brennan is joined by Brian Fowler and Zev Burrows for an overview of all five weekends of wide releases in the next month. Before that, Zev brings the Ida Lupino film noir masterpiece The Hitch-Hiker to the movie roundtable, while Brennan catches up with the new Resident Evil. Brian, meanwhile, explores new frontiers in roundtabling, by bringing our first-ever video game to the conversation: the brand-new Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. Catch up with Zev's latest album here and here.
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