Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast (Alternate Ending)

I'll admit it, because I'm nothing if not honest, I had no idea who the director of Run, Aneesh Chaganty was by name (I still question how I got roped into this movie podcast thing, but anyway).  But then, I saw that he was the writer/director of Searching, which I really loved and suddenly, the pressure felt a bit greater.

Just a bit about Aneesh Chaganty

Sometimes you meet people and they just have a presence about them, a magnetic vibe, if you will.  I'm absolutely certain I had a weird grin plastered on my face for the entire entire interview (I won't be playing it back to find out).

So this guy's 29.

When Chaganty was 23, he made a two minute short film called Seeds.  It quickly became an internet sensation and garnered more than 1 million YouTune views in 24 hours.  Following its success, Chaganty was invited to join the Google 5 team at Google Creative Lab in New York City. He spent two years writing and directing Google commercials.  After working on over 25 short films and videos, Chaganty directed his first feature film, Searching, which one the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at Sundance.

On his newest feature Run

Even though the spoilers come early, I will tread lightly for fear of exposing the twists! Run is a edgy thriller that follows Diane (Sarah Paulson) who gives birth very prematurely.  Seventeen years later, we find Diane living as the doting (micromanaging) mother of Chloe (Kiera Allen).  Chloe has a whole bevy of health issues, but in spite of her challenges, she is incredibly smart, self-sufficient and hell-bent on going away to college.

Like I said, Run quickly takes some really dark turns. You're guaranteed to find your fists clenched, your heart pounding and maybe even your left arm pit a bit sweaty (is it weird that it's only the one? I'll get that checked out).

******************************************************************

Facebook

Instagram

YouTube

Twitter

Tim Letterboxd – Rob Letterboxd – Carrie Letterboxd

This episode Carie and Rob talk about Carrie's arm elephantiasis, Danny' Boyle's obsession with the male form and top 5 back to school movies. Top 3 movies worth mentioning are reviewed along with assigned recommendations.

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.

I love my kids.  Though, between you and me, I also really loved my life before kids too.  I've definitely sunken into all of the parenting cliches of glueing finger paintings all over my house, seeing my friends almost never and saying things like "because I said so" a million times a day.  The thing is, I swear used to be fun.  I never missed a party (like never ever, actually, I probably should have skipped a few). I traveled, hiked, biked, spiked... I was in a band for Godsakes!  But having kids is like a constant battle, waged on your sense of self, and they usually win.  I said I love my kids, right?

The thing about Yes Day...

I don't think it's a film for everybody.  In fact, I know Tim is going to want to claw his ear drums out.  But the thing about Yes Day is that I feel seen. Miguel Arteta and the writing team know me.  They know that I used to be fun.  They know that I thought I was going to be the "fun parent." They know I can't be because my husband is made of unset pudding and can't bear to tell the kids "no".  They know that I'm the one that understands the importance of not wasting food.  They know that I'm doing the right thing when I don't help them clean up all of their messes.  They know that most of the time I feel like a terrible Mom, because trying to raise good humans sometimes means "saying no." **Deep inhales**

Talking with Miguel Arteta

I know I say this all the time, but gosh, what a nice guy. Miguel Arteta is a Puerto Rican director known for his independent film Chuck & Buck , The Good Girl and Like a Boss. It seems like directors are always so relieved when we love their movies.  There was an audible weight lifted as we shared that our whole family gave Yes Day a big thumbs up.  It's been hard for us to find family films that all of four of us connect with, so lately we've defaulted to some of the classics (DON'T re-watch The Mighty Ducks, DO re-watch Jumanji).

We hope you enjoy hearing more about Yes Day, from Miguel Arteta.

Yes Day is available on streaming March 12, 2021!

*****************************************************************

Love the Podcast? Leave us a review!

Other places to follow Alternate Ending.

Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter

Tim Letterboxd – Rob Letterboxd – Carrie Letterboxd

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

The summer movie season is upon us and so is our Top 5 Anticipated Summer Movies 2017 episode. Starting this season off is Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 and we can't wait to see what the highlights (and bombs) of popcorn cinema are going to be. What's going to be the best and biggest movie of the next four months - Christopher Nolan's WWII epic Dunkirk? The third in the surprisingly successful Planet of the Apes prequel franchise? Or will all comers have to settle for second place behind the mighty power of The Emoji Movie?

In worth mentioning, Tim actually watches a movie with The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), while Carrie barely cracks Texas Heart (2016) and Rob shares what should be a summer movie with Fate of the Furious (2017).

This week on Take 2, Tim joins Brennan to break down everything Conjuring, Annabelle, Nun, Llorona, and whatever the hell else James Wan and company throw at the wall to see if it sticks!

Join us for our ranking of all 9 films, the struggle to figure out the series timeline, and the Greatest Showmanization of Ed and Lorraine Warren!

With Escape Room Tournament of Champions hitting theaters this week, we decided to mix it this episode up a bit.  You see, your respective hosts each have an unfounded confidence that they are, in fact, the most talented Escape Room-ers, that probably ever existed.  I say this because, JUST last weekend, the AE crew traveled to Escape in Time - Madison to test our wits in their new Cryosleep room.

The short story is, we only used one clue and made it out of the room with 20 whole minutes to spare and basically we all think we own the place now. That said, the experience left us with lots of questions.

Rob: "How much of the experience is automated vs. managed by the Gamemaster's manual control?"

Carrie: "What's the weirdest thing you've seen on the hidden cameras?"

Tim: "Do you give discounts for superior human beings, who are able to navigate complicated clues more quickly than anybody you've ever seen?"

So for this episode, we have the pleasure of sitting down with Sara and Cheris the owner and Gamemaster at Escape in Time - Madison, to find out from the experts how Escape Room Tournament of Champions stacks up AND to ask the obvious question "which of us really was the best player"?

Note: this is an "Spoiler Free" episode, but expect a series of grunts and moans and "mmmhmmmms" as we try to have a knowing conversation, void of explaining any of the twists.

In worth mentioning, Carrie and Tim commiserate on Black Widow, Rob takes on the task or reviewing Space Jam: A New Legacy and Tim reviews the new Nic Cage flick, Pig (which he kind of loved, to the surprise of nobody).

Tune in and we hope you enjoy this fun episode!

*****************************************************************

Love the Podcast? Leave us a review!

Other places to follow Alternate Ending.

Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter

Tim Letterboxd – Rob Letterboxd – Carrie Letterboxd

Freaky Friday the 13th

You can't keep a good slasher killer down, so we've got even more Freaky Behind the Scenes coming your way! This time I had the opportunity to sit down with co-screenwriter Michael Kennedy, who notoriously teamed up with director and co-writer Chris Landon in a pitch rehearsal turned creative partnership!

We sat down to chat about what it means to write an openly queer character in a slasher movie, some fun sequel ideas, and how it feels to have your debut film suddenly become the only film in the back quarter of 2020.

I feel like I already expended most of my Freaky analysis in the blog intro to Chris' interview, so it's time to get a glimpse into my glitzy and glamorous Hollywood lifestyle. I first met Michael in the summer of 2018, when I was brought on to produce Attack of the Queerwolf, the queer horror podcast I ended up co-hosting with Michael, Nay Bever, and Mark Fortin.

Before and after recordings we would all talk shop and chat about what was going on in our lives. It was a delight to watch Michael go from an elated "I have a meeting with Chris!" to a tight-lipped "I can't say anything at this time" to a boisterous "holy shit, Freaky is actually happening!" Michael's primary goal is to make people laugh and have a good time, and it was an incredible privilege to watch that dream come true and unfold before our eyes (in feature film form at least, he wrote for television before Freaky came together - this isn't his first rodeo).

And between you and me, it's always nice when the friend you're supporting turns out work that's actually good and you don't have to fake it, so what a lucky break for me!

Freaky is in drive-ins and select theaters Friday, November 13 and on digital VOD December 4th!

A new era begins at Alternate Ending as Tim, Brennan, and Mandy share six! count 'em, six! movies we've seen recently, including requests by Patreon supporters Christophe Romain, Dan Prestwitch, and Carl Beasley. We also go in deep on the Netflix original Hot Frosty, somehow the only film of the six all of us had seen. In the second half of the episode, we look ahead to the new releases in December 2024, and share our thoughts on which ones look most exciting and which look like a big ol' lump of coal.

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 the 14-month freeze at the North American box office starting to melt over the last few weeks, and looking to melt even more over the next few weeks, the Alternate Ending crew thought this would be a great time to celebrate the theatrical experience. Our next episode is dedicated to our picks for the top 5 movies to see on the big screen, the kind of film where watching it even on your fancy 4K home theater rig just isn't enough, whether because of the sheer scale of the images, the need for a raucous, enthusiastic crowd, or the chance to give strangers handjobs in the dark.

In Worth Mentioning we cover Stowaway, Things Heard and Seen, and The Kid Detective.

Tim and Brennan kick off a brand new quarter focusing on Fast Zombies with this episode on the 2014 horror-comedy COOTIES!

Love the Podcast? Leave us a review!
Follow Brennan on Twitter, Instagram, and Letterboxd
Follow Tim on Letterboxd

Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, including voting for the films we cover on this program, via the Alternate Ending Patreon page!

Our next podcast topic comes to us thanks to Patreon subscriber Not Fenimore, who has left us with an intriguingly open-ended topic: our top 5 movies for parents. Whether this means the top 5 movies for parents who have been conscripted into watching movies with their kids,  the top 5 movies for parents to use as teachable moments about life or morality or such things, the top 5 movies for parents to learn how to handle their children, or something else entirely, has been left as an exercise for the list-maker. Tune in next Monday to find out how the three of us all defined that phrase, and learn what two people who are themselves parents, as well as one avowed child-hater, think makes for good parenting media.

In Worth Mentioning, we cover A Quiet Place, Part II, Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It and The Paper Tigers.

Tim and Brennan close out Stephen King month by sinking their fangs into the 1985 werewolf movie SILVER BULLET, which was both adapted from and written by King!

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 honor of the upcoming release of Disney’s Haunted Mansion, Tim and Brennan are covering Disney horror throughout July, beginning with the deeply ludicrous Disney Channel original musical sequel Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2!

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!

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.

Real talk.  The most common question I get from friends about Alternate Ending is, "how do you juggle it all, on top of jobs and kids and the rest of your life?" The motivational speech answer is, we juggle and take on too much, until one of us feels like we're on the verge of a panic attack and then the other person rises to the occasion, if the other breaks.  Feel free to write that down in your wellness journal.  On this particular occasion, Rob was on day 5 of the same pair of sweatpants and his face was twitching.  And that, is the story of how I ended up going-it-alone on a press interview for Language Lessons with Mark Duplass and Natalie Morales.

So many questions about making Language Lessons

Without having participated in a press junket, I over-planned and prepped a million questions, because what if nobody else remembered to join? Or what if there were only two of us and the other interviewer underprepared and I had to carry the conversation? OR what if Mark Duplass and Natalie Morales realized at the exact same moment that we were destined to be best friends and we ended up talking for hours?   As it turns out, real press don't forget about their interviews with movie stars or get confused with time zones and they come prepared with really great questions that make me question everything about my originality.

Why You'll Love Mark Duplass and Natalie Morales

Few movies focus on true platonic friendship.  There always seems to be an underlying romantic intent, but in the case of Language Lessons it's ends up being so much more about how our need for human connection and how our empathy drives us forward.  I should mention the the film is almost entirely captured on ZOOM, but the screens that separate them do not detract from the characters chemistry.  The film's premise is that Adam (Mark Duplass) has been gifted Spanish lessons from his partner Will (Desean Terry) with a young Cuban woman Cariño (Natalie Morales).  The film takes such unexpected gut-punching turns that make "another ZOOM" movie uniquely fresh.

Read the full Language Lessons review here from Brennan Klein

*****************************************************************

Love the Podcast? Leave us a review!

Other places to follow Alternate Ending.

Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter

Tim Letterboxd – Rob Letterboxd – Carrie Letterboxd

We intended to start the year off on a positive note, with our most favorite films of the 2010's, and leave it at that.  But we would be completely remiss if we didn't slip into the deep, dark, cinematic sadness of the last decade, to look at the worst films of the last 10 years, too.  Hearts are already breaking at the mention of Orson Welles and Fred Rogers' names, but we won't get ahead of ourselves here.

We'll be taking a look at our Bottom 10 of the 2010's and we think you should join us!

In Worth Mentioning, we discuss The Invisible Man, Ride Your Wave and Jacob's Ladder, thanks to Patreon Jason Dohla.

There are a lot of ways you can ride out a pandemic. You can gather all of your beautiful rich friends, hole up in a villa outside of Florence, and tell dirty stories to each other for ten straight days. Or you can throw a lavish party with several color-coded rooms that represent the decaying, corrupted soul of the age. Maybe you can keep a diary that will be treasured centuries from now as an irreplaceable historical document. Or maybe you can just masturbate a lot.

Here at Alternate Ending, we're going to spend our time watching movies, naturally enough. And since the world is scary out there right now, our next episode is celebrating our favorite pick-me-up movies, the ones we watch when we're tired and achy and just generally feeling crummy, curled up on the couch in a blanket. These are the cinematic equivalent of a big bowl of chicken soup, the movies we watch when we need to feel warm and protected and cozy. Because whether you're sick with a virus or just sick of being stuck in the house, you're probably sick of something right now, and there's nothing like a good familiar movie to help you feel better.

In Worth Mentioning, we cover The Hunt, Bloodshot and Lady and the Tramp.

We've got another podcast by request of one of our Patreon subscribers, with Hallvar∂ur asking us to take a look at the dark and paranoid world of shadow governments and secret societies with our top 5 conspiracy thrillers. Stories of hapless, helpless protagonists stumbling into serpentine mazes of amoral men in shadowy rooms pulling strings to guide the course of the world to God knows what end were at their peak in popularity in the 1970s, but they existed before then and continue to exist as long as there's an irresistible tug to the feeling, as you look around the world, that things just aren't... quite... right.

In Worth Mentioning, Tim covers Paw Patrol: The Movie, Carrie catches The Jungle Cruise at the drive-in and Rob continues Phase 1 of the MCU with his kids.

If you're anything like us, the months and months of endless quarantining might have you contemplating taking an axe to the people you've been stuck inside with. If only for a chance to do something new for a change. Fortunately, we have a good way too let off some of that steam: a whole bunch of violent slasher movies. By request of Patreon subscriber Brian Fowler, we're going to be taking a look at director Adam Green's Hatchet series, the over-the-top throwbacks to the most excessive  extremes of '80s slasher movies. None of us have seen any of them, so we're flying blind.

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!

To help fill the void in your weekly listening, Carrie and Rob are bringing you Weeklies - a review of the last 7-days of movie new...with a twist! Rob has gathered all the 10 best pieces of movie news and Carrie will only be able to pick 5

1. The Grudge - Official Trailer Drops

2. Terminator Star Linda Hamilton Called Her Marriage to James Cameron "Terrible on Every Level"

3. Anna Faris to Play Twin Sisters in Comedy Summer Madness

4. Olivia Wilde Criticizes Censorship of Booksmart Lesbian Sex Scenes on Airlines

5. Star Wars Shocker: 'Game of Thrones' Duo Quits Planned Trilogy

6. Netflix Plan to Test Varying Play Speeds Meets Filmmaker Backlash

7. How Martin Scorsese Saved The Current War After The Weinstein Co. Collapse

8. Chernobyl Creator Craig Mazin Tackling Pirates of the Caribbean Reboot

9. Frozen II Tracking for $100M-Plus Thanksgiving Debut

10. Your Halloween horror-scope: Movies sure to terrify you, based on your astrological sign

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 episode came a week later than expected, due to unforeseen, lower than expectations reviews of the Indiana Jones series from the Jarosinski children.  With an extra week gone by, we were prepared to face the situation head on. Sort of. Thoughts differ on Indiana Jones: Dial of Destiny, but thankfully Tim finds it in his heart to only break Carrie's heart in written form and mostly spare her feelings on air. Sort of.

With thanks to Patreon M.C. Steffen Tim brings his review of Little Boy.  In retaliation for Tim's recent IJ reviews, Carrie makes Tim sweat by sharing her thoughts on Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, which is assures him will be spoiler-free.

Tune in and we hope you have a great week!

*****************************************************************

Love the Podcast? Leave us a review!

Other places to follow Alternate Ending.

Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter

Tim Letterboxd | Carrie Letterboxd

Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, via our Patreon page!

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: 

1. Top Gun: Maverick 
2. The Gray Man
3. Bodies Bodies Bodies
4. Bullet Train 
5. Nope 

Carrie Top 5: 

1. Top Gun: Maverick 
2. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
3. D.C. League of Super-Pets
4. Both Sides of the Blade 
5. Lux Æterna

Tim Top 5:

1. The Deepest Cave
2. Lux Æterna
3. Benediction 
4. Mad God
5. Three Thousand Years of Longing 

This week’s winner – Paula 

1. Three Thousand Years of Longing
2. Lightyear
3. Thor: Love and Thunder 
4. 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!

The Top 5 Movies to See Before You Die, it's a catchphrase you've heard before. It's also a catchphrase that you assume has straightforward criteria. Movies critical to cinema? Movies about the afterlife? Movies to see if you have exactly 24 hours to live? If there is something we do well here at Alternate Ending, it's complicate things.

So we do indeed come up with our Top 5 Movies to See Before You Die, but it's a curvy path to get there.  Tim also agrees that Carrie's list is the best, because he in fact, he would want to pass on after viewing her choices.

In a new trend over the last few episodes, we've also been adding to the list of reasons of "why Rob Jarosinski is a sociopath" with a rousing story about public urination. Behind the scenes, Rob explains that he was comfortable sharing the story because quote "everybody has done it," to which, we will let you respond to the accuracy of that statement.

As always, tune in, and we hope you enjoy!

Rob Top 5: 

1. Arrival 
2. Coco
3. Soul 
4. Chances Are
5. Defending Your Life 

Tim Top 5: 

1. Singin' in the Rain
2. The Gold Rush
3. Tokyo Story
4. The Rules of the Game
5.  Man with A Movie

Carrie Top 5:

1. Soul
2. Mrs. Doubtfire
3. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
4. Sleepless in Seattle
5. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 

Audience Top 5 Movies to See Before You Die: 

1. Fantasia
2. Seven Samurai
3. Casablanca
4. The Room
5. 2001: A Space Odyssey

This week's winner - Christopher Brown

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Castle in the Sky
3. House (1977)
4. Gojira (1954)
5. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and/or Man With a Movie Camera

*****************************************************************

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!

We are literally a week away from the Oscars and we're all (just Rob and I, actually) scrambling to see as many Oscar nominees as we can, in advance.  Like all good procrastinators, we're taking our time to look back at years past at the best awards winners in the Academy's history, with our picks for the Top 5 Acting Oscar Winners!

For an added treat, Tim also drops in his bottom 5 acting Oscar winning performances.  We all breathed a deep sigh of relief when Jessica Tandy narrowly escaped his list.

We had a lot to catch up on and lots of news to share! In worth mentioning, Rob reviews The Sleepover, Tim shares his big feelings on Chaos Walking and the crew decides to gang up on Carrie for her lack of film watching, while she was away at her Grandfather's memorial service this week.

Our Amazon movie rental winner for their Top 5 Acting Oscar Winners submission was Snad321, yay you! And, we are ever-so sorry for making it weird and accidentally calling you Snads.  Rob needs more sleep.

Movie Club Movie Trivia is Friday, April 30th - Mark your calendars!

*****************************************************************

Love the Podcast? Leave us a review!

Other places to follow Alternate Ending.

Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter

Tim Letterboxd – Rob Letterboxd – Carrie Letterboxd

As soon as we hit 4 content feedback survey submissions and with 50% of those saying they were interested in a podcast dedicated to television, Rob deemed it necessary that the Alternate Ending community know our immediate feelings on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

Unlike Tim, who after a long, stressful day unwinds with a little Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, sometimes Rob and I just won't make it through a 2-hour-and-something movie, by the time the kids have come down 17 times to tell us their thirsty or remind us that they hate school.  So instead, what usually happens is we have a mini-marital spat about "somebody finding something good" (it's actually not that mini, it's one of our biggest rage-triggers) and one of us ends up wielding the unwanted power of finding something interesting for the next 45 minutes before we drift off.

So we'll just say it in hushed voices.  We love TV.  There. It's out there. We love movies too, but we also love what TV has to offer our fatigued-parent lives.  The other thing is, we love talking about TV too... we bore our friends and neighbors with all of our favorites.  It's fair to say that Rob is desperate for TV community... even my Dad is ghosting him...

All that said, the only way Rob could get me on board with starting a pod spin-off is to call this what it is, this is a podcast pilot.  A 6 episode pilot - A Worthy Binge, where Rob and I will be joined by Brennan Klein to pick our way through the first season of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier!

Episodes will be released every Wednesday for the next 6 weeks.

We hope you'll share your thoughts on the episode in the comments or submit your questions our pre-submit your thoughts on The Falcon and the Winter Soldier episode we're covering to contact@alternatenending.com to get in on the discussion!

In Worth Mentioning, we cover Search Party, Servant and BrainDead.

*****************************************************************

Love the Podcast? Leave us a review!

Other places to follow Alternate Ending.

Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter

Brennan Letterboxd – Rob Letterboxd – Carrie Letterboxd

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: 

1. Ballad of a Soldier
2. Hasta el viento tiene miedo
3. 100 Bloody Acres
4. I Give It a Year
5. Baaghi 3

Carrie Top 5: 

1. Sliding Doors
2. The Father
3. Wild Hearts Can’t be Broken
4. Cicada
5. The Blue Lagoon

Tim Top 5:

1. Shoah
2. Sátántangó
3. Earth
4. Rock and Rule
5. Saló, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Audience Top 5

1. I Am Cuba
2. The Apple
3. A Separation
4. Batteries Not Included
5. Dragon Inn
6. Sour Grapes
7. Pom Poko

This week’s winner – Salim Garami

1. Applause
2. Begone Dull Care
3. I Am Cuba
4. The Wizard of Speed and Time (1979)
5. 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!

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.

There are some movies that are so great that you make them treasured friends, revisiting them every now and then to appreciate once again how special they are. There are some movies that you obsessively watch over and over again, trying to absorb them right into your soul. And then there are the movies so great that you simply can't go back: one time is all the more you dare risk watching them - maybe to preserve the surprise, maybe to avoid the heartache, or for any other reason that one time simply had to be enough. We're devoting a whole episode to these last films, the ones that we love so much that there's no chance in hell of our ever revisiting them.

In Worth Mentioning, we cover Palm Springs and Bedevil.

If you give me just 2 seconds I'm going to blow your mind.  Love and Monsters is going to be your favorite movie of 2020. There I said it.  Admittedly, it's not mine. But it will be yours.  That's because it's TIED for my favorite movie of the year with Spontaneous. Which, I realize it cheating, but there are no rules around here.

First a bit about Michael Matthews…

I have no idea how old Michael Matthews is, but what I'm coming to find is that by the time you're making great movies in Hollywood, you're more than likely just-about my age.  I pressure test this by dropping breadcrumbs for them to disclose their favorite movies.  If they say something like, The Machinist, I'm thinking "hmmm good taste, but favorite?"... if they something like (500 Days of Summer), again I'm thinking "Cute, but you're wrong" and if they say Inception, I just assume they're 15 years old and know nothing of cinema and I hang up on them. Or they're Rob.

But let me tell you what happened, I dropped my breadcrumb.  Matthews throws out Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones and that's when I knew.  We were going to be best friends forever (don't tell him, he doesn't know yet) and that he's probably 37-ish.

Michael Matthews is a South African director whose feature Five Fingers for Marseilles, won the award for best film at the Africa Movie Academy Awards. His film also received 10 nominations, including awards for best film, best first feature film by a director and best cinematography. The film was also nominated for Best Achievement in Directing - Feature Film at 2017 South African Film and Television Awards.  For his role in the production of Apocalypse Now Now, a short film based on the book of same name, Matthews won best short film at the 12th South African Film and Television Awards.

We'll get into the movie in a sec, but Love and Monsters is a massively well-crafted movie.  However, to hear Matthews talk about the movie, it would seem that it's something we could all do.  Just a few drawings here and a few ideas there and POOF... you've got yourself a blockbuster. I of course know this to not be true, as it takes me 45 minutes to put together a 30 second video for social media.

Matthew really was a treat to talk to so we hope you enjoy hearing about the making of Love and Monsters as much as we did!

Now Love and Monsters

I've already told you that it's going to be your favorite movie of this year, so that's probably a bit of a spoiler.  And don't go being one of those contrarian people (like me) who says they don't love it just because I told you, you would.

Seven years after the Monsterpocalypse, Joel Dawson (Dylan O’Brien), along with the rest of humanity, has been living underground ever since giant creatures took control of the land. After reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee (Jessica Henwick), who is now 80 miles away at a coastal colony, Joel begins to fall for her again. As Joel realizes that there’s nothing left for him underground, he decides against all logic to venture out to Aimee, despite the dangerous monsters that stand in his way.

Now onto the monsters. A movie can be made or broken on the quality of its monsters.  Matthew says they're not meant to be fantastical. But sorry, they're fantastical.  They're glowing and beautiful and edgy and scary.  To hear Matthew talk about how the conceptualized these beasts is something you can really feel in the film.

The other real highlight is the casting of Dylan O'Brien, as somebody you probably know from his tough-as-nails character in Maze Runner, seeing him as this tender, insecure guy who is trying to find himself is a mental shift. Paired with the hilarious script and O'Brien's comedic timing, we were laughing the whole way through. Supported by, Ariana Greenblatt, Michael Rooker and Jessica Henwick, the cast felt entirely complete.

Let this trailer wash over your face...

Love and Monsters is available on streaming October 16th and we can't recommend seeing it enough!

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.

When I was in my mid-twenties, I spent my days in a cubical, mindlessly tinkering with the calculator on my desk, figuring out how much I had to save to retire at 40.  Sometimes, I would organize my post-it notes in rainbow color order, and the pens too, if I wasn't too busy.  There was a coffee shop in my building, so every few hours, I'd sucker a co-worker into grabbing a caramel latte with me.  I'm horrified when I look back on these years, I mean, do you have any idea how many calories are in one of those lattes?!

Kourtney Bell on the other hand

Kourtney Bell knew she wanted to become an actress when she was 7. She developed a plan. She got involved in high school theatre.  Bell compromised with her parents, that she could pursue something in Hollywood, as long as it was agreed to that education was on the life plan. From there, Bell went on to study at the University of Michigan and majored in the arts, while balancing a few acting opportunities.  I'm always so envious of people whose goals are so clearly defined.  What I know for sure, is that Kourtney Bell would have absolutely known that multiple caramel lattes a day, wasn't good for anybody.

Chatting with Bell was an absolute delight and she is so clearly poised for success.  

I will say, her polish led me astray a bit.  At one point in the interview we went down the path of childhood Hollywood crushes. Naturally, as a good child of the 90's I said "Devon Sawa"....to which I could see her quickly searching her memory bank, for who the world he is.  A nervous moment later, she met me with "Noah Centineo"...to which I agreed, while frantically searching my phone for a photo. Incidentally, this has turned into my first lie on an interview... 

A bit about Don't Look Back

Don't Look Back is the newest feature written and directed by Jeffery Reddick (writer of Final Destination). This supernatural thriller follows a young woman (Kourtney Bell) who is working through overcoming her traumatic past.  When she finds herself among several witnesses, who see a man fatally assaulted and don't intervene, they find themselves targeted by someone, or something, out for revenge.

The film will push you to self-actualize.  If you were a bystander, witnessing something uncomfortable or even violent, would you step in? Would you run away? Would you film it?  Of course many of us think we would rip open our suit jackets donning the first letter of our name and heroically sweep in to save the day.  But the truth is, for most people, fear would supersede our best intentions.

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!

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:

1. Hatchet
2. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
3. Demons
4. Saw
5. Dawn of the Dead

Tim Top 5 Gory Movies:

1. Cannibal Ferox
2. Martyrs
3. Dead Alive
4. Zombi 2
5. The Wizard of Gore 

This week’s winner – Felix Gonzalez

1. The Passion of the Christ
2. Audition 
3. A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors 
4. The Evil Dead
5. 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!

We're coming up fast on The Batman, the latest film centered around pop culture's famous insanely rich business mogul, Bruce Wayne. I am given to understand he also dresses as a bat. But that's not what we're here for, we're here to take a deeper dive into the Waynes of the world, the ultimate winners of late capitalism: captains of industry, movers and shakers, power brokers, the people whose exact work is a little hard to pin down, exactly, but by golly it sure does seem to be lucrative. In short, we're looking at our top 5 moguls in the movies (though not our top 5 movie moguls), to see just what it is they do with all that money and power. Besides dressing up as bats, that is.

The episode gets a little off the rails. If we had known the direction it was heading, we would have included a whole other list of criteria above for what qualifies as a "mogul," but I guess you've come to expect that now.

Tune in and we hope you enjoy!

Rob Top 5: 

1. Ri¢hie Ri¢h
2. Iron Man
3. DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
4. Batman 
5. The Wolf of Wall Street

Tim Top 5: 

1. DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
2. The More the Merrier 
3. Sabrina 
4. The Hudsucker Proxy  
5. Mildred Pierce  

Carrie Top 5:

1. The Ten Commandments 
2. Avengers: Infinity War
3. Phantom Thread
4. The Social Network 
5. Citizen Kane 

Audience Top 5 Moguls: 

1. Citizen Kane
2. There Will Be Blood
3. The Big Lebowski
4. It's A Wonderful Life | Iron Man
5. Batman

This week's winner - Lebowski!

1. Charles Foster Kane (Citizen Kane)
2. President/Lord Business (The Lego Movie)
3. Jeffery Lebowski (The Big Lebowski)
4. Noah Cross (Chinatown)
5. Scrooge McDuck (Ducktales The Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp)

*****************************************************************

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!

Rob and I got into a marital tift the other night because I made the claim that I never lie.  He didn’t agree.  He contests that I omit details in a way that leads people to believe something that isn’t true. That’s not lying right? That’s just a totally healthy need for people to like me.  So, in our interview with Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead, this plays out something like this, - “I have to tell you, in the first 2 minutes of Synchronic I was totally getting vibes of Midsommar…” and what I was about to say was “THANK GOD it wasn’t like that, because that movie was the WORST” but Moorehead jumped in to let me know that “If I loved Midsommar… I should definitely check out his film “The Endless” to which I replied, “Ooooh… I’ll definitely have to check that out!” But see, I didn’t say what movie or when I would be checking it out…so see? Not a lie. (Edit: It turns out, I've see The Endless...shhh don't tell)

A bit about Synchronic

Two friends Steve (Anthony Mackie) and Dennis (Jamie Dornan) are best friends and are working as paramedics on the night shift.  They begin to encounter a series of strange deaths and people in hypnotic-like states that they link to a new designer drug, Synchronic.

In the mix of all of this Dennis’s daughter Brianna (Ally Ioannides) goes missing and the story unravels the more details about this trending drug and it’s true effects. Time travel!

Steve discovers something about himself that motivates him to buy up all the Synchronic in town to protect others, and to take it himself and chronicle how the pill works with different forms of ingestion, how it causes you to time travel with the goal of  discovering what happened to Brianna.

A bit about our interview with Justin Benson / Aaron Moorehead

Rob was super nervous about talking to the creative duo of Benson and Moorehead because he really admires their collective movie-making skills.  I had only seen parts of two of their previous films, because murder-horror-thrillers always have a way of lulling me into a good sleep.  This isn’t to say I don’t like their movies (I liked Spring), I’m just still an exhausted Mom, at the end of the day.

We really enjoyed catching up with Benson and Moorehead. Admittedly, we had a whole bevy of questions for them that we weren’t able to get to because of time constraints, but we hope you enjoy the time with had with this talented duo!

Synchronic trailer!

https://youtu.be/XGCrg1OAYfs

Synchronic releases on VOD October 23rd!

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.

It was a very special week in the lives of your humble podcast hosts - Carrie and Rob are celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary! So that you can join in the festivities, we've decided to make this episode all about the best, most stable, most loving, and all-around enviable marriages in cinema. We're looking at our Top 5 married couples in the movies, and while there maybe aren't as many candidates as there were when we when we looked at our favorite movies about divorce (whoever would have thought?), we're pretty sure this episode is going to be a lot more uplifting and optimistic.

In Worth Mentioning, we cover Tenet, Bill & Ted Face the Music, Scenes From a Marriage (thanks to Patreon Brian Fowler) and 12 Angry Men (thanks to Patreon Julian DeBerry)

Between A Quiet Place: Part II depicting how humanity might look after civilization has been destroyed by blind, man-eating aliens, and COVID-19 preventing us from going out to the movie theaters to see it (EDIT: In a much more direct way than I had initially meant, as it turns out), it's an exciting time for fans of apocalypses. To celebrate - or prepare? - we're taking a look at our favorite films about what happens after the end of everything.  We share our top five apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic movies, all those merry and uplifting tales of how nuclear war, environmental collapse, zombies, or, yes, pandemics have destroyed the world and left behind only the abandoned ruins for scavengers to pick over.

In Worth Mentioning we cover Onward, Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made and Hook.

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

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.

Tim and Brennan close out their month of discussing movies that were covered on the iconic cult television program Mystery Science Theater 3000! Surprisingly, THE SCREAMING SKULL becomes one of our most divisive episodes yet!

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 time for one of our favorite annual traditions, the summer preview episode! We always love to try to predict what upcoming releases we're going to enjoy the most, out of all the big summer tentpoles and smaller counter-programming. Unfortunately, with no movies coming out until July (at best!), it would be a pretty thin episode.

But just because summer 2020 is shot to hell, doesn't mean we can't still have fun thinking about summer blockbusters! So instead of looking ahead, we're going to look backwards, to our favorite blockbuster movies of summers past. Butter up some popcorn and throw on the AC, and join us for a celebration of all the best big budget razzle-dazzle that Hollywood has thrown at us for the past few decades.

In Worth Mentioning, we cover Extraction, Sonic the Hedgehog, and A Brighter Summer Day.

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!

Some topics are just blunt and to the point, and that's just what we've gotten this week from Patreon supporter Granger D Pole, who wants us to go right for the kill: our lists of the worst movies of the 1980s. A decade that has some of the lowest lows in all of cinema history, so expect some real stinkers...unless you're Carrie and decide to opt for some of the most beloved films of the decade.

Tune in!

Carrie's Top 5:

1. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
2. The Apple
3. Mac and Me
4. Society
5. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Tim's Top 5:

1. The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
2. Gamera: Super Monster
3. Skullduggery
4. Oasis of the Zombies
5. Don't Open Until Christmas

Brennan's Top 5:

1. The Outing
2. Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-rama
3. Killing of the Flesh
4. Airplane II: The Sequel
5. Xanadu

This week’s winner for our Bottom 5 80's Movies was Damian Oakes!

1. Revenge of the Nerds

********************************************************

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 – Carrie Letterboxd

Want to support Alternate Ending, you can via our Patreon page!

If there's one thing The Nest is not, it's light and breezy. It's heavy and chest tightening and emotionally dense. So naturally, with so much to unpack, our first question for Sean Durkin was if he saw any resemblance between Jude Law and Rob Jarosinski. There was awkward laughter, but no confirmation. 

A bit about Sean Durkin

Born in Canada (lucky feller), Sean Durkin won his first cinematic accolade at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival for his first feature Martha Marcy May Marlene.  His short film, Mary Last Seen, on the same theme as Martha, won the award for best short film at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.  Nearly a decade later, Durkin released his second film, The Nest(which feels a lot more like a sixth or seventh).  The film had its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

On his newest feature The Nest 

Like I said, The Nest is pretty gut wrenching, but in a way I haven't felt watching a movie before.  The story follows and Englishman, Rory O'Hara (Jude Law) and his American wife, Allison (Carrie Coon), who are raising their two children in New York City.  The pair seem to have the perfect little hamster wheel life that so many parents live in, but Rory starts rattling the cage when he convinces his wife to move to England in search of better work opportunities. 

Don't get me wrong, I'm all about being supportive, but when the family movies into this massive mansion and Rory starts buying horses and cars and enrolling his kids in private school, I started to give Rob the side-eye. 

The next hour-or-so, is a painful slog through relationship complexities.  Rory's unhealthy obsession with success and money alienates his family and everybody around him.  Meanwhile, his wife who has been trying to hold her family together, starts to question her own sanity, from the constant gaslighting of her loving husband. 

The Nest is available on streaming - check it out and let us know what you think!

******************************************************************

Facebook

Instagram

YouTube

Twitter

Tim Letterboxd – Rob Letterboxd – Carrie Letterboxd

Our latest podcast topic comes courtesy of Patreon Not Fenimore, who's asked us to take a look at one of film history's most legendary, acclaimed trilogies: The Godfather (1972), The Godfather, Part II (1974), and The Godfather, Part III (1990). And lest you think that the internet can't possibly need another analysis of the Godfather films, there's a twist: for one of our trio (not naming names!) this will be the very first time seeing these monolithic classics.

As an added bonus, we talked to Anderson Cowan of The Film Vault podcast, on the occasion of his leap into feature filmmaking with Groupers. Grab your tickets to the theatrical release while you can!

In Worth Mentioning we also covered Ad Astra and My Brother's Wedding.

Be sure to help us get some podcast sponsors by filling out this short survey.

It's our inaugural episode of Pass The Popcorn and we while we have many directions we want to take this new format, we just had to review Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, given our respective obsessions with Marvel, Simu Liu and Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, we just had to get this movie out of our system.

We've had an eventful last few weeks with COVID super-spreader events, anniversaries and phallic gift deliveries and of course, you know we love to tell you all about those gory details.

In worth mentioning Tim and Carrie commiserate about Don't Breathe 2 and Rob tries to sell the new Hulu release Vacation Friends (unsuccessfully).

Tune in!

Next week's episode: Fall Movie Preview

*****************************************************************

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!

After more than 6-months of radio silence, Rob is back with an Amateur Hour update to catch up on the making of Hauntology.

In this episode, he covers how the last segment and through line came together, the current status of the project, potential release dates / plans and new projects on-deck!

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.

This week, Bride of Alternate Ending is double masked and taking to the aisles to discuss SCREAM 5 aka 5CREAM aka SCREAM for reasons that remain unfathomable. Will noted Scream skeptic Tim and Scream megafan Brennan (who recorded this entire podcast without telling Tim that theres a shiny new Scream ’22 poster hanging on his wall just out of sight of the Zoom camera) find common ground on this new entry, the first to not be directed by Wes Craven?

This week's podcast topic comes from Patreon subscriber Jack Chivers, who has asked us to look at our favorite films from the United Kingdom, a national cinema broad enough to include stories about nice people laughing while having tea, crying while having tea, and getting shot by gangsters while having tea. There are films as intimate as a working class romance and as epic in their sprawl as the Harry Potter series, as hilarious as the work of Monty Python and as horrifying as a Carry On sequel. As long as it's from Britain, it's fair game for our list of the Top 5 British films.

In Worth Mentioning we cover Hillbilly Elegy, The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two and The Day the Earth Stood Stillthanks to Patron Zev Burrows.

Merry December, everyone! For our Patreon-voted Christmas episode, we’re covering the late 80’s not-quite-a-slasher ELVES! It’s an action-horror thriller about Grizzly Adams as a mall Santa fighting Nazi elves, and he’s not even the most fascinating character…

To help fill the void in your weekly listening, Carrie and Rob are bringing you Weeklies - a review of the last 7-days of movie new...with a twist! Rob has gathered all the 10 best pieces of movie news and Carrie will only be able to pick 5

1. 'Aeronauts' Trailer Sees Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne Fighting for Their Lives in Hot Air Balloon
2. New 'Purge' Thriller Finds Lead in Ana de la Reguera (Exclusive)
3. Neill Blomkamp Prepping Sci-Fi Thriller 'Inferno,' Taylor Kitsch to Star
4. Young Boy Helps Supernatural Creature in 'Antlers' Trailer
5. 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' to Be Rereleased in Theaters With Extra Footage
6. 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' Smashes Presale Records
7. Adam Driver in Talks to Star Alongside Matt Damon in Ridley Scott's 'The Last Duel'
8. ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ Moving Forward at Disney+ with Writer Jen D’Angelo
9. Christian Bale and Matt Damon Will Both Compete in Best Actor for ‘Ford v Ferrari’
10. Robert Zemeckis in Talks to Direct Disney’s Live-Action ‘Pinocchio’ Movie

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!

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.

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.

As a followup to Alternate Ending’s Top 5 Rivalries episode, Brennan is sitting down with Take 2 virgin Rob to discuss TWILIGHT, how it ended up on his list, and why he took it right the hell off!

Brand new month, brand new topic! Patron Gavin McDowell asked us to cover the films of Ray Harryhausen and the people voted for his 1957 effort 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH! Tim and Brennan break down the breathtaking special effects used to create the Ymir, the way the Italian setting makes some of the 50’s boilerplate more tolerable, and Brennan tries to impress his friend Hunter by referencing as many other B-movies as possible.

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!

Almost as much as Santa Claus and reindeer, you can't have a Christmas movie without some miserable SOB who starts out by humbugging their way through throngs of cheerful celebrants and has, by the end of the second hour, learned the True Meaning of Christmas, whatever it might be in this case. To help our own hearts grow two-and-a-half sizes at the end of this tough year, we're looking at our top five curmudgeons in Christmas movies, the bitter old souls who just need a dew-eyed child, or a festive song, or a kindly old man in a red hat, or a hellfire vision of their own death, to be jolted into feeling peace and goodwill for all humankind.

In Worth Mentioning we cover Wild Mountain Thyme, Bad Education, Peppermint and the recent Warner Bros. announcment.

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!

On this week's episode, we are joined by the ever-so delightful Mandy Albert (and official Raspberry Picking correspondent) to round out our movie recommendations (or one's to avoid) for this week!

Tim brings his thoughts on Helen Mirren's newest feature Golda. Mandy lightly steams things up a bit with her thoughts on Tosca Musk and her 9 part series following the romantic affairs of Gabriel & Julia, in the Gabriel's Inferno series.  Carrie brings her rage towards the newest fright-flick Talk to Me and reminds listeners just how old she is by sharing a 30 min health update.

Tune in and we hope you enjoy!

*****************************************************************

Love the Podcast? Leave us a review!

Other places to follow Alternate Ending.

Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter

Tim Letterboxd | Carrie Letterboxd | Mandy Letterboxd

Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, via our Patreon page!

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.

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.

This week on Take 2, Carrie joins Brennan to discuss her official number 1 favorite Studio Ghibli film, PONYO, and how it got that way.

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.

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.

The Oscars are over and I think we can say a collective "well, that was weird".  The location, the speeches, the music trivia?  On this 93rd Academy Awards dedicated episode we cover all of our Oscars 2021 reactions.  We take a look at the best and worst moments, out thoughts on the upsets and the usual end to the whole affair.  To be fair, it's not all bad.  In fact, we find a whole handful of things that we really enjoyed.  Most notably, it seems highly probable that somebody phoned in the 75+ humor troop, but I digress.

I should mention that there is a glaring miss on talking about the best dressed, so to be clear it was of course Viola Davis. **sizzle**

I would be remiss not to mention the Oscar Predictions contest! The rankings among us came in where you might expect, but with Tim bringing in 17 correct predictions that left Rob and I only 2-3 behind!  That said, there are wiser (or better guessing) humans amongst us, so with a 19 correct answers, we announce the winner(s) of the 2021 Oscar Prediction Contest!  Thanks for playing along with us!

In worth mentioning, we share our thoughts on the newest installment of Mortal Kombat and it's own highs and lows. Tim brings his "I'm not going to commit that it's the best film of the year, but I think it's probably the film of the year" pick with Twentieth Century.

Our next Movie Club meetup is coming!

Movie Club Movie Trivia is Friday, April 30th – Mark your calendars!  If you're not a Movie Club member, you can sign up here!

*****************************************************************

Love the Podcast? Leave us a review!

Other places to follow Alternate Ending.

Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter

Tim Letterboxd – Rob Letterboxd – Carrie Letterboxd

Being on the cusp of a pretty big summer release in the form of Wonder Woman - Carrie's most anticipated movies of the summer, as you might recall - we're celebrating history's most famous female superhero making her big-screen solo debut by discussing a very different kind of strong woman role model with the our top five businesswomen. As for what exactly makes a great movie businesswoman, that's going to be a matter of some debate.

Carrie shares a gem in the Worth Mentioning segment with What If while Rob bring Denial to the table.

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: 

1. Rocky IV
2. Independence Day 
3. Armageddon
4. Forrest Gump
5. Top Gun: Maverick 

Carrie Top 5: 

1. Top Gun: Maverick 
2. Independence Day
3. The American President 
4. Apollo 13
5. A Hidden Life 

Tim Top 5:

1. Casablanca
2. Yankee Doodle Dandy
3. Napoleon
4. 1776
5. Fascist Boots

Audience Top 5 Patriotic Movies

1. The Right Stuff
2. Michael Collins
3. Casablanca
4. Born on the Fourth of July
5. An American Tale

This week’s winner – Grant Hagey 

1. Stripes
2. An American Tale
3. Rocky IV
4. Captain America: The First Avenger
5. 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

This year's Oscar race is about to get dressy with House of Gucci, a true crime biopic about the legendary family-run fashion company. To celebrate, we're playing a bit of dress-up ourselves, as we take a look out favorite examples of costuming motion picture history. From the storybook past to the shiny future, costume design is one of the cornerstones of cinematic worldbuilding, and our next episode is entirely devoted to the most imaginative, most glamorous, and most colorful examples of big screen couture.

Brennan is joined this week by Brian and Gavin, and the three of them chat about the films coming out soon to U.S. (and French!) theaters. While the three of them try to figure what the hell a Minecraft is, they discover that there are plenty of interesting-looking genre films sneaking out amongst the unimpressive-looking heavy hitters. Before that, Brennan discusses the 1981 German art film Taxi zum Klo, a groundbreaking representation of gay sex in cinema, at the request of Patreon supporter Freya, while Brian and Gavin whether Disney's new butchery of Snow White or Netflix butchery of life itself, The Electric State, is the more aggravating way to have set more than a quarter of a billion dollars on fire.

Tim and Brennan are kicking off British Ghost Stories month in honor of the Christmas tradition from across the pond. We’re kicking off with 1989’s THE WOMAN IN BLACK, which originally aired on Christmas Eve!

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!

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.

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.

This week we’re continuing to dig the skeletons out of the closets of people nominated for Oscars in 2022, and we’re moving on to Best Actress nominee Kristen Stewart’s early role in THE MESSENGERS! Tim and Brennan discuss sunflower farming, the career trajectory of K-Stew, and the world’s serviceablest cast!

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!

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.

Tim and Brennan kick off a month of evil kid horror movies by discussing the Elijah Wood and Macaulay Culkin joint THE GOOD SON! It turns out, mileage varies!

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!

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!

In this first episode of 2017, Carrie and Rob discuss the series of unfortunate events that befell them on their holiday road trip. More surprises are revealed for the future of Alternate Ending. In addition, they debate the finer points of what makes a top 5 kiss and phrase substitutes for the horizontal mambo.

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.

On our second belated November episode, we’re covering Wes Craven’s THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS in honor of its 20th anniversary! Brennan and Tim analyze where the film works and where it doesn’t, as well as where it fits in the overall Craven canon.

Just in time for the holidays, Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story premieres on Netflix, documenting in by-all-accounts harrowing detail the psychological torment that befalls a couple as their marriage disintegrates. To celebrate, Rob and Carrie have finally decided we're going to look at all of our favorite films about the inevitable death of love and the acrimony and rage that come when two people violently sever their matrimonial ties, in brazen defiance of God's will. An especially fun and bubbly time is guaranteed for all!

In Worth Mentioning we cover Marriage Story, Honey Boy, The Farewell and Children of Men thanks to Patreon Tristan Frayling!

Tim and Brennan kick off their month of discussing movies that were covered on the iconic cult television program Mystery Science Theater 3000! The title is too long to type again, but just know it’s a hell of a ride!

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 takes over hosting duties to welcome returning guests Andrew and Zev. The three of them share notes on the movies coming up over the next month, doing their absolute best to avoid talking about the Snow White-shaped elephant in the room while coming up with some promising smaller releases that we don't want to see fall through the cracks. Before that, it's a century-long tour of cinema during the movie roundtable, as Zev shares his thoughts on Alfred Hitchcock's silent thriller Downhill, Andrew checks out the Hong Kong action cult classic In the Line of Duty 4, and Brennan takes us right up to the current year, visiting the internet's favorite marmalade-eating bear as he stars in Paddington in Peru.

Halloween is right around the corner, and we're in the mood for some horror! This time around, we're going to be talking about our very favorite movies about every low-budget filmmaker's favorite monster: zombies, the brain-hungry reanimated corpses that have been munching guts ever for over half a century, and were busy harvesting sugar crops even before that. As a special guest, we have the creator of several Zombie comic books, Robert Rios.

In Worth Mentioning, we cover Parasite.

Thanks to Patreon subscriber Andrew Milne we're here this week talking about our Top Movies I'm Ashamed I haven't seen. Some, we're embarrassed about and others we've just downright lied to people and said we've seen (only Tim, only Tim would do that). Either way, we bare all on this super fun episode, designed especially to fling ourselves under the bus.  The extra bonus is that Tim arbitrarily has committed to righting the wrongs of the unseen films on his list, so yay for #5!

Tune in and we hope you have a great week!

Rob Top 5: 

1. Taxi Driver
2. Gone with the Wind
3. Lawrence of Arabia
4. Apocalypse Now
5. A Clockwork Orange

Tim Top 5: 

1. Ivan The Terrible, Par 2: The Boyars' Plot
2. Close-Up
3. Le Cercle Rouge
4. L'Eclisse
5. Now and Then

Carrie Top 5:

1. The Matrix
2. It's A Wonderful Life
3. Grease 
4. Schindler's List 
5. The Big Lebowski 

Audience Top 5 Movies to See Before You Die: 

1. Lawrence of Arabia
2. Seven Samurai
3. Raging Bull
4. A Clockwork Orange
5. Gone with the Wind

This week's winner - Hunter Allen

1. The Godfather Trilogy
2. Farewell My Concubine
3. The Human Condition 
4. Naqoyqatsi

*****************************************************************

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!

Have you ever noticed the pattern of successful entertainment personalities, having experienced some sort of adversity or hardship when they were young? The comedian whose Dad was an abusive jerk.  The actor who was bullied for their acne or their off-brand jeans or their haircut (you know the important stuff that bullies care about).  As a creator, you can control the narrative and ultimately, the outcome for your characters (what should happen).  For Jacob Chase, Come Play, has a message about loneliness, about empathy and about overcoming the qualities in ourselves that challenge us most.

A bit about Come Play

It's fair to say (I double checked with Jacob Chase) that Come Play is a blend of The Babadook and ET.  Despite the heart-racing jump scares and sweat-inducing practical effects, when the terrifying monster Larry emerges, I kind of wanted to reach out my finger and say "Lar-Ry Phone Home."  In fact, all Larry wants is a friend.  The story centers around a little boy named Oliver (Azhy Robertson) who has a severity of autism that leaves him unable to communicate verbally.  Oliver's Mom, Sarah (Gillian Jacobs), is doing her best to navigate the challenges that come with this, while also dealing with the deterioration of her marriage to Marty (John Gallagher, Jr.).

The thing of the movie, is that Larry lives inside your smart phone or your tablet (I'll probably use this explanation with my kids to get them off those ridiculous package opening YouTube videos) and he grows strength and emerges from the technology as you read his story.

The thing is, yeah, Larry is a monster who wants to suck Oliver into his dark world.  And sure, Larry will probably kill you if he has the chance. But Larry just wants a friend, after all, and who can't empathize with that?

Our interview with Jacob Chase

We had such a nice time chatting with Jacob Chase. Everything from, his motivations for making the movie, his wife's work that inspired the film and his overall passion for all things that go bump-in-the-night. The making of Larry and how the practical effects came together, also gave us a different perspective on the film.

We hope you enjoy hearing about the making of Come Play too!

Prefer video? 

Put down your coffee and check out the trailer! 

https://youtu.be/LQwiqhdMQ7g

You can also read Tim's review of Come Play.

******************************************************************

Facebook

Instagram

YouTube

Twitter

Tim Letterboxd – Rob Letterboxd – Carrie Letterboxd

We're rolling into February with a wild first month of 2024 behind us.

This week Carrie brings the the ultimate Dad-movie, Mom-movie, inpso-video-lover-movie, kid-movie...(you get the idea)...McFarland, USA.  She also gets confirmation from Tim on whether or not she should give Saltburn another try.

Tim brings two films to the table this week, that come with mixed reviews - Origin and Anselm.

Tune in!

*****************************************************************

Love the Podcast? Leave us a review!

Other places to follow Alternate Ending.

Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter

Tim Letterboxd | Carrie 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!

We're turning our attention to movie stars for our next episode - specifically, to movie stars right at the beginning of their stardom. We're looking at our all-time favorite acting debuts, the very best performances by new actors who manage to prove in their very first time in front of a camera that they have what it takes to hold our attention, to make us cry, to make us laugh, and to stick around for years to come.

In Worth Mentioning we cover Irresistible and Homecoming.

It's a Patreon-palooza  this week thanks to Gavin (Society), Ann Yourell (The Mirror Has Two Faces), Travis (The Hill) and Carl Beasley (Secrets of the Hot Spring).  It was a bit of a Goldilocks story on this episode, with some movies being incredibly enjoyable, some just so-so and then so bad you want to light yourself on fire.

Which movie falls where? Tune in to find out!

*****************************************************************

Love the Podcast? Leave us a review!

Other places to follow Alternate Ending.

Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Twitter

Tim Letterboxd | Carrie Letterboxd

Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, via our Patreon page!

"Every movie's a circus", in the words of a song from the proudly mediocre Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Sunset Blvd. But we're going to be a little bit more selective than that. At the request of Patreon supporter Carl Beasley, this episode focuses on on our top 5 circus movies: movies celebrating the wonderful entertainment form that has made such a rich pageant out of exploiting people with unusual bodies, abusing animals, and of course, the indescribable, unholy nightmare terrors of those funny fellas, the clowns.

It'll be fun for girls and boys of all ages, so come check out our favorite examples of all the wonders that can be found under the big top!

Carrie's Top 5:

1. Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken 
2. Toy Story 4
3. The Greatest Showman
4. Water for Elephants
5. Dumbo

Tim's Top 5:

1. Dumbo
2. The Circus
3. La Strada
4. Laugh, Clown, Laugh
5. Nightmare Alley (1947)

Audience Top 5:

1. Dumbo 
2. Freaks
3. The Circus
4. He Who Gets Slapped 
5. Nightmare Alley

This week’s winner for our Top 5 Circus Movies – Grooves

1. Nightmare Alley (2021)
2. Dumbo 
3. The Circus
4. Freaks
5. The Greatest Showman

********************************************************

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 – Carrie Letterboxd

Want to support Alternate Ending, you can via our Patreon page!