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Alternate Ending

Alternate Ending was formed when three friends realized that they all shared a passion for movies. Tim had been reviewing films at his old blog Antagony & Ecstasy for over a decade, and Rob & Carrie had found great success with their year-old podcast, when they all decided to combine forces to create a new site, dedicated to their desire to watch and discuss the best (and worst) that cinema has to offer. The result is the website you see before you. What makes Alternate Ending different from all the other film sites on the internet? Well, we humbly suggest that it's the three of us: very different people with very different thoughts about the movie. 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 site for people who just want to talk about the latest hot new movies in theaters right this minute. This is a site for people who can't get to the theater until the third week a film is out; a site for people who just want to find something great to stream online after the kids have gone to sleep, a site 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 site 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.
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Now displaying: 2018
Jun 4, 2018

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

In Worth Mentioning, Tim shares his love of the Netflix original Cargo.

May 29, 2018

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

In Worth Mentioning, we discuss Solo: A Star Wars Storyand Life of the Party.

May 21, 2018

Word out of Cannes is that Alden Ehrenreich makes for a pretty good Han Solo in Solo: A Star Wars Story, but let's just say that we'll believe it when we see it. But if Ehrenreich does singlehandedly destroy the movie, it wouldn't be the first time. Carrie, Rob, and Tim share their picks for the most damaging performances ever: the times when a movie was actually ruined by bad acting.

In Worth Mentioning, the crew dishes on Deadpool 2, Carrie chats about The Glass Castleand Tim shares his thoughts on The Book Club.

May 14, 2018

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

In Worth Mentioning, we discuss Overboard, Tullyand a Patreon requested review of The Red Turtle.

May 7, 2018

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

In Worth Mentioning, Carrie share's her thoughts on Kodachrome, while Rob has a couple of quick hits on Marjorie Prime, Imperiumand Allied.

Apr 30, 2018

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

Apr 9, 2018

Romantic comedies with zombies! Cops who break into song! Cowboys fighting aliens! Vampires who are real-estate billionaires and also mopey high school students! Our last podcast before we take a brief, two-week spring break comes courtesy of Patreondonor Not Fenimore, who asked us to discuss some of our all-time favorite genre mash-ups. Whether it's horror comedies or domestic dramas in space, we're talking about all our favorite unexpected combinations of cinematic flavors.

In Worth Mentioning, fresh from the Wisconsin Film Festival, Tim dishes on Godard Mon Amour,Carrie finally catches up with The Greatest Showmanand everyone talks about our Patreon pick from Zev Burrows, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.

Apr 2, 2018

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.

Mar 26, 2018

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

In Worth Mentioning, Tim dishes on the Netflix original Forgotten, while Carrie talks a little TV with Ugly Delicious.

Mar 19, 2018

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

In Worth Mentioning, the crew talks about Love, Simon and Forgotten

Mar 12, 2018

The quest to make just one good movie based on a video game continues with a new film based on Tomb Raider. The Alternate Ending crew is goes on an even more dangerous quest than Lara Croft's: we're going to try to pick our five favorite movies based on video games. See what we end up with!

In Worth Mentioning, the crew talk about another movie to hit the big screen, A Wrinkle in Time.

Mar 5, 2018

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

Feb 26, 2018

Everybody loves a hero, but sometimes you've just got to hand it to a psychopathic bastard who can get the job done fast and dirty. With Red Sparrow and the remake of Death Wish both hitting theaters next week, we're going to be sharing out picks for the best - worst? - anti-heroes in the movies.

The team also shares reviews of Tim and Rob's highly anticipated film Annihilation, Game Night and the Netflix Original, Mute.

Feb 19, 2018

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

In Worth Mentioning, we catch up with Early Man, Black Panther and Roman J. Israel Esq.

Feb 12, 2018

The dregs of January are behind us, and ahead lie three months (or anyway, two and a half) of the year's cinematic misfits: too odd, or too strange, or too under-budgeted to thrive in the cutthroat summer and holiday frames. Plus a couple of gigantic Disney tentpoles.

At any rate, we're choosing to call this transitional period "spring" for the sake of sharing our picks for our most-anticipated films of Spring 2018.

In Worth Mentioning, Tim shares his thoughts on what happened with The Cloverfield Paradox, Carrie dishes on Molly's Game and the crew talk about Patreon Travis Neely's pick of The Innocents.

Feb 4, 2018

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.

Jan 29, 2018

Did you miss us? Because we missed you, and we're happy to announce that the third season of the Alternate Ending podcast is back!

Carrie, Rob, and Tim are refreshed and relaxed, and we've spent the last few weeks cramming in all the movies we missed over 2017, and this first new episode of 2018 celebrates all of our favorite films of the last twelve months.

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