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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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May 30, 2022

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!

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May 27, 2022

Edward Furlong month shambles forward into the mid-90s, where CD-ROM is king and the Trickster might just try to Freddy Krueger his way into your life. Join us as we dive deep into the nonsensical machinations of this film’s plot, break down every single way the Trickster fails as an attempt at creating an iconic horror villain, and discover how low a film has to go in order to not be dragged down by a Furlong performance!

 

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May 25, 2022

We start where we left off before - on the way to the big investor meeting where the fate of Hauntology would be decided!

So, who better to join this episode than a few of our investors, including: Catherine Clark, Chris Trengove and Rachael Scaccia.

May 23, 2022

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!

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May 18, 2022

Rob embarks on his first solo podcast with Amateur Hour sharing the origin story of how the unlikely  movie project Hauntology came to be along with award-winning filmmaker Parker Brennon and team. Rob covers everything from his filmmaking past, finding out about Parker and the early part of building the project through to the looming investor meeting that would decide the fate of the project.

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May 16, 2022
Around the world, the box office charts are being dominated by Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the latest example of Marvel Studios' habit of attempting to shake some of the dust off the formula of formulaic comic book superhero action movies by flavoring them with a little bit of genre. In this case, for the first time in Marvel's history, that genre flavoring is horror, and that's gotten us to thinking about all the other times a not-actually-horror movie got to play around in horror's sandbox. And that's gotten us to our next episode topic: the Top 5 Scary Movies That Aren't Horror. From childhood trauma where it frankly makes no sense to find it, up to movies that disquieted us powerfully as adults without it necessarily being clear why, we're looking for scares where you least expect it.

Tune in and we hope you enjoy!

Rob Top 5: 

  1. Contagion
  2. Requiem for a Dream
  3. Blindness
  4. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
  5. The Neverending Story

Carrie Top 5: 

  1. Willow
  2. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
  3. Edward Scissorhands
  4. Powder
  5. Raiders of the Lost Ark

Tim Top 5:

  1. Raiders of the Lost Ark
  2. The Seventh Seal
  3. Beauty and the Beast 
  4. Barton Fink
  5. Brazil

Audience Top 5 Top 5 Chicago Movies (Not Named “Chicago”)

  1. Inland Empire
  2. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  3. Picnic at Hanging Rock
  4. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
  5. Star Wars | Indiana Jones

This week’s winner – Zev Burrows

  1. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  2. Inland Empire
  3. Full Metal Jacket
  4. Barton Fink
  5. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

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May 13, 2022

It’s a brand new month and, per the request of Patreon Carl Beasley, we’re discussing the horror output of Edward Furlong! We’re kicking off with what is definitely not the most famous franchise part 2 he was in: PET SEMATARY 2, Mary Lambert’s sequel to her 1989 adaptation of the classic Stephen King novel!

 

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May 9, 2022

This week, Brennan and Carrie, are flying solo (duo?) to have a book (and everything else) club, catching up on everything in the pop culture sphere that ISN’T cinema, including television, books, and podcasts! Topics include reading journeys, personal revelations, and what cinematic straight couple Brennan can abide.

 

But first, in Worth Mentioning, Brennan discusses the classic Ryan Reynolds/Sandra Bullock rom-com The Proposal and Carrie brings the new animated film The Bad Guys to the table.

 

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May 2, 2022

With the arrival in theater of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness next week, the first fully fleshed-out summer movie season since 2019 will be upon us. To celebrate, the  Alternate Ending crew is looking ahead to the next four months of action epics, animated comedies, and the occasional art film from a major director. For our next episode, we offer a Summer 2023 Preview: the films we're excited about (and perhaps the ones we're especially dreading), the films we expect to be big hits or big flops!

Plus...

Don't forgot! Box Office Prediction Contest is OPEN!

Part of the fun of summer is seeing what movies will rake in the biggest pile of money. So in addition to sharing your top 5 picks for what you're looking forward to for the episode, we're also inviting you to share your best guesses for what films are going to make the most money over the next few months. Either in comments here, or via e-mail at contact@alternateending.com, let us know what five films you think are going to make the most money at the U.S. domestic box office, as of the end of day on Sunday, September 4, along with the total amount you think they'll make. Whoever is closest overall will be announced on our summer recap episode in September, and will be crowned the winner of a $25 prize!

Rob Top 5: 

  1. Men 
  2. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
  3. Thor: Love and Thunder 
  4. Bullet Train
  5. Nope

Carrie Top 5: 

  1. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
  2. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
  3. Nope
  4. Thor: Love and Thunder
  5. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

Tim Top 5:

  1. Crimes of the Future 
  2. Luz Aterna 
  3. Top Gun: Maverick
  4. Benediction 
  5. Both Sides of the Blade

Audience Summer 2022 Movie Preview

  1. Nope
  2. Men
  3. Crimes of the Future
  4. Jurassic World Dominion 
  5. Thor: Love and Thunder | Blank Phone 

This week’s winner – Rocky Peterson!

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