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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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Dec 23, 2022

Tim and Brennan are closing out their month of examining horror films that take place around Christmas without specifically being ABOUT Christmas. In order to do so in style, they’re covering the New French Extremity entry INSIDE, which is set over Christmas Eve!

 

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Dec 19, 2022

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.

 

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Dec 9, 2022

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!

 

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Dec 5, 2022

This week, Sight and Sound magazine released their once-a-decade poll of the greatest films of all time, inciting a huge shake-up as neither Citizen Kane nor Vertigo took the top slot! Tim and Carrie are on hand to share their thoughts on this momentous occasion!

 

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Nov 28, 2022

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.

 

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Nov 25, 2022

Today Tim and Brennan are closing out Antichrist month, a topic requested by Patreon member Harold Bleacher. They thought it would be a good idea to check out the TV movie sequel to Rosemary’s Baby, LOOK WHAT’S HAPPENED TO ROSEMARY’S BABY. They were wrong…

 

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Nov 21, 2022

With many thanks to Patreon subscriber Jack C. we have been given a real doozy of a topic for this week: Top 5 Movies You Hate That Everyone Else Loves

Seems pretty innocuous, right? WRONG. This topic is at the foundation of where all blood baths are formed. Tensions where high, but the episode remained *mostly* cordial, due to pure mental and emotional fatigue from our respective hosts.

Whose list do you agree with the most? Which one leaves you the most enraged?

Tune in to find out!

Carrie's Top 5:

  1. The Wizard of Oz
  2. Spirited Away
  3. Citizen Kane
  4. E.T. The Extra Terrestrial 
  5. Mission Impossible: Fallout 

Tim's Top 5:

  1. Cinema Paradiso 
  2. Forrest Gump
  3. Life is Beautiful 
  4. Shrek
  5. Dracula 

Mandy's Top 5:

  1. UP
  2. Young Frankenstein 
  3. It Follows
  4. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
  5. Casino Royale

Audience Top 5 Movies You Hate That Everyone Else Loves:

  1. Forrest Gump
  2. Life is Beautiful
  3. Love Actually
  4. Inside Out
  5. Midsommar

This week’s winner – Avaitor

  1. Forrest Gump
  2. Suspiria
  3. The Matrix
  4. His Girl Friday
  5. Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse

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Nov 14, 2022

Christmas (or whatever holiday makes you giddy with glee) came early here at Alternate Ending. We're joined by one of our favorite humans, Catherine Clark!  You may have seen some of her writing contributions on ae.com, but she's also an artist, film producer and officially the best cat Mom on the planet (don't tell Tim).

If there was a contest for the person in our lives who would be the least likely to get kicked out of a Gen-Z party, Catherine would win in a landslide.  Meanwhile, Carrie still uses words like "hip" and "cool whip" in public conversations. Needless to say, their feelings on Bodies Bodies Bodies...differ.

Catherine also brings the Triangle of Sadness, which she compares to Parasite only with Woody Harrelson (there are less intriguing ways to describe a movie).

The pair round out the conversation with their perspectives on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

We promise and cross-our-hearts that this is a spoiler-free episode.

Tune in and have a great week, friends!

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Nov 11, 2022

This month, thanks to Patreon member Harold Bleacher, Tim and Brennan are discussing films about the Antichrist! This time we’re taking a trip to 1995 Madrid to discuss Álex de la Iglesia’s DÍA DE LA BESTIA, aka THE DAY OF THE BEAST!

 

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Nov 7, 2022

It was a movie-palooza on this week's episode of Pass the Popcorn! Carrie brings her thoughts on Barbarian and by the request of Patreon supporter Brian Fowler, commiserates with Tim on her adoration for Smiles of a Summer Night.

Brennan and Tim take their hits on the newest nun-horror flick Prey for the Devil and takes a quick turn to the life and times of Al Yankovic as captured in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.

Finally, we turn to Tim who gives us the low-down on the newest remake of All Quiet on the Western Front and by Patreon Kelleson Dale's request, Tim reviews the weird little tale of a brood of animated appliances in The Brave Little Toaster.

We also learn exactly what foods irritate our respective bowels, because this is a classy podcast.

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Nov 1, 2022

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

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Oct 28, 2022

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.

 

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Oct 24, 2022

On this week's episode we answer all of your probing questions. How did Carrie survive 2 weeks with Rob "away"? Was Rob really "away" or have Carrie and Tim secretly chopped him into bits and hid him in the floor boards? Why do we keep putting "away" in quotes?

Find out when we're joined by an extra special guest to tell all - tune in!

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Oct 17, 2022

This week, Carrie, Tim, and Brennan get together for a conversation about the best movies to get you into the Halloween spirit! But first of all, a Worth Mentioning roundup of three films that probably won’t: HALLOWEEN ENDS, HOCUS POCUS 2, and LYLE LYLE CROCODILE! This episode is seeded throughout with some of the best Carrie stories you’ve ever heard, so keep your ears peeled.

 

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Oct 14, 2022

The lead-up to Halloween has begun, so Tim and Brennan are covering adaptations of one of Western literature’s most seminal ghost stories: The Turn of the Screw, starting with the 1961 Deborah Karr classic THE INNOCENTS!

 

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Oct 4, 2022

After the tragic loss of our original episode audio, we're a little late this week but Carrie and Tim did their best to lick their wounds and rally to re-record our Fall 2022 favorites episode!

In worth mentioning, Carrie brings the new "low budget" high-tower thriller Fall and Tim tries to sell Carrie on the recently released horror flick Smile.

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Sep 26, 2022

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 

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Sep 23, 2022

Today we’re closing out dinosaur month, which was suggested by Oscar-level Patreon member Johnzilla! We’re following Carnosaur with another classic (?), the 2018 dino-ninja-Catholicism mashup THE VELOCIPASTOR!

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Sep 19, 2022

In 1985, when the first Fletch film was released in theaters, Marcia Gay Harden was a broke NYU grad student who was still 5 years away from her breakout role in Miller's Crossing. In the subsequent 37 years, Lady Marcia Gay Harden (inside joke you'll have to listen to understand) has racked up not only over 120 film and tv credits, but an Academy and Tony Award. But, as she tells it, her proudest achievement is being a mom and as any mom will tell you, a right of passage for kids going off to college is to do a tear filled drop-off, which is exactly where Marcia was on her way to do when she hopped on to chat with me about her latest film, Confess, Fletch.

While at a layover, she dished on how she landed the role as The Countess in Confess, Fletch alongside a fun ensemble, including John Hamm (taking the mantle from Chevy Chase), Lucy Punch, Kyle MacLachlan, Lorenza Izzo and John Slattery (who reunites with his Mad Man co-star Hamm).

For those who loved the original Fletch series or just a good comedy / PI romp, be sure to watch Confess, Fletch streaming everywhere, now!

Sep 12, 2022

It's a bit of a hodgepodge this week here at AE - lots of feelings about movies, theaters, streaming services, return to work, X-rated film reviews and more!

We had a real gift bag in worth mentioning this week, too!  Thanks to Patreon Julian DeBerry, we get to enjoy the peace and calm that comes with 1985's Soviet war film Come and See. Ann Yourell had us also exploring the debatably racist French film, The Intouchables. Lastly, let us not forget the film requested by M.C. Steffen, that had Tim wanting to quit film criticism altogether, Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas.

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Sep 9, 2022

Thanks to Oscar-level Patreon member Johnzilla, this month is all about dinosaurs! We’re kicking things off the only right way, which is to discuss the Roger Corman production CARNOSAUR, which was rushed into production to compete with Jurassic Park, complete with Laura Dern’s mom as the villain!

 

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Sep 5, 2022

This episode, thanks to Patreon supporter Carl Beasley, we're taking a look at the phenomenon of the cliffhanger ending, in which a story ends on a moment of greatest tension and excitement, the better to make sure we're good and excited for the next entry. If there is another entry? Or maybe we're left mourning the unknown....

Rob Top 5: 
1. Inception 
2. Back to the Future - Part II 
3. The Empire Strikes Back
4. The Thing
5. Avengers: Infinity War 

Carrie Top 5: 
1. Inception
2. Before Midnight
3. Perfect Senses
4. Joker
5. Broken Flowers

Tim Top 5:
1. The Italian Job
2. The Empire Strikes Back
3. Back to the Future 
4. Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
5. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 

Audience Top 5
1. The Empire Strikes Back 
2. The Thing
3. The Italian Job
4. Casino Royale
5. Inception

This week’s winner – Gavin
1. Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance
2. A Quiet Place
3. Mortal Kombat
4. Casino Royale
5. The Raid 2

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Aug 29, 2022

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?

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Aug 26, 2022

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.

 

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Aug 22, 2022

Well, I'd like to say that Carrie, Tim and Rob are all back this week because the madness of Summer has come to an end, but that wouldn't be true, the madness of Fall is just upon us! Nevertheless, we did find the first week in a month that all of us were either healthy and in cell-phone range and we couldn't be happier about it.  The only thing that could possibly spoil this reunion euphoria is having to spend an hour talking about The Billy Jack series - and here we are! Thanks to Patreon supporter Gavin, we slogged our way through about 100 hours (ish) of a very Caucasian man, casting himself as an Indigenous man/Vietnam war vet and leveraging his Korean martial art, Hapkido, to take down real bad guys. If you're not entirely sold here, check out the episode!

In worth mentioning, Carrie covers the newly released Thor: Love and Thunder and Rob attempts to ensure you never want to see the decent movie Day Shift.

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