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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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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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Apr 25, 2022

Thanks to Patreon subscribers Laura and Chris Trengove, we’re here this week talking about our Top 5 Chicago Movies (Not Named "Chicago")!  As Chicago natives, we have big thoughts on what makes Chicago..ChiCAgo. From the food... to the food...and er... hotdogs?

We also have thought on: Rob's new movie ventures, if it's ok to call your Daddy, Daddio, eating boogers and the tastiest variety of chizz.

It's the most overlap we've had in years!

Tune in and we hope you enjoy!

Rob Top 5: 

  1. Ferris Bueller's Day Off 
  2. High Fidelity 
  3. Adventures In Babysitting 
  4. Candyman
  5. The Fugitive

Carrie Top 5: 

  1. The Fugitive 
  2. Adventures In Babysitting
  3. The Dark Knight
  4. While You Were Sleeping
  5. Candyman

Tim Top 5:

  1. Micky One
  2. Thief
  3. Ferris Bueller's Day Off 
  4. Candyman
  5. The Blues Brothers

Audience Top 5 Top 5 Chicago Movies (Not Named "Chicago")

  1. Candyman
  2. The Fugitive
  3. Ferris Bueller's Day Off 
  4. Thief 
  5. Hoop Dreams | The Blues Brothers | The Dark Knight | Widows

This week’s winner – Chris Baker 

  1. The Fugitive 

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Apr 22, 2022

For the second episode of Ray Harryhausen month (a topic requested by Patron Gavin McDowell), Tim and Brennan break down the 1969 film THE VALLEY OF GWANGI. The pair discuss its stop motion effects (naturally), how it functions within the realm of dinosaur pictures and Westerns, and where the hell this movie came from, a good 10 years after anyone would have wanted something like it.

 

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Apr 18, 2022

This week, Brennan, Carrie, and Mandy get together for a spicy game of movie-themed Never Have I Ever!

 

But first, in Worth Mentioning, Brennan discusses the bonkers kaleidoscope of Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All At Once, Carrie breaks down the cannibalistic horror comedy Fresh, and Mandy waxes nostalgic about Richard Linklater’s Apollo 10 1/2. Plus, we learn that Carrie can spot Short Round from a mile away!

 

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Apr 11, 2022

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

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Apr 8, 2022

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.

 

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Mar 29, 2022

Oscars 2022 Reactions - compelling drama or dramatic disappointment?

Well, I won't do what Rob does and crack a joke about starting the conversation with the most shocking thing from the 94th Academy Awards being: CODA winning best picture (ba-dum-ching and spoiler), but now 48 hours removed from the event, I think our brains would like to imagine that the actual film winners were the most compelling story.

This episode we're joined by some of our favorite people to do a little round table of our Oscars 2022 reactions!  You may remember this crew from our 94th Oscar nomination reaction episode, so prepare for snappy-takes and the comfort that can only come from like-minded cinephiles (and me).

Topics Discussed:

  • CODA winning best picture
  • Liza Minnelli taking the stage
  • Our reactions to verbal attacks on our loved ones
  • Did the In Memoriam meet the bar?
  • Best speeches
  • Best presenters
  • Best dressed (obviously)
  • Anticipatory nip-slips

There's a bit of consensus, a bit of contained rage towards me and a lot of fun as we work our way through the run of show.

Let us know your thoughts or anything we missed.

Tune in and we hope you enjoy!

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Mar 25, 2022

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!

 

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Mar 21, 2022

With special thanks to Patreon supporter Brian Fowler, we bring you our Top 5 Best Picture Winners, just in time for the 94th Academy Awards.

I don't know if it should make us feel better or worse, that this podcast is aging in reverse. What does that even mean?  You'd think after all these years and with us slowly creeping into our 40's, you'd begin to feel that tug of maturity.  Yet, here we are, another episode, another 15 minute discussion about s*x and cheese. And s*x with cheese. And... well, some things can't be unheard.

Tune in and as always, we hope you enjoy!

Rob Top 5: 

  1. Titanic 
  2. Parasite
  3. Forrest Gump
  4. Spotlight
  5. Casablanca

Tim Top 5: 

  1. Casablanca
  2. All Quiet on the Western Front
  3. Annie Hall
  4. How Green Was My Valley
  5. Lawrence of Arabia 

Carrie Top 5:

  1. Titanic 
  2. Parasite 
  3. The Silence of the Lambs
  4. The King's Speech
  5. Driving Miss Daisy 

Audience Top 5 Best Picture Winners: 

  1. Casablanca
  2. Lawrence of Arabia
  3. The Godfather
  4. Amadeus
  5. All About Eve

This week's winner - Becky Woodward (with some stellar picks):

  1. Cimmaron
  2. Oliver!
  3. American Beauty
  4. Crash
  5. Green Book

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Mar 14, 2022

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

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Mar 11, 2022

This month we’re digging the skeletons out of the closets of people nominated for Oscars in 2022, and we’re starting by discussing Steven Spielberg’s WAR OF THE WORLDS! Tim and Brennan sit down to discuss whether or not the film really qualifies as “horror,” their relationship to the copious 9/11 imagery, how Tom Cruise services the movie or not, and much much more!

 

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Mar 7, 2022

This week's episode we dive into The BatmanMatt Reeves' grim reimagining of Mr. Bruce Wayne.  As soon as we launched Pass the Popcorn, we knew at the top of our list was to have our old friend and roommate, Josh Elder.  There are few people we know who are bigger fanatics of the comic-craft and we were really eager for his perspective.  He's bringing his expertise on all things Gotham so we can get truly down and nerdy on Batman: Twilight Edition. (That is what this movie is called, right?)

The Batman Josh Elder

(Josh Elder donning the wrong shirt)

There has been a longstanding war on who is the more knowledgeable human.  Even if that war is only in Carrie's mind, this episode, we put it to rest with a bit of impromptu trivia (much to this dismay of everybody).  Josh also graces us with some of his favorite memories of Rob as a young sociopath, which has us all in tears.

In worth Mentioning, by Patron Jason Dohla's request, Carrie and Rob bring So I Married an Axe Murderer, which leads to a good 10 minutes of clarifying a very side characters name. Tim brings Tyler Perry's a Madea Homecoming. Josh joins in on the fun with a historical drama, Agora.

We have a spoiler-free discussion about our likes and gripes of The Batman before we give you a very clear heads-up as we veer into spoiler territory.

Tune in and we hope you enjoy!

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Feb 28, 2022

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)

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Feb 25, 2022

We’re still covering multi-part sequels thanks to a request from Patreon member Brian Fowler! Today we’re talking about Netflix’s new film TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, which is the ninth Texas Chainsaw film, the third film with that basic title, the third or fourth film to position itself as a direct sequel to Tobe Hooper’s 1974 original, and the first film where Leatherface is put on Instagram Live. In between digressions, we try to break down what on Earth is going on with the bizarre group of hipsters at the center of the film, share our assessment of the kills, and break down the return of the legendary Sally Hardesty!

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Feb 21, 2022

It’s Brennan’s first official week hosting Pass the Popcorn, and the whole gang joins him for this episode!

First, in Worth Mentioning, Brennan talks Annie (1999), Rob brings Uncharted, Tim discusses Teacher’s Pet (by Patreon Harold’s request), and Carrie discusses The Long Good Friday (by Patreon Jack’s request).

Then, we dive into a spoiler-free discussion of the HBO Max series Peacemaker, which just aired its season finale, as well as the James Gunn superheroverse in general.

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Feb 14, 2022
Happy Valentine's Day, to the subsection of you that don't despise it.  Though, I guess I don't care either way because I'm still going to send you a virtual hug and you're gonna like it! OO

This episode comes courtesy of Patreon subscriber Jack Chivers, who's asked us to carefully select and discuss our top 5 movie endings.  As you can imagine, our opinions on what makes a story complete, vary greatly (don't be deceived by a bit of overlap).  The episode might feel a bit chaotic, as our recollections of the actual endings of movies...differ.  The mind is a funny thing and it has an interesting way of seeing what it hopes to see, I guess.

Tune in!

Rob Top 5: 

  1. Se7en
  2. Inception
  3. Call Me By Your Name
  4. The Graduate 
  5. La La Land 

Tim Top 5: 

  1. City Lights
  2. All Quiet on the Western Front
  3. The Searchers
  4. The Nights of Cabiria  
  5. The Third Man 

Carrie Top 5:

  1. Titanic
  2. City Lights
  3. The Sixth Sense
  4. Parasite
  5. Casper

Audience Top 5 Movie Endings:

  1. The Graduate 
  2. The Wicker Man | Some Like it Hot
  3. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg | Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  4. Night of the Living Dead | Dr. Strangelove
  5. City Lights | Casablanca 

This week's winner - Julian!

  1. Spoorloos, aka The Vanishing
  2. Only Yesterday
  3. The Passenger
  4. A Clockwork Orange
  5. Portrait of a Lady on Fire

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Feb 11, 2022

This month, Bride of Alternate Ending is covering multi-part sequels thanks to a request from Patreon member Brian Fowler! The people have spoken, and they have chosen for Tim and Brennan to discuss 1988's POLTERGEIST III! The pair break down the tragic backstory of the film and how that informs the project, as well as what works and (mostly) what doesn’t. Is there a very long digression about biology? You’ll just have to find out for yourself.

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Feb 9, 2022

There are so many exciting parts of the our Oscar Nomination Reactions episode, the least exciting part being the Oscar nominees. Ha! This episode, we're joined by Alternate Ending contributors Mandy Albert and Chris Trengove, to share our reactions to the nominees and the biggest snubs.  I had a feeling with this crew I might get a little lost in the shuffle of cinephile-speak. And that did happen. BUT! It was absolutely invigorating to see the group light up and commiserate on mutual film feelings, with some joy and a healthy dose of disdain.

In other exciting news, the team also tried their hand at predicting the Oscars and we get a chance to talk about a bit of an unexpected upset, in their rate of success.

Oscar Nomination Reactions

If there was any doubt of how much fun we had, you can just take a look at Chris. This might have been when we were talking about House of Gucci.

We hope you enjoy this extra special episode. We'd love to hear about your Oscar Nomination Reactions too, did we hit the mark? What did we miss? Did the Academy get it right?

Tune in!

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