Alternate Ending was formed when three friends realized they all shared a passion for movies. Our goal is to save you time and money by sharing our thoughts and recommendations on which movies to race to theaters for, which to watch at home and those to actively avoid.
What makes Alternate Ending different from other film sites and podcasts? Well, we’re not 5 dudes in a room talking about our passion for Fight Club and Braveheart. We’re two dudes, and a lady, of which our tastes are quite varied. Rob, the film-school dropout, has seen an absurd amount of movies, and if we’re being honest, rounds out our Fight Club fan-base. Tim Brayton, our seasoned film critic, shares a more critical view of film, an appreciation for vintage cinema and perhaps limited-release movies that we might otherwise miss. Carrie, our casual movie-goer, reminds us all that cinema is in fact supposed to be fun and entertaining and that sometimes, just sometimes, happy endings are good.
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 place for people who can't get to the theater until the third week a film is out; a place for people who just want to find something great to stream online after the kids have gone to sleep, a place 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 place 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.
Join us for our weekly review of movies worth seeing, worth avoiding and our Top 5 lists – and don’t forget to play along at www.alternateending.com.
This week we dive deep into the history the legendary Japanese director Kurosawa Akira: the 1980 Palme d’Or winner Kagemusha, and the monumental King Lear adaptation Ran, from 1985.
More importantly we answer the deeper questions of why everybody has chosen to give themselves pattern baldness and why they keep dying people in pretty boxes.
Thanks to #patreon supporter Andrew Milne for the request!
RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON is sublimely gorgeous and thank God for that, because if not for the wall-to-wall eye candy, there wouldn't be much to talk about.
To get a bad performance out of a reliably good character actor is a misfortune; to get bad performances out of this many great actors starts to feel like malpractice. #Breakingnewsinyubacounty
A nice biopic of a worthy subject, at the expense of having virtually any personality other than the one it can borrow from all the other nice biopics. #billieholiday
We're excited to announce the launch of a new podcast format, called TAKE 2, hosted by Brennan Klein!
TAKE 2 is a companion podcast to the regular Top 5 episodes where Brennan will pick the most bizarre movie blindspot or the craziest comment from the last episode and take the crew to task for their film faux pas.
In our inaugural episode Brennan throws up the 🖐 when Carrie reveals she's never seen Brokeback Mountain.
Tune in ➡ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/take-2-brokeback-mountain/id1072256450?i=1000511070483