Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast

Awards season is revving up, and so is scary movie season, though in keeping with the past few years, October is marked by an odd paucity of horror movies. But the month still has quite a lot coming out, and to help carve your way through it, Brennan is joined by Brian Fowler and Zev Burrows for an overview of all five weekends of wide releases in the next month. Before that, Zev brings the Ida Lu...

Tim and Brennan close out their unit on slasher movies by exploring the giddy madness of DOOM ASYLUM!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Brennan on Instagram and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, including voting for the films we cover on this program, via the Alternate Ending Patreon page !

We do like talking here at Alternate Ending, so what could be a more natural subject than speeches, soliloquies, and other long-winded exercises in talking until you're all talked out? The team turns their attention to the history and phenomenology of monologues this week, with Tim joined by Brian Fowler and topic sponsor Andrew Milne to share some of our favorite examples of the form, along with...

September 8 is the 60th anniversary of the first broadcast of  Star Trek on U.S. television, and to celebrate the franchise reaching this grand old age, Tim is joined by fellow Trek enthusiasts Mandy and Josh Albert, formerly of  At Least There's a Dog: A Star Trek: Enterprise Episode Review Podcast . Three old-school Trekkers getting into the franchise turned out to be more than we could fit into...

September 8 is the 60th anniversary of the first broadcast of  Star Trek on U.S. television, and to celebrate the franchise reaching this grand old age, Tim is joined by fellow Trek enthusiasts Mandy and Josh Albert, formerly of  At Least There's a Dog: A Star Trek: Enterprise Episode Review Podcast . Three old-school Trekkers getting into the franchise turned out to be more than we could fit into...

  Welcome to Your Movie Rocks, an Alternate Ending podcast hosted by Mandy Albert. For every episode, Mandy will watch a movie assigned by her guest host, followed by a lively discussion. There's only one rule: no matter what the movie does to her, Mandy is only allowed to love it.   This month, Mandy welcomes podcast first-timer Jacob Birkinshaw to discuss mother!  (lowercase first letter and exc...

Summer ends and fall has not yet begun, and Brennan is joined by Brian and Caleb in a valiant attempt to find out if anything opening in September is going to be worth a damn. The answer turns out to be "not really", but at least it gives you a chance to see  The Odyssey on IMAX again. Before diving into the preview, the gang shares some things they've watched recently in the movie roundtable: Bri...

Tim and Brennan's next 1980s slasher movie is a sorority classic, THE INITIATION!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Brennan on Instagram and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, including voting for the films we cover on this program, via the Alternate Ending Patreon page !

For our second episode of August 2026, Tim and Brian have found themselves all along in the recording studio, and with nobody else to stop them, they inevitably made a beeline for the filmography of Ingmar Bergman. Specifically, they're talking about the thee films the great director made between 1961 and 1963:  Through a Glass Darkly ,  Winter Light , and  The Silence . Alternate Ending's two res...

Welcome to Your Movie Rocks, an Alternate Ending podcast hosted by Mandy Albert. For every episode, Mandy will watch a movie assigned by her guest host, followed by a lively discussion. There's only one rule: no matter what the movie does to her, Mandy is only allowed to love it. August marks the 16th anniversary of the release of  Scott Pilgrim vs. the World , which isn't actually the reason that...

While  The Odyssey rages on as the event film of the summer and  Spider-Man: Brand New Day prepares to make just the silliest amountof money, August waits in the wings to end the summer with a squishy thud. Tim returns for his first monthly preview in several months to stare down the bleakness, and he's helped by guests Cameron Shaw and Caleb Wimble. Before diving into the preview, Caleb and Camer...

To kick off a summer unit on 1980s slashers, Tim and Brennan review the iconically kooky Spanish giallo riff PIECES!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Brennan on Instagram and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, including voting for the films we cover on this program, via the Alternate Ending Patreon page !

The presumptive biggest film of summer, Spider-Man: Brand New Day is right around the corner, and we're greeting it with a extra-large episode with an extra-large cast. Brennan is joined by Brian Fowler, Andrew Milne, and Caleb Wimble to take a look at the history of our friendly neighborhood superhero dating all the way back to the 1970s, right up to the current run of megablockbusters. Before ta...

Welcome to Your Movie Rocks, an Alternate Ending podcast hosted by Mandy Albert.  For every episode, Mandy will watch a movie assigned by her guest host, followed by a lively discussion.  There's only one rule: no matter what the movie does to her, Mandy is only allowed to love it.   This month, we welcome back our first three-time player Andrew Milne, who has once again selected a movie that neit...

The Alternate Ending team is trying to beat the heat during this sweltering summer by looking forward to spending some time in a nice, air-conditioned movie theater. Brennan is joined by Gavin and Caleb to chat about the new films of July 2026, of which there are honestly not that many. But perhaps the lack of quantity will be matched with an uptick in quality. To kick things off with the movie ro...

For our final episode on Newlywed Horror, Tim and Brennan break down the most explicitly honeymoony movie of them all, Leigh Janiak's HONEYMOON! Love the Podcast? Leave us a review!
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June 2026 marks the 40th anniversary of the Jim Henson cult classic  Labyrinth , and the team decided that it was a perfect opportunity to take a look back at this beloved example of dark fantasy. We're also taking it as an excuse to compare and contrast the state of children's media then and now, and to that end, Tim is joined by Cameron and Mandy, our two main experts on child development, and i...

June's Your Movie Rocks welcomes back Zev Burrows, who has used his guest power to achieve two very important tasks at once: first, he has made himself a true Steven Spielberg completist by assigning both himself and Mandy the storied director's 1941 , also known as The Spielberg Joint Almost No One Likes.  He has also given Mandy the dubious privilege of perhaps being the only person alive who ha...

Summer is in full swing, and the team is here to take a look at the films of what might well be the most promising month of the season. Brennan is joined by Brian and Caleb to take a look at films ranging from the fifth  Toy Story to the latest Steven Spielberg alien epic, with a stopover to consider the month's spate of gay horror pictures. Meanwhile, Brian can't wait to launch into a long chat a...

For the second of three episodes breaking down Newlywed Horror, Tim and Brennan dig into the kooky Boris Karloff/Bela Lugosi joint THE BLACK CAT! Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Brennan on  Instagram  and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, including voting for the films we cover on this program, via the Alternate Ending Patreon...

Baz Luhrmann's maximalist jukebox musical  Moulin Rouge! turns 25 years old this month, which seems like the perfect opportunity to revisit the film and contemplate its impact on the musical genre in the years since. Tim is joined by resident music expert Zev Burrows for a spectacular, spectacular conversation about a film that had a major impact on both of them, sometimes to break it down, someti...

Welcome to Your Movie Rocks, an Alternate Ending podcast hosted by Mandy Albert.  For every episode, Mandy will watch a movie assigned by her guest host, followed by a lively discussion.  There's only one rule: no matter what the movie does to her, Mandy is only allowed to love it. This month, we welcome Brennan Klein back to the show to discuss Marci X , an early-aughts comedy of manners that had...

To get the summer movie season started, Brennan is joined by Caleb and Gavin. The two of them force Brennan to talk more about  Mortal Kombat II more than he wants, while glossing over such less-anticipated films like the new  Star Wars . To get the show started, it's a quartet of brand-new releases for the movie roundtable: Caleb sees the much-hyped  Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie , Brennan...

For the first of three episodes breaking down Newlywed Horror, Tim and Brennan discuss Mario Bava's HATCHET FOR THE HONEYMOON! Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Brennan on Twitter , Instagram , and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, including voting for the films we cover on this program, via the Alternate Ending Patreon page !

Currently in theaters,  Hoppers is the 30th feature-length film by Pixar Animation Studios. That seemed like an important enough number for us to turn to one of the evergreen questions: what's going on with Pixar, exactly? Tim is joined by Zev and Cameron to reminisce about the studio's history and mull over its recent run of films that mostly haven't lit the world on fire at the box office or in...