Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast

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. In Episode 4, Mandy and Gavin McDowell have what might very well be the single nerdiest conversation in the history of...

April 2025 has five Tuesdays, and whenever that happens the last Tuesday of the month is a "dealer's choice" event, with Tim going off on whatever tangent catches his fancy. Unfortunately, due to some scheduling trouble, this particular fifth Tuesday episode has been delayed a bit, but it's worth it: Tim has a conversation with UW-Madison film scholar Will Quade about the 2025 Cannes Film Festival...

In preparation for the start of the summer movie season, Tim is joined by Brian and Caleb, who are all a little surprised to find that they're finally looking forward to some of the wide releases of 2025, after a wobbly first third of the calendar year. But before we get to the wild and thrilling spectacle of popcorn movie season, it's one of the most sober-minded movie roundtables we've ever held...

Tim and Brennan kick off a brand new quarter focusing on Fast Zombies with this episode on the 2014 horror-comedy COOTIES!   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 !

Brennan is joined this week by Cameron (whom we finally give a chance to plug her own podcast, Stoneybrook Reunion ) and Andrew, and the three of them are having a conversations about incomplete franchises: series that stalled out in the middle, sequel hooks that never caught anything, book adaptations that didn't make it all the way through the source material. Before they get to that point, Andr...

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. For Episode 3, Mandy is joined by Zev Burrows for some quality time In a Lonely Place (1950) with Humphrey Bogart and...

Brennan is joined this week by Brian and Gavin, and the three of them chat about the films coming out soon to U.S. (and French!) theaters. While the three of them try to figure what the hell a Minecraft is, they discover that there are plenty of interesting-looking genre films sneaking out amongst the unimpressive-looking heavy hitters. Before that, Brennan discusses the 1981 German art film Taxi...

Tim and Brennan dig the final skeleton out of an awards season favorite's closet by discussing I'm Still Here director Walter Salles' 2005 J-horror remake DARK WATER! 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, vi...

Editor's note: apologies to Mandy for bumping this episode by a week to make room for our Oscar special . Starting in April, Your Movie Rocks will be back to its usual spot on the first Tuesday of the month. 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.  Ther...

Hot on the heels of Anora winning five Oscars, the Alternate Ending crew is here with our thoughts on the ceremony and winners. Tim is joined by Cameron and Caleb to discuss the best and worst outfits, the relative merits of musical performances at the Academy Awards, the etiquette of the In Memoriam montage, and what we lost when the Academy refused to stage a face-off between Dune: Part Two and ...

This week, Brennan takes over hosting duties to welcome returning guests Andrew and Zev. The three of them share notes on the movies coming up over the next month, doing their absolute best to avoid talking about the Snow White -shaped elephant in the room while coming up with some promising smaller releases that we don't want to see fall through the cracks. Before that, it's a century-long tour o...

Tim and Brennan dig a skeleton out of the closet of Oscar nominee Adrien Brody by discussing the grody Frankenstein riff SPLICE!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter  and Instagram   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...

With Valentine's day coming up any day now, we couldn't pass up the chance to talk about romantic movies and love stories. Tim is joined by Brian Fowler, Your Movie Rocks host Mandy Albert, and new member of the podcast family Cameron Shaw to kick around questions of what makes  a romantic movie, what doesn't , and our own histories with cinematic love stories. Before that happens, Tim discusses t...

Welcome to the debut episode of Your Movie Rocks, a brand new 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: Mandy must love the movie, no matter what.   On Episode 1, Mandy and AE editor-in-chief Tim Brayton discuss the much-maligned 2011 Zack Snyder outing Sucker Pu...

In this episode, Tim has a chat with the European wing of the Alternate Ending extended family - from France, Gavin McDowell (of the SECTS, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE column), and from Scotland, Andrew Milne (of the Two Friends Watch podcast) - to take a brief look at the newly-announced nominees for the 97th Academy Awards, and then a much less brief look at the films coming out in three different count...

Tim and Brennan dig a skeleton out of the closet of Golden Globe nominee Hugh Grant by discussing his early role in the Ken Russell film THE LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter  and Instagram   Follow Brennan on Twitter , Instagram , and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, includi...

For our first episode of 2025, we're taking a look back over the year that was. Tim and Brennan are joined by guests Zev Burrows and Caleb Wimble to talk about our favorite and least-favorite films of 2024, as well as the best surprises, biggest disappointments, and our picks for the most overlooked films of the year. While the people of the Los Angeles metro area are dealing with one of the most...

Tim and Brennan welcome new guest Brian Fowler to the show as we discuss holiday horror, as well as requests by Patreon supporters Mandy Albert and Josh Lawrence. Then we gin up as much enthusiasm as we possibly can to take a look ahead at the films releasing in January 2025, and are not altogether surprised by what we don't find.

Tim and Brennan tear into the upper crust of California with the goopy mayhem of the 1989 Brian Yuzna joint SOCIETY!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter  and Instagram   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...

A new era begins at Alternate Ending as Tim, Brennan, and Mandy share six! count 'em, six! movies we've seen recently, including requests by Patreon supporters Christophe Romain, Dan Prestwitch, and Carl Beasley. We also go in deep on the Netflix original Hot Frosty, somehow the only film of the six all of us had seen. In the second half of the episode, we look ahead to the new releases in Decembe...

For Belated Sequels month (in honor of the impending release of Gladiator II), Tim and Brennan are sitting down to discuss Wes Craven's misbegotten THE HILLS HAVE EYES PART 2! They also share some insight into a few changes in the upcoming podcast schedule, so make sure to keep an ear out! Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter  and Instagram   Follow Brennan on Tw...

Tim and Brennan close out Stephen King month by sinking their fangs into the 1985 werewolf movie SILVER BULLET, which was both adapted from and written by King!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter  and Instagram   Follow Brennan on Twitter , Instagram , and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, including v...

Tim and Brennan kick off Stephen King month with a discussion of the Frank Darabont classic [sic] THE MIST!   Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter  and Instagram   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...

In tribute to the passing of site cofounder and top 5 aficionado Rob Jarosinski, co-hosts Tim Brayton, Brennan Klein, and Mandy Albert share their picks for the best films from the IMDb Top 250, the list that Rob embodied best.

To close out Friday the 13th-sploitation month, Tim and Brennan discuss the new "ambient slasher" IN A VIOLENT NATURE and break down how it breaks down the genre (or not)! Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter  and Instagram   Follow Brennan on Twitter , Instagram , and Letterboxd Follow Tim on Letterboxd Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, in...