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.   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...

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. April's Your Movie Rocks sees the return of two Alternate Ending main characters: editor-in-chief Tim Brayton back fo...

We're saying goodbye to March by getting in right under the wire with a preview of the films coming out in April 2026, with mere hours to go before  The Super Mario Galaxy Movie wall-jumps its way into theaters. Are Tim and Andrew excited about this billion-dollar franchise hopeful? No, they are absolutely not. But they  are excited for other things, and if you want to hear what those are, you'll...

Tim and Brennan dig a skeleton out of Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke's closet by reviewing his post-Twilight dystopian vampire movie DAYBREAKERS! 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 Pat...

Fresh of off One Battle After Another and Sinners sharing a combined haul of 10 Oscars, the Alternate Ending crew is here with our thoughts on the ceremony and winners. Tim is joined by Cameron and Caleb to talk about the surprises, the weird technical snafus, and have a hot debate over the inherent distastefulness of the In Memoriam montage.

With the Oscars coming up fast, it's the time of year we like to take stock of the movie year that was, and so Brennan is joined this week by an extra-large crew, as Caleb Wimble, Cameron Shaw, and Gavin McDowell come along to look at the good, the bad, and the ugly of 2025. For the movie roundtable, Gavin discusses the new Pixar movie  Hoppers , Caleb visits Oscar-nominated Belgian animated featu...

March sees the return of Mandy's old podcasting partner (and husband) Josh, who has decided to get timely with his Your Movie Rocks  picks and has assigned Mandy the original  Super Mario Bros.  movie.  No, not that one .  That one , the one that somehow, at the same time, both launched and killed the video game adaptation blockbuster.  As it turns out, that's far from the only bizarre internal co...

We have a bonus episode for you this week! To celebrate the recent publication of  The Rewritten Bible in Late Antiquity , a new book by regular podcast guest and Sects, Lies, and Videotape columnist Gavin McDowell, he and Tim sit down to have a conversation about the history of movies based on stories from the Old Testament, from the silent era up to the 21st Century. What makes a good one? What,...

The Alternate Ending team, led by Brennan, prepares for the movies of March, a surprisingly full schedule of horror movies, among other things. Before the show, Caleb brings the new critical darling  The Testament of Ann Lee to the movie roundtable, while Brennan suffers through  Return to Silent Hill . Brian, overachiever that he is, has re-watched the entire Jack Ryan movie series, and shares hi...

Tim and Brennan dig a skeleton out of Oscar nominee Kate Hudson's closet by reviewing her Southern Gothic horror outing THE SKELETON KEY! 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 Patreo...

The Alternate Ending podcast was born on 3 January 2016, when the husband-and-wife team of Rob and Carrie Jarosinski shared their picks for the top 5 movies of all time . The site and the podcast have both seen a lot of changes since then, and we're taking this moment to look back over all the changes the decade has witnessed here at Alternate Ending, and in the wide world of movies overall. Such...

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. To kick off the second year of the show, Mandy welcomes Alternate Ending regular Brian Fowler, who has tasked her with...

We come to the end of another month, and that means it's time for a preview of the movies to come! February is looking just as chilly as January, movie-wise, but that's not going to stop Brennan, Cameron, and Andrew from finding the bright-looking spots in the release schedule, which turns out to be a bit more wild and weird than it seems from the outset. For this week's movie roundtable, Andrew f...

Tim and Brennan take a look back on 2025 by covering a sequel to one of the movies they discussed last year, 1998's THE DENTIST 2: BRACE YOURSELF!   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 En...