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 July's episode, Mandy gets her second Zack Snyder movie in six months, thanks to Brian Fowler, who assigns her all three and a half hours of Watchman: Ultimate Cut, the even longer and less cohesive version of a movie she quite disliked in its original theatrical version. Will the addition of hyper-violent pirate animation be enough to sway her over to Snyder's massive vision? And what dark betrayal led Brian to pick this movie for Mandy in the first place? Tune in to hear the answers to these and other questions, learn Mandy's theory about the color yellow, and revisit those long-ago days when superhero movies were still kind of a weird novelty.
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July 2025 Movie Preview
We enter the back half of 2025 with a slate of popcorn movies and other assorted summer fun that so infuriates Tim that he tries to shut down the episode early rather than force himself to discuss any of them. Joining in to offer slightly more measured opinions, Caleb Wimble and Gavin McDowell also share their thoughts on the lost art of using color in your full-color motion picture, and movies whose titles are identical to other movies in the same series. But first, Caleb is fresh from the Provincetown Film Festival with thoughts on three new queer short films (Gender Reveal, Anyway, j'pisse assis, and Cuming Out), while Gavin reports on the holy terror of 2003's Joshua and the Promised Land. And courtesy of Patreon supporter Dan Prestwitch, Tim has finally taken a look at S. Craig Zaher's 2018 Dragged Across Concrete.
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Bride of AE - The Sadness (2021)
Tim and Brennan continue discussing movies about fast zombies by taking a bite out of the Taiwanese movie THE SADNESS! 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!
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The good, the bad, and the ugly of needle drops
This week's episode of the podcast is music to our ears, as Brennan is joined by Brian Fowler, Cameron Shaw, and Zev Burrows to talk about the evergreen subject of song cues in movies - when it works, when it doesn't, when it works so well that it basically kills off your ability to listen to a song ever again without a movie scene cuing itself up in your mind's eye. Before spinning those platters, the movie roundtable has a plethora of new releases, with Brian begrudgingly making it out to Karate Kid: Legends, Cameron muscling through all three hours of Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, and Brennan going gaga for Final Destination Bloodlines. Zev, meanwhile, is channeling the spirit of the absent Tim to discuss a decades-old documentary, Errol Morris's A Brief History of Time.
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Your Movie Rocks: Crazy Samurai Musashi
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 5, Mandy is joined by AE regular Andrew Milne for a lively discussion of a movie that does not even occupy the same fold of spacetime as her wheelhouse: Shimomura Yuji's Crazy Samurai Musashi (2020), a psychology experiment in the form of a movie. But was it an enjoyable psychology experiment? Tune in to hear Mandy and Andrew develop a Grand Theory of Crazy Samurai Musashi in real time, learn about one of the strangest movie gimmicks of the decade so far, and find out why Andrew was so eager to revisit a movie that made him angry the first time around. You can snag a copy of Andrew's novel White Scar Across the Firmament here!
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 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 podcast 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.
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