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 Patreon page!
The 98th Academy Awards
2026/03/17 | 1h 15 mins.
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.
A look back at 2025
2026/03/10 | 1h 27 mins.
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 feature Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, Cameron checks out the niche documentary Tight and Nerdy, and Brennan does his grim duty by viewing Scream VII.
Your Movie Rocks: Super Mario Bros.
2026/03/03 | 53 mins.
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 contradiction of Super Mario Bros. that comes up in Mandy and Josh's conversation, because this is a movie made of strange - yet beautiful? - contradictions. Come find out what tried Mandy's patience harder: the movie, or Josh's increasingly tenuous attempts to connect it to existing Mario lore.
Podcast Special: Old Testament Movies
2026/02/25 | 1h 10 mins.
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, more commonly, makes a bad one? What stories do we want to see on the big screen? All of these questions and more are discussed on this special episode! Find Gavin's book The Rewritten Bible in Late Antiquity here Find Gavin's Letterboxd List "OT on Film" here
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