Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast

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 just one episode (or under four total hours), so we have here Alternate Ending's first two-part episode. In Part II, the trio covers the series's theatrical releases, and its 2017 resurrection under the highly dubious oversight of hack extraordinaire Alex Kurtzman. Check out Part I here!

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 just one episode (or under four total hours), so we have here Alternate Ending's first two-part episode. In Part I, the trio goes over the TV side of Trek from its '60s cheese origins to its pinnacle of popularity in the 1990s and the decline of its fortunes in the early years of the 21st Century. Part II will go live tomorrow, on September 9 2026!

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 exclamation point required), darren! aronofsky!'s notorious 2017 psychological horror movie!, box-office bomb!, and painstaking allegory for something!  It's widely agreed that mother! is the point at which aronofsky! vanished irretrievably while spelunking inside his own intestines!, but mandy! and jacob! are here to ponder whether or not that's actually a good thing!  Tune in for a deep, intense, and multilayered discussion! of what exactly the hell darren! thinks he's doing here, why jlaw!'s performance deserves much more appreciation, and why this may be the most relatable aronofsky! joint! of them all.
 
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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: Brian follows in the footsteps of this month's Your Movie Rocks by revisiting 2023's Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, while Brennan and Caleb both take the multiplex to see The End of Oak Street and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.

Tim and Brennan's next 1980s slasher movie is a sorority classic, THE INITIATION!
 
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