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, as Caleb finally catches up with legendary grim war movie Come and See, while Brian learns all about the savage sexism of the indie film industry thanks to Chasing Chasing Amy. Tim, meanwhile has a pair of Patreon requests to talk about that are almost as fun: Freya Neeley has assigned him the paranoid anti-communist ravings of the vicious-hearted If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?, while CRD has given him the gaudy nightmare spectacle of Nazism consuming German culture in Luchino Visconti's The Damned. And stick around for Caleb's update on his game Let Us Build a Tower. Tim apologizes for the odd fade-outs in the audio - something buggy happened with the recording, and he's trying to figure out how to make sure it doesn't happen again next time.
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Bride of AE - Cooties (2014)
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!
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Incomplete Franchises
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, Andrew shares his experience with the confounding 2001 film Despiser, while Cameron looks at the new release Eephus, and Brennan brings the even newer release Locked. It's a wide-ranging look at movies and series old and new, and it provides a lot to think about, even though Tim, in absentia, is screaming all sorts of nasty things at the group for failing to mention Horizon: An American Saga.
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Your Movie Rocks - In a Lonely Place
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 Gloria Grahame. Tune in to find out what it has in common with The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, why more movies should be made in the middle of their stars’ messy divorces, and what Zev was thinking when he decided, like a weirdo, that it might be fun to watch a good movie for the podcast.
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April 2025 Movie Preview
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 zum Klo, a groundbreaking representation of gay sex in cinema, at the request of Patreon supporter Freya, while Brian and Gavin whether Disney's new butchery of Snow White or Netflix butchery of life itself, The Electric State, is the more aggravating way to have set more than a quarter of a billion dollars on fire.
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