Your Movie Rocks: Tenet
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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. August's episode is a very special one: Mandy welcomes to the AE podcasting family non other than Josh Albert, her co-host from the Star Trek: Enterprise podcast - who is also, not incidentally, her husband - who comes with an olive branch to the AE community. Knowing that Christopher Nolan's 2020 time-shifting spy...
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Fifth Tuesday: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Film Restoration, with special guest star Devan Scott
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Our fifth episode of July 2025 is a very special one: cinematographer and colorist Devan Scott (and host of the podcast , where Tim was a regular guest) joins Tim to discuss the new Arrow Video UHD releases of , , and , on which Devan served as technical advisor as part of a team working to make sure that those films got their first properly-curated and visually restored home releases since the dawn of home media. And from there, they dive into a larger conversation about the nature of film restoration and preservation, the confounding things that happen to movies when they get...
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August 2025 Movie Preview
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We have a big crowd for a busy month this time: to help unpack the sizable number of new releases coming in August, Tim is joined by three guests: Caleb, Cameron, and Zev. The four of them work their way through the late summer doldrums to find whatever promising new films are lying in amongst the usual horror cast-offs and hapless wannabe blockbusters. Before that, Caleb shares his thoughts on the 1989 version of Hard to Be a God, while Zev and Cameron discuss a pair of new releases from 2025, The Woman in the Yard and Heads of State. Tim wraps things up by catching up with the...
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Bride of AE - Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 4: Dawn of the Vampires (2025)
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Tim and Brennan are joined by their first ever guest, Cameron Shaw, to discuss the movie event of the year, Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 4: DAWN OF THE VAMPIRES! Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Brennan on , , and Follow Tim on Follow Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, including voting for the films we cover on this program, via the !
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A Brief History of Superman
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With the latest attempt to make 21st Century audiences care about the most iconic superhero in comic book history barrelling down upon us in the form of James Gunn's Superman, we're taking a look at the character's long cinematic history, from '40s cartoons and serials up to the last notoriously botched attempt to make him the centerpiece of a shared cinematic universe. Superman expert Brian Fowler takes relative newbies Brennan Klein and Andrew Milne on a journey that asks such questions as What is the core essence of Superman? and Is there any reason to keep casting new Superman...
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Your Movie Rocks: Watchmen - Ultimate Cut
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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...
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July 2025 Movie Preview
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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 with thoughts on three new queer short films (Gender Reveal, Anyway, j'pisse assis,...
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Bride of AE - The Sadness (2021)
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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 , , and Follow Tim on Support Alternate Ending and check out our member perks, including voting for the films we cover on this program, via the !
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The good, the bad, and the ugly of needle drops
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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...
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Your Movie Rocks: Crazy Samurai Musashi
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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...
info_outlineHot on the heels of Anora winning five Oscars, the Alternate Ending crew is here with our thoughts on the ceremony and winners. Tim is joined by Cameron and Caleb to discuss the best and worst outfits, the relative merits of musical performances at the Academy Awards, the etiquette of the In Memoriam montage, and what we lost when the Academy refused to stage a face-off between Dune: Part Two and Furiosa.
Your Movie Rocks with Mandy Albert has been postponed for a week. Look for the next episode of that series on Tuesday, March 11!