Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast

We're saying goodbye to March by getting in right under the wire with a preview of the films coming out in April 2026, with mere hours to go before The Super Mario Galaxy Movie wall-jumps its way into theaters. Are Tim and Andrew excited about this billion-dollar franchise hopeful? No, they are absolutely not. But they are excited for other things, and if you want to hear what those are, you'll just have to give the episode a listen! Prior to looking ahead, we look behind, in our movie roundtable: Andrew has, uncharacteristically, managed to catch a new release, Project Hail Mary, while Tim has been given a very particular charge by Patreon supporter CRD concerning the great 2004 film Moolaadé.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

The Alternate Ending team, led by Brennan, prepares for the movies of March, a surprisingly full schedule of horror movies, among other things. Before the show, Caleb brings the new critical darling The Testament of Ann Lee to the movie roundtable, while Brennan suffers through Return to Silent Hill. Brian, overachiever that he is, has re-watched the entire Jack Ryan movie series, and shares his thoughts.

Tim and Brennan dig a skeleton out of Oscar nominee Kate Hudson's closet by reviewing her Southern Gothic horror outing THE SKELETON KEY! 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 Alternate Ending podcast was born on 3 January 2016, when the husband-and-wife team of Rob and Carrie Jarosinski shared their picks for the top 5 movies of all time. The site and the podcast have both seen a lot of changes since then, and we're taking this moment to look back over all the changes the decade has witnessed here at Alternate Ending, and in the wide world of movies overall. Such a special topic deserves a big sprawling all-star treatment, so Tim is joined by four other members of the Alternate Ending podcast family to take a walk down memory lane: Bride of Alternate Ending's Brennan Klein, Mandy Albert of Your Movie Rocks, Brian Fowler, and Cameron Shaw. Together, the crew talks about the site's history, our favorite moments from the podcast, and more, including Tim's review of the 2006 fantasy film Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses, by request of Patreon supporter Kyrie.

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. To kick off the second year of the show, Mandy welcomes Alternate Ending regular Brian Fowler, who has tasked her with watching the movie Spiral - not that one, the other one. No, the one from 2007 that virtually nobody has seen or heard of. The one starring The Hottie & the Nottie's Joel David Moore. Just how many souls "virtually nobody" actually means is one of the main topics of discussion between Mandy and Brian, as is Brian's steadfast belief that this is actually a pretty special psychological thriller, and he wants more people to hear about it. Will Mandy agree with Brian's warm assessment? Listen to find out!

We come to the end of another month, and that means it's time for a preview of the movies to come! February is looking just as chilly as January, movie-wise, but that's not going to stop Brennan, Cameron, and Andrew from finding the bright-looking spots in the release schedule, which turns out to be a bit more wild and weird than it seems from the outset. For this week's movie roundtable, Andrew finally catches up with 2018's black metal biopic Lords of Chaos, while Cameron raves about current Oscar hopeful Sirāt, and Brennan sees the less awards-friendly sudsy thriller The Housemaid.

Tim and Brennan take a look back on 2025 by covering a sequel to one of the movies they discussed last year, 1998's THE DENTIST 2: BRACE YOURSELF! 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!

January is a rough, wintry month for the movies, but one of the bright spots is that it means the arrival of the Sundance Film Festival. And the Alternate Ending crew is taking this as a good opportunity to celebrate the life and career of Sundance founder - among many other highlights - Robert Redford, who died in September 2025. Tim is joined by Caleb Wimble and Zev Burrows for this deep dive into the acting, directing, and general good deeds of one of the last great movie stars. Before turning to discuss Redford, the trio shares three films for our movie roundtable: Caleb brings the current awards hopeful Sentimental Value, Zev travels to 1955 Japan for the punishing character drama Forever a Woman by director Tanaka Kinuyo, and Patreon supporter M.C. Steffen assigns Tim the ludicrous Christian propaganda film/courtroom thriller Suing the Devil.

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. The first year of Your Movie Rocks ends on a very special episode, in which Mandy is joined by her former student Ali Roberts (@deranged_hands on Instagram), now a film student and filmmaker. And, it turns out, a tough player of the YMR game, assigning Mandy the appalling-looking direct-to-video animated feature Life's a Jungle: Africa's Most Wanted. But by God, Mandy will find the good and the beautiful about this ungainly piece of Madagascar-sploitation, and have a great time doing it.