Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast

Tim and Brennan kick off a unit on horror movies adapted from comic books with the urtext of modern superhero movies, 1998's BLADE!

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Happy early Halloween from Alternate Ending! This week's episode finds Gavin and Caleb using the long, long-delayed release of the uncut version of Ken Russell's The Devils, a controversial masterpiece about a witch panic, to take a deep dive into cinematic depictions of witches: what defines a witch, why are so many of the best witches in non-horror, and how far we can go in trying to fit non-witches into a witch-shaped box. With both Tim and Brennan distracted by other spooky season obligations, Gavin and Caleb welcome Dan Stalcup and Brian Terrill, co-hosts of The Goods: A Film Podcast. Thanks to Dan and Brian for swinging by, and welcome to the Alternate Ending extended family! To kick off the episode, Caleb brings the new Korean genre-bender Hope to the movie roundtable, while Dan checks out the recent The Rivals of Amziah King. Brian goes back to 1947 for the original Nightmare Alley, and Gavin wraps the roundtable by sputting wrathfully about the divisive new flop Digger.

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.

Awards season is revving up, and so is scary movie season, though in keeping with the past few years, October is marked by an odd paucity of horror movies. But the month still has quite a lot coming out, and to help carve your way through it, Brennan is joined by Brian Fowler and Zev Burrows for an overview of all five weekends of wide releases in the next month. Before that, Zev brings the Ida Lupino film noir masterpiece The Hitch-Hiker to the movie roundtable, while Brennan catches up with the new Resident Evil. Brian, meanwhile, explores new frontiers in roundtabling, by bringing our first-ever video game to the conversation: the brand-new Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave.

Catch up with Zev's latest album here and here.

Tim and Brennan close out their unit on slasher movies by exploring the giddy madness of DOOM ASYLUM!

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We do like talking here at Alternate Ending, so what could be a more natural subject than speeches, soliloquies, and other long-winded exercises in talking until you're all talked out? The team turns their attention to the history and phenomenology of monologues this week, with Tim joined by Brian Fowler and topic sponsor Andrew Milne to share some of our favorite examples of the form, along with a bit of acting theory and a good old-fashioned (very old-fashioned) rant about how sound ruined cinema. For the movie roundtable, Andrew takes a look at classic sci-fi/horror B-picture It! The Terror from Beyond Space, while Brian goes much more contemporary with Ready or Not 2: Here I Come. Courtesy of regular guest and Patreon support Caleb Wimble, Tim takes a long wallow in stylish filth, with Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion.

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!

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.