Bride Of AE - Cooties (2014) Alternate Ending podcast

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Our topic this week is the very embodiment of "discovering good movies, one bad movie at a time": finding the scenes that actually work in movies that mostly don't Tim is joined by Mandy, whose Your Movie Rocks podcast makes her the perfect expert at finding the diamonds in a pile of coal (or a pile of... something else, as she describes on the episode), and we're also very thrilled to welcome back to the Alternate Ending podcast world Rioghnach Robinson. Before they talk about the subject of the day, as part of our movie roundtable Mandy (goaded by Tim) goes long on the new The Luckiest Man in America , Rioghnach goes back a couple of years to the unjustly overlooked I Want You Back from 2022, and thanks to Patreon supporter Hallvarður, Tim finally caches up with Jacques Rivette's iconic 1974 masterpiece Céline and Julie Go Boating.…

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Your Movie Rocks: Agora 1:25:32

9 days ago1:25:32

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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 4, Mandy and Gavin McDowell have what might very well be the single nerdiest conversation in the history of Alternate Ending as they discuss the 2009 costume drama Agora , and spend even more time discussing the history of the early Christian church and schools of Greek philosophy, leading to some rather intense, inflamed passions about what does and does not make sense to include in a cinematic treatment of a bunch of ancient Alexandrines that 99.9% of the audience will never have heard of. Tune in to hear why Gavin selected a movie for Mandy about which he already knew her opinion, hear his pitch for a musical about the Council of Ephesus, and learn way, way more about 4th Century Egypt history and historiography than you would ever expect to learn from a movie podcast.…

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Fifth Tuesday: Cannes and the State of Cinema in 2025 1:19:32

13 days ago1:19:32

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April 2025 has five Tuesdays, and whenever that happens the last Tuesday of the month is a "dealer's choice" event, with Tim going off on whatever tangent catches his fancy. Unfortunately, due to some scheduling trouble, this particular fifth Tuesday episode has been delayed a bit, but it's worth it: Tim has a conversation with UW-Madison film scholar Will Quade about the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and what we can learn about the state of world art cinema by the choices festival programmers make. Will is one of the only people I know with more irascible and idiosyncratic opinions than my own, and we do tend to go off on some rants once we get going.…

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May 2025 Movie Preview 1:32:52

23 days ago1:32:52

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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) 51:18

4 weeks ago51:18

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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 1:22:45

5 weeks ago1:22:45

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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 48:41

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April 2025 Movie Preview 1:16:38

7 weeks ago1:16:38

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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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Bride of AE - Dark Water (2005) 50:07

8 weeks ago50:07

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Tim and Brennan dig the final skeleton out of an awards season favorite’s closet by discussing I’m Still Here director Walter Salles’ 2005 J-horror remake DARK WATER! 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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Your Movie Rocks: The Bye Bye Man 58:48

9 weeks ago58:48

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Editor's note: apologies to Mandy for bumping this episode by a week to make room for our Oscar special . Starting in April, Your Movie Rocks will be back to its usual spot on the first Tuesday of the month. 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. On Episode 2, Mandy and AE horrormeister Brennan Klein think and speak at length about The Bye Bye Man , a movie whose previous claim to fame was inspiring one of the all-time great Tim Brayton review lines . Tune in to find out how far Mandy's unconditional love for Doug Jones can carry her, and why Brennan is still thinking about it (and saying it) eight years after its release.…

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On the 97th Academy Awards 1:02:19

10 weeks ago1:02:19

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Hot 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!…

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March 2025 movie preview 1:14:01

11 weeks ago1:14:01

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This week, Brennan takes over hosting duties to welcome returning guests Andrew and Zev. The three of them share notes on the movies coming up over the next month, doing their absolute best to avoid talking about the Snow White -shaped elephant in the room while coming up with some promising smaller releases that we don't want to see fall through the cracks. Before that, it's a century-long tour of cinema during the movie roundtable, as Zev shares his thoughts on Alfred Hitchcock's silent thriller Downhill , Andrew checks out the Hong Kong action cult classic In the Line of Duty 4 , and Brennan takes us right up to the current year, visiting the internet's favorite marmalade-eating bear as he stars in Paddington in Peru .…

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Bride of AE - Splice (2009) 55:04

12 weeks ago55:04

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Tim and Brennan dig a skeleton out of the closet of Oscar nominee Adrien Brody by discussing the grody Frankenstein riff SPLICE! Love the Podcast? Leave us a review! Follow Alternate Ending on Twitter and Instagram 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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The romance of cinema 1:25:52

13 weeks ago1:25:52

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With Valentine's day coming up any day now, we couldn't pass up the chance to talk about romantic movies and love stories. Tim is joined by Brian Fowler, Your Movie Rocks host Mandy Albert, and new member of the podcast family Cameron Shaw to kick around questions of what makes a romantic movie, what doesn't , and our own histories with cinematic love stories. Before that happens, Tim discusses the 2018 Penguin Highway , courtesy of Patreon supporter Kyrie, while Cameron shares her thoughts on the unjustly overlooked new release Better Man . Mandy's thoughts on the justly overlooked Reagan sparks some thoughts on conservative cinema. And Brian has managed to scrounge up a David Lynch concert documentary that nobody else on the show had ever ever heard of. * * * * * And as promised on the episode, a very special (and slightly embarrassing) treat: a music video that Tim directed way back in the early 2010s for Rob: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNA435VwlbM…

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Your Movie Rocks: Sucker Punch 54:26

14 weeks ago54:26