{"podcast":{"title":"Alternate Ending - Movie Review Podcast","slug":"alternate-ending-movie-review-podcast-485029","podcast_index_feed_id":485029,"rss_url":"https://alternateending.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://www.alternateending.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/1/2/7/d/127d8e250899a507/podcast-square.png","author":"Timothy Brayton","episode_count":485,"summary":"Alternate Ending was formed when three friends realized they all shared a passion for movies. Our goal is to save you time and money by sharing our thoughts and recommendations on which movies to race to theaters for, which to watch at home and those to actively avoid. What makes Alternate Ending different from other film podcasts? Well, we're not 5 dudes in a room talking about our passion for Fight Club and Braveheart. We're two dudes, and a lady, of which our tastes are quite varied. Rob, the film-school dropout, has seen an absurd amount of movies, and if we're being honest, rounds out our Fight Club fan-base. Tim Brayton, our seasoned film critic, shares a more critical view of film, an appreciation for vintage cinema and perhaps limited-release movies that we might otherwise miss. Carrie, our casual movie-goer, reminds us all that cinema is in fact supposed to be fun and entertaining and that sometimes, just sometimes, happy endings are good. Too many film sites cater to the same kind of audience, with one overwhelming voice in the writing, but what we treasure at Alternate Ending is diversity: diversity of opinion, diversity in belief about what film should do and how it sh…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-16T02:18:41.960875+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/alternate-ending-movie-review-podcast-485029"},"episode":{"title":"Labyrinth at 40","slug":"labyrinth-at-40","published_at":"2026-06-09T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/alternate-ending-movie-review-podcast-485029/labyrinth-at-40","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/alternate-ending-movie-review-podcast-485029","url":"https://alternateending.libsyn.com/labyrinth-at-40","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/alternateending/June_2026-2.mp3?dest-id=333866","summary":"June 2026 marks the 40th anniversary of the Jim Henson cult classic Labyrinth , and the team decided that it was a perfect opportunity to take a look back at this beloved example of dark fantasy. We're also taking it as an excuse to compare and contrast the state of children's media then and now, and to that end, Tim is joined by Cameron and Mandy, our two main experts on child development, and in Cameron's case, '80s movies. Before turning to Labyrinth , Mandy brings the recent buzzy film Obsession to our movie roundtable, while Cameron brings the recent buzzy film The Sheep Detectives . By request of Patreon supporter David G, Tim is looking at a pair of Canadian animated short films by Ryan Larkin, Walking (1968) and Street Musique (1972), which are neither recent nor buzzy, but are both quite amazing studies of movement and music.","meta_description":"June 2026 marks the 40th anniversary of the Jim Henson cult classic Labyrinth , and the team decided that it was a perfect opportunity to take a look back…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5536,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/alternate-ending-movie-review-podcast-485029/episodes/labyrinth-at-40/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/alternate-ending-movie-review-podcast-485029/labyrinth-at-40.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}