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November 2025 Movie Preview

October 28, 2025·1 hr 27 min·5 clips

Brennan Klein opens with Andrew Milne and Gavin McDowell. The first stretch is mostly friendly chaos, including recurring jokes about time zones and the awkward business of getting everyone recorded, and Brennan keeps the tone loose as the conversation gets underway. Nobody seems especially bothered. That mood carries into the film talk, where the group lands on a James Vanderbilt project that reads as long, historical, and very eager to be taken seriously, and they meet it with near-allergic skepticism. The runtime does not help. They also dig into Vanderbilt's career swing, noting the odd spread from Zodiac to Independence Day Resurgence, and the result is a conversation about trust, tone, and how much prestige is really earned by a movie that arrives already asking for patience. It feels heavy. From there the preview shifts to the November 14 slate, which gives them a franchise/IP entry to consider, starting with Now You See Me, Now You Don't. That one gets a shrug and a smile. Andrew recalls the 2013 original as a perfectly unobjectionable, glitzy puff of air, and the show uses that memory to measure just how much appetite there is for another round of magician heists and nonsense. The conversation keeps moving because the panel is more interested in the texture of these releases than in pretending any of them need a formal sermon, and that lets the jokes and corrections do real work. The back half of the episode eases into the usual Alternate Ending housekeeping, including Discord access, Patreon support, trivia, and a tease for next week's programming. Nothing flashy. The whole thing lands as a brisk, skeptical preview for listeners who like movie talk that can be informed and mildly exasperated without turning mean. That balance matters. If the episode has a thesis, it is that movie preview chatter is better when nobody pretends the calendar is impressive just because it is full.

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A skeptical, chatty take on the November 14th slate that lets banter do more of the work.

Alternate Ending spends this stretch on the November 14th slate with a skeptical, conversational edge. The hosts are at their best when they take apart James Vanderbilt's long, historical, Oscar-bait project and shrug off its self-importance, then turn to Now You See Me, Now You…

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You want dry, mildly annoyed movie people with actual opinions about the November releases.

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