Your Movie Rocks: mother!

 

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.

 

This month, Mandy welcomes podcast first-timer Jacob Birkinshaw to discuss mother! (lowercase first letter and exclamation point required), darren! aronofsky!'s notorious 2017 psychological horror movie!, box-office bomb!, and painstaking allegory for something!  It's widely agreed that mother! is the point at which aronofsky! vanished irretrievably while spelunking inside his own intestines!, but mandy! and jacob! are here to ponder whether or not that's actually a good thing!  Tune in for a deep, intense, and multilayered discussion! of what exactly the hell darren! thinks he's doing here, why jlaw!'s performance deserves much more appreciation, and why this may be the most relatable aronofsky! joint! of them all.