Friday Night Rewind

Chicago. Prohibition. And a team willing to take on Al Capone. This week, Jason and Scott revisit Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables (1987), starring Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, and Andy Garcia. From its larger-than-life gangsters to that unforgettable train-station showdown, it’s a movie that makes every confrontation feel monumental. And we’ve got a Connery debate to settle: did...

Sean Connery won an Oscar for The Untouchables. But was Malone his best performance—or was he even better as Henry Jones Sr. in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? Jason and Scott weigh in. Our full rewind of The Untouchables (1987) drops Friday. 🎙️ Friday Night Rewind — Celebrating the movies that raised us—and helping you discover your next favorite film. Available wherever you get your podcasts...

Seven films. Two Short Kings. Absolutely nobody reading the Latin out loud. We’re closing out October with forbidden books, mysterious puzzle boxes, dangerous magic, and some very questionable parenting decisions. This month’s Four for Friday takes Jason and Scott into the occult—and Scott is extremely ready for horror month to be over. From the nightmare of raising Damien to Clive Barker’s twiste...

Would you stop the apocalypse if it meant sacrificing your own child? Jason and Scott tackle that question—and Scott has a case for letting the end of the world play out. It’s a peek at this week’s Four for Friday: The Occult , where each of the Short Kings brings four movies to the table. The full episode arrives Friday! 🎙️ Friday Night Rewind — Two Short Kings. One Big Film Pod.

Mickey Rourke follows a missing-person case into a nightmare. Robert De Niro makes peeling an egg unsettling. Welcome to Angel Heart. Jason and Scott rewind Alan Parker’s 1987 blend of detective noir and supernatural horror, starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, and Lisa Bonet. We discuss: • The performances, atmosphere, and imagery that make this mystery linger. • The ratings-board battle over...

Your first time watching a movie… on your phone. Perfectly fine, or a crime against cinema? 📱 Scott’s late-night Angel Heart viewing sparks a lecture from Jason about watching films on a bigger screen—and Scott presents his credentials as a phone cinephile. Film snob or fair point? Pick a side. This Trailer Tuesday preview comes from Episode 18: Angel Heart (1987). Join Jason and Scott for the fu...

🍖 You are who you eat. And in Ravenous (1999), that's a whole lot more than a figure of speech. This week on Friday Night Rewind, Jason (SKJ) and Scott (SKS) sink their teeth into one of the most bizarre, deliciously twisted, and criminally underrated horror films of the '90s! Starring Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle, Ravenous takes us to a remote military outpost in the 1840s, where a mysterious s...

Apparently, eating people gives you superhuman strength. 💪💀 Scott would rather leave the dinner party. Jason might BE the reason everyone needs to leave. 🍽️😂 This week on Friday Night Rewind, we're sinking our teeth into RAVENOUS (1999), the gloriously twisted horror-comedy starring Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle. 🎬 The full Episode 17 drops Friday, October 16! 🎬 Friday Night Rewind — Celebrat...

Sleep all day. Party all night. Never grow old. Never die. This week, Jason and Scott head to Santa Carla for The Lost Boys (1987) — Joel Schumacher’s endlessly stylish collision of vampires, comedy, horror, killer music, and pure ’80s energy. Jason revisits a movie that meant a lot to him growing up, Scott confronts a genre that has never exactly been his comfort zone, and the Short Kings tackle...

The Lost Boys or The Goonies? You HAVE to pick one. Jason is Team Lost Boys. Scott is Team Goonies. But maybe the better question isn’t which movie is better — which one meant more to you? 🎬 The full Lost Boys episode drops Friday! Friday Night Rewind — Celebrating the movies that raised us—and 🎙️ helping you discover your next favorite film. Available wherever you get your podcasts. New episodes...

Sam Raimi’s Darkman is violent, weird, wildly inventive, completely ridiculous—and somehow it all works. This week on Friday Night Rewind, Jason and Scott revisit Raimi’s 1990 cult classic starring Liam Neeson as Peyton Westlake, a scientist left horribly disfigured who uses his experimental synthetic skin to become something resembling a superhero… maybe. We get into the movie’s gloriously over-t...

Darkman makes almost no sense — and somehow that’s exactly why it works. 😂 Machine-gun legs. Cars hidden inside shipping containers. Unlimited bullets. Peak Liam Neeson. And underneath all that insanity, you can already see Sam Raimi developing the style that would eventually lead him to Spider-Man. This Friday, we’re rewinding Darkman (1990) and all of its gloriously ridiculous ’80s energy. 🎙️ F...

Martin Scorsese has spent more than five decades making some of the most influential, quotable, and endlessly rewatchable movies ever put on screen — so naturally, Jason and Scott are narrowing that filmography down to just four picks each. This week on Friday Night Rewind, the Short Kings build their personal Scorsese foursomes, debate the movies that belong at the top of his career, and get into...

Jason has absolutely nothing he would change about Goodfellas — and if someone asked him where to start with mob movies, he might even put it ahead of The Godfather. This Friday, Four for Friday returns with Martin Scorsese. Jason and Scott each pick four films from one of the greatest filmographies ever assembled — eight iconic films, eight personal picks, and plenty to talk about. Four for Frida...

Episode 13 of Friday Night Rewind cracks open Sneakers (1992), the ridiculously stacked techno-thriller starring Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Dan Aykroyd, River Phoenix, Mary McDonnell, David Strathairn, and Ben Kingsley. We’re talking about why this movie still works, the chemistry of that incredible ensemble, its weirdly prescient take on technology, privacy, surveillance, and information—and...

A movie from 1992 had a pretty good idea where technology was taking us. In this preview from our upcoming Sneakers episode, Jason and Scott talk about the movie’s surprisingly prophetic take on computers, information, and a world increasingly controlled by ones and zeros. 🎙️ The full Sneakers (1992) episode drops Friday! Friday Night Rewind — Celebrating the movies that raised us, and helping you...

Galaxy Quest somehow pulled off the impossible: it lovingly mocked Star Trek, fandom, conventions, washed-up actors, and sci-fi clichés — while becoming a genuinely great sci-fi movie in its own right. This week on Friday Night Rewind, Jason and Scott rewind the 1999 cult classic starring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Sam Rockwell, Tony Shalhoub, and an absolutely loaded supporting ca...

Never give up. Never surrender. This week, Friday Night Rewind is celebrating Galaxy Quest, the 1999 sci-fi comedy that somehow became both one of the funniest Star Trek spoofs ever made and a genuinely great science-fiction adventure in its own right. Jason and Scott revisit Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Sam Rockwell, Tony Shalhoub and the incredible ensemble cast, the movie’s affect...

Mel Gibson. James Horner. Huge battles. Huge emotions. And one of the most historically inaccurate Best Picture winners ever made. This week on Friday Night Rewind, Jason and Scott revisit Braveheart (1995), the epic that turned William Wallace into a pop-culture icon and became one of the defining historical dramas of the ’90s. We talk about Mel Gibson’s performance and direction, the scale of th...

Braveheart is considered one of Hollywood’s most historically inaccurate films. But does that actually make it a worse movie? This Friday on Friday Night Rewind, we rewind Mel Gibson’s 1995 Best Picture winner and ask how much historical accuracy really matters when the storytelling works. 🎙️ Friday Night Rewind — Celebrating the movies that raised us, and helping you discover your next favorite f...

For our second Four for Friday , we’re going full Schwarzenegger. Jason and Scott each bring four Arnold movies to the table — eight films total — spanning action classics, sci-fi insanity, comedy, one-liners, explosions, and the kind of movie-star charisma they simply do not manufacture anymore. Which movies hold up? Which ones surprised us? And which eight made the cut? Eight Schwarzenegger movi...

There was a time when Arnold Schwarzenegger’s name was bigger than the title of the movie—and that alone could sell the ticket. Jason and Scott look back at an era when movie stars were the franchise, and why today, marquee names have been replaced by marquee franchises. This Friday on Friday Night Rewind, it’s Four for Friday: Schwarzenegger. Jason and Scott each bring four Arnold movies to the t...

George Clooney. Jennifer Lopez. Steven Soderbergh. And one of the coolest, sexiest crime movies of the ’90s. This week on Friday Night Rewind, Jason and Scott revisit Out of Sight (1998), the Elmore Leonard adaptation that helped redefine George Clooney’s movie career and gave Jennifer Lopez one of her best roles. We talk about the incredible chemistry between Clooney and Lopez, Soderbergh’s effor...

Out of Sight might be one of the sexiest movies ever made—and it barely has to show you anything. George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez have the kind of chemistry you can actually feel, especially in that unforgettable trunk scene. This week, we're rewinding Steven Soderbergh's effortlessly cool 1998 crime romance and talking about what makes that chemistry feel so real. 🎬 Full Episode 9 drops Friday...

Sometimes the worst filmmaker in Hollywood can make one of the best movies about why we create. This week on Friday Night Rewind, Jason and Scott revisit Ed Wood (1994), Tim Burton’s wonderfully strange and surprisingly heartfelt tribute to the filmmaker often called one of the worst directors of all time. We talk about Johnny Depp’s endlessly optimistic performance as Ed Wood, Martin Landau’s Osc...