The Rewind Movie Podcast

“The streets are awash with drugs you can have for unhappiness and pain, and we took them all.” We’re heading to the murky hinterland of Edinburgh with Danny Boyle’s visceral 1996 sophomore feature Trainspotting. Erudite, sallow twenty-something Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) has chosen not to choose life - he’s chosen something else. Heroin. He injects his days away at the den of his dealer, Mother...

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair. The LV-RMP series continues to explore the Ridley Scott sequel universe with 2017’s Alien: Covenant. The crew of an intergalactic colonisation vessel is jolted from hypersleep by a catastrophic freak event while it is under the control of the ship’s android, Walter (Michael Fassbender). Reluctant to return to the chambers, overmatched new Captain Oram (Bil...

“Remember what we told you. You keep your eyes open. They're everywhere.” We’re popping in for a quick blood rave with 1998’s Marvel Comics adaptation Blade. Titular daywalker Blade (Wesley Snipes), otherwise known as Eric Brooks, stalks the streets to hunt and kill vampires, driven by a thirst for revenge after his mother was bitten before going into labour, cursing him with a bloodlust that he s...

Final report, the commercial starship Nostromo. We return to our LV-RMP series to talk about the seminal sci-fi horror that started it all: Ridley Scott’s imperious 1979 original ALIEN. Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt step in to the laser egg room for the origins of the series, as we meet jaded space truckers Captain Dallas (Tom Skerrit), 3rd Officer Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), Science Officer...

“Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?” We engage stealth mode with legendary Hong Kong director John Woo’s second Hollywood feature, Broken Arrow. Cocky, veteran US Air Force pilot Major Vic "Deak" Deakins (John Travolta) absconds with a pair of nuclear warheads from an intentionally downed experimental fighter jet, leaving his erstwhile co-pilot and chippy younger mentee Capt...

Checkmate. Come join the Rewind Movie Podcast as we celebrate our Independence Day with Roland Emmerich’s 1996 sci-fi action spectacular. A drunk crop duster pilot with a painful memory of extraterrestrial abduction; an overqualified cable TV repairman and his elderly father; a hot shot Air Force ace, his exotic dancer girlfriend, and her cutesy kid; and a war hero President with faltering approva...

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of SPEED (1994), we decided to pull our discussion from the archives to give all you wildcats another ride on that infamous bus, that terrifying elevator and...the slightly forgettable train, ENJOY!!! POP QUIZ HOTSHOT. We’re careening through the unfinished highways of Los Angeles with Jan de Bont’s explosive debut feature SPEED, courtesy of a listener request. Af...

Welcome to The Open Slate! Ever sat through the credits and wondered what a stand-in stands on? Or whether the Base PA plays baseball? In this series, we sit down with working film industry professionals from across the departments for unvarnished, honest, practical conversations about how and why they joined the movie business, how they contribute day-to-day to the creation of cinema, and how the...

Do not adjust your calendars - Matt and Devlin have jumped the gun by six months with this Halfway to HalloRe’ewind double bill - a very special episode where we pitch to horror film agnostic Patrick two tenuously connected 1980s slashers in the Canuxploitation sequel-in-name-only Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II and the Spanish-American co-produced mayhem of Pieces .  In Devlin’s choice Hello M...

Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? We delve into the murky, rain-soaked neon streets of 2019 Los Angeles for Ridley Scott’s seminal 1982 sci-fi slow burner Blade Runner. Retired replicant hunter Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is pulled back into duty when four illegal synthetic humanoids are reported to be loose in the sprawling, polluted megalopolis. Led by the enigmatic Roy Batty (Rutg...

LATE RETURN FEE: Rewind dips into the archive for a classic episode from 2020 - one of the very first featuring the whole four-piece panel! NO BLADES. NO BOWS. LEAVE YER WEAPONS ‘ERE. We’re off to Sherwood Forest with the bemulleted, Nottingham-by-way-of-Burbank-accented Robin of Locksley, as he returns from The Crusades with a taste for swashbuckling justice in the 1991 mega-smash Robin Hood: Pri...

“Sharks come and go, Ellen. People have got nothing to do with it.” We’re wrapping up our Jaws series reviews with a spin around the islands for Joseph Sargent’s much-maligned final entry, 1987’s Jaws The Revenge . Sidestepping the continuity of the bizarre theme park catastrophe Jaws 3-D , a newly re-cast Sean Brody (Mitchell Anderson) has followed in his father’s footsteps and joined the Amity P...

Oh it's them. The little guys. My little munchkins! We’re strolling back to the Amblin Entertainment heyday with Matthew Robbins’ cute, nostalgic, intergalactic robot heartwarmer *batteries not included . Elderly corner café owner Frank Riley (frequent Hitchcock collaborator Hume Cronyn) and his flighty, seemingly bewildered wife Faye (Cronyn’s real-life partner Jessica Tandy) struggle on as two o...

“Proctor, I don’t see a salad bar.” We’ve enlisted in the ker-raziest cop department in Metro City, and are skating through the streets with Tony Hawk and David Spade for the 1987 madcap fourquel  Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol .   As the surprise comedy hit of 1984, the original  Police Academy  quickly spawned an annual franchise, with canny producer Paul Maslansky rush...

Funnily Enough, We Never Lose Our Luggage! We’ve snuck a sequel into your stocking this Christmas - Chris Columbus’ 1992 big city follow-up Home Alone 2: Lost in New York .  After a familiar family blow-up on the eve of a Christmas trip (this time to Florida, where they don’t even have Christmas trees), mischievous Kevin McCallister (Macauley Culkin) finds himself on the wrong flight, landing...

LATE RETURN FEE: Rewind dips into the archives to rerelease a classic episode from 2020 while we take a little winter break. And now's not the time for dick measuring, Stuart! We’re dipping into the Bargain Bin to give Patrick’s favourite Paris-set old-man-on-a-rampage Geriaction touchstone Taken a spin. Recently retired, non-specific Government tough guy Brian Mills’ (Liam Neeson) worst fears com...

Welcome to The Open Slate! Ever sat through the credits and wondered why there needs to be a Second 2nd Assistant Director? Or what the Best Boy is supposed to be the best at? In this series, we sit down with working film industry professionals from across the departments for unvarnished, honest, practical conversations about how and why they joined the movie business, how they contribute day-to-d...

It’s time…it’s time! It’s time for HalloRe’ewind 2023! Join “Bat” (AKA Matt) and “The Devlin Made Me Do It” as they each carefully curate a fearsome, four-film marathon to slake your horrible appetites this Halloween. First up, Devlin presents GLOOP!, a grotesque collection of cinematic slugs, slime and sludge, while Matt offers up a quartet of demonic possessions with WHAT EVER POSSESSED YOU? Fro...

“I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of this winter TIED TO THIS F*CKING COUCH!” Our chilling choice for October is a listener request – John Carpenter’s peerless 1982 sci-fi horror The Thing . The staff of a remote Antarctic research station are disturbed by the sound of a sled dog being inexplicably hunted with a high-powered ri...

Welcome to The Open Slate! Ever sat through the credits and wondered why there needs to be a Second 2nd Assistant Director? Or what the Best Boy is supposed to be the best at? In this series, we sit down with working film industry professionals from across the departments for unvarnished, honest, practical conversations about how and why they joined the movie business, how they contribute day-to-d...

“What's this? Another glorious battle for the kingdom?” We’re heading to the stifling summer heat of Tulsa, Oklahoma for Francis Ford Coppola’s lyrical, monochromatic 1983 teen dream Rumble Fish .  In the absence of his living-legend older brother, known only as The Motorcycle Boy (Mickey Rourke), hot-headed would-be gang leader Rusty James (Matt Dillon) is called out for a fight that he is o...

“Back home, they would have put me in jail for what I'm doing. Here, they're giving me awards.” We’re heading to the neon oasis in the desert for Martin Scorsese’s grandiose 1995 Vegas-set crime epic Casino .  In 1973, gambling savant Samuel “Ace” Rothstein (Robert De Niro) is dispatched by his mob bosses from ‘back home’ to take over their luxe Tangiers casino - quickly raking in record prof...

Welcome to The Open Slate! Ever sat through the credits and wondered why there needs to be a Second 2nd Assistant Director? Or what the Best Boy is supposed to be the best at? In this series, we sit down with working film industry professionals from across the departments for unvarnished, honest, practical conversations about how and why they joined the movie business, how they contribute day-to-d...

Welcome to The Open Slate! Ever sat through the credits and wondered why there needs to be a Second 2nd Assistant Director? Or what the Best Boy is supposed to be the best at? In this series, we sit down with working film industry professionals from across the departments for unvarnished, honest, practical conversations about how and why they joined the movie business, how they contribute day-to-d...

Big things have small beginnings. Our LV-RMP series, where we explore every film in the Alien and Predator universe, finds director Ridley Scott making his long-awaited return to the genre, and franchise, that launched his illustrious career with the heady quasi-prequel Prometheus . A duo of young, ideologically divergent archeologists (Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green) believe they have deciphe...