The Rewind Movie Podcast

Compliance! We’re taking to the skies with the 1986 family sci-fi spectacular Flight of the Navigator from director Randal Kleiser. 12-year-old David Freeman (Joey Cramer) walks through the woodlands near his Florida home to bring his irritating little brother back home before it gets dark. Instead, after losing consciousness due to a fall, David returns to his home only to find that his parents a...

OUTLANDER! We’re lost on the back roads of Nebraska, following the disorientating street signs to the Bargain Bin to revisit the cut-price kid cult King flick Children of the Corn from 1984. Newly-graduated doctor Burt (Peter Horton) and his girlfriend Vicky (Linda Hamilton) are in the process of relocating to Seattle, but their route takes them past the small rural community of Gatlin – a town wh...

We’re joined once again by our good friend Aidan all the way from Vancouver to discuss one of his childhood favourites, Martin Brest’s foulmouthed 1988 buddy caper Midnight Run . Disgraced former Chicago cop Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro), now working as an LA bounty hunter, is tasked with bringing in mob accountant Jonathan “The Duke” Mardukas (Charles Grodin), who has skipped town on his desperate...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water (again), yet another Carcharodon carcharias is on the rampage in 1983’s stereoscopic sequel Jaws 3-D . Chief Brody’s eldest son Mike (a wired Dennis Quaid) has left the smalltown idyll of Amity Island to work at the sprawling SeaWorld theme park in Orlando, Florida, alongside his smart alec scientist girlfriend Kathryn (Bess Armstrong). The...

“Forget it. I don't work Toontown.” We’re delighted to welcome back one of our favourite podcasters, the incredibly talented Em from Verbal Diorama, who has brought us Robert Zemeckis’ madcap 1988 live action/animated hybrid noirtoon Who Framed Roger Rabbit . Boozed-up, embittered gumshoe Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) is hired to catch Maroon Cartoons star turn Roger Rabbit’s impossibly glamorous, e...

“Mother? What's wrong with me?” Captain Howdy has told us to revisit William Friedkin’s indelible, near-mythical 1973 horror landmark The Exorcist . Successful actor Chris MacNeil is living in a grand Georgetown apartment with her cherubic 12-year-old daughter Regan while she stars in a movie, but their idyll is short lived as Regan starts to exhibit some frightening behaviour - shocking insults b...

We're the monsters of our own world. In the latest entry in our LV-RMP series, we continue our chronological journey through the Alien and Predator universes with Nimród Antal’s 2010 back-to-basics jungle-set pursuit thriller Predators . Waking up mid-plummet, black ops mercenary Royce (Adrian Brody) is chaotically parachuted into a dense, mysterious forest, surrounded by an equally armed and angr...

The thought of murder often evokes thoughts of the sea, and of sailors. Our latest episode takes a sharp tonal shift into the tail end of Germany’s influential Neuer Deutscher Film movement with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s sultry, sweaty 1982 swansong Querelle . As the Navy ship Le Vengeur arrives into the docks of the town of Brest, the strapping young men of the crew turn their attention...

Chill out. Dickwad. We’re on the run with James Cameron’s all-conquering, pioneering 1991 action sequel Terminator 2: Judgement Day . Over a decade on from the events of the first movie, the weight of knowing that the end of the world is coming up fast has weighed on Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) so heavily that she has been institutionalised. Her son John (Edward Furlong), the future leader of th...

Polish up your spats, grab your best frock out of the vacuum bag, and clip on your bowtie as The Rewind Movie Podcast sashays down the red carpet for our very own awards show! To mark the milestone of 100 episodes, Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt take some time out to discuss the very best (and worst) of the movies we’ve covered over the last 4-and-a-bit years, and present some of our favourite fil...

When I grow up and get married, I’m living alone! Do you hear me! I’M LIVING ALONE! For our ONE HUNDREDTH(!) episode, this Rewindmas Eve-Eve we invite you to unwrap a booby trap-laden chat about that enduring festive classic of child endangerment and traumatic brain injuries, Chris Columbus’ John Hughes-penned 1990 family comedy Home Alone . Precocious but troublesome 8-year-old Kevin McCallister,...

Burning, burning…burning woman’s song of vengeance. We’re delving into the heady world of 1970s Japanese exploitation cinema with the imposing Meiko Kaji as the indomitable Nami Matsushima, Sasori, the wrongly imprisoned Convict #701 in Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 . Directed by Shunya Itō in 1972, mere months after releasing the first film in the series (and his debut feature) Female Pr...

Hey Paul! Try getting a reservation at Dorsia now! We’ve done our stomach crunches, cleansed, lotioned, and exfoliated to revisit Mary Harron’s sly, controversial 2000 adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ incendiary death-of-the-80s yuppie epitaph novel American Psycho . Handsome, 27-year-old Wall Street investment banker and trust fund kid Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) inhabits a repetitive, raref...

“She’s going to use a computer!” We’ve told our mums not to use the phone for the next couple of hours so we can log onto 1995’s technofear thriller The Net , as part of our Bargain Bin series.  Reclusive tech worker Angela Bennett (Sandra Bullock) is a work-from-home cyber security whizz, whose interactions with the real world rarely stretch beyond conference calls with distant colleagues, a...

You better get yourself a garlic T-shirt buddy, otherwise it’s your funeral. Our 2nd seasonal selection for this Halloween is Joel Schumacher’s stylish 1987 teen vampire classic The Lost Boys . Brothers Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim) move with their mother (Dianne Wiest) to the small northern California town of Santa Carla, where all may not be all it appears. While Sam geeks out with...

The darkest souls are not those which choose to exist within the hell of the abyss, but those which choose to move silently among us. It’s time to visit a very different Haddonfield, Illinois, with Rob Zombie’s controversial 2000s remake duology Halloween and Halloween II . Expanding on the original film’s brief preamble featuring cherubic young Michael Myers’ murderous assault on his teen sister,...

Our LV-RMP series charting the tangled timeline of the Alien and Predator franchises stays resolutely earthbound for the 2007 second round of extra-terrestrial fisticuffs, AVPR: Aliens vs. Predator – Requiem, directed by the debuting Brothers Strause.  We resume in the immediate aftermath of the last film, as a terrifying hybrid xenomorph-yautja chestburster emerges from the body of one of th...

I mean, it's obvious that a big fish took a bite out of... this big fish. We’re back on Amity Island as another carcharodon carcharias comes to feast on the summer revellers in the first sequel to the unstoppable original blockbuster, JAWS 2.  Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider), wife Elaine (Lorraine Gary) and family are still in Amity, and Martin’s now-teenage eldest son Mike (Mark Gruner) is...

And you're ready to die for me? Rewind icon Kevin Costner is back, minus the iconic mullet, in Mick Jackson’s 1992 perils-of-superstardom thriller The Bodyguard. Rachel Marron (a debuting Whitney Houston) is an lauded actress and megastar singer living with her young son in a sprawling, entourage-filled mansion. When a stalker’s repeated threats materialise in an explosive near-miss after a bomb i...

The enemy of my enemy... is my friend. Rewind’s LV-RMP series continues on with the long-awaited 2004 monster mashup AvP: Alien vs. Predator from director Paul W.S. Anderson. Billionaire industrialist Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) assembles a team of experts for a most mysterious mission - a voyage deep beneath an abandoned Antarctic whaling station to explore a vast pyramid which shows...

Harry? You do not have time to tango, buddy. You copy? We’re joined by a very special guest - actor/producer/Propaganda Minister of the Sovereign Nation of Val Verde Duncan Casey - for a look at James Cameron’s megabucks 1994 espionage smash hit True Lies . Dissatisfied housewife Helen Tasker (Jamie Lee Curtis) can’t understand why her boring computer salesman husband Harry (Arnold Schwarzenegger)...

I gotta go Julia; we got cows. We’re riding with The Extreme in Jan de Bont’s whirlwind 1996 divorce drama disaster blockbuster TWISTER.  Estranged married storm-chasers Dr. Jo (Helen Hunt) and Bill Harding (Bill Paxton) are thrust back into action when a series of powerful tornadoes rips through Bill's plans to finalise their breakup so he can wed his new fiancée, and tosses them back out on...

YOUR MOVE, CREEP. We plant our heavy, metallic feet on the blood-soaked tarmac of Old Detroit for a look back at the seminal, gruesome sci-fi action classic ROBOCOP. A fresh transfer to the Metro West Precinct of the crime-riddled one-time manufacturing mecca, Officer Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) falls prey to a vicious gang of criminals led by the sarcastic, ruthless Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Sm...

Wanna get drunk and fool around? If the answer is, “Oh yeah,” then you came to the right place. It’s the Jaws … duh-duh… duh-duh… duh-duh duh-duh duh-duh duh-duh drinking gaaaame!  The Rewinders (minus Gali in dry dock) bravely boarded the Orca for a sozzled 4th of July special episode—from which only two thirds of the tipsy trio returned to shore intact—in our first (and potentially last) ev...

I see you got your rubbers! We’re travelling to idyllic Amity Island (only an island if you look at it from the water) for a very memorable 4th of July to revisit the movie that immeasurably changed the cinematic landscape - Steven Spielberg’s all-conquering 1975 summer blockbuster JAWS. New York City cop and aquaphobe-turned-island police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) and his family’s first s...