The Rewind Movie Podcast

“I don’t think a person should run unless he’s being chased.” We beamed down Dimension Films’ 1998 teensploitation sci-fi horror, The Faculty , directed by Mariachi man and Rebel Without a Crew, Robert Rodriguez ( From Dusk Till Dawn , Sin City ), from a screenplay by the preposterously articulate, teen telly voice of a generation, Kevin Williamson ( Dawson’s Creek , Scream ). When student, Casey...

Can you be perfect? We step onto the hallowed turf of Permian High School’s cavernous football stadium and soak up the atmosphere of Peter Berg’s 2004 sports drama Friday Night Lights.  2nd year coach Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton) carries the weight of the post-oil bust town of Odessa’s beleaguered populace on his shoulders. Their pride rests on whether his Permian Panthers can win the Sta...

I LIKE THE DEATH! I LIKE THE MISERY! I LIKE THIS WORLD! We return to the trusty Bargain Bin and dig out the infamous Cannon Films’ post-apocalyptic Van Damme downer Cyborg. ‘Slinger’ Gibson Rickenbacker (JCVD) is some sort of futuristic ronin, hired by the some of the tattered remnants of humanity to guarantee them safe passage through a plague-ravaged nightmare future world ruled by ruthless, non...

God himself could not sink this ship! We’ve snagged a ticket on a lucky hand of poker and are setting sail on the grandest vessel ever built, James Cameron’s all-conquering disaster romance epic Titanic. Eventually emerging as an unsinkable box office phenomenon and Oscar magnet, Cameron cashed in all his chips as one of the most successful filmmakers of his era and created the most expensive movi...

Want some candy? Our LV-RMP series continues on the Yautja trail as we swap the jungles of Val Verde for its concrete equivalent - the mean, sweaty streets of a near-future, heatwave-crazy Los Angeles for Stephen Hopkins' 1990 sequel Predator 2. Another imposing, grotesquely-mandibled intergalactic hunter has crashed to Earth in search of trophies, interfering in a fierce drugs-related turf war be...

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WELCOME TO VIOLENCE. As part of our celebration of the centenary of the firebrand exploitation cinema pioneer Russ Meyer, superfan Devlin introduces the gang to his seminal 1965 superwomen spectacular Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Belted and buckled badasses Varla, Rosie and Billie (exotic dancers Tura Santana, Haji, and Lori Williams) are three go-go dancers who tear across...

Pioneering auteur. Pervert. America’s first feminist director. Misogynist exploiter of buxom women. The terms that swirl around independent film icon Russ Meyer are by turns confirmed and contradicted by a career that takes in over 20 feature films spanning from the buttoned-up 1950s to the gritty, hardcore-sex-laden late 1970s and beyond; from cheesecake erotic frivolity through mean and moody mo...

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. After thwarting an elaborate exploding elevator hostage situation, bomb disposal expert Jack Traven (Keanu Reeves) finds himself targeted by the enraged madman responsible (Dennis Hopper). The game? A bomb on a city bus. Once it goes abo...

YOU CANNOT RUN FROM THIS. We’re back with another listener request episode, as things go bump in the night for a self-filming suburban couple in the smash hit 2009 found footage phenomenon Paranormal Activity. Micah (Micah Sloat) buys himself a fancy video camera to document the uncanny occurrences that have been plaguing the home he shares with girlfriend Katie (Katie Featherston). Calling in a m...

RASPBERRIES! Rewind’s resident song-and-dance man Patrick continues his quest to get the gang to appreciate his love of musical cinema with George Roy Hill’s 1967 Roaring Twenties-set comedy extravaganza Thoroughly Modern Millie. Fresh off a run of world-conquering hits including Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, Julie Andrews plays the titular Millie, a young woman in the big city looking to s...

STICK AROUND. We’re dropping into the dense jungles of Val Verde to tangle with the greatest hunter in the galaxy in John McTiernan’s 1987 action sci-fi classic PREDATOR. When Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and his rescue team of cartoonishly manly super soldiers are called in to action by former grunt-turned-CIA operative Dillon (Carl Weathers), what should have been a simple hostage smash-and-gra...

Welcome To The Party, Pal! We’re crashing into December with 1988’s mega-influential multistorey multiplex mainstay DIE HARD.  You all know the story by now - wiseass New York street cop John McClane (Bruce Willis), in an effort to save his flailing marriage, pops up at the L.A. office party of his high-flying executive wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia) at the magnificent, unfinished Nakatomi Plaza...

Where we’re going, we won’t need eyes to see! It’s off to the ionosphere surrounding Neptune for us, as we board the Lewis and Clark to salvage the wreckage of Paul W.S. Anderson’s 1997 Gothic space nightmare Event Horizon .  After a mysterious 7-year disappearance, the titular imposing, experimental, wormhole-navigating interstellar craft has reappeared, sending the ship’s creator Dr. Weir (...

Damn the Man! Save the Empire! It’s our own unofficial Rex Manning Day as we Rewind to the alt-rocking mid-nineties to visit the beautiful little tattooed gum-chewing freaks that man the registers of Empire Records . Turtleneck-clad, koan-garbling night manager Lucas hatches a doomed plan to save his beloved independent record store from a corporate takeover by betting the day’s takings on a craps...

“Oh, we've got a psychotic serial killer in the family who loves to butcher people on Halloween, and I just thought it in bad taste to celebrate.” We follow up John Carpenter’s trailblazing original with a look at the first sizable-budgeted stab at resurrecting the Halloween franchise - before David Gordon Green, there was Steve Miner’s 1998 rebootquel Halloween H20: 20 Years Later . From a treatm...

“Sheriff, death has come to your little town.” We’re celebrating spooky season with the season-defining, sub-genre spawning 1978 slasher classic Halloween , directed by the legendary John Carpenter. When 6-year-old Michael Myers slayed his older sister in a violent, unprovoked attack, he was confined to an asylum under the ‘care’ of Dr. Samuel Loomis (Donald Pleasance) - who believes the boy to be...

“Call me James. It’s 5 days to Alaska.” To celebrate the theatrical release of No Time to Die, it’s tuxedos on and Walther PPKs at the ready, as Gali and Matt pop the cork on that Dom Pérignon ’52 they’d been saving, and delve deeply into the cinematic treasures that are Sir Roger Moore’s seven James Bond entries. Using the three eras of Moore as Bond, from 1973’s Live and Let Die, to A View to a...

Just what the hell did they do to those sharks? Gali and Matt are heading to the Bargain Bin this week into the DEEPEST BLUEST, their hats like shark fins, as they swim through Renny Harlin's $80 million B-movie DEEP BLUE SEA (1999). In a remote underwater facility, doctors Susan McCallister (Saffron Burrows) and Jim Whitlock (Stellan Skarsgaard) are conducting research on mako sharks to attempt t...

I'll make ya famous! We're saddling up, skinning out, and cocking back the hammer on another in our Pulling Focus series, where one of our ragtag gang extols the virtues of a favourite they feel deserves a little more love. This time, Matt has brought us Rewind royalty, Geoff Murphy's so-called "MTV western" sequel from 1990, Young Guns II: Blaze of Glory. A prosthetic-clad Emilio Estevez returns...

I’M THE MONSTER’S MOTHER. Welcome back to LV-RMP, our journey through the on-screen history of one of the greatest cinematic monsters ever conceived: the xenomorph. We’ve reached the conclusion of the original ‘Quadrilogy’ with director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s gooey 1997 installment Alien Resurrection . 200 years after Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) took her sacrificial dive into the smelter on Fury 161,...

WAKE UP. We’re diving into the gelatinous wormholes of Richard Kelly’s auspicious, doom-laden, twisty, teen angsty sci-fi debut feature Donnie Darko , 20 years after its infamously inauspicious cinema release. In a breakout, star-making performance, Jake Gyllenhaal is Donnie, a troubled teen in an upscale suburban neighbourhood with a penchant for sleepwalking. His latest bout brings him face-to-f...

Are you...discreet? We continue our past-our-bedtime trip through some very formative experiences as we dive back into the unmarked, back-of-the-closet video collection of our RErotica series for Adrian Lyne’s seminal 80s infidelity cautionary tale Fatal Attraction . Successful lawyer, husband, and father of one Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) finds himself home alone for the weekend, and, caught...

In nomine Patris, et Fillii, et Spiritus Sancti, we’re shippin’ up to Boston for Troy Duffy’s violent, religious vengeance-fuelled indie action thriller The Boondock Saints . Joined by our tremendous first-time guest David Biggins, who discovered the film in his later teen years, our panel tackle a film whose creation is almost as famous as the work itself, as the critically acclaimed 2003 documen...

RUMOUR CONTROL. We’ve crash landed on Fury 161 for the latest installment in our xenomorphic review series LV-RMP, as we reach David Fincher’s divisive and dour 1992 threequel ALIEN3 .  Controversially stripping Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) of her potential happily ever when both Hicks and Newt are killed when her shuttle plummets out of the sky, our beleaguered heroine finds herself stranded on...

I like these calm little moments before the storm. Friend of the show Joe returns to discuss a hugely impactful film from his adolescence, Luc Besson’s Gallic 1994 hitman-with-a-heart thriller LEON . When her family is gunned down by a drug-addled, maniacal DEA agent (Gary Oldman), 12 year old Mathilda (Natalie Portman) seeks shelter in the apartment of her shy neighbour Leon (Jean Reno) - unbekno...