The Rewind Movie Podcast

I ran it under a cold tap! In this special episode for Zombie Awareness Month, resident ghouls Matt and Devlin have compiled a glistening smorgasbord of meaty treats: 31 of our favourite zombie films, arranged chronologically, to be devoured every day this month. Welcome to MAY OF THE DEAD. JOIN US at rewindmoviecast.com for Matt’s special zombie cliche bingo board, and an extended blog post with...

Always guess the cliche, and you won't be disappointed. As part of our RErotica series, we’ve slipped under the covers with the incredibly strange 1994 Bruce Willis psycho-sexual thriller Color of Night , directed by veteran Richard Rush. Willis stars as Dr. Bill Capa, a New York therapist reeling from the very dramatic suicide of one of his patients. Retreating to Los Angeles to stay with his unf...

Choke on ‘em! In this special episode for Zombie Awareness Month, resident ghouls Matt and Devlin have compiled a glistening smorgasbord of meaty treats: 31 of our favourite zombie films, arranged chronologically, to be devoured every day this month. Welcome to MAY OF THE DEAD. JOIN US at rewindmoviecast.com for Matt’s special zombie cliche bingo board, and an extended blog post with information a...

Yeah, just ain't no peace with old Jesse around. You oughta pity my poor wife. In this episode, Patrick has chosen Andrew Dominik’s stately 2007 turn of the century outlaw death march The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford . An increasingly paranoid, deeply traumatised Jesse James (Brad Pitt), by now already one of the most famous men in America after a string of daring train a...

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. Our first episode focussed on James Cameron’s 1986 sequel, which was for (almost) all of the panel our first contact with the xenomorph. Now, Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt step in to the laser egg room for the ori...

She’s a predator. Her eyes are in front. In this episode, we’ve awarded director Roger Donaldson his 2nd dip in the Bargain Bin with the lascivious 1995 sci-fi horror thriller SPECIES . When indeterminate Government science guy Xavier Fitch (a slumming Ben Kinglsey) decides to follow an intergalactic recipe for alien DNA, he may have inadvertently sown the seeds of the destruction of mankind, as h...

What do you say we cut the CHIT-CHAT, A-HOLE?! Or not, as the case may be, as the gang gets together for a listener request episode and discusses Michael Bay’s incendiary Simpson/Bruckheimer action landmark THE ROCK. Chemical superfreak FBI expert Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage, kicking off his unlikely but lucrative action star run) is drafted in to advise when disgruntled former Black Ops speci...

“That's murder, kid.” We’re wallowing in the seamy, seedy and sleazy side of cinema with a new RErotica series. Following our delve into the Sharon Stone classic Basic Instinct , we’re back with another foray into a...formative film experience for several of our panel - John McNaughton’s nefarious, naughty 1998 neo-noir Wild Things .  Popular high school guidance counsellor Sam Lombardo (Matt...

Is that you, John Wayne? Is this me? Today’s choice comes courtesy of Matt, who has picked Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 Vietnam nightmare Full Metal Jacket .  Smart-mouthed recruit Pvt. Joker (Matthew Modine), as he’s quickly named by his ruthless new drill instructor (R. Lee Ermey), arrives with his fellow recruits at Parris Island for a hellacious training session. The main target of the instruct...

Mind if I do a J? We’re drifting along with a tumbling tumbleweed to the City of Angels for an encounter with The Dude in the Coen Brothers’ shambling stoner noir comedy classic The Big Lebowski . The Dude, AKA Jeffrey Lebowski, finds his simple life of bowling, dairy-based cocktails and copious weed intake upended by a case of mistaken identity rug-peeing. Seeking restitution from his ornery mill...

We’re travelling back to the fading embers of the Hollywood Golden Age with John Huston’s 1961 elegiac lament The Misfits , written by legendary playwright Arthur Miller for his then-wife Marilyn Monroe, who stars alongside “The King of Hollywood” Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach and Thelma Ritter. Monroe stars as Roslyn, a recent divorcee who finds herself unmoored in Reno, Nevada and d...

FOR FREEEEEEEEE?!?! Merry Christmas listeners, have we got a lump of coal for you! Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt have each picked a festive favourite, and our choices lent themselves to compiling two separate episodes where each we discuss why these films are our perennial, go-to holiday films. We begin the Nice List with Patrick introducing the Salkind-produced British-American coproduction SANT...

Charles Dickens would have wanted to see her nipples! Merry Christmas listeners, have we got a lump of coal for you! Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt have each picked a festive favourite, and our choices lent themselves to compiling two separate episodes where we each discuss why these films are our perennial, go-to holiday films. On the Naughty List, we start with Matt’s choice of GREMLINS , Joe Da...

How does it feel to be hunted? Well, greasy mulletted ‘Cajun’ Chance Boudreaux (Jean Claude Van Damme) is about to find out, as he finds himself embroiled in some big game down by the bayou in John Woo’s Hollywood debut Hard Target .  Rolling into town in search of her daddy, Natasha (Yancy Butler, in her first feature) recruits Chance to assist after an, erm, chance meeting in which he rescu...

VAYA CON DIOS! We’re turning a petrol pump flamethrower on to this chilly winter weather and heading to sunny L.A., where the air got dirty and the sex got clean, for a blast of surfing, skydiving, and stealing with Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 action classic Point Break .  Quarterback punk and Quantico blue-flamer Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) arrives in town and is assigned his new partner, grizzled...

Candyman, Candyman, Candyman, Candyman… We’re back with our final installment in this HalloRe’ewind series of seasonal recommendations and our last pick comes from Patrick, who has chosen the 1992 classic Candyman. Oh no, that’s five! In the notorious project of Cabrini-Green, in the neglected housing blocks that sit in the shadow of the wealthiest districts of Chicago yet remain riddled with crim...

EPISODE 47: HalloRe'ewind Movie Podcast Marathon It’s time! It’s time! It’s time for the not-at-all-annual Rewind Movie Podcast Hallowe’en movie marathon, as our resident scarehounds Bat (Matt) and Let-The-Devil-In (Devlin) take you on an enormous 2 day, 17 film curated Hallowe’en list to take you from 10am on Friday through to way past your bedtime on Saturday night. But that’s not all! We also h...

CHEESEBURGER. The 3rd in our HalloRe’ewind series, where each host chooses their seasonal favourite, sees Gali emerging from his telepod as something transformed - Galifly. We’re talking about David Cronenberg’s classic sci-fi body horror The Fly from 1986. Brilliant scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) charms journalist Veronica Quaife (his then-real-life partner Geena Davis) into visiting his...

FIRE IT UP! FIRE IT UP! Our second selection in the HalloRe’ewind series comes courtesy of Devlin, who has delved back into his sulky late-teen years to choose the seminal goth-lite tragic romantic 1994 comic book revenge actioner The Crow . Striking rock vocalist Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) and his beautiful fiancée Shelley are viciously attacked on Hallowe’en eve, or Devil’s Night, by a gang of th...

“Everybody be cool. YOU - be cool.” It’s the REAL most wonderful time of the year, and we at Rewind are indulging our bad selves with episodes on 4 Hallowe’en favourites throughout October. First up, we sink our fangs into the Mexican vampire mayhem of Robert Rodriguez’s From Dusk till Dawn , courtesy of super-fan Matt. Outlaw brothers Seth (an early breakout role for E.R. heartthrob George Cloone...

In this episode, we tackle the incendiary and controversial 1992 Australian movie Romper Stomper , featuring a star-making turn from Russell Crowe as the head of a gang of violent neo-Nazis in rundown suburban Melbourne.  Hando (Crowe) leads his group of violent young men in a brutal assault on three young members of the city’s Vietnamese Australian community. Later, Hando and his shy, but eq...

GET THE MEAT. On this episode, Gali, Devlin and Patrick are joined all the way from Vancouver by fellow former film school buddy Aidan, who takes a break from his busy schedule as a focus puller & camera department pro to introduce us to the 1992 Sci-Fi curio Freejack , which for some reason was staple viewing in his formative years. Formula 1 racer and gopher-faced cheeky chap Alex Furlong (E...

GAME OVER MAN! GAME OVER! We’re touching down on LV-426 in James Cameron’s incendiary 1986 sequel ALIENS . We’ll be revisiting the whole Alien franchise in true, confusing Rewind fashion not in release order, but in the order we watched them as kids. Thawed out of cryostasis almost 60 years after her first terrifying ordeal with the Xenomorphs, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is badgered by a sleazy exe...

Welcome DISGUSTING MAMMALS to a very special Rewind Movie Podcast! On this episode we are delighted to be joined by the effervescent Em from the excellent Verbal Diorama podcast, who has rewarded our hospitality by bringing us the...fondly remembered 1993 video game adaptation SUPER MARIO BROS. Grumbling Britalian-American plumber Mario Mario (a visibly confused Bob Hoskins) and his Colombian/Cala...

If anybody smiles at me ever again, I'm going to freak out. On this Throwback episode, Devlin has chosen David Gordon Green’s 2003 melancholy indie romance All The Real Girls . We meet small town lothario Paul (Paul Schneider) after he has already become enraptured by his best friend’s younger sister Noel (Zooey Deschanel), and begun a tentative romance that doesn’t sit well with drinking buddy an...