The Rewind Movie Podcast

PHOENIIIIIIIIX! Mellow greetings, friends. On this episode, we emerge naked and with a compulsion to knit from the Cryo Bargain Bin clutching our frozen copies of the 1993 futuristic actioner Demolition Man . Ass-kicking explosions cop John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone) is set up for a crime he didn’t commit by wily all-around villain and Dennis Rodman-alike Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) in a fiery...

What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? AN IDEA. On this Throwback episode, Gali invites Patrick, Devlin and Matt on a journey through subconscious layers to revisit INCEPTION a decade after its monumentally successful debut. Dream thief Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) finds himself in hot water: exiled from his homeland and separated from his children by a mysteri...

Now's not the time for dick measuring, Stuart! We’re dipping in to 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 come true as his beloved 32 year old teenage daughter is kidnapped by literally the first guy she meets on a summer vacation to Eur...

You wait till you've given them crabs. Then you'll REALLY know hatred. We’ve rummaged in the Bargain Bin and fished out the film that wreaked havoc on bar queue waiting times for decades hence: 1988’s bottle-tossing megasmash Cocktail. Turbocharged, go-getting would-be millionaire Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise) arrives in the Big Apple with big dreams, but finds the life lessons he learns behind the...

Three wishes I'll grant ye, great wishes or small! But you wish a fourth and you'll lose them all! Patrick has thrown us waaaaaay back for this episode, asking Gali and Devlin to accompany him to meet Darby O’Gill and the Little People , a 1959 Disney live action movie which features one of the first performances by a very young Sean Connery.  Smalltown tale-teller Darby O’Gill (Irish stage l...

This is the City of the Angels, and you haven't got any wings. Our first listener-chosen episode sees Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt delve into the seamy tail end of the Hollywood Golden Age with Curtis Hanson’s 1997 neo-noir L.A. Confidential . Straight arrow 2nd generation LAPD Sgt. Ed Exley (Guy Pearce) finds himself embroiled with hot-tempered heavy Officer Bud White (Russell Crowe) and jaded,...

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: Prince of Thieves. Accompanied by the capable and noble Moor Azeem (Morgan Freeman), Kevin Costner’s Robin romances the radiant Maid Marion, ro...

I THINK, THEREFORE, YOU IS. In this episode, the team take a trip with Terry Gilliam’s fantastical financial flop The Adventures of Baron Munchausen . In an unnamed city under siege, a theatrical troupe rally to entertain the bedraggled town with a performance of the tall tales of Baron Munchausen, only to be interrupted by the real Baron himself, who decries their inaccuracies and leads the daugh...

He got off before he got offed! We’re revelling in the excess of Paul Verhoeven’s 1992 erotic thriller Basic Instinct , as once again Matt joins Gali and Devlin in the interrogation room. Trigger-happy ball of machismo Detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) gets himself in way over his head when the investigation of a mid-coitus murder leads him to icy blonde heiress Catherine Tramell (Sharon Sto...

We're flying high over Tupelo, Mississippi with the hottest band in America...and we're all about to die. Today's film-chooser Gali is joined on the road by Devlin and Patrick to revisit Cameron Crowe's OSCAR-winning rock 'n roll bildungsroman Almost Famous . 15 year old aspiring rock journalist William Miller (Patrick Fugit) catches the break of a lifetime after a chance encounter with one of his...

DINNER’S OVER, WORM DUDE. Bill S. Preston, Esq. and “Ted” Theodore Logan return from their travels across time in Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey , with our heroes seemingly no closer to fulfilling the prophecy that Wyld Stallyns' most excellent music will unite the world and lead to a glorious, utopian future. In fact, they are stuck in a run-down apartment working for nothing but pretzels and che...

Look, it's the gentleman guppy! Gali and Devlin are joined again by Matt, who has brought us the infamously expensive ocean-bound post-apocalyptic epic Waterworld . In a future where the now-melted ice caps have flooded the entire planet, a nameless trimaran-piloting Mariner finds himself entwined with a former denizen of a floating trading post and her companion, a young girl with a mysterious ta...

Nice work, Bone Daddy! On today’s super spooky episode, Patrick has a suspiciously serpentine present for us all: the stop motion animated classic The Nightmare Before Christmas . Pumpkin King Jack Skellington may be the toast of Halloween Town, but an indefinable melancholy leads him seek something else, something he finds when stumbling through a mystical door and tumbling down to Christmas Town...

It's lonely, isn't it, when you're a freak? On this Throwback episode we look at the John Carpenter-directed Chevy Chase sci-fi-romance-thriller Memoirs of an Invisible Man . Laconic stocks analyst Nick Halloway comes to regret the hungover nap he takes while skipping a lecture at the mysterious Magnascopics Institute, when an industrial accident renders the building invisible with him trapped ins...

NOTHING CLEAN. RIGHT. On today’s episode, Gali has lined up James Cameron’s seminal sci-fi horror chase thriller The Terminator . A lone protector versus an unstoppable assassin: future soldier Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) and a large cyborg (Arnold Schwarzenegger) are sent hurtling back in time from a post-nuclear robo-hellscape to a grimy 1984 Los Angeles, converging on unassuming waitress Sarah C...

I AM THE YETI! Patrick is back on the panel and has brought the quintessential late-90s bromedy (bro comedy?) American Pie to discuss with Gali and Devlin for another Throwback episode. Sweaty teen boys Jim, Kevin, Oz and Finch vow to lose their dreaded V-plates before high school graduation, entering a pact which sees them hatch schemes to score at the prom, while Oz’s jock buddy Stifler jeers fr...

助けて! Gali and Devlin are back with another Pulling Focus, this time looking at Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s slow-burning ghost-in-the-machine chiller Pulse , or 回路, from 2001. But for this special episode, we’ve widened the discussion to talk about the Japanese horror boom that surrounded it, starting with Hideo Nakata’s seminal Ring and continuing with Takashi Shimizu’s Ju-On: The Grudge . Joined once...

I’VE BECOME THE CHIP! Gali and Devlin are jacking in again for a second dip in to the Bargain Bin virtual world of Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace/Jobe’s War ! Following the bonkers original, Cybergod Jobe Smith is now a bafflingly recast, surgically repaired double amputee played by Matt Frewer, indentured to a mean-spirited techno institute to become the architect of a new digital world using...

You guys up for some reggae tonight? Devlin has delved back in to his angsty late adolescence and picked the 2001 graphic novel adaptation Ghost World for this Throwback episode. Snarky, newly graduated (well, one of them anyway) Enid and Rebecca are finally free from the tyranny of high school, but the question of what comes next tests their symbiotic friendship to breaking point. Rebecca (Scarle...

NOBODY BEATS ME IN THE KITCHEN. Welcome back to the Bargain Bin, as we go full steam ahead on the 1995 Steven Seagal-starring choo-choo beat ‘em up sequel Under Siege 2: Dark Territory . Seagal reprises his role as the stoic chef/ass-kicker Casey Ryback, accompanying his snarky teenage niece Sarah (Katherine Heigl) on a cross country train journey to her father’s graveside. When the train is taken...

Welcome to our series Pulling Focus, where each of our hosts introduces the other to a personally beloved film which they feel has been overlooked or underrated. This time, Gali encourages Devlin to FINALLY sit down and watch the 2000 Michael Douglas lit-com Wonder Boys , from director Curtis Hanson. Michael Douglas’ Grady Tripp is a borderline burnt-out literature professor coasting on the reputa...

I WANT SOME BUTTS! Gali has picked out Tony Scott's magnum opus of fighter jet machismo, 1986’s Top Gun , for this Throwback episode. Maverick loose cannon Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) gets his shot to be the best of the best at the elite Top Gun academy, where he competes in spectacular aerial combat exercises against Val Kilmer's stone cold Ice Man while trying to attract the attentions...

On this episode, Devlin introduces Gali to one of his favourites, and offers an introduction to a film which has flown under the radar over the last few years: Lynne Ramsay's 1999 feature debut Ratcatcher . James, a sensitive young boy on the cusp of adolescence, tries to navigate the rubbish strewn-streets of an East Glasgow housing estate in dustman-strike-ravaged 1973. Racked with a level of gu...

BLESS YOUR BEAUTIFUL HIIIIIIIIDE! Patrick is back, and he brought the rootin'est, rootin'est, barn-danciest rip-roarin’ Western musical Seven Brides For Seven Brothers . Large bearded man Adam rides into town to find himself a wife to bring back to his frontier ranch, but “forgets” to tell new bride Milly about his six also large brothers. While she teaches them proper manners, Adam has a differen...

きりきりきり! On this Throwback, first time Rewinder and good friend Matt joins us all the way from South Korea to discuss his first brush with Takashi Miike’s seminal romantic drama-turned-nightmare fuel Audition . Lonely Tokyo widower Aoyama turns to an old friend in his quest to find a new wife to share his life with. His idea? An audition for a new movie, where Aoyama can take his pick of the...