The Rewind Movie Podcast

GET OVER HERE! Another rummage in the bargain bin yields the 1995 beat-‘em-up video game adaptation Mortal Kombat, directed by Paul “Not That Paul Anderson” W.S. Anderson. A handful of fighters are chosen to defend the realm of Earth from the evil ruler of Outworld in a brutal competition that will determine the fate of billions (he he he...sorry). Among them are a lapsed kung fu fighter of indete...

TATANKA! Devlin takes us on a Throwback to the never-ending Sunday afternoons of his childhood with Kevin Costner’s OSCAR-winning frontier epic DANCES WITH WOLVES . Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar’s unusual act of battlefield heroism allows him to choose his next posting, and he elects for a life of seclusion in an abandoned fort at the very edge of civilisation. But his solitude is interrup...

CyberChrist on a bike! A second dip in to the Bargain Bin yields the 1992 virtual reality trip THE LAWNMOWER MAN , starring Pierce Brosnan and Jeff Fahey. Improbably named scientician Dr. Larry Angelo is using this latest technology to increase intelligence, and has the perfect subject in naïve, developmentally challenged stereotype Jobe Smith, a local lawnmower whose new-found powers quickly grow...

GITOUTTATHERE! The Rewind team are taking their first dip in to the Bargain Bin – a new series that takes a break from the Throwbacks to focus on the ubiquitous trash that we’ve passively watched a hundred times and subjecting them to a level of scrutiny that they almost certainly don’t deserve. First up is VOLCANO, a film that confronts the ridiculously implausible idea that 28-year-old Anne Hech...

Gali has tipped his hand and selected a personal favourite, the archetypal “inspirational sports movie” ROCKY.We follow low-ranking local Philadelphia boxer Rocky Balboa, a soft-centred brute who spends his days enforcing for a local loan shark (while ironically avoiding the use of violence). Lamenting his lack of initiative, confronted with the stagnation of his big fight dreams, and pining for t...

Welcome to the show, BAND-AID BREATH. Patrick’s first ever podcast selection is the 1987 kids-versus-creatures adventure comedy The Monster Squad. When Dracula, The Wolfman, Frankenstein’s Monster, The Mummy and The Creature from the Black Lagoon converge on a small town in search of a sacred amulet that controls the fate of the world, only a motley gang of preteen horror fiends are qualified to s...

BOO! It’s Devlin’s favourite time of year, and he’s selected the strange outlier of the Halloween franchise, 1982’s Halloween III: Season of the Witch. A near-catatonic patient is brutally killed on Dr Dan Challis’ (Tom Atkins) shift, and the mysterious assailant sets himself ablaze. Desperate to make sense of this, Dan accompanies the murdered man’s daughter to the factory of Conal Cochrane (Dan...

PART 2Gali has chosen to mark the passing of the peerless Burt Reynolds by revisiting the Paul Thomas Anderson (PTA) porn industry epic, Boogie Nights.17 year old Eddie Adams has one special gift. And pornographic film auteur Jack Horner intends to share that gift, making Eddie the biggest star in the world (in all senses) as the dashing Dirk Diggler. But, all may not be as rosy as it seems in the...

Gali has chosen to mark the passing of the peerless Burt Reynolds by revisiting the Paul Thomas Anderson (PTA) porn industry epic, Boogie Nights.17 year old Eddie Adams has one special gift. And pornographic film auteur Jack Horner intends to share that gift, making Eddie the biggest star in the world (in all senses) as the dashing Dirk Diggler. But, all may not be as rosy as it seems in the San F...

As the dark nights draw in and autumn clamps its icy jaws around the last squirming remnants of summer, Devlin reminisces about his first brush with an actual horror movie: Lamberto Bava’s Italo-splatter mainstay Demons. A mysterious masked stranger invites a motley selection of viewers to a grand picture-house for a free movie screening they’ll never forget, as the infernal shenanigans on screen...

Gali's pick takes us to dark places this time out, as we follow trainee FBI Agent Clarice Starling to the cell of the brutal man-eater Hannibal Lector in the 1991 OSCAR-winning classic, The Silence of the Lambs. As she follows the clues laid by one monster in order to catch another and save the life of a young woman from his clutches. Jodie Foster's Clarice has to also face her own difficult past,...

In this sequel to the beloved Arnie classic, Devlin becomes the hunter and baits Gali into a potential rant as they find Predator 2 in their crosshairs. The Predator is doing some sight-seeing in LA, and Danny Glover is somehow the only one who can stop him. This has it all: sun, sweat, gangs and Gary Busey. Before Jack Black in 'I Still Know What You Did Last Summer', Predator 2 held the trophy f...

This time out, Gali has picked Brian De Palma's classic 1983 gangster movie, SCARFACE. Al Pacino inhabits one of his most iconic roles as the ambitious Cuban immigrant Tony Montana. We follow as he scales the drug trade in Miami, from lowly enforcer to gilded kingpin. Put on your dancing shoes, turn up the neon, and rush rush to the yeyo: with ethnologically questionable casting and a killer sound...

With the first pick, Devlin chooses Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Hot on the heels of Bram Stoker's Dracula, we examine this obstensibly faithful adaptation (hence the authorial namecheck!)Genius young physician-in-training Victor Frankenstein (Branagh himself) uses personal tragedy as the catalyst for his quest to defy death itself, by creating an entirely new life, but soon find...

Drawing on a decade-plus friendship whose roots stretch back to their film-obsessed student days, Gali and Devlin cast an eye backwards to the movies that kickstarted their love of film. In their Throwback series, each will take turns picking a title that they consider seminal to their youth, and watch again to determine whether they wasted their precious childhoods sitting in the dark with these...