The Rewinders Podcast

Joe watches some made-for-tv-quality holiday movies on Netflix and riffs them in real time. This is not a full movie, just a super-cut. You wont be in this for a full film, but you'll get an idea of what is going on.   This time Joe watches Christmas in the City and Christmas Belle, and will never do it again.   grab some BIG CABERNET and listen.

Yesterday it was rural Kingston Falls. Today it's the Big Apple -- and lots of wild, anarchic comedy -- because a new batch of mischievous green meanies is on the loose. We told you. Remember the rules. You didn't listen. Now you'll have to face up to the hilarious consequences.   Lee and Joe recall their memories of watching this film as younglings and determine if it holds up.

A sinister secret has been kept in the basement of an abandoned Los Angeles church for many years. With the death of a priest belonging to a mysterious sect, another priest opens the door to the basement and discovers a vat containing a green liquid. The priest contacts a group of physics graduate students to investigate it. Unfortunately, they discover that the liquid contains the essence of Sata...

A crew in Antarctica finds a neighboring camp destroyed and its crew dead. Whatever killed them is nowhere to be found, unless it's hidden in plain sight.   Lee and Joe chat up The Thing and determine if it holds up.

Six complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps.   Join Lee as he remembers the film Cube and determine if it still holds up.

Ordinary people find themselves in extraordinarily astounding situations, which they each try to solve in a remarkable manner. Lee and Ben review four, not so famous episodes, as well as one of the most iconic episode in the series. Do they think it holds up? Listen and find out!

These demons want you to explore the pleasure found in pain. They are the real givers in a relationship of demonic proportions. Plus, Pinhead is just one dapper fella. I imagine it must take a long time to put those pins in every morning - making them so uniform, orderly, and straight. I bet he has a pin-butler or pin-valet or whatever they are called, who come into your quarters to help you get r...

So, I hear you want an in-ground pool, huh? Gather round kids, I have a story for you. A story of a family that thought it would be "cool" to have an in-ground pool. But, what they didn't know was that they would escavate buried caskets accidentally.   And we all know spirits don't like it when you win a game of hide-and-seek after having their remains hidden... right??? RIGHT?!?!?!? Well, they do...

Animated cartoon series that followed the hit movie. Peter Venkman, Winston Zeddemore, Egon Spengler, and Ray Stantz are still hunting ghosts, but now with the friendly assistance of Slimer, who is no longer out to slime the good guys.   Join Lee as he remembers the show and discusses if it still holds up.

An adult Kevin Arnold reminisces on his teenage years spent growing up during the late 60s and early 70s. As he goes from adolescence to adulthood, he experiences, along with his best friend Paul and sometimes-girlfriend Winnie, the full range of trials and traumas that come in just about everyone's life. Join Lee as he discuss his memories of The Wonder Years and determines if it still holds up....

Puah puah puah puahhhhleeeeeze take some preventative aspirin or naproxen before watching this movie. It will give you a headache. Outside of that, this is a fun adventure in mixing HAND ANIMATION with live action in a film.   Roger Rabbit sees pictures of his wife playing patty-cake with another man and goes crazy. The plot goes thicker as a highway is being proposed to bulldoze right through Too...

Liquid Metal Future Robots... Regular Future Robot... No Future Dudes... Kick-ass mom with PTSD... and Eddie Furlong.   DUN-DUN, DUN DUH-DUN... DUN-DUN, DUN DUH-DUN...   The Terminator is back, and now is all shifty and wet and looks like the floor because COMPUTERS. Semi-Trucks leaping off overpasses and surviving. Buildings blowing up and looking like war-zones. And Eddie Furlong acting out one...

DUN-DUN, DUN DUH-DUN... DUN-DUN, DUN DUH-DUN...    Reese is a future dude, not my friend's dog, who has been sent back in time to find the future robot, who was also sent back in time, and stop it from murdering future dude's soon-to-be present day child - who is also a soon-to-be future dude that leads the resistance against the future robots.   It all ends poorly - future dude fails... future ro...

One more cash in before the franchise goes to die on home video.   The turtle suits were so bad at this point, they had to make new ones... cheaper ones.   The story doesn't make sense.   Lee couldn't make it through 30 minutes before pleading for his life back.   Listen to Lee and Joe as they recap the final of the original trilogy of TMNT movies... before Michael Bay got hold of them... and lets...

One year later, the Turtles are back to cash it in before it is too late. Go on another adventure with your green friends that includes more references to the cartoons and less weirdness to try and make it all make sense in a real-world situation.   Lee and Joe analyze the effort scene by scene and let you know if it still holds up.

T-U-R-T-L-E Power   Now, while one production royally missed the marked with one childhood property... This one did much better!   Follow a group of sewer dwelling turtles that were mutated into being ... huuuuuman-turtle hybrids? Led by their master... a huuuuuman-rat hybrid, who taught them martial arts.   They fight an EVIL organization out of Japan... now in the United States (for reasons), ca...

What boy in the 80s didn't like He-Man?   Yea, yea, I am sure there are some... shutup.   And adults knew that kids loved He-Man, and She-Ra, and Stinkgore... and Padawan... and Skeletor... and Mumra... You know, the cast of the all-star movie Masters of the Universe!   Wait... the movie sort of had these characters? At least it had Man-At-Arms...   In the end, the film was a flop because adults d...

Dancing on giant keyboards... Witchcraft arcade machines... SLEEPING ON TOP... Yikes!   Listen to Lee and Joe discuss the film Big, and determine if it still holds up.

Bring on the GUUUUUUUUUUUT!   This movie started a series of... what? 53 movies? Yeah, jump on the 80's hype train that got every kid making sound effects like the character Larvell Jones.   Never mind the movie was full of BJs, Breasts, and saucy language... It had slapstick humor for the kids -- something for the whole family to enjoy.   Lee and Joe discuss the plot and decide if the film holds...

In the 1980s we had the perfect law enforcement, and it was given to Detroit. ROBOCOP!   Sure, it took an officer getting shot 2 bazillion times before he could be honed/cast/built/programmed/interfaced... er whatever. BUT. IT. WAS. DONE. This is the deepest dive into a movie The Rewinders Podcast has done to date (April 18th, 2020). This is only part 3 of 3. A collection of podcasts going over al...

In the 1980s we had the perfect law enforcement, and it was given to Detroit. ROBOCOP!   Sure, it took an officer getting shot 2 bazillion times before he could be honed/cast/built/programmed/interfaced... er whatever. BUT. IT. WAS. DONE.   This is the deepest dive into a movie The Rewinders Podcast has done to date (April 18th, 2020). This is only part 2 of 3. A collection of podcasts going over...

In the 1980s we had the perfect law enforcement, and it was given to Detroit. ROBOCOP!   Sure, it took an officer getting shot 2 bazillion times before he could be honed/cast/built/programmed/interfaced... er whatever. BUT. IT. WAS. DONE.   This is the deepest dive into a movie The Rewinders Podcast has done to date (April 18th, 2020). This is only part 1 of 3. A collection of podcasts going over...

Here is your stereotype of Australians... they wrestle crocodiles, have large knives, leathery skin, and kangaroos drinking Fosters.   The lady from New York City, Sue Charlton, goes to the Australian outback to meet Mick Dundee who survived a crocodile attack and crawled back to safety. Its a wacky, fish out of water adventure.   THEN... Mick Dundee is invited back to New York City... and the fis...

This movie is a Sexual Tyrannosaurus

Evil Genius, Rick Moranis, creates a HUGE laser in his attic designed to MURDER... but keeps telling people its really for shrinking... because that is what Evil Geniuses do. He also is a bad parent who creates doomsday devices in his family home instead of getting a lair, like a REAL MAD SCIENTIST! Anyway, his kids screw up the machine by smashing it with a baseball, and instead of killing them,...