Unkind Rewind

Yes, we're back with an extra special bonus episode where Conan Neutron (of Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends, Conan Neutron's Protonic Reversal, and Movie Night Extravaganza) revisits Tobe Hooper's follow-up to Poltergeist , the 1985 cautionary tale about space travel with sexy space vampires, Lifeforce , which Conan hadn't seen in decades and Sean had never seen. Was this Cannon Film restin...

Yes, we're back with another bonus episode where Josh and Sean talk about this year's Oscar nominations along with setting up next week's brand new bonus Main Event on Tobe Hooper's follow-up to Poltergeist, the 1985 cautionary tale about space travel with space vampires, Lifeforce, which we'll be watching with the inimitable Conan Neutron. Lifeforce can currently be found on Tubi . All music in t...

In a break from our regular format, we were joined once again by friend of the pod Chad Byrnes, film critic at LA Weekly and The Village Voice, to talk about a film he feels strongly enough to have a tattoo inspired by it. This time, it's Josh and Sean who have not seen in full since they were youths. How would John Boorman's sexualized gritty Arthurian sword and sorcery drama play in 2025? What w...

Obviously we're between proper seasons of the podcast, but that doesn't mean we don't love y'all, as we hope this week's and next week's Bonus Episodes show you. Sean and Josh chat about this year's films as awards season begins its ramp-up, Josh surprises Sean with a blast from the past, and they set up next week's full-length bonus episode where they welcome film critic Chad Byrnes back to the s...

Our guest, filmmaker Nick D'Agostino, was so obsessed with the 1973 animated version of Robin Hood that as a child, family vacations had to happen at places with VCRs where he'd subject his extended family to multiple viewings of Robin Hood and The Lion King . Nick had not seen it though since he was about 10 years old. Would it pass the test of time for not only Nick, but hosts Josh Duggan and Se...

This week, Josh and Sean are pleased as punch to be joined by filmmaker Nick D'Agostino, who recently relocated from Austin to New York. He talks growing up in the Boston area with older parents, obsessive adolescent movie-watching habits, and hustling on the film scene in Austin. And of course, we talk about his experiences with a treasured film from his childhood with which we surmise the entire...

Actress extraordinaire Laura Faye Smith comes to the Unkind Rewind to revisit this erotically charged thriller she watched with her mother as a teen to see if it holds up. How would the pairing of Theresa Russell and Debra Winger play nearly 40 years later? Would the titular femme fatale's modus operandi make sense? Would there be enough for Winger and Russell to do as one chased the other across...

After catching up on pod biz, Sean and Josh sit down and chat with actress Laura Faye Smith, talking growing up watching movies with mom, relocating to Los Angeles, playing as yourself in video games, and all things acting before diving into the movie for next week featuring a key performer's return to the Unkind Rewind for the second time this season.  Next week's film is currently available on m...

With a chance to pull a Robert Redford film from his list, Josh and Sean jumped at the chance to talk about this 1973 Best Picture winner with Forrest Miller, the host of Movie Night Extravaganza. It's impossible to talk about this without talking about certified hot dudes Robert Redford and Paul Newman atop the bill here. We dig into why Forrest didn't recall much of the plot of the film, how muc...

After Josh and Sean catch up on pod biz, they are joined by Forrest Miller, the host of Movie Night Extravaganza. He tells how he got into the podcast game and then we dive into his youth in The City and then Upstate before chatting about what he recalls of next week's all-time classic that's certainly appropriate to do now. Next week's film is currently available on major VOD platforms for a few...

How would revisiting beloved childhood staple Clue treat Kt Baldassaro (of Movie Runtime and the podcast What If I Don't Like It?) after not having watched it in at least 20 years? Would the Howard Hawksian cadence tickle her fancy as much as it had when she was young? Would the constant groping and leer of the male gaze rankle her now that she was an adult? Would the three endings still play as a...

After marking some milestones, Josh and Sean are visited by some former guests. Then Josh sits down with Kt Baldassaro, who does Movie Run Time and the podcast What If I Don't Like It and was formerly a co-host on Movie Night Extravaganza, talking growing up in New York, life in film, and about her relationship to next week's rambunctious movie with which everyone should have a relationship. Next...

Animal-loving writer and TV/film worker Steve Miranda grew up loving The NeverEnding Story , but he hadn't seen it in roughly 30 years and his memory of the film was surprisingly hazy. Could his aversion to revisiting this film have been because part of him knew it wouldn't hold up, or would the smash international hit prove to have much more going for it than he'd have guessed? Was its reliance u...

After the guys discuss Canada and Sean bullies Josh about musicals, they sit down with writer and TV and film jack of all trades Steve Miranda to talk about growing up in the greater LA area, cat-dadding, and his experiences with next week's wildly popular film that everyone over 35 not named Josh Duggan watched and loved growing up. Next week's film is currently available on Crunchyroll and on mo...

How did revisiting Risky Business for the first time in about 30 years treat our special guest, longtime baseball scribe Scott Lucas? Was his recollection of the goings-on in the film even remotely accurate? Was Tom Cruise's then-rising star undeniable? Could a teen movie where said star ran a cathouse out of his parents' suburban Chicago home with sex worker as his co-conspirator hold up the the...

Josh and Sean sit down with long-time Rangers writer Scott Lucas, diving into his youth in suburban Texas and what it was like writing about baseball on the internet before it was a thing people did before getting down to brass tacks and diving into his memories involving a film that birthed a star we still have to reckon with today. Next week's film is currently only available on most VOD platfor...

Come on down to Gilley's where the women are wholly unfamiliar with brassieres, the men are all scumbags, and the mechanical bull is the only way to show you're a boss. Yes, we hopped on the bull and lasted longer than eight seconds with the 1980 romantic(?) drama Urban Cowboy , which our guest Lori Ferraro grew up watching as she and every woman in America seemed to lust after a cowboyed up John...

Josh and Sean pick up the scraps from last week's episode on Can't Buy Me Love, then they sit down and get to know Portland actor and sketch comic, Lori Ferraro, getting into her Italian-American youth in New York and then Florida, moving across the country for college, and how next week's film hit her in her youth. Next week's film can be found on most VOD platforms and MGM+ . Lori Ferraro can be...

It had been a few decades since Canedy Knowles last saw the 1987 teen rom-com Can't Buy Me Love . Would time prove kind to this film for which she had a fondness? Were her memories of a film in which the kindly young nerd version of that man who would become McDreamy teaches the coolest girl in school about the value of hard work something that would bear true upon revisiting the film, or was the...

Josh and Sean pick up the scraps from last week's episode on Just One of the Guys , and Josh wonders how Sean's still standing after all his traveling. Then they sit down and get to know the comedy powerhouse Canedy Knowles, getting into her youth in the Valley, writing, directing, and performing in improv, and touching on a bit of prepping before diving into her memories of yet another Arizona-se...

Austin's finest art handler Stewart Parker joins Sean and Josh to talk about a film they all grew up with and were revisiting with the perspective of a more discerning adult than that of their younger selves who may have been seeking out the 1985 gender-bending teen comedy and HBO staple Just One of the Guys for some of its more prurient content. Was Just One of the Guys as sex-fueled as they'd re...

Josh touches on the first round of listener feedback, his appearance on  Movie Night Extravaganza to discuss Jackie Brown , and then talks briefly about this week's guest. Then Josh and Sean sit down with the best fine art handler in all of Austin (and maybe the world) Stewart Parker. We dive into what life was like before we all had the internet in our hands at all times, what it was like growing...

With Gabe Joyner of SVU Pod: Especially Heinous making herself comfortable in our guest's seat again this week, we grab the cellophane and hop a train to Alabama, where we'll just have to hope Chris O'Donnell isn't torn from our lives in the messiest way possible by the mode of transportation around which our lives now rotate. Along the way, we'll furtively fall in love with the Marys, but not in...

Sean and Josh get back together to talk for the first time in a couple months, catching up on what's been happening since the last episode of Season Two, including talking about Josh's appearance on Movie Night Extravaganza to discuss Jackie Brown . After getting that out of the way, they sit down with the inimitable Gabe Joyner, tattoo artist extraordinaire and co-host of SVU Pod: Especially Hein...

New father (congrats on #2!) and parkour/mindset coach, Maayan Olshan joins the pod to proselytize about the 1996 Michael Jordan/Looney Tunes flick, Space Jam . While Maayan can't get enough of this treasured childhood mainstay, Josh and Sean had no childhood affinity for the film. Would his unbridled passion for all Bugs and Co. transfer to the hosts? Would they take issue with the film's plot or...