Unkind Rewind

After wrapping things up on Gymkata and Pump Up the Volume , Sean and Josh sit down with our next guest Maayan Olshan to talk parkour, being a new father, mindset coaching, and about his childhood with movies. That includes a youth spent loving a very popular film that neither Sean nor Josh saw until well into their adulthood, for podcasting. And congrats on the second kiddo, Maayan! Next week's f...

Sean and Josh talk all things Pump Up the Volume with Conan Neutron, of the weekly podcasts Conan Neutron's Protonic Reversal and Movie Night Extravaganza and of the rock band Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends, whose brand new album The Way of the Neutron dropped this week and can be streamed or purchased on Bandcamp . Conan hadn't seen  Pump Up the Volume in at least 30 years, so how would h...

After dispatching of last week's film  Gymkata  from atop a pair of pommel horses at the village's center, Sean and Josh sit down with Conan Neutron, of the weekly podcasts Conan Neutron's Protonic Reversal and Movie Night Extravaganza  and   of the rock band Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends, whose brand new album  The Way of the Neutron  drops on March 20th and can currently be partially st...

Greg Schaum--former Royals post-game radio host, baseball advisor/agent, Director of Player Development, and current Partner and Director of Sports Recruiting at Klutch MFM--joins us to look back at the film he grew up loving that boldly asked the question:  What if we took an Olympic-level athlete who may or may not be charismatic enough to carry a major motion picture and tried to turn him into...

After putting a bow on St. Elmo's Fire  and discussing the Oscars, Josh and Sean sit down with Greg Schaum, former baseball advisor/agent, Director of Player Development, Royals post-game radio host and current Partner and Director of Sports Recruiting at Klutch MFM. We talk chasing dreams, getting the acting bug, and growing up with one foot in the world of sports with the other in film, before l...

Chelsea Cain--the best-selling author of Heartsick and the subsequent five books in the Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell series, which count themselves amongst the more than a dozen books and comic book series on her bibliography--sits down with us to talk about the movie from which the term "Brat Pack" sprung unflatteringly, the 1985 Joel Schumacher film starring Emilio Estevez, Rob Lowe, An...

After tying up some Phase IV loose ends, Josh and Sean sit down with Chelsea Cain, the best-selling author of Heartsick and the subsequent five books in the Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell series, which count themselves amongst the more than a dozen books and comic book series on her bibliography. After commiserating over having such horrifying search histories on account of their creative e...

Neither Josh nor Sean had ever even heard of Phase IV when Mightie Minx submitted her list, but when they saw that it was the only feature directed by graphic design legend Saul Bass--who'd created some of the most striking opening title sequences in cinematic history--they knew they couldn't choose anything else. So what did Saul Bass make with this one shot at the helm? A movie pitting man again...

After catching up on pod business from the Dreamscape eps with Ted Douglass, UKRW sits down with the Mightiest Minx in the former Royals/Chiefs Twitterverse that's since migrated to other platforms, Tori. If you thought last week's film was an odd one, wait until you see what Tori brought along this time. Directed by a luminary artist, starring just a handful of actors opposite millions of tiny ad...

Portland-based actor, sketch comic, writer, director, producer, and bon vivant, Ted Douglass comes back this week to discuss the largely forgotten Dennis Quaid star-vehicle from 1984, Dreamscape . Do the film's creators have grounds for a lawsuit against Christopher Nolan for having totally stolen the idea of Inception from this film? Can the film redeem itself after having its hero commit one of...

After Josh and Sean catch up on pod business from the last two movies covered, they sit down with Portland multi-hyphenate creative (he can write, he can act, he can direct, he can produce--what can't he do???) Ted Douglass for a raucous journey through his childhood spent mostly in suburban Portland, diving into juvenile hot dog scamming, renting movies to Kevin Duckworth, and a whole host of oth...

Joined by Summer Santos Webber, we talk about one of the top grossing films of the 1990s, The Lost World: Jurassic Park , a movie she so badly wanted to see she built her birthday party around it that year. How did it play now to Summer? How did it play now to Sean and Josh, who didn't have nostalgia for the film working in its favor? Would any of them be opining about building a time machine to c...

Join us as we chat with Summer Santos Webber, denizen of all corners of the internet, digging into what she remembers about one of the top grossing films of the 1990s, a movie she so badly wanted to see that it was what she did for her birthday party that year. What does she recall? How does she think it will play to her as an adult? Listen and find out. Next week's film can be streamed on Peacock...

Comic and lead singer of Riverboat Gamblers and Drakulas , Mike Wiebe joins us to revisit this surprisingly dark youth-oriented film that puts young Davey Osborne through the ringer in a Hitchcockian wrong man--er, wrong boy tale of international intrigue and kids out on the town. Kindertrauma abounds in this week's delirious ride through central San Antonio via the 1984 children's(?) film Cloak &...

This week, Sean and Josh talk with musician/comedian Mike Wiebe, who music fans would know as the frenetic frontman of both the bands Riverboat Gamblers and Drakulas and who comedy fans would know as half of the comedy duo the McCuewans in addition to his more than a decade doing stand-up. We talk about growing up in Denton, and how growing up in Texas helped make our next selection more important...

Having rewatched the beloved teen romantasy flick from her youth, 2002's Tuck Everlasting , Karyn Raynor of Chick-Lit, with Karyn and Aubree, is forced to reckon with its highly problematic (and later stolen) premise in which a 15-year-old girl is groomed by a 104-year-old immortal man in the body of a 17-year-old boy. Poor accents, plot holes, thinly fleshed out lore, and strange choices abound,...

Join us as we chat with Karyn Raynor of Chick-Lit, with Karyn and Aubree, digging into what she remembers about a beloved film adaptation of a teen romantasy book that was a bit of an awakening for Karyn and a movie neither Sean nor Josh had any relationship with before this podcast. We also talk about her sheltered youth and Sean's acting résumé that coincidentally currently ties in with Karyn's...

We throw on the helmet and strap in for a weird, wild ride this week as we watched the 1983 sci-fi family dramedy  Brainstorm , featuring the ill-fated star-crossed lovers Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood, in the film that would prove to be her last, as she died tragically and mysteriously while this film was down for the holidays. Leo Allen host of the Voluntary Input podcast and the mind behi...

After Sean and Josh catch up on things after a few months down between Seasons 1 and 2, Josh sits down with our special guest for this week and next, Leo Allen, who shares a soft spot in his heart for next week's film, which is simultaneously not well known and yet somewhat significant, historically speaking. It's a great time with Leo.  Disclaimer: there is some election postmortem talk near the...

At the age of 9, a friend's dad traumatized his own son and Munch My Benson's own Adam Schwitters by gleefully letting them watch the darkly sexual and extremely messed up 1987 Mickey Rourke/Lisa Bonet/Robert De Niro gothic horror noir set in 1950s New York and New Orleans, Angel Heart . The first time Josh heard this, he was struck dumb at the notion that such a young child had been allowed to se...

After Sean and Josh prepare you for the coming weeks without the podcast in the penultimate episode of Season 1, they welcome occasional Unkind Rewind co-host and full-time Munch My Benson co-host Adam Schwitters to the podcast. When Adam was a wee lad of 8, he saw a film that he was roughly ten years too young to see. The first time Josh heard this, he guffawed and when this podcast came into bei...

Tasha Crawford--half of the inimitable hosting duo of the  Law & Order: Special Victims Unit podcast SVU POD: Especially Heinous--joins us this week to expose to the possibility of ruination The Craft , a formative film she loved as a teen. How would this  very 1996 film play in 2024? Would its racism both on and off camera shock? Would the form of feminism it purports to wield play today? Des...

After Sean and Josh talk about white stuff, namely Sox and buffaloes, the gents of Unkind Rewind are graced by the presence of Tasha Crawford, one of the inimitable hosts of the  Law & Order: Special Victims Unit podcast SVU POD: Especially Heinous. Tasha has some all-time great stories in addition to having a very fun movie from her youth of which we try to establish her memories. If you list...

Having rewatched the nightmare fuel that is 1985's  Return to Oz , we sat back down with our special guest, Max Rieper, the managing editor for Royals Review, who contrary to his peers not only loved this film as a child but felt this film was superior to its predecessor The Wizard of Oz because it was more faithful to the L. Frank Baum books. That it was darker and bleaker didn't bother young Max...

After Sean tells of a harrowing trip to the cinema, we sit down with our very special guest for this week and next, Max Rieper, the managing editor for Royals Review, to take a trip down memory lane and discuss his childhood standing on an island loving this next film. That it was nightmare fuel didn't bother young Max, and its hewing close to its source material really meant something to him whil...