Unkind Rewind

Having rewatched the 1987 Jon Cryer star vehicle Hiding Out , we sit back down with our special guest, professor of modern Middle Eastern history Brian Mann to peer deep into the soul of eight-year-old Brian to divine what it was about this tale of a nearly 30-year-old stockbroker on the run from the mob embedding himself in a Delaware High School and doing everything he can to stop himself from b...

This week, Josh and Sean dig into the past of modern Middle Eastern history professor, Brian Mann, getting down to brass tacks on an entry in a certain star actor's canon who truly resonated with Brian when he was peaking in life in late elementary school. Brian tells of his childhood adoration of the star of next week's film and hopes upon hope that revisiting this cherished memory doesn't ruin t...

This week we jumped on The Beastmaster train with writer and musician Jeremy Steen and got a helluva ride. Did Jeremy's passion for this film influence his dietary practices? Does he still feel comfortable being known as a " Beastmaster guy" to anyone who's seen his framed Beastmaster poster? Has his shipment of body oil come in yet? Did this rekindle his love of ferrets so much that he'll be taki...

In this latest foray into the Unkind Rewind, we get to know writer and musician Jeremy Steen. Way before he was fronting or playing bass in bands in Austin or having his work published at the Oxford American and various literary journals, Jeremy had a passion for a film which may or may not have influenced his dietary practices and which definitely instilled in him a love of a certain strange dome...

In this Main Event, we get back together with best-selling sci-fi author Daniel H. Wilson ( Robopocalypse and Robogenesis and the Michael Crichton sequel The Andromeda Evolution ) to revisit a staple of his childhood that was surprisingly scary today, The Gate . Starring a very young Stephen Dorff, along with an eventual Satanist, Kenny Powers's SIL, and an actress creepily sexualized, this entry...

In this lively installment of the Unkind Rewind, we get to know roboticist, author, and TV host Daniel H. Wilson. Before he wrote best-selling novels like Robopocalypse and Robogenesis and the Michael Crichton sequel The Andromeda Evolution , Daniel got into some mischief for which we assume the statute of limitations has run out on and is probably safe for broadcast. Tune in for stories revolving...

After 35 years separated from the cool comfort of the high-water mark of the Geriatric Renaissance, 1985's Ron Howard geezer pleaser Cocoon , how would our special guest Peter Johansen react to being utterly surprised by a solid 60% of the movie? How would being the exact age of one of the "septuagenarians" in the film play to him? Would the extreme horniness of this film about the Greatest Genera...

Sit right back and get to know our next guest, jack of all trades Peter Johansen, as he laughs about being defined by something new, reminisces about kicking other kids out of "his seat" at the local movie theater, and surmises that he surely cried when he saw our next selection and will likely shed at least one more tear when we watch it for next week. Peter can be found socially at: Facebook , I...

We sat down with LA Weekly/Village Voice film reviewer Chad Byrnes and dove into the borderline traumatic childhood viewing experience that was seeing Firstborn --a cautionary tale about letting pinball, cocaine, Coleman grills (and Big Charcoal, by proxy), and Peter Weller into your single-parent home--in the movie theater with his divorcée mother. We also celebrate the creative forces that were...

We are joined by Chad Byrnes, film reviewer at The Village Voice and LA Weekly and all-around righteous dude, to discuss his personal history with a mostly forgotten cautionary family drama that reaches a fairly terrifying fever pitch by the end, which he's not seen in ages. As a child of divorce at the time, the movie we'll be watching for next week may not have been the best movie to see with hi...

What would our guest Leon Henderson Jr make of his return to the 1986 genre mashup  Night of the Creeps ? Would the countless influences worn on its sleeve wear out their welcome? Did he wish he could have a roommate as generous and giving as J.C., who was surely given those initials for his Christ-like self-sacrifice? Was Leon's household solely responsible for its strong Midwestern showing on th...

After getting to know co-host Sean McGrath a little better, Josh sits down with this week's guest Leon Henderson Jr. Dipping in and out of the comedy scene in LA, Leon's shifted largely into locations work on set--you should see his name when the credits roll on Paul Thomas Anderson's untitled and secretive new project. Having provided us with a list of films we could have done a whole season of U...

Having rewatched Labyrinth, we sat back down with Kay from the F**k My Work Life Podcast to see how her fond memories of the film fared upon seeing the film again for the first time in decades. Did David Bowie's junk in tights titillate? Were there plot points that horrified her? Were there elements of the love story that were wildly inappropriate in retrospect? The answers to those and so many ot...

In the first installment of the Unkind Rewind, Josh Duggan and Sean McGrath sit down with Kay from the F**k My Work Life Podcast to get to know her and dive into her relationship to the first film we'll watch for the Unkind Rewind. Listen to find out what movie she hasn't seen in over 30 years that we'll be putting under the microscope.  Kay's podcast, F**k My Work Life, can and should be listened...

Welcome to the Unkind Rewind , where we revisit and possibly ruin the movies of your youth, one guest at a time.  In the first week, we'll sit down with our guest and get to know them while diving into their relationship to a film. The next week, we get back together after having watched said film, evaluating how it played to our guest's expectations while seeing how true their memories were to th...