The Rewind Movie Podcast

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water (again), yet another Carcharodon carcharias is on the rampage in 1983’s stereoscopic sequel Jaws 3-D.Chief Brody’s eldest son Mike (a wired Dennis Quaid) has left the smalltown idyll of Amity Island to work at the sprawling SeaWorld theme park in Orlando, Florida, alongside his smart alec scientist girlfriend Kathryn (Bess Armstrong). The park’s owner Calvin Bouchard (Louis Gossett Jr.) unveils the new crown jewel attraction – a vast underwater series of see through tunnels where customers can walk beneath the waves. But a malfunctioning sea gate has allowed entry to a deadly, unexpected addition to the park’s fishy attractions – one that threatens to wreak bloody havoc on the upgraded park’s grand reopening.Country dancing pigs, popcorn cart hijackings, barroom crotch tricks and inept coral thieves populate this disaster movie-influenced entry into the increasingly shaky franchise directed by debutant Joe Alves, the production designer and 2nd unit director from the previous instalments. We delve into the circuitous and contentious 5-year development cycle that saw the original movie’s producers exit the project, look at the technical difficulties that plagued the 3D production, and generally marvel at the creative and corporate decisions that resulted in this…unusual picture. GUV’NAAAAAAAH!Head over to our Teemill store for merchandise, movie shirts, art prints, stickers, totes and more, including a poster based on today's cover image. You can also find an exclusive Terminator shirt at our Redbubble shop.If you’d like to support the podcast, a review or a quick rating on your platform of choice is the best way you can help us get the word out and keep the conversations flowing. Get in touch with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and if you'd like to submit a request, correct our constant mispronunciations, or have a chat about whatever is on your mind, you can email rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Forget it. I don't work Toontown.” We’re delighted to welcome back one of our favourite podcasters, the incredibly talented Em from Verbal Diorama, who has brought us Robert Zemeckis’ madcap 1988 live action/animated hybrid noirtoon Who Framed Roger Rabbit.Boozed-up, embittered gumshoe Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) is hired to catch Maroon Cartoons star turn Roger Rabbit’s impossibly glamorous, equally two-dimensional wife, Jessica (voiced by Charles Fleischer and Kathleen Turner, respectively) playing promiscuous patty cake with gag king, and owner of Toontown, Marvin Acme. When Acme turns up dead with a safe dropped on his head, our toon-hating, hard-boiled antihero Valiant is drawn into a classic mystery of murder, greed, blackmail, and public transportation, literally shackled to the zany Rabbit who has been tagged as the prime suspect.A technical marvel and smash hit on its release, the film’s powerhouse production team combined Steven Spielberg’s Midas-touch family film factory Amblin Entertainment with the then-struggling but still mighty cultural clout of Walt Disney Studios to splash out on the best animators and technicians in the industry – and license a jaw-dropping cast of mid-Century America’s most famous cartoon icons from Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny, through to Betty Boop and the Big Bad Wolf to fill out the dazzling frames. Joining Em on the Merry-Go-Round (Broke Down) are Gali, Devlin and Patrick, as we swoon over Bob Hoskins, discuss the film’s use of genre and period trappings, its importance in the Disney renaissance in the years that followed, and recall our trauma at seeing that little squeaky shoe get dipped.You can find Em’s 200-episode-strong treasure trove of the history and legacy of movies you know (and movies you don’t) at verbaldiorama.com, where you’ll find links to all major platforms, and give her a follow @verbaldiorama. Check out her Roger Rabbit episode here!Head over to our Teemill store for merchandise, movie shirts, art prints, stickers, totes and more, including a poster based on today's cover image. You can also find an exclusive Terminator shirt at our Redbubble shop.If you’d like to support the podcast, a review or a quick rating on your platform of choice is the best way you can help us get the word out and keep the conversations flowing. Get in touch with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and if you'd like to submit a request, correct our constant mispronunciations, or have a chat about whatever is on your mind, you can email rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Mother? What's wrong with me?” Captain Howdy has told us to revisit William Friedkin’s indelible, near-mythical 1973 horror landmark The Exorcist.Successful actor Chris MacNeil is living in a grand Georgetown apartment with her cherubic 12-year-old daughter Regan while she stars in a movie, but their idyll is short lived as Regan starts to exhibit some frightening behaviour - shocking insults barked in raspy, disturbing voices, lashing out in violent rages, and self-harming. Subjected to a battery of tests that fail to reveal the cause, a now-desperate Chris turns to the world-weary, skeptical priest Father Damien Karras about an exorcism. A film whose legend precedes it as one of the scariest ever made, a ‘cursed’ production which allegedly claimed the lives of multiple people around the production, and the scene of some at-best-controversial, dangerous directorial techniques from the exacting Friedkin, we examine the story’s roots in the novel by the avowedly Catholic William Peter Blatty, who also wrote and produced, and discuss how that viewpoint was interpreted by the agnostic director in the film’s depiction of faith, good, and evil. We delve into the effectiveness of the horror, chat about Friedkin’s use of pacing and sound in building suspense, the unusual structure of the story, and recount our personal experiences with a movie whose inaccessibility in our youth only made this a more intriguing object to finally devour upon its eventual 1999 UK home video re-release.Head over to our Teemill store for merchandise, movie shirts, art prints, stickers, totes and more, including a poster based on today's cover image. You can also find an exclusive Terminator shirt at our Redbubble shop.If you’d like to support the podcast, a review or a quick rating on your platform of choice is the best way you can help us get the word out and keep the conversations flowing. Get in touch with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and if you'd like to submit a request, correct our constant mispronunciations, or have a chat about whatever is on your mind, you can email rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're the monsters of our own world. In the latest entry in our LV-RMP series, we continue our chronological journey through the Alien and Predator universes with Nimród Antal’s 2010 back-to-basics jungle-set pursuit thriller Predators.Waking up mid-plummet, black ops mercenary Royce (Adrian Brody) is chaotically parachuted into a dense, mysterious forest, surrounded by an equally armed and angry collection of strangers including an IDF sniper (Alice Braga), a Russian commando (Oleg Taktarov), a Yakuza enforcer (Louis Ozawa Changchien), a Sierra Leonean death squad soldier (Mahershala Ali), a Mexican cartel killer (Danny Trejo), a convicted murderer (Walton Goggins) and, curiously, a callow, nerdy doctor (Topher Grace). The motley assortment quickly realises that there’s something very wrong with the terrain - suspicions that are confirmed when they reach a clearing to see an alien sky looming over them. Finding themselves the quarry of three Yautja hunters, the makeshift unit must rely on their killer instincts to survive.We find ourselves in almost as unfamiliar territory as the characters in the film, with only Matt having seen this film after its theatrical run. A curious case, as the film, while a modest financial success upon release, has received no follow up, and very little reappraisal in the years since. Did we find an action gem hiding out on this far-flung hunters’ moon? Or were we baited into the bear trap of another misbegotten franchise entry?Head over to our Teemill store for merchandise, movie shirts, art prints, stickers, totes and more, including our Schwarzenegger Bingo Trope Tote. You can also find an exclusive Terminator shirt at our Redbubble shop.If you’d like to support the podcast, a review or a quick rating on your platform of choice is the best way you can help us get the word out and keep the conversations flowing. Get in touch with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and if you'd like to submit a request, correct our constant mispronunciations, or have a chat about whatever is on your mind, you can email rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The thought of murder often evokes thoughts of the sea, and of sailors. Our latest episode takes a sharp tonal shift into the tail end of Germany’s influential Neuer Deutscher Film movement with director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s sultry, sweaty 1982 swansong Querelle.As the Navy ship Le Vengeur arrives into the docks of the town of Brest, the strapping young men of the crew turn their attentions to the unusual brothel tavern La Feria - home to sad-eyed Madame Lysiane (Jeanne Moreau), her burly husband Nono (Günther Kaufmann), and her mustachioed lover Robert (Hanno Pöschl). Into this heady equation saunters the handsome sailor Querelle (Brad Davis) - Robert’s brother - in town to execute an opium deal. Querelle catches the eye of Nono almost immediately, and rolls a game of dice with him to determine if he will get to sleep with Lysiane, or whether Nono will get to have sex with him. This precipitates a heady tale of murder, rivalry, lust and madness, played out under the constant sickly haze of an eternal sunset.Based on a novel written mostly in prison in the waning days of the Second World War by the influential Jean Genet, this stagebound adaptation takes place in a tightly constructed set, as Fassbinder layers the stately-paced action with layers of narration that hew closely to the dense, poetic, metaphysical phrasing of the author. An intense exploration of the nature of masculinity and its intersection with homosexuality, it’s an unlikely discussion for our panel, but was chosen by Patrick after an illuminating early brush with the film while a visiting student at Prague’s prestigious FAMU some 15 years ago. First-time viewers Gali, Devlin and Matt join him in diving into this difficult, opaque feature from one of European cinema’s most prolific proponents, as we each discuss our attachments to arthouse cinema, and whether the film set sail into our imaginations, or if were sunk by the anchor of its intellectual weight.Head over to our Teemill store for merchandise, movie shirts, art prints, stickers, totes and more, including our Schwarzenegger Bingo Trope Tote. You can also find an exclusive Terminator shirt at our Redbubble shop.If you’d like to support the podcast, a review or a quick rating on your platform of choice is the best way you can help us get the word out and keep the conversations flowing. Get in touch with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and if you'd like to submit a request, correct our constant mispronunciations, or have a chat about whatever is on your mind, you can email rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chill out. Dickwad. We’re on the run with James Cameron’s all-conquering, pioneering 1991 action sequel Terminator 2: Judgement Day.Over a decade on from the events of the first movie, the weight of knowing that the end of the world is coming up fast has weighed on Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) so heavily that she has been institutionalised. Her son John (Edward Furlong), the future leader of the human resistance in the war against the machines, is a pre-teen petty crook living in foster care. Skynet, the artificially intelligent defence system that will eventually launch its missiles and wipe out billions of people, has sent another Terminator to kill him before he can ever rise up against it - this time, a hyper advanced, near-impervious liquid metal android. Once again, a protector has also been sent back - this time, in the guise of the same murderous T800 model that tried to kill his mother before he could ever be born (Arnold Schwarzenegger). A brutal race against time (and fate) ensues as the trio attempt to avert Judgement Day and save an uncertain future.What better film to mark episode 101 than with this seminal, state-of-the-art blockbuster. We examine James Cameron’s approach to sequels, his inversions and embellishments of his lean, stark original feature, and the impact that star Schwarzenegger’s public persona had on its creation and impact. And we discuss its enduring appeal, from how its revolutionary visual and special effects have aged, to how it stands up against the ensuing franchise that inevitably flourished in the years that followed. Come with us if you want to listen.You can find more on what we’re calling ‘The Jim Commandments’ over at rewindmoviecast.com, with a wonderful introductory essay by Matt, along with a video playlist packed with features, clips, behind-the-scenes material and more. Head over to our Teemill store for merchandise, movie shirts, art prints, stickers, totes and more, including our Schwarzenegger Bingo Trope Tote. You can also find an exclusive Terminator shirt at our Redbubble shop. If you’d like to support the podcast, a review or a quick rating on your platform of choice is the best way you can help us get the word out and keep the conversations flowing. Get in touch with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and if you'd like to submit a request, correct our constant mispronunciations, or have a chat about whatever is on your mind, you can email rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Polish up your spats, grab your best frock out of the vacuum bag, and clip on your bowtie as The Rewind Movie Podcast sashays down the red carpet for our very own awards show! To mark the milestone of 100 episodes, Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt take some time out to discuss the very best (and worst) of the movies we’ve covered over the last 4-and-a-bit years, and present some of our favourite films their very own fictitious, ostentatious, thick cut statuette. Yes, it's awards season fever, and we've only gone and got ourselves a temperature of 103°. We want to thank everyone who has either popped in for an episode or two, or stuck with us through the entire century, as we ventured back across our formative films and indulged ourselves in a big old chat about them. While I’m sure the four of us would be rambling on regardless, it’s been heartening to connect with so many listeners and share some of our fondest, and not so fond…est, memories of our movie-going lives. Here’s to the next hundred! Now, we go live to the red carpet, so the E! Network can be duplicitously nice about your awful shoes.Head to rewindmoviecast.com for an introductory essay by Matt, including a YouTube playlist of clips and behind-the-scenes videos for the film - and for those last minute gift ideas (they won't arrive in time, but don't worry about that) why not check out devlindoesdrawing.teemill.com for our merchandise store - you'll find Rewind Movie Podcast shirts, hoodies, totes, stickers, and a whole lot more, plus posters and shirts based on many of the films we've covered on the podcast (and a whole lot more).If you’d like to support the podcast, a review or a quick rating on your platform of choice is the best way you can help us get the word out and keep the conversations flowing. Get in touch with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and if you'd like to submit a request, correct our constant mispronunciations, or have a chat about whatever is on your mind, you can email rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When I grow up and get married, I’m living alone! Do you hear me! I’M LIVING ALONE! For our ONE HUNDREDTH(!) episode, this Rewindmas Eve-Eve we invite you to unwrap a booby trap-laden chat about that enduring festive classic of child endangerment and traumatic brain injuries, Chris Columbus’ John Hughes-penned 1990 family comedy Home Alone.Precocious but troublesome 8-year-old Kevin McCallister, the youngest of a sprawling Chicago clan of jostling siblings and cousins, almost wrecks the family’s travel plans for a Christmas holiday in Paris when, in retaliation on his older brother’s pizza-based bullying, he inadvertently drenches their passports and tickets in milk. Sent to the attic to think about what he’s done, he instead finds himself left behind when the panicked family rush to catch their flight without him the following morning. Initially revelling in his new-found freedom as the man of the house, he soon finds himself under threat from a pair of bungling burglars who are hellbent on breaking into this silver tuna. You know the rest.The gang share their memories of this Christmas TV schedule perennial, its ongoing appeal, and how the film balances sentimentality, comedy, and concussions. Patrick also does the Joe Pesci swear-grumbling thing and we rank Marv’s screams. Merry Christmas listeners, thanks for sticking with us as we hit our century! We’ll see you in the distant future, 2023, when we will be terrifying human/robot hybrids.Best wishes,Gali, Devlin, Patrick & Matt xoxoHead to rewindmoviecast.com for an introductory essay by Matt, including a YouTube playlist of clips and behind-the-scenes videos for the film - and for those last minute gift ideas (they won't arrive in time, but don't worry about that) why not check out devlindoesdrawing.teemill.com for our merchandise store - you'll find Rewind Movie Podcast shirts, hoodies, totes, stickers, and a whole lot more, plus posters and shirts based on many of the films we've covered on the podcast (and a whole lot more).If you’d like to support the podcast, a review or a quick rating on your platform of choice is the best way you can help us get the word out and keep the conversations flowing. Get in touch with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and if you'd like to submit a request, correct our constant mispronunciations, or have a chat about whatever is on your mind, you can email rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Burning, burning…burning woman’s song of vengeance. We’re delving into the heady world of 1970s Japanese exploitation cinema with the imposing Meiko Kaji as the indomitable Nami Matsushima, Sasori, the wrongly imprisoned Convict #701 in Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41.Directed by Shunya Itō in 1972, mere months after releasing the first film in the series (and his debut feature) Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion, Jailhouse 41 sees Kaji do battle with the vicious, patriarchal forces of prison Warden Goda (Fumio Watanabe) and his guards after her repeated escape attempts have started to undermine his authority. A shocking punishment, a kaleidoscopic prison break, and a phantasmagorical trip through the tumultuous landscape of a Japan in upheaval follows in an incendiary, politically charged, visually startling underground cult classic.Film picker Devlin has chosen the 50th anniversary of its release to introduce new viewers Gali, Patrick and Matt to one of his favourites, as they join him in debate on representations of gender, moral murkiness, the perils and pleasures of quick and cheap movie production, awesome theme tunes, and a whole lot more. Were the gang willing to join in the riot, or were they ready to send Devlin to solitary confinement?For information about this film, and the era that produced it, head to rewindmoviecast.com for an introductory essay by Devlin that contains more information, article links, trailers, clips that help contextualise the movie. You’ll also find his Scorpion-inspired poster designs for all four Kaji features as high quality giclee prints on Etsy, and as a range of shirts, hoodies and sweatshirts at our Teemill store. You can also find our movie podcast merchandise, and shirts and posters based on some of the other titles we’ve discussed. If you’d like to support the podcast, a review or a quick rating on your platform of choice is the best way you can help us get the word out and keep the conversations flowing. Get in touch with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, and if you'd like to submit a request, correct our constant mispronunciations, or have a chat about whatever is on your mind, you can email rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com. Thanks for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey Paul! Try getting a reservation at Dorsia now! We’ve done our stomach crunches, cleansed, lotioned, and exfoliated to revisit Mary Harron’s sly, controversial 2000 adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ incendiary death-of-the-80s yuppie epitaph novel American Psycho.Handsome, 27-year-old Wall Street investment banker and trust fund kid Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) inhabits a repetitive, rarefied world of gleaming, high-end restaurants, vapid clubs, and competitive jousting with his circle of Armani-besuited doppelganger friends/enemies. He keeps up appearances with a prim fiancée, Evelyn (Reese Witherspoon), who he also barely tolerates with near-total disdain, while indulging in several affairs with co-workers, friends’ partners, and sex workers. When a colleague’s superior business card inspires a murderous bloodlust in him, he sets off on a grand guignol spree of death, mutliation and savagery - but is everything as it appears to be?Joining Gali and Matt for this Listener Request episode (thanks to James Munro for the suggestion!) once again is our good friend Joe McDonald, a long-time industry professional in the lighting business. The gang discuss the novel’s circuitous path to the screen, its reception upon release, and its place in the pop culture firmament as horror, satire, and meme fodder.Please head to rewindmoviecast.com for a wonderful essay by Matt, and if you like this episode’s cover image, visit our Teemill store for poster prints!If you have any questions, comments or ideas for future episodes you can contact us on Twitter @rewindmoviecast or @galithegreek(Gali), @IsTheDevlin (Devlin), @PatrickWaggett (Patrick) and @mdridley (Matt), join our Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/rewindmoviecast/, or email us at rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com to have a chat!MERCHANDISE NOW AVAILABLE! Head to our Teemill Store for some fantastic shirts, stickers and more.Thank you for listening, and if you like the show please hit subscribe, and maybe leave us a little review (it really does help!) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“She’s going to use a computer!” We’ve told our mums not to use the phone for the next couple of hours so we can log onto 1995’s technofear thriller The Net, as part of our Bargain Bin series. Reclusive tech worker Angela Bennett (Sandra Bullock) is a work-from-home cyber security whizz, whose interactions with the real world rarely stretch beyond conference calls with distant colleagues, anonymous chat room sessions with “CyberBob”, “Iceman” and “Gandalf”, and visits to her hospitalised Alzheimers’ patient mother who doesn’t recognise her. Her solitary existence backfires hugely when a computer virus she is studying turns out to be the secret door to a world of corporate espionage that threatens the highest levels of government. Befriended, bedded and betrayed by one of the baddies, her entire existence is stolen and she finds herself on the run from both the law and the evil corporation under an assumed, criminal, identity with no one to corroborate her crazy tale. It’s a race against time to regain her life and take down the wrongdoers.An early example of a webphobic film that focusses on the dark possibilities of an entirely online life, hugely successful producer Irwin Winkler stepped behind the camera for only his 3rd feature, and was deft enough to cast an on-the-verge-of-superstardom Sandra Bullock to essay his Hitchockian innocent-on-the-run protagonist. Pour yourself a disgusting onion-based cocktail, ask your computer politely for a pizza, and join Gali, Devlin and Patrick for a trip back to the heady dial-up days of efficiently made Hollywood star vehicle thrillers.Please head to rewindmoviecast.com for a wonderful essay by Matt, and if you like this episode’s cover image, visit our Teemill store for poster prints!If you have any questions, comments or ideas for future episodes you can contact us on Twitter @rewindmoviecast or @galithegreek(Gali), @IsTheDevlin (Devlin), @PatrickWaggett (Patrick) and @mdridley (Matt), join our Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/rewindmoviecast/, or email us at rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com to have a chat!MERCHANDISE NOW AVAILABLE! Head to our Teemill Store for some fantastic shirts, stickers and more.Thank you for listening, and if you like the show please hit subscribe, and maybe leave us a little review (it really does help!) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You better get yourself a garlic T-shirt buddy, otherwise it’s your funeral. Our 2nd seasonal selection for this Halloween is Joel Schumacher’s stylish 1987 teen vampire classic The Lost Boys.Brothers Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim) move with their mother (Dianne Wiest) to the small northern California town of Santa Carla, where all may not be all it appears. While Sam geeks out with local comic book nerds, Edgar and Alan Frog (Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander) and gets the lowdown on the undead shenanigans they feel are all around them, Michael is drawn into the sphere of the darkly charismatic David (Kiefer Sutherland) and his gang of punk ruffians, joining them in dangerous initiation rites that start to effect terrifying changes on him.Did it stiff us, or was it pretty cool for a fashion victim? Were we at the mercy of our sex glands, or were we sniffing old newsprint?Gali and Matt dig into their takeaway cartons of worm-noodles and maggot-rice, and stay out way past their bedtimes for this sultry, subversive, coming-of-age horror-adventure staple. Drink some of this and be one of us on The Rewind Movie Podcast.Please head to rewindmoviecast.com for a wonderful essay by Matt, and if you like this episode’s cover image, visit our Teemill store for poster prints!If you have any questions, comments or ideas for future episodes you can contact us on Twitter @rewindmoviecast or @galithegreek(Gali), @IsTheDevlin (Devlin), @PatrickWaggett (Patrick) and @mdridley (Matt), join our Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/rewindmoviecast/, or email us at rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com to have a chat!MERCHANDISE NOW AVAILABLE! Head to our Teemill Store for some fantastic shirts, stickers and more.Thank you for listening, and if you like the show please hit subscribe, and maybe leave us a little review (it really does help!) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The darkest souls are not those which choose to exist within the hell of the abyss, but those which choose to move silently among us. It’s time to visit a very different Haddonfield, Illinois, with Rob Zombie’s controversial 2000s remake duology Halloween and Halloween II.Expanding on the original film’s brief preamble featuring cherubic young Michael Myers’ murderous assault on his teen sister, 2007’s Halloween sees angry young Michael (Daeg Faerch) sharing his rundown house with his doting stripper mother (Sheri Moon Zombie), dirtbag stepdad (William Forsyth), flirtatious sister Judith (Hanna Hall), and baby sister Boo in a whirlwind of insults and abuse. The inevitable breaking point unleashes the killer within him, who we eventually see stalk and slash his way through the friends of young Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton), pursued by his pompous psychologist Dr. Samuel Loomis as Zombie tackles Carpenter’s original beats with added blood and guts.The director’s second film from 2009 sees Laurie struggle to adjust to the life after the experience, while a near-mythical Michael wanders the outskirts of town following visions and portents on his way to a reprisal of his violent ways in a hallucinatory, brutal sequel. The gang ponder Zombie’s uniquely grimy visual and storytelling style, and where the tension between creativity, commerce and reverence clash in these grittily rebooted entries into the cluttered canon of the series. A first watch for many of us, did Zombie’s breakneck heavy metal mayhem hold its own against Carpenter’s austere synthwave cool, or was it all sound and fury signifying nothing?Please head to rewindmoviecast.com for a wonderful essay by Matt, and if you like this episode’s cover image, visit our Teemill store for poster prints!If you have any questions, comments or ideas for future episodes you can contact us on Twitter @rewindmoviecast or @galithegreek(Gali), @IsTheDevlin (Devlin), @PatrickWaggett (Patrick) and @mdridley (Matt), join our Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/rewindmoviecast/, or email us at rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com to have a chat!MERCHANDISE NOW AVAILABLE! Head to our Teemill Store for some fantastic shirts, stickers and more.Thank you for listening, and if you like the show please hit subscribe, and maybe leave us a little review (it really does help!) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our LV-RMP series charting the tangled timeline of the Alien and Predator franchises stays resolutely earthbound for the 2007 second round of extra-terrestrial fisticuffs, AVPR: Aliens vs. Predator – Requiem, directed by the debuting Brothers Strause. We resume in the immediate aftermath of the last film, as a terrifying hybrid xenomorph-yautja chestburster emerges from the body of one of the intergalactic hunters and lays waste to the ship it is on, causing it to crash land in rural Colorado. The last surviving crew member sends a distress signal to its homeworld, where a solitary Predator tools up for a violent clean up mission that sees a motley selection of townsfolk caught in the crossfire, including a recently paroled ex-con, his hot-headed pizza boy brother, the overmatched local sheriff, and a young military mother struggling to reconnect with her child. Facehuggings, acid meltings, and egg throatings abound as the series turns away from the teen-friendly bloodlessness of the previous film and towards the literal, and metaphorical, darkness.Join weary travellers Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt as they squint at the screen, whack up the brightness, and try to work out who wins – remembering of course that it’s a moot point, because the poster said that we lose. The Predator this time is apparently called Wolf. Please head to rewindmoviecast.com for a wonderful essay by Matt, and if you like this episode’s cover image, visit our Teemill store for poster prints!If you have any questions, comments or ideas for future episodes you can contact us on Twitter @rewindmoviecast or @galithegreek(Gali), @IsTheDevlin (Devlin), @PatrickWaggett (Patrick) and @mdridley (Matt), join our Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/rewindmoviecast/, or email us at rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com to have a chat!MERCHANDISE NOW AVAILABLE! Head to our Teemill Store for some fantastic shirts, stickers and more.Thank you for listening, and if you like the show please hit subscribe, and maybe leave us a little review (it really does help!) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I mean, it's obvious that a big fish took a bite out of... this big fish. We’re back on Amity Island as another carcharodon carcharias comes to feast on the summer revellers in the first sequel to the unstoppable original blockbuster, JAWS 2. Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider), wife Elaine (Lorraine Gary) and family are still in Amity, and Martin’s now-teenage eldest son Mike (Mark Gruner) is a keen hobbyist sailor, regularly taking off in his sailboat with his ragtag group of friends, much to the chagrin of his still-cautious father. While a large hotel opening coincides with a push by Mayor Larry Vaughn (Murray Hamilton), who is somehow still in charge, and the town council that includes Elaine’s developer boss, to try to reinvigorate the town with fresh investment, familiar, ominous accidents start to befall the locals. Brody immediately suspects foul, fin-based play, but again he is disbelieved - his warnings threatening the financial interests of the town and setting him at odds with a public who lauded him as a hero just a couple of years previous. Matters come to a head when the town’s sailing teens, including both of his own kids, find themselves adrift at sea and at the mercy of the marine monster. Emerging from a difficult development as the movie’s original producers struggled to capitalise quickly on the unprecedented success of Spielberg’s 1975 smash, the task eventually fell to French director Jeannot Szwarc to wrangle a reluctant Roy Scheider back into uniform and wrestle a script which had passed through numerous hands into a manageable, thrilling tale of terror. Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the podcast app… join Gali, Devlin and Matt as they talk irresistible corduroy-clad cousins, sequel rules, chubby Art Garfunkels and the perils of improper petrol storage and reassess the legacy of this 70s sequel staple. Please head to rewindmoviecast.com for a wonderful essay by Matt, and if you like this episode’s cover image, visit our Teemill store for poster prints!If you have any questions, comments or ideas for future episodes you can contact us on Twitter @rewindmoviecast or @galithegreek(Gali), @IsTheDevlin (Devlin), @PatrickWaggett (Patrick) and @mdridley (Matt), join our Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/rewindmoviecast/, or email us at rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com to have a chat!MERCHANDISE NOW AVAILABLE! Head to our Teemill Store for some fantastic shirts, stickers and more.Thank you for listening, and if you like the show please hit subscribe, and maybe leave us a little review (it really does help!) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

And you're ready to die for me? Rewind icon Kevin Costner is back, minus the iconic mullet, in Mick Jackson’s 1992 perils-of-superstardom thriller The Bodyguard.Rachel Marron (a debuting Whitney Houston) is an lauded actress and megastar singer living with her young son in a sprawling, entourage-filled mansion. When a stalker’s repeated threats materialise in an explosive near-miss after a bomb is planted in her dressing room, her manager hires Frank Farmer (Costner), a former presidential bodyguard, to reluctantly lead her security team. While Frank’s heavy-handed tactics create tension with his flighty and feisty new ward, the two grow closer as the danger intensifies - leading to an iconically intense culmination at the Academy Awards.Originating as an early script by an emerging Lawrence Kasdan that took a circuitous decade and a half to reach the screen, the eventual film exploded into cinemas in a veritable supernova of hype - a collision between the preeminent musical diva of the moment and a megastar actor fresh off some of the biggest hits of the new decade. Turbocharged by Whitney’s powerhouse, Dolly Parton-covering tie-in single spending 10 weeks atop the UK charts, the critical reception was far less kind than the box office receipts. DId the glitz and glamour hold up for Gali, Patrick and Matt, or were they left lamenting a sequin-studded flop?Please head to rewindmoviecast.com for a wonderful essay by Matt, and if you like this episode’s cover image, visit our Teemill store for poster prints!If you have any questions, comments or ideas for future episodes you can contact us on Twitter @rewindmoviecast or @galithegreek(Gali), @IsTheDevlin (Devlin), @PatrickWaggett (Patrick) and @mdridley (Matt), join our Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/rewindmoviecast/, or email us at rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com to have a chat!MERCHANDISE NOW AVAILABLE! Head to our Teemill Store for some fantastic shirts, stickers and more.Thank you for listening, and if you like the show please hit subscribe, and maybe leave us a little review (it really does help!) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The enemy of my enemy... is my friend. Rewind’s LV-RMP series continues on with the long-awaited 2004 monster mashup AvP: Alien vs. Predator from director Paul W.S. Anderson.Billionaire industrialist Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) assembles a team of experts for a most mysterious mission - a voyage deep beneath an abandoned Antarctic whaling station to explore a vast pyramid which shows aspects of multiple ancient civilisations all combined with each other. Guided by Lex (Sanaa Lathan) and the insights of archaeologist Sebastian (Raoul Bova), they start to decipher the mysteries of the place, but they have already attracted the attention of its owners - the intergalactic hunters of the yautja - and started the process of releasing the deadly inhabitants, kept captive there - the vicious xenomorphs. The small team must try to survive both, deep beneath the ice…Emerging from a tortured development that originated with a comic book, and was first teased on film in the closing stages of Predator 2 when a xenomorph skull is seen in the Predators’ ship, the eventual film was a solid commercial success for franchise owners Fox, despite contemporary reviews that unfavourably compared it to its forebears. But how will it stack up for the gang now that we’ve made our way through the two film series? Was it a red laser-targetted headshot, or a gooey chest full of mess? Would it make it into Moses’ DVD collection, or should it be melted with acid blood? Join Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt as they pick their sides.Please head to rewindmoviecast.com for a wonderful essay by Matt, and if you like this episode’s cover image, visit our Teemill store for poster prints!If you have any questions, comments or ideas for future episodes you can contact us on Twitter @rewindmoviecast or @galithegreek(Gali), @IsTheDevlin (Devlin), @PatrickWaggett (Patrick) and @mdridley (Matt), join our Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/rewindmoviecast/, or email us at rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com to have a chat!MERCHANDISE NOW AVAILABLE! Head to our Teemill Store for some fantastic shirts, stickers and more.Thank you for listening, and if you like the show please hit subscribe, and maybe leave us a little review (it really does help!) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Harry? You do not have time to tango, buddy. You copy? We’re joined by a very special guest - actor/producer/Propaganda Minister of the Sovereign Nation of Val Verde Duncan Casey - for a look at James Cameron’s megabucks 1994 espionage smash hit True Lies.Dissatisfied housewife Helen Tasker (Jamie Lee Curtis) can’t understand why her boring computer salesman husband Harry (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is so wrapped up in his work that he neglects her and their moody teen daughter Dana (Eliza Dushku) to the extent that she even considers an affair with a skeevy used car salesman masquerading as a secret agent (Bill Paxton). What she doesn’t know, is that Harry is indeed a REAL secret agent - and when he discovers Helen’s flirtations, he sidetracks himself from an international terrorism investigation to embroil her in a plot to spice up their stale marriage. Typically Cameronian carnage ensues as fighter jets, nuclear detonations, motorcycle vs. horse hotel lobby chases and much more are deployed by cinema’s premier spectacle maker.Fresh off the hugely successful Terminator 2: Judgement Day, the writer/director had the industry at his feet - and chose to adapt a little-known French spy comedy for his next project. While a huge hit upon release, the film has sunk from view somewhat in the years since, considering its pedigree and one-time prominence. Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Duncan look back at their recollections of the film upon release, and discuss how it now stacks up against the genre as a whole - in terms of its then-cutting edge action, and in its representations of marriage, gender politics, and race. Did the film sit up and make us beg for buttermilk, or has it left us shivering by the side of the road soaked in our own pee? Be sure to track down more of Duncan at the fantastic YouTube movie review channel Val Verde Broadcasting! & check out the short film website https://www.typetillyoubleed.com .For all of Duncan's other projects then head to his IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4317541/If you have any questions, comments or ideas for future episodes you can contact us on Twitter @rewindmoviecast or @galithegreek(Gali), @IsTheDevlin (Devlin), @PatrickWaggett (Patrick) and @mdridley (Matt), email us at rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com to have a chat!MERCHANDISE NOW AVAILABLE! Head to our Teemill Store for some fantastic shirts, stickers and more.Thank you for listening, and if you like the show please hit subscribe, and maybe leave us a little review (it really does help!) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I gotta go Julia; we got cows. We’re riding with The Extreme in Jan de Bont’s whirlwind 1996 divorce drama disaster blockbuster TWISTER. Estranged married storm-chasers Dr. Jo (Helen Hunt) and Bill Harding (Bill Paxton) are thrust back into action when a series of powerful tornadoes rips through Bill's plans to finalise their breakup so he can wed his new fiancée, and tosses them back out on the road with their ragtag bunch of cloud nerds including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Todd Field, and Rewind favourite Alan Ruck. Seeking to map the interior structure of a tornado in better detail than ever before, they are hampered by corporate kiss-butt Cary Elwes and his crew of megabucks-backed sellout scientists, who have swiped the tech that Bill and Jo developed and intend to gazump their triumph.A blowout entry in the 90s disaster canon, de Bont blends destructive practical sets with nascent digital trickery to capitalise on his Speed success, crafting one of the biggest films of an era not known for frugality. But did it sweep us off our feet, or just plain suck? Were we talkin’ imminent rueage, or did a manly handshake ensue? Grab a huge-ass plate of steak and eggs and hunker down in your rickety basement as we fire up some Deep Purple and drive headlong into the wind.Please head to rewindmoviecast.com for a wonderful essay by Matt, and if you like this episode’s cover image, visit our Teemill store for poster prints!If you have any questions, comments or ideas for future episodes you can contact us on Twitter @rewindmoviecast or @galithegreek(Gali), @IsTheDevlin (Devlin), @PatrickWaggett (Patrick) and @mdridley (Matt), join our Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/rewindmoviecast/, or email us at rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com to have a chat!MERCHANDISE NOW AVAILABLE! Head to our Teemill Store for some fantastic shirts, stickers and more.Thank you for listening, and if you like the show please hit subscribe, and maybe leave us a little review (it really does help!) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

YOUR MOVE, CREEP. We plant our heavy, metallic feet on the blood-soaked tarmac of Old Detroit for a look back at the seminal, gruesome sci-fi action classic ROBOCOP.A fresh transfer to the Metro West Precinct of the crime-riddled one-time manufacturing mecca, Officer Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) falls prey to a vicious gang of criminals led by the sarcastic, ruthless Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith), who riddles Murphy with bullets and leaves him functionally dead. His body becomes the property of Omni Consumer Products, a monopolistic megacorporation that owns and operates the Police, and is revived on the orders of a sleazy executive (Miguel Ferrer) as a gleaming, fully-programmed cyborg super cop, whose task is to clean up the streets ahead of the imminent construction of OCP’s gleaming new Delta City development. Murphy’s former partner Lewis (Nancy Allen) has to come to the rescue when corporate machinations and organised crime align, and the resurrected Murphy becomes a target of violence from all sides.With hearty thanks to our listener Jamie Russell for suggesting this episode, we discuss the story’s origins, starting with first-time writer and ascendant young executive Ed Neumeier’s collaboration with radical collaborator Michael Miner; the crucial contribution of Euro cinema madman Paul Verhoeven; and the legacy of the film’s mixture acidic social satire and squib-laden, visceral bloodletting. Join Gali, Devlin and Matt on patrol – you have ten seconds to comply.Please head to rewindmoviecast.com for a wonderful essay by Matt, and if you like this episode’s cover image, visit our Teemill store for poster prints!If you have any questions, comments or ideas for future episodes you can contact us on Twitter @rewindmoviecast or @galithegreek(Gali), @IsTheDevlin (Devlin), @PatrickWaggett (Patrick) and @mdridley (Matt), join our Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/rewindmoviecast/, or email us at rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com to have a chat!MERCHANDISE NOW AVAILABLE! Head to our Teemill Store for some fantastic shirts, stickers and more.Thank you for listening, and if you like the show please hit subscribe, and maybe leave us a little review (it really does help!) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.