The Rewind Movie Podcast

“Back home, they would have put me in jail for what I'm doing. Here, they're giving me awards.” We’re heading to the neon oasis in the desert for Martin Scorsese’s grandiose 1995 Vegas-set crime epic Casino. In 1973, gambling savant Samuel “Ace” Rothstein (Robert De Niro) is dispatched by his mob bosses from ‘back home’ to take over their luxe Tangiers casino - quickly raking in record profits with his fastidious management. He’s soon joined by his hair-trigger childhood friend/enforcer NIcky Santoro (Joe Pesci), who quickly complicates matters by seeking his own sources of income and beating and maiming anyone who gets in his way. Ace finds himself another complication - a beautiful, free-spirited hustler named Ginger (Sharon Stone) who he quickly marries despite her reservations - and her sleazy former pimp (James Woods) whose influence she can’t seem to break free of. As control gives way to chaos, the pull of cash and power threatens to unravel this lucrative gambit, and everyone involved. Working from another book by Goodfellas scribe Nicholas Pileggi, Scorsese brings back two key on-screen players (and a few familiar supporting faces) from that seminal feature for another era-spanning, violent, complex tale of organised crime. While greeted with a decent reception, it was criticised somewhat as a partial retread of its groundbreaking forebear, and has slipped out of contention for the upper echelons of Scorsese’s packed filmography. Join fIlm-picker Gali, Devlin, Patrick, and Matt in the morality car wash as we ask whether Ace was onto another winner, or if we shoulda already dug a hole. Head over to our Teemill store for merchandise, movie shirts, art prints, stickers, totes and 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.

Welcome to The Open Slate! Ever sat through the credits and wondered why there needs to be a Second 2nd Assistant Director? Or what the Best Boy is supposed to be the best at? In this series, we sit down with working film industry professionals from across the departments for unvarnished, honest, practical conversations about how and why they joined the movie business, how they contribute day-to-day to the creation of cinema, and how they maintain their careers in a high-pressure, highly sought after field.Our guest is no stranger to the podcast - two-time Rewinder (and friend of almost 20 years!) Aidan Dungait. A native of the north east of England, Aidan’s post-university career saw him learn the ropes as a camera assistant on everything from indie horror films, to Brit Comedy sex romps, to prestige TV dramas, and plenty in between. After relocating to Vancouver several years ago, he has reestablished himself as a focus puller on a raft of features and major studio television projects. He joins Gali and Patrick to discuss his life in film to date - his setbacks, successes, and what it is about movie-making that keeps him inspired.Special Mentions:www.unorthodoxroasters.co.uk Head over to our Teemill store for merchandise, movie shirts, art prints, stickers, totes and 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.

Welcome to The Open Slate! Ever sat through the credits and wondered why there needs to be a Second 2nd Assistant Director? Or what the Best Boy is supposed to be the best at? In this series, we sit down with working film industry professionals from across the departments for unvarnished, honest, practical conversations about how and why they joined the movie business, how they contribute day-to-day to the creation of cinema, and how they maintain their careers in a high-pressure, highly sought after field.First up is Rewind’s very own Patrick Waggett, an Assistant Director with dozens of credits including a host of major series and feature films for some of the biggest studios in the world. Gali charts his career from the early days of commuting hundreds of miles from his native Leicester for gigs and sleeping on couches, to having his phone nicked on-screen by Kylie Minogue, to establishing his life in London and regularly working with super famous stars on massive-scaled productions.Stay tuned for more insights into the industry as we continue this series – we have upcoming chats with camera department veterans, actors, producers and a whole lot more in the pipeline.Useful links discussed in this Episode:www.screenskills.comwww.fullyfocusedproductions.comlargescalefilm.co.ukcalltimecompany.combectu.org.ukSpecial Mentions:YouTube movie review channel Val Verde Broadcasting!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.Head over to our Teemill store for merchandise, movie shirts, art prints, stickers, totes and 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.

Big things have small beginnings. Our LV-RMP series, where we explore every film in the Alien and Predator universe, finds director Ridley Scott making his long-awaited return to the genre, and franchise, that launched his illustrious career with the heady quasi-prequel Prometheus.A duo of young, ideologically divergent archeologists (Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green) believe they have deciphered a star map gifted over millennia by a mysterious race of celestial beings. Funded by the recently deceased centenarian billionaire Peter Weyland (Guy Pierce), they assemble an exploratory crew that sets out seeking to discover the origins of human life on Earth on a distant, mysterious moon - but may not find the answers they seek.Ineffable black goo, eyeball worms, ill-advised intergalactic snake charming, flambéed geologists and graphic MedPod alienectomies ensue in this grand, divisive feature that, over a decade on from its release, continues to provoke fierce reactions and contradictory emotions. Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt reflect on their own contentious histories with the film and, in most cases, rewatch for the first time since its release.Head over to our Teemill store for merchandise, movie shirts, art prints, stickers, totes and 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.

Compliance! We’re taking to the skies with the 1986 family sci-fi spectacular Flight of the Navigator from director Randal Kleiser.12-year-old David Freeman (Joey Cramer) walks through the woodlands near his Florida home to bring his irritating little brother back home before it gets dark. Instead, after losing consciousness due to a fall, David returns to his home only to find that his parents are no longer there - eight years have passed, without David having aged a day. When NASA scientists discover a mysterious silver ship, it becomes apparent that the two events are connected, and they bring the boy into their research facility. The ship seems to call to David, leading to a visually stunning thrill ride across the planet.Devlin, Patrick and Matt reflect on a childhood TV staple, discussing the film’s impressive and in some cases pioneering visual effects, the era-defining mix of buccaneering tween adventure melancholy-tinged drama, and the surprisingly heavy themes among all the Paul Reubens intergalactic improv.Head over to our Teemill store for merchandise, movie shirts, art prints, stickers, totes and 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.

OUTLANDER! We’re lost on the back roads of Nebraska, following the disorientating street signs to the Bargain Bin to revisit the cut-price kid cult King flick Children of the Corn from 1984.Newly-graduated doctor Burt (Peter Horton) and his girlfriend Vicky (Linda Hamilton) are in the process of relocating to Seattle, but their route takes them past the small rural community of Gatlin – a town where, unbeknownst to them, the children have risen up and slaughtered their parents to establish a rabid religious sect that worships an entity known only as He Who Walks Behind the Rows, who speaks through the pint-sized evangelical orator Isaac (John Franklin) and whose demands for sacrifice and total obedience are enforced by the lanky and violent Malachi (Courtney Gains).Debuting director and former advertising standout Fritz Kiersch adapted Stephen King’s short story for a post-Roger Corman New World Pictures, agreeing to a low budget in order to gain a foothold in feature films. A modest box office success, the film went on to generate an extensive and unlikely franchise of more than 10 follow-ups, due to its enduring appeal on video and TV. But will Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt find themselves a juicy cob of horror entertainment, or just an empty husk?Head over to our Teemill store for merchandise, movie shirts, art prints, stickers, totes and 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.

We’re joined once again by our good friend Aidan all the way from Vancouver to discuss one of his childhood favourites, Martin Brest’s foulmouthed 1988 buddy caper Midnight Run.Disgraced former Chicago cop Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro), now working as an LA bounty hunter, is tasked with bringing in mob accountant Jonathan “The Duke” Mardukas (Charles Grodin), who has skipped town on his desperate bondsman Eddie Moscone (Joe Pantoliano). The Duke has embezzled $15 million from mafia boss Jimmy Serrano (Dennis Farina), giving most of the loot away to charity before going into hiding. Jack tracks The Duke down in New York, and has 5 days to bring him back to jail or Eddie forfeits almost half a million dollars in bail. After The Duke gets himself and Jack kicked off a plane by feigning an aviophobic panic attack, the pair spend a gruelling and contentious cross-country trip by rail and road, as the fussy, wily Duke tries to wheedle away from the slovenly and cranky Jack.A showcase for De Niro’s comic skills after a long run of features which saw him established as one of serious cinema’s most celebrated actors, the film pairs him with Grodin, who had essayed a number of well-received comic roles across cinema, theatre and TV through the 70s and 80s without breaking through as a leading man. Director Brest returns to the high-octane combination of screwball dialogue and explosive 80s action that he pioneered in Beverly Hills Cop to create a sizeable commercial success that has sustained a cult following in the years since. Rustle up some Lyonnaise potatoes and join us in the boxcar.Head over to our Teemill store for merchandise, movie shirts, art prints, stickers, totes and 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.

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.