May the 4th Be With You ✨

Introduced by Matt Star Wars (1977) "Let the Wookiee win." C-3PO, Star Wars It's always easy in retrospect to play post-structuralist, but for context, Star Wars is considered a crowd-rallying, post-Watergate and Vietnam War phoenix from the flames. It truly was a period of civil war in the USA, with gritty, cynical pictures mirroring the... Continue Reading →

Patrick’s Top 100: What Are Your Favourite Films?

A New Blog Devised and Hosted by Patrick The Rewind Movie Podcast recently reached its hundredth episode! Expertly steered by our trusty captain and editor, Gali (from Stoke), along with Dev (from Darlington), with his incredible drawings and tech skills. Our correspondent abroad is Matt (from Catterick), with his insane research skills and playlists, and... Continue Reading →

HalloRe’ewind ’22 🎃

The Rewind Movie Podcast’s very own HalloRe’ewind returns—this year, chillingly curated by Scarious Artists (aka me, Matt), featuring an unlucky dip… a ghoulish grab bag… a petrifying potluck… a gruesome gumbo—you get the point. A spine-chilling selection of haunted holiday horrors await! 9:00 It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966) 25m Good morning, you blockheads.... Continue Reading →

BLOG: Pee-wee’s Big Rewind

Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) | Big Top Pee-wee (1988) Kooky cult comedy antics abound in this '80s double bill oddity, starring Paul Reubens as his madcap Groundling creation, Pee-wee Herman. Adorned in a grey suit, white high-heeled shoes (“tequila!”) and a little red bowtie, the petulant, childlike roars and idiosyncratic shenanigans of Reubens’ character were... Continue Reading →

Episode 22: Pulse (2001) and the J-Horror movement

Introduced by Devlin 幽霊に会いたいですか. Here at The Rewind Movie Podcast, we started our Pulling Focus series so that our hosts could recommend to each other to films that had so far eluded them – to date, I’ve introduced Gali to the transcendent, meditative Glasgow-set drama Ratcatcher, and in return he suggested Curtis Hanson’s charming literary... Continue Reading →

BLOG: Joker (2019)

By Gali There is plenty to marvel at (excuse the pun) in Joker: the filmmaking on display is impeccable and Joaquin Phoenix’s performance is captivating. However, I can pinpoint the exact moment when I could no longer put on a happy face, as the film remembered that it has to involve the origins of another... Continue Reading →

BLOG: Godzilla, King Of The Monsters

I can only remember a handful of times where I’ve gone to the cinema to see a film twice. I can remember even fewer occasions where the second viewing didn’t diminish my opinion of the film once I walked out of the theatre, where, stripped of the surprise of seeing the story play out for... Continue Reading →

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