Greetings once again, ghouls, and welcome to our month-long May of the Dead, showcasing 31 zombie (hear us out) films - one for every evening in the Zombie Awareness Month of May, 2021. Due to our strong personal convictions, we wish to stress that this playlist in no way endorses a belief in the occult.... Continue Reading →
Episode 59: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Film chosen by Patrick, introduced by Devlin As mentioned in the episode, Patrick, Gali and I saw this film together back in Leeds in 2007 during its cinema release. It's a movie-going experience that I rank extremely high in my all-time most memorable - a film that buried itself in my psyche at perhaps exactly... Continue Reading →
Episode 58: Alien (1979) LV-RMP SERIES
LV-RMP Series Continuing our journey through the ALIEN universe, the team backtrack from James Cameron's seminal 80s action sequel sci-fi classic Aliens, which (almost) all of the gang encountered first, to look back at Ridley (Wiggly) Scott's groundbreaking first film in the series. Our Matt has created, as well as this incredible splattery tribute to South... Continue Reading →
Episode 57: BARGAIN BIN #10 Species (1995)
Film sort of chosen by, and introduced by, Devlin with a wonderful YouTube playlist by Matt https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXTibPqCx29HGoX7bInyvj-nNS-hkqCeJ Honestly there's not much to add to this week's episode; other than to say that if you are interested in the labyrinthine process by which HR Giger was hired to create the lead monster in Species, and subsequently... Continue Reading →
Episode 53: The Big Lebowski (1998)
Film chosen by Joe, introduced by Matt The Coen Brothers’ pot-heady, mistaken identity picture and ode to the unemployed, adopts and adapts the specificity of film noir's dialogue to create a colourful, highly quotable, stoner-noir. It's as if our fall guy, The Dude - a clueless dropout, has been dragged into the swirling dramatic plot... Continue Reading →
Episode 52: The Misfits (1961)
Film chosen and introduced by Devlin It's now 60 years since this film was released. In the ebb and flow of pop culture, especially in cinema, it's possible this film feels, to a lot of viewers, like a relic of a distant and unknowable past. I mentioned within the episode the strange juncture in movie... Continue Reading →
REWIND CHRISTMAS SPECIAL Episode 51: Part I – The Naughty List & Part 2 – The Nice List
Merry Christmas Rewinders! This festive season, we have not one but TWO chats where we each discuss our perennial must-watch movies. True to form, those grumpy Grinches Devlin and Matt have picked subversive, somewhat dark 1980s twists on some traditional stories in what we're calling The Naughty List. First, Devlin talks about his love for... Continue Reading →
Episode 50: BARGAIN BIN #9 Hard Target (1993)
Film chosen by Gali and Devlin (sort of), introduced by Devlin We have, somehow, reached a half-century of episodes of this little ramblepod. And while this round of Throwbacks was due to be my choice of The Misfits, there was a feeling in the air that perhaps an elegiac, monochrome monument to the decaying embers... Continue Reading →
Episode 49: Point Break (1991)
Film chosen by Gali, introduced by Devlin Among the many, many pleasures of Point Break, one major standout has to be that it contains one of the defining performances of Full Busey. Gary Busey is a very strange man. From his early breakthrough in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot and his garlanded turn as bespectacled nerd rock... Continue Reading →
Episode 48: Candyman (1992) HALLORE’EWIND SERIES
Film chosen and introduced by Patrick I hear you’re looking for Candyman… bitch. So was I, back in 1997, drawn into the urban legend along with my other impressionable classmates… we were 11 years old. Little Jake (DeJaun Guy) in the film was smarter than us, he knew to steer clear of the Candyman as... Continue Reading →
