The Rewind Movie Podcast pays our respects to the Beard, as we embark on a rewatch series of some of the highlights and lesser-travelled avenues of the career of arguably the most successful director in the history of the medium - Steven Spielberg. Our starting point (having already lavished our praise on Jaws) is his... Continue Reading →
Patrick has done it again...he has brought the musical back into the podcast, this time to celebrate the 60th anniversary of The Sound of Music. A year after Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews plays Maria, a nun-turned-governess (so, not at all like a nanny) to the seven unruly children of Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer). Her... Continue Reading →
This…is a revolution of the mind. We’re screaming for tech support with Cameron Crowe’s 2001 mind-bendy romantic thriller Vanilla Sky. Somewhat-aging playboy rich kid David Aames, Jr. (Tom Cruise) skates by as the nominal figurehead of his late father’s publishing house, barely working, lounging in his sprawling penthouse with his casual friend-with-benefits, aspiring actress Julie... Continue Reading →
Film chosen by Patrick “Good luck exploring the infinite abyss.” It’s a trip back to smalltown New Jersey with sitcom star-turned-indie auteur Zach Braff and his 2004 directorial debut Garden State. Heavily medicated struggling Hollywood actor/waiter Andrew “Large” Largeman (Braff) learns of his disabled mother’s passing, and heads back to the home of his father... Continue Reading →
Our Hail to the King series concludes (for now) with another anomaly from the venerable author's assemblage of adaptations - director Fraser C. Heston's 1993 take on his 1991 megatome Needful Things. In the quaint New England town of Castle Rock, the opening of a new store causes quite a stir - but just how... Continue Reading →
Film chosen and introduced by Matt Maybe I’m crackers for finding The Shining convivial and cozy, but in parallel with Jaws, it’s morphed from a once petrifying picture into a movie that induces a somewhat trance-like state, where the horror is neatly neutered. It slowly became a seductively snug watch—washing over me like a secure,... Continue Reading →
“Well, we took a vote. Predator's cooler, right?” Our LV-RMP series, running through the combined Alien and Predator series, arrives at Shane Black’s 2018 sequel, the confusingly named The Predator. A military sniper (Boyd Holbrook) witnesses a runaway Yautja ship crash landing in a Mexican jungle, and barely escapes with his life and a rucksack... Continue Reading →
Introduced by Devlin In the early- to mid-1990s, a deluge of enterprising, low-budget filmmakers sought to cash in on the erotic thriller craze that swept into cinemas in the wake of the incredible success of the likes of Fatal Attraction at the end of the preceding decade - films that we at the Rewind Movie... Continue Reading →
“Don't bother to buckle up - you may not want to survive this.” We’re scaling the Rockies with Sylvester Stallone in his Renny Harlin-directed, vertiginous 1993 action adventure thriller Cliffhanger. After a tragic accident sends Mountain Rescue climber Gabe Walker (Stallone) into an eight month self-imposed exile, his attempts to reunite with his ex-partner Jessie... Continue Reading →
“Mistletoe can be deadly if you eat it.” We’re spending our Rewind Christmas in Gotham, with Tim Burton’s eccentric 1992 comic book sequel Batman Returns. An abandoned aristocratic child, born with unfortunate physical deformities, grows up in the sewers below the city streets, eventually waging a circus-centric war on the populace at the big tree-lighting... Continue Reading →
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