“I can never go to sleep. But I can lay quietly and not make a peep.” Our Steven Spielberg season continues with the disquieting 2001 science fiction epic A.I. Artificial Intelligence. In the near future, in a post-ice cap melting world clinging to the vestiges of humanity’s consumer peak where procreation is carefully controlled, Professor... Continue Reading →
“EVERYBODY HAPPY!” Dig out your Moby CDs, log onto My Excite, and check your electronic mail for Danny Boyle’s divisive, turn-of-the-millennium hippy-dippy paradise existential Leonardo DiCaprio vehicle The Beach. Did its comedy conquer the world, or was it an ASSH*LE suggestion? Did it stand a chicken’s chance in Thailand? Was it a lot of dope,... Continue Reading →
“Stupid is as stupid does.” We're lacing up our Nikes and just… feel like running with the multi-OSCAR-winning 1994 Robert Zemeckis megahit Forrest Gump. The titular Forrest, Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), born the simple son of a single mother in the Jim Crow South, guilelessly glides through the second half of the American Century in... Continue Reading →
Our second foray into the greatest detective series ever made continues with an episode from the final year of the show's original NBC run - 1977's Try & Catch Me, starring Ruth Gordon as a mystery novelist in a very different vein from Jack Cassidy's smug charlatan in Murder By The Book. Bringing the likeable... Continue Reading →
“A man who looks at a rock must have a lot on his mind.” James Bond and Sarah Connor face a whole lotta lava in the 1997 disaster epic Dante’s Peak. Bereaved yet dashing volcanologist Harry Dalton (Pierce Brosnan) is dispatched to the titular tiny town that sits nestled beneath a hulking, dormant volcano. Mayor... Continue Reading →
Introduced by Devlin Gali may not have introduced me to Columbo as such - I'd watched it before and enjoyed it, I'm sure - but he was certainly the person who anchored it as a regular viewing habit. Back when we were housemates in the Hyde Park area of Leeds, we would commandeer the living... Continue Reading →
“I'd like to report a truck driver who's been endangering my life!” Our Steven Spielberg Series continues with a detour back to where it all started - 1971’s TV movie-turned-theatrical debut DUEL. Mild mannered travelling salesman David Mann (Dennis Weaver) finds himself the unexplained target of escalating threats from a mysterious, smoke-belching truck’s largely unseen... Continue Reading →
Bangarang! We continue our journey through the filmography of The Beard Himself, Steven Spielberg, with a contrasting look at fatherhood in 1991’s grand kids’ fantasy Hook. A now adult Peter Pan (Robin Williams) has no memories of his time in Neverland, having committed himself to a life of dour responsibility as a successful lawyer under... Continue Reading →
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 →
