“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 →
Film chosen by Gali “The streets are awash with drugs you can have for unhappiness and pain, and we took them all.” We’re heading to the murky hinterland of Edinburgh with Danny Boyle’s visceral 1996 sophomore feature Trainspotting. Erudite, sallow twenty-something Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) has chosen not to choose life - he’s chosen something... Continue Reading →
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair. The LV-RMP series continues to explore the Ridley Scott sequel universe with 2017’s Alien: Covenant. The crew of an intergalactic colonisation vessel is jolted from hypersleep by a catastrophic freak event while it is under the control of the ship’s android, Walter (Michael Fassbender). Reluctant to return... Continue Reading →
“Remember what we told you. You keep your eyes open. They're everywhere.” We’re popping in for a quick blood rave with 1998’s Marvel Comics adaptation Blade. Titular daywalker Blade (Wesley Snipes), otherwise known as Eric Brooks, stalks the streets to hunt and kill vampires, driven by a thirst for revenge after his mother was bitten... Continue Reading →
Checkmate. Come join the Rewind Movie Podcast as we celebrate our Independence Day with Roland Emmerich’s 1996 sci-fi action spectacular. A drunk crop duster pilot with a painful memory of extraterrestrial abduction; an overqualified cable TV repairman and his elderly father; a hot shot Air Force ace, his exotic dancer girlfriend, and her cutesy kid;... Continue Reading →
Welcome to The Open Slate! Ever sat through the credits and wondered what a stand-in stands on? Or whether the Base PA plays baseball? 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... Continue Reading →
Pieces (1982) Film chosen and introduced by Matt "I’ll send you a case of lollipops." Det. Sgt. Holden, Pieces You don’t have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre! Prepare to be slayed by a withering look by the quintessential midnight movie—the Spanish-American slasher, Pieces—known in certain dark circles as Chainsaw Devil, Chainsaw Bastard, and also by... Continue Reading →
Introduced by Matt Two Bahama Mamas, Please 🦈 Although borderline calamitous in its execution at times, I digested the terminal death rattle of the Jaws series (on a 4:3, open matte VHS taped off the telly, no less) so often as a nipper that when its filmic son of Scheider dons that yellow (symbolic of... Continue Reading →
Film chosen by Patrick Oh it's them. The little guys. My little munchkins! We’re strolling back to the Amblin Entertainment heyday with Matthew Robbins’ cute, nostalgic, intergalactic robot heartwarmer *batteries not included. Elderly corner café owner Frank Riley (frequent Hitchcock collaborator Hume Cronyn) and his flighty, seemingly bewildered wife Faye (Cronyn’s real-life partner Jessica Tandy)... Continue Reading →
Films chosen and introduced by Matt In 1982, the Ladd Company unleashed the dystopian sci-fi classic, Blade Runner. In 1984, they crapped out the first Police Academy movie. Quite the about turn. Overtly racist, sexist, homophobic, fat-shaming characters populated the hugely popular hit, which spawned six shady sequels ranging from amusing to abhorrent. Believe it... Continue Reading →
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