LV-RMP Series The enemy of my enemy... is my friend. Rewind’s LV-RMP series continues on with the long-awaited 2004 monster mashup AvP: Alien vs. Predator from director Paul W.S. Anderson. Billionaire industrialist Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) assembles a team of experts for a most mysterious mission - a voyage deep beneath an abandoned Antarctic whaling... Continue Reading →
Episode 90: True Lies (1994)
Harry? You do not have time to tango, buddy. You copy? We’re joined by a very special guest - actor/producer/Propaganda Minister of the Sovereign Nation of Val Verde Duncan Casey - for a look at James Cameron’s megabucks 1994 espionage smash hit True Lies. Dissatisfied housewife Helen Tasker (Jamie Lee Curtis) can’t understand why her... Continue Reading →
Episode 89: Twister (1996)
Film chosen by listener Tom Bhaduri I gotta go Julia; we got cows. We’re riding with The Extreme in Jan de Bont’s whirlwind 1996 divorce drama disaster blockbuster TWISTER. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0wNOJqvKmLVxpyPP1x2KkI?si=cce1f958757a4f71 Estranged married storm-chasers Dr. Jo (Helen Hunt) and Bill Harding (Bill Paxton) are thrust back into action when a series of powerful tornadoes rips through... Continue Reading →
Episode 86: The Faculty (1998)
Introduced by Matt El Mariachi man, and Rebel Without a Crew, Robert Rodriguez, brings us a bodysnatching Breakfast Club via John Carpenter’s The Thing—filtering his kinetic action through Kevin Williamson’s preposterously articulate ‘90s teen milieu (real adolescents come off as grunting neanderthals compared to his erudite depictions). The Faculty (originally titled, The Feelers) boasts a... Continue Reading →
Episode 84: Bargain Bin #12: Cyborg (1989)
I LIKE THE DEATH! I LIKE THE MISERY! I LIKE THIS WORLD! We return to the trusty Bargain Bin and dig out the infamous Cannon Films’ post-apocalyptic Van Damme downer Cyborg. ‘Slinger’ Gibson Rickenbacker (JCVD) is some sort of futuristic ronin, hired by the some of the tattered remnants of humanity to guarantee them safe... Continue Reading →
Episode 82: Predator 2 (1990) LV-RMP SERIES
LV-RMP Series Want some candy? Our LV-RMP series continues on the Yautja trail as we swap the jungles of Val Verde for its concrete equivalent - the mean, sweaty streets of a near-future, heatwave-crazy Los Angeles for Stephen Hopkins' 1990 sequel Predator 2. Another imposing, grotesquely-mandibled intergalactic hunter has crashed to Earth in search of trophies,... Continue Reading →
The Directors Series #1: The Explosive Sexploitation Cinema of Russ Meyer
Hi, Devlin here, and welcome to my long, long-in-the works guide to the maverick independent filmmaker Russ Meyer! I'm joined for a very special podcast episode by an incredible guest: Patrick Crain, film writer, Meyer fanatic, and programmer for the Oklahoma Film Society, who was kind enough to join me for an in-depth overview of... Continue Reading →
