Bereaved yet dashing volcanologist Harry Dalton (Pierce Brosnan) is dispatched to the titular tiny town that sits nestled beneath a hulking, dormant volcano. Mayor and coffee shop proprietor Rachel Wando (Linda Hamilton) believes Harry’s increasing concerns about the rising threat of an eruption, but is doubted by the rest of his U.S.G.S. team - especially his skeptical boss, who delays an evacuation with potentially disastrous consequences.

Sneaking out mere months before its igneous competition (and previous Rewind episode) Volcano in one of those curious 1990s duelling releases, the film eschews that picture’s metropolitan carnage and awkward social commentary for a down home, old school, small town tale that makes space for big mayhem. Boiled grannies ensue.

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Local legend Kevin O’Shea (Ed O’Neill), a Heisman Trophy-winning football hero, is running tryouts for his Pee-Wee football team, where he mercilessly discards the ‘misfit’ kids. Among them, his own niece - Becky “Icebox” O’Shea (Shawna Waldron), one of the toughest players refused because she is a girl. She maneuvers her dad, mild-mannered garage owner and Kevin’s overshadowed little brother Danny (Rick Moranis), into coaching a rival team made up of those same misfits, with an inevitable big game collision looming in the third act.

Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment produced this sporting underdog tale, coming in the wake of the likes of The Mighty Ducks and The Sandlot, which inspired a young Patrick to put on an American accent and toss the pigskin in his Leicestershire back garden. Will his affection for this somewhat-forgotten kids film similarly inspire the less-nostalgic Devlin, a lifelong NFL fan who can't remember whether he actually watched this as a kid, or just saw the trailer too often? Join us as we finally determine just how many fart jokes are too many fart jokes.

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In 1971, Spielberg - the golden boy of Universal, and still a few months out from his seminal TV movie Duel - was hired to direct the first true episode of the series, after three early outings for the character, the latter two starring New York theatre actor-turned-Hollywood transplant Peter Falk. This tale of a mystery novelist slaying his soon-to-be-ex writing partner simultaneously acts as the blueprint for the beloved programme, and a forum for the prodigious director’s mastery of camerawork and scene construction.

Gali and Devlin’s shared history with the series goes back more than 20 years, with many a lazy Sunday spent in the company of the disheveled detective. Join us as we discuss the character’s origins, the development of the show’s tropes, pick our favourite murder styles, and revel in a cinematic legend’s earliest evidence of their technical prowess.

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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 driver, as they cross the barren California desert highways locked in a cat-and-mouse chase towards an inevitably deadly conclusion.

Under contract as the wunderkind development project of then-Universal president Sid Sheinberg, the 24-year-old Spielberg lobbied to follow up his seminal Columbo episode with this Richard Matheson-penned thriller as a forum to flex his aptitude for visceral action and tension. After pulling in a very respectable audience share and earning a run in European cinemas, Spielberg was ready to take his explorations of overmatched man versus an unstoppable force onto the water…

Join Gali, Devlin and Matt at the Snakearama for a sinister cheese on rye sandwich of suspense!

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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 the name Peter Banning. Returning for the first time to the home of Wendy, grandmother to his wife, he receives a sharp reminder of his previous adventures when Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman) kidnaps his two young children - necessitating a crash course in whimsy, imagination, flying, and sword fighting from the Lost Boys, now led by the brooding Rufio.

While Spielberg tackling the story of the boy who never grew up seemed like a slam dunk, the project took almost a decade to make it to the screen, and bloated in running time, shoot days, budget, and tabloid intrigue along the way. A sizeable box office haul couldn’t dispel a reputation as a critical failure and a financial disappointment, relative to expectations. But, did the Rewind Lost Boys dig into a steaming imagination buffet of nostalgic fun, or were we left lamenting our lost marbles.

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Our starting point (having already lavished our praise on Jaws) is his self-penned, emotionally-charged, 1977 alien visitation blockbuster drama Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The freshly-minted star director utilised all of his newfound influence to bring a bombastic, visually resplendent, and grandly-scored vision of the after effects of a blue-collar suburban dad seeing a series of UFOs in the skies over Indiana.

Not yet 30, Spielberg mined his formative years for the film, loosely adapting an amateur 16mm feature he made as a 17-year-old, and investing this tale of a dissolving marriage with the messy verisimilitude of a young man still processing his own parents’ estrangement.

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Devlin conjured up a We Are Not Alone, We Are Fucked trio, with three-courses of intergalactic terror featuring PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES, LIFEFORCE, and GOD TOLD ME TO. Meanwhile, Matt made Lycomania! his hirsutely fearsome triumvirate of hairy-handed, wolfy goings-on with SILVER BULLET, AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, and THE HOWLING.

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Gali and Devlin have a close encounter with an awfully icky alien, as the sequels creators have gender-swapped the intergalactic sexual predator with unsurprisingly unpleasant results. Will a sloshed Michael Madsen, a checked-out Marg Helgenberger, and a regrettably 90s racially stereotyped astronaut-turned-sidekick take this story to strange new places, or will it all just peter out in an abandoned barn full of gunk?

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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 warmth, charm and songs soon win the hearts of the children and their father. But when the threat of war rises (Nazis, booooo), Maria is forced to attempt a daring escape with her new family.

Will Patrick find that it is 3rd time lucky when trying to convince the tuneless gang on the merits of the musical genre? Or, despite it being the 60th anniversary, will they join Rolfe on the wrong side of history?! Grab your Lederhosen and Dirndl and warm up those pipes, we're off to the mountains for a sing-song to find out what all the fuss is about.

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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 GIanni (Cameron Diaz), and palling around with novelist friend Brian (Jason Lee). But he finds himself lovestruck after a brief encounter with beautiful, mysterious Spanish guest Sofia (Penélope Cruz) at his birthday party - a liaison cut short when a jealous Julie decides that if she can’t have him, no one can.

Crowe was coming off a hot streak - widely beloved romantic megahit Jerry Maguire pairing him with the super powerful Cruise, and OSCAR-winning passion project Almost Famous confirming him as a filmmaker who had the power to get the greenlight for whatever he might want to turn his hand to. That hand was turned to a big bucks remake of twisty Spanish thriller Abres los Ojos, that beefed up the visual trickery and injected a huge dose of Crowe’s pop culture fixations to boot. But was this a triumphant victory lap, or an indulgent misfire? Join our duplicitous board as we enter a lucid dream of frozen dogs, hand-painted snowboards, vivid demo CDs and feline reincarnation.

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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 (Ian Holm) for the first time in a decade for the funeral. Rather than deal with the bereavement, he buddies around with a former high school classmate, dirtbag gravedigger Mark (Peter Saarsgard), and newly wealthy loafer Jesse (Armando Riesco). Large stumbles into a conversation with intriguingly quirky Sam (Natalie Portman) in a doctor’s waiting room - companionship turns to attraction, but Large’s emotional baggage and inability to confront it disrupts their coy romance.

Braff’s film, after striking gold in the then-still lucrative early 2000s big indie/mini-major boom that swept up Sundance standouts by bagging a dual-deal with both Miramax and Fox Searchlight, went on to make a very impressive return on its modest budget investment, aided by a zeitgeist-capturing soundtrack en route to becoming one of the more lauded breakout hits of the year. But, its critical reputation seemed to sour quickly among even some former admirers, leaving Braff unable to capitalise on his emergence as a dramedy director of note for a full decade after its release. Join our panel of Patrick, Matt, and Devlin as they gently place headphones onto each other, bury the hamster, and catch their solitary tears in solo cups while talking MPDGs, quarter-life malaise, the allure of the homecoming-of-ager, and post-millennium emo angst, while tracing their personal journeys with this most sensy of films.

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In the quaint New England town of Castle Rock, the opening of a new store causes quite a stir - but just how big a stir will soon become explosively apparent. Local Sheriff Alan Pangborn (Ed Harris), recently transferred in and looking for a break from the chaos and violence of the big city, referees minor skirmishes between neighbours - while the owner of the mysterious emporium Needful Things, Leland Gaunt (Max Von Sydow), spies an opportunity to turn up the heat by offering each citizen in town the one item they desire most in the world, for impossibly low prices. At least, in cash terms - each deal involves a favour, a prank, a simple trick played secretly on a fellow citizen. Tricks that threaten to ignite long-simmering tensions that may engulf the whole place in flame and fury.

With the book an early King favourite for Devlin, he introduces Gali to this Golden Age of King movie version, released when the author's ubiquity was absolute. But, will it still take pride of place on the cinematic mantle, or does he now have buyer's remorse? Buy now. Pay later.

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Frustrated writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and son Danny (Danny Lloyd) to a reclusive shift as the winter caretaker of the remote Overlook Hotel, where Danny’s burgeoning gifts for telepathy are put to the test as malevolence, both internal and external, infests the rooms and hallways that the family are trapped within.

Our film picker Matt tackles another of his all-time favourites, as he takes Gali, Devlin and Patrick on a picaresque tour of how a once-terrifying, dread-soaked experience became a comfort watch of sorts. We talk the burden and bravado of creativity, the fear and fury of King, Kubrick, and their respective Jacks, and the legacy of a film overcame a muted debut to rise to the mantle of horror classic. 

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When the gigantic industrial speed iron at Gartley’s Blue Ribbon Laundry Factory graphically swallows an elderly woman, bug-eyed, troubled local cop Officer John Hunton (Ted Levine) and his amateur mystic brother-in-law Mark (Daniel Matmor) begin to see this as more than just a freakish industrial accident when strange occurrences and gruesome injuries follow, under the grotesque, watchful eye of the company’s mad owner (Robert Englund) who harbours an ill-concealed secret.

Released after the 1980s horror boom had long-since peaked, and before his fellow genre veteran Wes Craven breathed new life into it with the sly meta-horror Scream, Tobe Hooper had struggled to capitalise on his post-Poltergeist success, with his Cannon Films-funded Texas Chainsaw sequel flopping, leading him to embark on a pinballing career directing TV episodes and low budget features. This South Africa-shot would-be shocker, one of many adaptations of tales from Stephen King’s 1978 short story collection Night Shift, came at a time when the King name was increasingly ubiquitous. But with a spectrum of quality that ranged from the estimable Shawshank Redemption to the inexplicable Lawnmower Man, where does this mad tale of evil appliances land? Join Gali, Devlin and Patrick as they talk haunted refrigerators, magic legs, and expository antacids, and debate whether this is a forgotten gem, or a justly discarded sock in the cinematic laundry basket.

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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 full of the creature’s hunting tech, which he intends to stash as evidence of extraterrestrial life. While a shadowy arm of the government tries to keep him under wraps by sending him to a psychiatric ward alongside a gang of misfit soldiers and marines with a colourful array of sweary conditions, his package inadvertently ends up with his estranged young son, necessitating a guns-blazing rescue mission as our alien hunter is in hot pursuit - while an even more deadly interloper stalks them all.

30 years after appearing as a supporting actor in the seminal original, Black leveraged his post-Kiss KIss Bang Bang career renaissance to helm an $88 million project from a screenplay written alongside his key early collaborator Fred Dekker. Hopes were high for a return to form, but a lukewarm critical reception and middling business ensued. Were Gali, Devlin and Matt any more enamoured, or was this another underwhelming entry that failed to recapture the magic of John McTiernan?

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Boiling down the generic elements of their big budget forebears with ruthless efficiency, laced with the quirks of maverick creatives responding to fast turnarounds and budgets skimpier than the costumes, these staples of the video store, after-dark cable, and, for UK listeners including our panel, the nascent Channel 5 sought to match the daring sexual politics, dangerous thrills, and indulgent visual titillation of Hollywood productions on a shoestring.

We discuss the directorial work of notorious adult filmmaker-turned-videauteur Gregory Dark, and journeyman actor-turned-cottage industry multihyphenate Andrew Stevens, in two prime examples of this once-lucrative subgenre that has been all but swept under the rug. Is there some insight to mine from revisiting these sketchy late night sleazy features; can it tell us anything about the minds and lives of the audiences of the era who ploughed millions into these films, only to see them drop off the face of the earth just a few short years later? Travel back with Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt to an era of slumming C-list stars, ambitious models-turned-actresses seeking their big break, and their cut-price misadventures behind the net curtains and under the bedsheets of suburban California in our B-rotica special. Check out our blog to learn more!

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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 (Janine Turner) are disrupted by the crash landing of a jet full of mercenaries in hot pursuit of $100 million worth of stolen currency that was cut loose in a daring, botched mid-air hijacking led by international bad man Eric Qualen (John Lithgow). Gabe and his former best friend Hal Tucker (Michael Rooker), who holds him to furious account for the aforementioned tragedy, are press-ganged into leading the recovery of Qualen’s spoils from the steep mountain tops - leading to a brutal chase across the snowy peaks as greed and survival collide. 

A much-needed hit for Sly following a troublesome box office run that included the notorious comedy flop Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, join Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt as they discuss the peaks and valleys of his career, the concomitant rise and fall of Finland’s most famous filmic export Renny Harlin, the appropriate level of angry swearing for a henchman, and the simple pleasures of a banana eating a monkey.

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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 ceremony some three decades later. The guest of honour at that event, business magnate Max Shreck (Christopher Walken), is kidnapped, coming face-to-face with The Penguin (Danny DeVito). The fast-thinking Shreck concocts a plan - orchestrate Penguin’s reemergence into polite society, and use him to depose and replace the incumbent mayor for his own greedy ends. Caught up in these machinations is mild-mannered executive assistant Selina Kyle (Michelle Pfeiffer), seemingly murdered for learning too much, who finds herself resurrected as a slinky, whip-wielding feline agent of mayhem and revenge. Also Batman (Michael Keaton) is there.

After the pop culture phenomenon of his 1989 original, Tim Burton kept corporate paymasters Warner Bros. waiting, establishing himself as the inky, gothy outcast du jour with passion project Edward Scissorhands. When he finally returned to the franchise, he amped up the weirdness as the German Expressionism-meets-Gothic Noir aesthetic of the city reached new heights of abstraction, matched by a fevered, weird psychosexuality. But, is it Batman? Join Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt under the abandoned zoo for a festive feast of gadgets, goo, and grotesquerie.

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Developmentally-arrested 29-year-old electrical store employee Shaun’s slacker lifestyle, mostly spent whiling away his nights with crass childhood friend Ed in the local pub, sees his girlfriend Liz give him the boot at a most inopportune moment - the advent of a zombie apocalypse that seems only slightly more grim and shambling than your average workday in North London. Armed only with a box of 12” records, a child-sized cricket bat, and his flatmate’s ‘borrowed’ Renault Megane, Shaun tries to rise to the occasion to bring Ed, Liz, and his mum to an impenetrable fortress (which is also, coincidentally, his idea of a romantic nightspot) …his local pub.

Capitalising on the cult success of Channel 4’s Spaced, director Wright and star/co-writer Simon Pegg hoped to break a streak of poor quality TV-to-film transitions from British comedy stars, by infusing the movie with their genuine love for classic 70s/80s zombie fare. Matt and Devlin discuss the film’s part in the 2000s zombie renaissance and the British film industry’s brief hot streak, and talk influences, ripoffs, zombies-as-allegory, and other pearls of wisdom we gleaned from a Guinness Extra Cold beermat.

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BOO! It’s Devlin’s favourite time of year, and he’s selected the strange outlier of the Halloween franchise, 1982’s Halloween III: Season of the Witch. A near-catatonic patient is brutally killed on Dr Dan Challis’ (Tom Atkins) shift, and the mysterious assailant sets himself ablaze. Desperate to make sense of this, Dan accompanies the murdered man’s daughter to the factory of Conal Cochrane (Dan O’Herlihy), Halloween mask entrepreneur and small-town philanthropist, to investigate. Robots full of lemon curd, drunk doctoring, stolen 'henge', and an advertising jingle that’ll burrow in to your head like a tonne of bugs – join Gali, Devlin and Rewind Movie Podcast debutant Patrick to see if we’re in for a treat, or a trick (like, say, sticky toilet paper, or the Dead Dwarf Gag).

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Erudite, sallow twenty-something Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) has chosen not to choose life - he’s chosen something else. Heroin. He injects his days away at the den of his dealer, Mother Superior (Peter Mullan), with motormouthed James Bond aficionado Sick Boy (Johnny Lee Miller), and hard-luck idiot Spud (Ewan Bremner) - much to the dismay of his ball of lager-swilling machismo mate Begbie (Robert Carlyle), and the straight-laced Tommy (Kevin McKIdd). As Renton’s efforts to kick his habit lurch between success and failure, the unsustainable pursuit of the next high draws him, and everyone around him, into an increasingly desperate stew of violence and sickness.

A defining totem of the brief, cringeworthily christened Cool Britannia era, which saw filmmakers, writers, artists and musicians benefit from a sense of renewed ambition as the financially straitened 1980s gave way to the optimistic 1990s, it’s reputation persists as a punky hit with a killer soundtrack and an iconic poster that flew out of the doors of Athena’s in regional shopping centres across the country. But is that reputation at odds with the dour, challenging material? Join Gali, Devli, Patrick and Matt as they dive into a massive, pristine convenience with brilliant gold taps, a seat carved from ebony, and a cistern full of Chanel No. 5.

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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 to the chambers, overmatched new Captain Oram (Billy Crudup) decides to follow a bizarre human voice signal, mysteriously emanating from a nearby planet - one that seems an even more perfect habitat than their distant destination. There, they find the remnants of the disastrous Prometheus voyage of a decade before, namely Peter Weyland’s personal android David (Fassbender), who has seemingly been using his time to develop his sinister new interests.

On the heels of the mixed reaction to his return to the seminal franchise which he spawned, Ridley Scott and team return to the series’ original setup of a naive and increasingly desperate crew faced with the vicious indifference of instinctive horrors they are not equipped to face, albeit intertwined with the grandiose existential questions of his previous outing. Join Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt as they tackle what will seemingly be Sir Ridley’s last outing in the universe he created - including flute fingering, sick bay slipping, whiskey sipping and spaceship shower shagging.

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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 before going into labour, cursing him with a bloodlust that he slakes with a serum administered by his ornery father figure/weapons maker Whistler (Kris Kristofferson). When the undead, bratty upstart Deacon Frost (Stephen Dorff) starts challenging the established vampire hierarchy and attempting to raise an ancient blood god, Blade teams up with a recently-bitten haematologist to infiltrate the gang and kill Deacon - but the wily bloodsucker has his own plans…

Preceding the first big screen X-Men movie by 2 years, and the establishment of the now-all-conquering MCU by a decade, British director Stephen Norrington’s gritty, violent, stylised picture stood in sharp contrast to the increasingly daffy Joel Schumacher Batman movies, turning a tidy profit on a moderate budget and helping lay the groundwork not just for future Marvel adaptations, but also the leather dusters and techno-fuelled kung fu that The Matrix would send stratospheric before the decade’s end. But, does Blade still deliver the goods? Or will Gali, Patrick and Devlin end up ice skating uphill trying to defend it?

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Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt step in to the laser egg room for the origins of the series, as we meet jaded space truckers Captain Dallas (Tom Skerrit), 3rd Officer Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), Science Officer Ash (Ian Holm), Navigator Lambert (Veronica Cartwright), Executive Officer Kane (John Hurt), and technicians Parker (Yaphet Kotto) and Brett (Harry Dean Stanton) aboard an earthbound mining ship. Diverted by what seems to be a distress beacon, they allow into their house one of the single most terrifying and iconic monsters in cinema history, unleashing a horror that continues to resonate some 4 decades later.

We discuss the alchemy behind the film’s creation, to try to unpack how this disparate collection of humans created such a perfect organism, and talk about what the film has meant to us over the years, and how it inspired not just a 40-plus year series but an entire galaxy of imitators and descendents.

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Cocky, veteran US Air Force pilot Major Vic "Deak" Deakins (John Travolta) absconds with a pair of nuclear warheads from an intentionally downed experimental fighter jet, leaving his erstwhile co-pilot and chippy younger mentee Captain Riley Hale (Christian Slater) with the task of pursuing him through the Utah desert with the assistance of the scrappy but overmatched local park ranger Terry Carmichael (Samantha Mathis) to try to prevent a catastrophic international incident.

John Travolta continues his post-Pulp Fiction career renaissance with this Graham Yost (Speed)-penned action thriller, a modest hit on release in the jam-packed blockbuster schedule of 1996 that weaves together the era’s headline fixations of political paranoia, post-Cold War nuclear chicanery, and pre-9/11 domestic terrorism, in a Simpson/Bruckheimer-adjacent package of explosions and manly-man posturing. Childhood aficionado Matt discusses the film with occasional appreciator Gali and first-time viewer Devlin, as they discuss the lost art of conference room lighting, a stacked roster of cranky middle-aged character faces, the Great Christian Slater Leading Man Experiment, and much, much more.

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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; and a war hero President with faltering approval figures are among the sprawling cast that finally receive a definitive answer to the question, ‘are we alone in the universe?’. The response comes courtesy of on-screen devastation the likes of which audiences had never seen before, as the 90s disaster movie arms race went nuclear and then some.

German director Emmerich’s 3rd Hollywood feature tapped emerging megastar Will Smith, quirky character actor-turned-recently-minted summer movie favourite Jeff Goldblum, and versatile leading man Bill Pullman for lead roles, surrounded them with a murderer’s row of familiar supporting faces (including an inexplicably deployed Randy Quaid), and dropped them into a maximalist effects-laden extravaganza that led to extraordinary financial success. But, is it actually…good? Gali, Devlin and Matt tussle with the tentacles, position our pieces, and call our mothers. And our housekeepers. And our lawyers. Actually, forget the lawyers.

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POP QUIZ HOTSHOT. We’re careening through the unfinished highways of Los Angeles with Jan de Bont’s explosive debut feature SPEED, courtesy of a listener request.

After thwarting an elaborate exploding elevator hostage situation, bomb disposal expert Jack Traven (Keanu Reeves) finds himself targeted by the enraged madman responsible (Dennis Hopper). The game? A bomb on a city bus. Once it goes above 50 mph, the bomb is armed. Drop below, and everybody goes kaboom. In the right place at the wrong time is passenger Annie (Sandra Bullock), deployed as emergency driver after the unfortunate regular Sam takes a stray bullet.

After establishing himself as one of the premiere popcorn cinematographers of his era, de Bont set the charges for his directorial career with this runaway hit. Firmly establishing Bullock in the upper echelons of Hollywood, and cementing a post-Point Break Keanu as an action cinema superstar, the film transcended its Die-Hard-on-a-bus origins to become one of the biggest grossers of 1994. But, can those analogue nineties thrills survive in the modern era? Join Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt as they hop aboard and hang on tight. Big thanks to listener Matthew Pinder for his selection!

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Episode 5 explores someone who didn’t attend Leeds Met University, but is, as chance would have it, from Leeds (Leeds Leeds) - Lev Watach , a Cast Assistant, Cast Coordinator, and Assistant Director whose credits list boasts adventures with Indiana Jones and Han Solo among major productions for some of the biggest studios in the world. Patrick accompanies Lev on a tour through his career, from the early days cooped up in a cinema projection room, a brave move to Vancouver in search of a big break, via hand doubling Benedict Cumberbatch, on his way to becoming one of the most trusted cast assistants in the country.

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In Devlin’s choice Hello Mary Lou, the vengeful spirit of a would-be 1950s Prom Queen escapes containment in then-modern-day 1987 Hamilton High, seeking a vessel through which to ruthlessly reclaim her position atop the social totem pole, and seek out the jilted boyfriend who was responsible for her fiery public death - now the high school principal played by Canadian icon Michael Ironside. Pairing Nightmare on Elm Street-esque, phantasmagoric practical effects, Catholic sexual repression, and teen high melodrama, this film came relatively late in the slasher cycle, and emerged as a cineliterate magpie of the decade’s tropes.

Matt’s pick Pieces sees a chainsaw-wielding maniac seek out pretty women to carve up and reconstruct into a corpsey jigsaw on a college campus in a suitably sleazy example of the relatively early days of the slasher subgenre. A mysterious madman, ludicrous giallo-aping death scenes, buckets of gore, and foxy undercover tennis detectives mark a wild cult classic from the video nasty era.

Judge Patrick (residing) assesses the films’ merits and the pleas of the panel, as Devlin and Matt make their case to get fresh eyes on some springtime slashing.

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Retired replicant hunter Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is pulled back into duty when four illegal synthetic humanoids are reported to be loose in the sprawling, polluted megalopolis. Led by the enigmatic Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer), the creations seem to have developed an emotional range that their kind was never built for, and seek fundamental answers from the genius founder of the company that made them. Questions also plague the downtrodden Deckard as he falls for the tragic, beautiful replicant Rachael, and the true nature of his brutal task becomes murkier than ever.

An infamous flop on release, saddled with studio-mandated edits and voiceover narration, the film’s reputation was salvaged by a 10 year anniversary recut that cemented its place as a visually resplendent, influential work of importance. But questions raised during its release by a mixed, occasionally hostile critical community, continue to swirl around the film, as even the primary creatives express conflicting opinions about the answers. Join Gali, Devlin and Matt as they set down their noodles and take on the case.

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NO BLADES. NO BOWS. LEAVE YER WEAPONS ‘ERE. We’re off to Sherwood Forest with the bemulleted, Nottingham-by-way-of-Burbank-accented Robin of Locksley, as he returns from The Crusades with a taste for swashbuckling justice in the 1991 mega-smash Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

Accompanied by the capable and noble Moor Azeem (Morgan Freeman), Kevin Costner’s Robin romances the radiant Maid Marion, robs the rich, and rebels against the reprehensible Sheriff of Nottingham (an uproariously pantomime-pitch Alan Rickman) with the assistance of a band of tree-dwelling local folk.

The second Kevins Costner & Reynolds collaboration before the ill-fated Waterworld, this epic romp packs in Brian Blessed, Crystal Maze-esque set design, gleaming white arses in waterfalls and more ill-placed Cornish accents than you can shake a big wooden fighting stick at. Join Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt as they take to the trees and relive the summer of Bryan Adams. All together now: ”Look in to my eyes…”

Robin Hood: The Man, The Myth, The Legend (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Behind the Scenes) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VA2CHj_n0s

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Sidestepping the continuity of the bizarre theme park catastrophe Jaws 3-D, a newly re-cast Sean Brody (Mitchell Anderson) has followed in his father’s footsteps and joined the Amity Police Department, hanging out with his widowed mother Ellen (Lorraine Gary) following the Chief’s off-screen death by heart attack some years before. But, on a routine boat trip to clear some debris from a dock, Sean is brutally attacked by yet another Great White. A distraught Ellen is comforted by eldest son Mike (Lance Guest), now a marine biologist studying sea snails, who whisks her off post-funeral to the Bahamian home he shares with his artist wife (Karen Young) and young daughter (Judith Barsi) to recover from the trauma. Distraction is provided by a budding romance with shifty English prop plane pilot Hoagie (Michael Caine), until a familiar, toothy menace seems to have traversed the wide ocean seeking out Brody blood. 

This infamous sequel’s reputation as one of the worst in modern cinema precedes it, but our panel of Gali, Devlin and Matt try their best to assess this unique entry into the 80s franchise pantheon on an even keel. The gang talk corporate shenanigans, via comeback queen (and wife of the studio president) Lorraine Gary’s return to the screen after a near-decade hiatus; awful public art projects; questionable deployment of patois; and correct tuck technique for shark-dismembered limbs. Order up some Bahama Mamas and settle in for the conclusion of the increasingly bizarre Brody family saga. 

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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) struggle on as two of the last remaining tenants in a condemned East Village New York townhouse, rejecting the aggressive tactics of local thug Carlos (Michael Carmine) who is in the pay of the developer who seeks to level this last crumbling vestige of the old neighbourhood in order to build monumental glass skyscrapers. Joined only by a pregnant young woman (Elizabeth Peña), a disheartened artist (Dennis Boutsikaris), and a near-mute former boxing champion-turned-handyman (Frank McRae) they face certain eviction until, suddenly, the damage the building suffered when Carlos and his gang attacked it miraculously seems to fix itself. Faye discovers a pair of mysterious, mischievous ‘miracles’ - improvised flying saucers made of household objects - that may offer a ray of hope for this unlikely cooperative.

Originally a pitch by future Master of Horror creator Mick Garris for Steven Spielberg’s big budget anthology series Amazing Stories, the producer instead developed the project for the theatrical release, enlisting the thematically appropriate Short Circuit creators Brent Maddock and S.S. Wilson along with future Simpsons writer/Pixar legend Brad Bird to pen the script. Patrick takes Gali, Devlin and Matt on a comforting trip back to an era of emotionally resonant, feel-good family sci-fi comedy dramas, as the gang talks cute robots, alien fixations, Boomer nostalgia, and the nascent power of the Grey Pound during the post-Cocoon era of the Reagan Eighties.

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As the surprise comedy hit of 1984, the original Police Academy quickly spawned an annual franchise, with canny producer Paul Maslansky rushing budget-conscious, increasingly family-friendly fare out to the market for the remainder of the decade (and one ill-advised 1990s entry). Film-picker Matt has chosen this pivotal middle entry as his quintessential crystallisation of the oft-maligned series, using this final picture in the Carey Mahoney saga as a lens through which to examine the whole run. We discuss its influences, its relationship to the comedy movie landscape at the time, and its latter-day reputation as a critical punching bag that nevertheless persists as a nostalgic guilty pleasure for a very specific generation of fans.

Why not throw on your icky blue uniform, become one with the gun, mace your armpits, and learn the correct way to eat a donut with Gali, Devlin, Matt, Patrick, Mahoney, Jones, Tackleberry, Hightower, Zed, Sweetchuck, Hooks, Callahan, and dozy old Commandant Lassard as we fire up the proprietary rap theme and hand-dance in our patrol car on our way to a climactic air show spectacular. Jerk!

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After a familiar family blow-up on the eve of a Christmas trip (this time to Florida, where they don’t even have Christmas trees), mischievous Kevin McCallister (Macauley Culkin) finds himself on the wrong flight, landing in New York City armed with a Talkboy, a wad of cash, and his dad’s credit card. But his toy-shopping, three-scoop-eating, cheese-pizza-limo adventure is disrupted by the appearance of his bungling burglar nemeses Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern), precipitating another night of carefully planned festive torture and traumatic head injuries. 

Merry Christmas from your Rewind pals! Be sure to head to rewindmoviecast.com for Devlin’s 73-point nerdy timeline of sequelitis (a timestamped chart of near-identical moments from the original to part 2) if you, like us, are a sicko who would be into that sort of thing. And if you’re swept up in the spirit of generosity, why not head to devlindoesdrawing.teemill.com for some merchandise, and grab yourself a t-shirt, tote, or poster?

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Recently retired, non-specific Government tough guy Brian Mills’ (Liam Neeson) worst fears come true as his beloved 32-year-old teenage daughter is kidnapped by literally the first guy she meets on a summer vacation to Europe. Now, he and his particular set of skills are put to the test as he beats people up and that until he finds her.

Gali, Devlin and Matt join Patrick on this U2-following Euro-jaunt through iconic cellphone calls, heavily edited punch ups, and terrible things being said about Albanians, as Brian tears France a new one to rescue his daughter and hunt down the baddies that taken’d her.

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We’re joined by our old friend Luke Selway, whose career as a clapper loader began in earnest while he was still studying alongside us in Leeds - starting out on Yorkshire Television productions like A Touch of Frost, before embarking on a TV and film career that has seen him work alongside some of the leading filmmakers, and on the biggest franchises, in modern cinema. Luke talks us through why he chose the camera department, and how his dedication through the early years of long hours and complicated trousers allowed him to flourish in the industry.

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First up, Devlin presents GLOOP!, a grotesque collection of cinematic slugs, slime and sludge, while Matt offers up a quartet of demonic possessions with WHAT EVER POSSESSED YOU? From cult classics and perennial rewatch candidates, to absurd B-movies and genuine oddities, we’re sure you’ll find something to sink your fangs into.

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The staff of a remote Antarctic research station are disturbed by the sound of a sled dog being inexplicably hunted with a high-powered rifle from a helicopter by a ranting Norwegian man. As he opens fire on the group, he’s shot dead, and the dog is led into the station. But there’s something curious about the way it moves…and, I guess how it subsequently transforms into a terrifying, gigantic, pulsating fleshy nightmare that devours its new kennel mates. Our frazzled troupe are left to reason that this…thing can imitate other lifeforms. Leading to the question, who can they trust as they cling precipitously to the edge of the world?

Join Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt (unless they’ve been assimilated) as they revisit this seminal feature, discussing John Carpenter’s brilliant but frustratingly stalled career, his collaborations with star Kurt Russell, cinematographer Dean Cundey, and effects artist Rob Bottin, and our collective and personal histories with this gooey, paranoid classic.

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Patrick and Gali are joined by Catherine Laine, an Assistant Director, Producer and Welfare Officer whose career incorporates everything from soap operas to Star Wars. Cat shares her experiences and her anecdotes, from the long days of unpaid work experience and endless petitions for jobs, through steadily working up through different departments with some of the biggest players in the industry, to her new family life on the south coast.

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In the absence of his living-legend older brother, known only as The Motorcycle Boy (Mickey Rourke), hot-headed would-be gang leader Rusty James (Matt Dillon) is called out for a fight that he is only too ready to agree to, much to the concern of his straitlaced girlfriend Patty (Diane Lane). But when the Motorcycle Boy dramatically returns, seemingly from a trip to California, his inscrutable behaviour and mysterious half-smile unsettle those around him - all except Rusty, who follows him everywhere, desperate to return to the simple, yet violent, gang days that he longingly recalls. But for The Motorcycle Boy, time has run out on those days, and, perhaps, is running out entirely…

Following a brutal few years of financial disappointment and overblown, physically and psychologically draining projects, Coppola shot Rumble Fish back-to-back with another adaptation of a novel by the same author, S.E. Hinton, so enjoying the opportunity to work on a manageable scale and in a spirit of unfettered collaboration and creativity in isolation from the Hollywood machine. Seeking to infuse a youth-oriented product with genuine philosophical and artistic depth, he mined his own childhood idolisation of his older sibling, while retaining the source novel’s flights of mythical high-mindedness and narrative idiosyncrasies. Film-picker Devlin recalls his long-standing love of this oft-overlooked entry into Coppola’s post-Apocalypse Now filmography, as first-time-viewers Patrick and Gali, and fellow fan Matt, dive into this lush, idiosyncratic, angular feature.

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In 1973, gambling savant Samuel “Ace” Rothstein (Robert De Niro) is dispatched by his mob bosses from ‘back home’ to take over their luxe Tangiers casino - quickly raking in record profits with his fastidious management. He’s soon joined by his hair-trigger childhood friend/enforcer NIcky Santoro (Joe Pesci), who quickly complicates matters by seeking his own sources of income and beating and maiming anyone who gets in his way. Ace finds himself another complication - a beautiful, free-spirited hustler named Ginger (Sharon Stone) who he quickly marries despite her reservations - and her sleazy former pimp (James Woods) whose influence she can’t seem to break free of. As control gives way to chaos, the pull of cash and power threatens to unravel this lucrative gambit, and everyone involved. 

Working from another book by Goodfellas scribe Nicholas Pileggi, Scorsese brings back two key on-screen players (and a few familiar supporting faces) from that seminal feature for another era-spanning, violent, complex tale of organised crime. While greeted with a decent reception, it was criticised somewhat as a partial retread of its groundbreaking forebear, and has slipped out of contention for the upper echelons of Scorsese’s packed filmography. Join fIlm-picker Gali, Devlin, Patrick, and Matt in the morality car wash as we ask whether Ace was onto another winner, or if we shoulda already dug a hole.

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Our guest is no stranger to the podcast - two-time Rewinder (and friend of almost 20 years!) Aidan Dungait. A native of the north east of England, Aidan’s post-university career saw him learn the ropes as a camera assistant on everything from indie horror films, to Brit Comedy sex romps, to prestige TV dramas, and plenty in between. After relocating to Vancouver several years ago, he has reestablished himself as a focus puller on a raft of features and major studio television projects. He joins Gali and Patrick to discuss his life in film to date - his setbacks, successes, and what it is about movie-making that keeps him inspired.

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First up is Rewind’s very own Patrick Waggett, an Assistant Director with dozens of credits including a host of major series and feature films for some of the biggest studios in the world. Gali charts his career from the early days of commuting hundreds of miles from his native Leicester for gigs and sleeping on couches, to having his phone nicked on-screen by Kylie Minogue, to establishing his life in London and regularly working with super famous stars on massive-scaled productions.

Stay tuned for more insights into the industry as we continue this series – we have upcoming chats with camera department veterans, actors, producers and a whole lot more in the pipeline.

Useful links discussed in this Episode:

www.screenskills.com

www.fullyfocusedproductions.com

largescalefilm.co.uk

calltimecompany.com

bectu.org.uk

Special Mentions:

YouTube movie review channel Val Verde Broadcasting!

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A duo of young, ideologically divergent archeologists (Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green) believe they have deciphered a star map gifted over millennia by a mysterious race of celestial beings. Funded by the recently deceased centenarian billionaire Peter Weyland (Guy Pierce), they assemble an exploratory crew that sets out seeking to discover the origins of human life on Earth on a distant, mysterious moon - but may not find the answers they seek.

Ineffable black goo, eyeball worms, ill-advised intergalactic snake charming, flambéed geologists and graphic MedPod alienectomies ensue in this grand, divisive feature that, over a decade on from its release, continues to provoke fierce reactions and contradictory emotions. Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt reflect on their own contentious histories with the film and, in most cases, rewatch for the first time since its release.

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12-year-old David Freeman (Joey Cramer) walks through the woodlands near his Florida home to bring his irritating little brother back home before it gets dark. Instead, after losing consciousness due to a fall, David returns to his home only to find that his parents are no longer there - eight years have passed, without David having aged a day. When NASA scientists discover a mysterious silver ship, it becomes apparent that the two events are connected, and they bring the boy into their research facility. The ship seems to call to David, leading to a visually stunning thrill ride across the planet.

Devlin, Patrick and Matt reflect on a childhood TV staple, discussing the film’s impressive and in some cases pioneering visual effects, the era-defining mix of buccaneering tween adventure melancholy-tinged drama, and the surprisingly heavy themes among all the Paul Reubens intergalactic improv.

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Newly-graduated doctor Burt (Peter Horton) and his girlfriend Vicky (Linda Hamilton) are in the process of relocating to Seattle, but their route takes them past the small rural community of Gatlin – a town where, unbeknownst to them, the children have risen up and slaughtered their parents to establish a rabid religious sect that worships an entity known only as He Who Walks Behind the Rows, who speaks through the pint-sized evangelical orator Isaac (John Franklin) and whose demands for sacrifice and total obedience are enforced by the lanky and violent Malachi (Courtney Gains).

Debuting director and former advertising standout Fritz Kiersch adapted Stephen King’s short story for a post-Roger Corman New World Pictures, agreeing to a low budget in order to gain a foothold in feature films. A modest box office success, the film went on to generate an extensive and unlikely franchise of more than 10 follow-ups, due to its enduring appeal on video and TV. But will Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt find themselves a juicy cob of horror entertainment, or just an empty husk?

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Disgraced former Chicago cop Jack Walsh (Robert De Niro), now working as an LA bounty hunter, is tasked with bringing in mob accountant Jonathan “The Duke” Mardukas (Charles Grodin), who has skipped town on his desperate bondsman Eddie Moscone (Joe Pantoliano). The Duke has embezzled $15 million from mafia boss Jimmy Serrano (Dennis Farina), giving most of the loot away to charity before going into hiding. Jack tracks The Duke down in New York, and has 5 days to bring him back to jail or Eddie forfeits almost half a million dollars in bail. After The Duke gets himself and Jack kicked off a plane by feigning an aviophobic panic attack, the pair spend a gruelling and contentious cross-country trip by rail and road, as the fussy, wily Duke tries to wheedle away from the slovenly and cranky Jack.

A showcase for De Niro’s comic skills after a long run of features which saw him established as one of serious cinema’s most celebrated actors, the film pairs him with Grodin, who had essayed a number of well-received comic roles across cinema, theatre and TV through the 70s and 80s without breaking through as a leading man. Director Brest returns to the high-octane combination of screwball dialogue and explosive 80s action that he pioneered in Beverly Hills Cop to create a sizeable commercial success that has sustained a cult following in the years since. Rustle up some Lyonnaise potatoes and join us in the boxcar.

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Chief Brody’s eldest son Mike (a wired Dennis Quaid) has left the smalltown idyll of Amity Island to work at the sprawling SeaWorld theme park in Orlando, Florida, alongside his smart alec scientist girlfriend Kathryn (Bess Armstrong). The park’s owner Calvin Bouchard (Louis Gossett Jr.) unveils the new crown jewel attraction – a vast underwater series of see through tunnels where customers can walk beneath the waves. But a malfunctioning sea gate has allowed entry to a deadly, unexpected addition to the park’s fishy attractions – one that threatens to wreak bloody havoc on the upgraded park’s grand reopening.

Country dancing pigs, popcorn cart hijackings, barroom crotch tricks and inept coral thieves populate this disaster movie-influenced entry into the increasingly shaky franchise directed by debutant Joe Alves, the production designer and 2nd unit director from the previous instalments. We delve into the circuitous and contentious 5-year development cycle that saw the original movie’s producers exit the project, look at the technical difficulties that plagued the 3D production, and generally marvel at the creative and corporate decisions that resulted in this…unusual picture. GUV’NAAAAAAAH!

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Boozed-up, embittered gumshoe Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) is hired to catch Maroon Cartoons star turn Roger Rabbit’s impossibly glamorous, equally two-dimensional wife, Jessica (voiced by Charles Fleischer and Kathleen Turner, respectively) playing promiscuous patty cake with gag king, and owner of Toontown, Marvin Acme. When Acme turns up dead with a safe dropped on his head, our toon-hating, hard-boiled antihero Valiant is drawn into a classic mystery of murder, greed, blackmail, and public transportation, literally shackled to the zany Rabbit who has been tagged as the prime suspect.

A technical marvel and smash hit on its release, the film’s powerhouse production team combined Steven Spielberg’s Midas-touch family film factory Amblin Entertainment with the then-struggling but still mighty cultural clout of Walt Disney Studios to splash out on the best animators and technicians in the industry – and license a jaw-dropping cast of mid-Century America’s most famous cartoon icons from Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny, through to Betty Boop and the Big Bad Wolf to fill out the dazzling frames. Joining Em on the Merry-Go-Round (Broke Down) are Gali, Devlin and Patrick, as we swoon over Bob Hoskins, discuss the film’s use of genre and period trappings, its importance in the Disney renaissance in the years that followed, and recall our trauma at seeing that little squeaky shoe get dipped.

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Successful actor Chris MacNeil is living in a grand Georgetown apartment with her cherubic 12-year-old daughter Regan while she stars in a movie, but their idyll is short lived as Regan starts to exhibit some frightening behaviour - shocking insults barked in raspy, disturbing voices, lashing out in violent rages, and self-harming. Subjected to a battery of tests that fail to reveal the cause, a now-desperate Chris turns to the world-weary, skeptical priest Father Damien Karras about an exorcism. 

A film whose legend precedes it as one of the scariest ever made, a ‘cursed’ production which allegedly claimed the lives of multiple people around the production, and the scene of some at-best-controversial, dangerous directorial techniques from the exacting Friedkin, we examine the story’s roots in the novel by the avowedly Catholic William Peter Blatty, who also wrote and produced, and discuss how that viewpoint was interpreted by the agnostic director in the film’s depiction of faith, good, and evil. We delve into the effectiveness of the horror, chat about Friedkin’s use of pacing and sound in building suspense, the unusual structure of the story, and recount our personal experiences with a movie whose inaccessibility in our youth only made this a more intriguing object to finally devour upon its eventual 1999 UK home video re-release.

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Waking up mid-plummet, black ops mercenary Royce (Adrian Brody) is chaotically parachuted into a dense, mysterious forest, surrounded by an equally armed and angry collection of strangers including an IDF sniper (Alice Braga), a Russian commando (Oleg Taktarov), a Yakuza enforcer (Louis Ozawa Changchien), a Sierra Leonean death squad soldier (Mahershala Ali), a Mexican cartel killer (Danny Trejo), a convicted murderer (Walton Goggins) and, curiously, a callow, nerdy doctor (Topher Grace). The motley assortment quickly realises that there’s something very wrong with the terrain - suspicions that are confirmed when they reach a clearing to see an alien sky looming over them. Finding themselves the quarry of three Yautja hunters, the makeshift unit must rely on their killer instincts to survive.

We find ourselves in almost as unfamiliar territory as the characters in the film, with only Matt having seen this film after its theatrical run. A curious case, as the film, while a modest financial success upon release, has received no follow up, and very little reappraisal in the years since. Did we find an action gem hiding out on this far-flung hunters’ moon? Or were we baited into the bear trap of another misbegotten franchise entry?

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As the Navy ship Le Vengeur arrives into the docks of the town of Brest, the strapping young men of the crew turn their attentions to the unusual brothel tavern La Feria - home to sad-eyed Madame Lysiane (Jeanne Moreau), her burly husband Nono (Günther Kaufmann), and her mustachioed lover Robert (Hanno Pöschl). Into this heady equation saunters the handsome sailor Querelle (Brad Davis) - Robert’s brother - in town to execute an opium deal. Querelle catches the eye of Nono almost immediately, and rolls a game of dice with him to determine if he will get to sleep with Lysiane, or whether Nono will get to have sex with him. This precipitates a heady tale of murder, rivalry, lust and madness, played out under the constant sickly haze of an eternal sunset.

Based on a novel written mostly in prison in the waning days of the Second World War by the influential Jean Genet, this stagebound adaptation takes place in a tightly constructed set, as Fassbinder layers the stately-paced action with layers of narration that hew closely to the dense, poetic, metaphysical phrasing of the author. An intense exploration of the nature of masculinity and its intersection with homosexuality, it’s an unlikely discussion for our panel, but was chosen by Patrick after an illuminating early brush with the film while a visiting student at Prague’s prestigious FAMU some 15 years ago. First-time viewers Gali, Devlin and Matt join him in diving into this difficult, opaque feature from one of European cinema’s most prolific proponents, as we each discuss our attachments to arthouse cinema, and whether the film set sail into our imaginations, or if were sunk by the anchor of its intellectual weight.

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Over a decade on from the events of the first movie, the weight of knowing that the end of the world is coming up fast has weighed on Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) so heavily that she has been institutionalised. Her son John (Edward Furlong), the future leader of the human resistance in the war against the machines, is a pre-teen petty crook living in foster care. Skynet, the artificially intelligent defence system that will eventually launch its missiles and wipe out billions of people, has sent another Terminator to kill him before he can ever rise up against it - this time, a hyper advanced, near-impervious liquid metal android. Once again, a protector has also been sent back - this time, in the guise of the same murderous T800 model that tried to kill his mother before he could ever be born (Arnold Schwarzenegger). A brutal race against time (and fate) ensues as the trio attempt to avert Judgement Day and save an uncertain future.

What better film to mark episode 101 than with this seminal, state-of-the-art blockbuster. We examine James Cameron’s approach to sequels, his inversions and embellishments of his lean, stark original feature, and the impact that star Schwarzenegger’s public persona had on its creation and impact. And we discuss its enduring appeal, from how its revolutionary visual and special effects have aged, to how it stands up against the ensuing franchise that inevitably flourished in the years that followed. Come with us if you want to listen.

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We want to thank everyone who has either popped in for an episode or two, or stuck with us through the entire century, as we ventured back across our formative films and indulged ourselves in a big old chat about them. While I’m sure the four of us would be rambling on regardless, it’s been heartening to connect with so many listeners and share some of our fondest, and not so fond…est, memories of our movie-going lives. Here’s to the next hundred! Now, we go live to the red carpet, so the E! Network can be duplicitously nice about your awful shoes.

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Precocious but troublesome 8-year-old Kevin McCallister, the youngest of a sprawling Chicago clan of jostling siblings and cousins, almost wrecks the family’s travel plans for a Christmas holiday in Paris when, in retaliation on his older brother’s pizza-based bullying, he inadvertently drenches their passports and tickets in milk. Sent to the attic to think about what he’s done, he instead finds himself left behind when the panicked family rush to catch their flight without him the following morning. Initially revelling in his new-found freedom as the man of the house, he soon finds himself under threat from a pair of bungling burglars who are hellbent on breaking into this silver tuna. You know the rest.

The gang share their memories of this Christmas TV schedule perennial, its ongoing appeal, and how the film balances sentimentality, comedy, and concussions. Patrick also does the Joe Pesci swear-grumbling thing and we rank Marv’s screams. Merry Christmas listeners, thanks for sticking with us as we hit our century! We’ll see you in the distant future, 2023, when we will be terrifying human/robot hybrids.

Best wishes,

Gali, Devlin, Patrick & Matt xoxo

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Directed by Shunya Itō in 1972, mere months after releasing the first film in the series (and his debut feature) Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion, Jailhouse 41 sees Kaji do battle with the vicious, patriarchal forces of prison Warden Goda (Fumio Watanabe) and his guards after her repeated escape attempts have started to undermine his authority. A shocking punishment, a kaleidoscopic prison break, and a phantasmagorical trip through the tumultuous landscape of a Japan in upheaval follows in an incendiary, politically charged, visually startling underground cult classic.

Film picker Devlin has chosen the 50th anniversary of its release to introduce new viewers Gali, Patrick and Matt to one of his favourites, as they join him in debate on representations of gender, moral murkiness, the perils and pleasures of quick and cheap movie production, awesome theme tunes, and a whole lot more. Were the gang willing to join in the riot, or were they ready to send Devlin to solitary confinement?

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Handsome, 27-year-old Wall Street investment banker and trust fund kid Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) inhabits a repetitive, rarefied world of gleaming, high-end restaurants, vapid clubs, and competitive jousting with his circle of Armani-besuited doppelganger friends/enemies. He keeps up appearances with a prim fiancée, Evelyn (Reese Witherspoon), who he also barely tolerates with near-total disdain, while indulging in several affairs with co-workers, friends’ partners, and sex workers. When a colleague’s superior business card inspires a murderous bloodlust in him, he sets off on a grand guignol spree of death, mutliation and savagery - but is everything as it appears to be?

Joining Gali and Matt for this Listener Request episode (thanks to James Munro for the suggestion!) once again is our good friend Joe McDonald, a long-time industry professional in the lighting business. The gang discuss the novel’s circuitous path to the screen, its reception upon release, and its place in the pop culture firmament as horror, satire, and meme fodder.

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Reclusive tech worker Angela Bennett (Sandra Bullock) is a work-from-home cyber security whizz, whose interactions with the real world rarely stretch beyond conference calls with distant colleagues, anonymous chat room sessions with “CyberBob”, “Iceman” and “Gandalf”, and visits to her hospitalised Alzheimers’ patient mother who doesn’t recognise her. Her solitary existence backfires hugely when a computer virus she is studying turns out to be the secret door to a world of corporate espionage that threatens the highest levels of government. Befriended, bedded and betrayed by one of the baddies, her entire existence is stolen and she finds herself on the run from both the law and the evil corporation under an assumed, criminal, identity with no one to corroborate her crazy tale. It’s a race against time to regain her life and take down the wrongdoers.

An early example of a webphobic film that focusses on the dark possibilities of an entirely online life, hugely successful producer Irwin Winkler stepped behind the camera for only his 3rd feature, and was deft enough to cast an on-the-verge-of-superstardom Sandra Bullock to essay his Hitchockian innocent-on-the-run protagonist. Pour yourself a disgusting onion-based cocktail, ask your computer politely for a pizza, and join Gali, Devlin and Patrick for a trip back to the heady dial-up days of efficiently made Hollywood star vehicle thrillers.

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Brothers Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim) move with their mother (Dianne Wiest) to the small northern California town of Santa Carla, where all may not be all it appears. While Sam geeks out with local comic book nerds, Edgar and Alan Frog (Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander) and gets the lowdown on the undead shenanigans they feel are all around them, Michael is drawn into the sphere of the darkly charismatic David (Kiefer Sutherland) and his gang of punk ruffians, joining them in dangerous initiation rites that start to effect terrifying changes on him.

Did it stiff us, or was it pretty cool for a fashion victim? Were we at the mercy of our sex glands, or were we sniffing old newsprint?

Gali and Matt dig into their takeaway cartons of worm-noodles and maggot-rice, and stay out way past their bedtimes for this sultry, subversive, coming-of-age horror-adventure staple. Drink some of this and be one of us on The Rewind Movie Podcast.

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Expanding on the original film’s brief preamble featuring cherubic young Michael Myers’ murderous assault on his teen sister, 2007’s Halloween sees angry young Michael (Daeg Faerch) sharing his rundown house with his doting stripper mother (Sheri Moon Zombie), dirtbag stepdad (William Forsyth), flirtatious sister Judith (Hanna Hall), and baby sister Boo in a whirlwind of insults and abuse. The inevitable breaking point unleashes the killer within him, who we eventually see stalk and slash his way through the friends of young Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton), pursued by his pompous psychologist Dr. Samuel Loomis as Zombie tackles Carpenter’s original beats with added blood and guts.

The director’s second film from 2009 sees Laurie struggle to adjust to the life after the experience, while a near-mythical Michael wanders the outskirts of town following visions and portents on his way to a reprisal of his violent ways in a hallucinatory, brutal sequel. 

The gang ponder Zombie’s uniquely grimy visual and storytelling style, and where the tension between creativity, commerce and reverence clash in these grittily rebooted entries into the cluttered canon of the series. A first watch for many of us, did Zombie’s breakneck heavy metal mayhem hold its own against Carpenter’s austere synthwave cool, or was it all sound and fury signifying nothing?

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We resume in the immediate aftermath of the last film, as a terrifying hybrid xenomorph-yautja chestburster emerges from the body of one of the intergalactic hunters and lays waste to the ship it is on, causing it to crash land in rural Colorado. The last surviving crew member sends a distress signal to its homeworld, where a solitary Predator tools up for a violent clean up mission that sees a motley selection of townsfolk caught in the crossfire, including a recently paroled ex-con, his hot-headed pizza boy brother, the overmatched local sheriff, and a young military mother struggling to reconnect with her child. Facehuggings, acid meltings, and egg throatings abound as the series turns away from the teen-friendly bloodlessness of the previous film and towards the literal, and metaphorical, darkness.

Join weary travellers Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt as they squint at the screen, whack up the brightness, and try to work out who wins – remembering of course that it’s a moot point, because the poster said that we lose. The Predator this time is apparently called Wolf.

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Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider), wife Elaine (Lorraine Gary) and family are still in Amity, and Martin’s now-teenage eldest son Mike (Mark Gruner) is a keen hobbyist sailor, regularly taking off in his sailboat with his ragtag group of friends, much to the chagrin of his still-cautious father. While a large hotel opening coincides with a push by Mayor Larry Vaughn (Murray Hamilton), who is somehow still in charge, and the town council that includes Elaine’s developer boss, to try to reinvigorate the town with fresh investment, familiar, ominous accidents start to befall the locals. Brody immediately suspects foul, fin-based play, but again he is disbelieved - his warnings threatening the financial interests of the town and setting him at odds with a public who lauded him as a hero just a couple of years previous. Matters come to a head when the town’s sailing teens, including both of his own kids, find themselves adrift at sea and at the mercy of the marine monster. 

Emerging from a difficult development as the movie’s original producers struggled to capitalise quickly on the unprecedented success of Spielberg’s 1975 smash, the task eventually fell to French director Jeannot Szwarc to wrangle a reluctant Roy Scheider back into uniform and wrestle a script which had passed through numerous hands into a manageable, thrilling tale of terror. Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the podcast app… join Gali, Devlin and Matt as they talk irresistible corduroy-clad cousins, sequel rules, chubby Art Garfunkels and the perils of improper petrol storage and reassess the legacy of this 70s sequel staple. 

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Rachel Marron (a debuting Whitney Houston) is an lauded actress and megastar singer living with her young son in a sprawling, entourage-filled mansion. When a stalker’s repeated threats materialise in an explosive near-miss after a bomb is planted in her dressing room, her manager hires Frank Farmer (Costner), a former presidential bodyguard, to reluctantly lead her security team. While Frank’s heavy-handed tactics create tension with his flighty and feisty new ward, the two grow closer as the danger intensifies - leading to an iconically intense culmination at the Academy Awards.

Originating as an early script by an emerging Lawrence Kasdan that took a circuitous decade and a half to reach the screen, the eventual film exploded into cinemas in a veritable supernova of hype - a collision between the preeminent musical diva of the moment and a megastar actor fresh off some of the biggest hits of the new decade. Turbocharged by Whitney’s powerhouse, Dolly Parton-covering tie-in single spending 10 weeks atop the UK charts, the critical reception was far less kind than the box office receipts. DId the glitz and glamour hold up for Gali, Patrick and Matt, or were they left lamenting a sequin-studded flop?

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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 station to explore a vast pyramid which shows aspects of multiple ancient civilisations all combined with each other. Guided by Lex (Sanaa Lathan) and the insights of archaeologist Sebastian (Raoul Bova), they start to decipher the mysteries of the place, but they have already attracted the attention of its owners - the intergalactic hunters of the yautja - and started the process of releasing the deadly inhabitants, kept captive there - the vicious xenomorphs. The small team must try to survive both, deep beneath the ice…

Emerging from a tortured development that originated with a comic book, and was first teased on film in the closing stages of Predator 2 when a xenomorph skull is seen in the Predators’ ship, the eventual film was a solid commercial success for franchise owners Fox, despite contemporary reviews that unfavourably compared it to its forebears. But how will it stack up for the gang now that we’ve made our way through the two film series? Was it a red laser-targetted headshot, or a gooey chest full of mess? Would it make it into Moses’ DVD collection, or should it be melted with acid blood? Join Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt as they pick their sides.

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Dissatisfied housewife Helen Tasker (Jamie Lee Curtis) can’t understand why her boring computer salesman husband Harry (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is so wrapped up in his work that he neglects her and their moody teen daughter Dana (Eliza Dushku) to the extent that she even considers an affair with a skeevy used car salesman masquerading as a secret agent (Bill Paxton). What she doesn’t know, is that Harry is indeed a REAL secret agent - and when he discovers Helen’s flirtations, he sidetracks himself from an international terrorism investigation to embroil her in a plot to spice up their stale marriage. Typically Cameronian carnage ensues as fighter jets, nuclear detonations, motorcycle vs. horse hotel lobby chases and much more are deployed by cinema’s premier spectacle maker.

Fresh off the hugely successful Terminator 2: Judgement Day, the writer/director had the industry at his feet - and chose to adapt a little-known French spy comedy for his next project. While a huge hit upon release, the film has sunk from view somewhat in the years since, considering its pedigree and one-time prominence. Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Duncan look back at their recollections of the film upon release, and discuss how it now stacks up against the genre as a whole - in terms of its then-cutting edge action, and in its representations of marriage, gender politics, and race. Did the film sit up and make us beg for buttermilk, or has it left us shivering by the side of the road soaked in our own pee? 

Be sure to track down more of Duncan at the fantastic YouTube movie review channel Val Verde Broadcasting! & check out the short film website https://www.typetillyoubleed.com .For all of Duncan's other projects then head to his IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4317541/

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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 Bill's plans to finalise their breakup so he can wed his new fiancée, and tosses them back out on the road with their ragtag bunch of cloud nerds including Philip Seymour Hoffman, Todd Field, and Rewind favourite Alan Ruck. Seeking to map the interior structure of a tornado in better detail than ever before, they are hampered by corporate kiss-butt Cary Elwes and his crew of megabucks-backed sellout scientists, who have swiped the tech that Bill and Jo developed and intend to gazump their triumph.

A blowout entry in the 90s disaster canon, de Bont blends destructive practical sets with nascent digital trickery to capitalise on his Speed success, crafting one of the biggest films of an era not known for frugality. But did it sweep us off our feet, or just plain suck? Were we talkin’ imminent rueage, or did a manly handshake ensue? Grab a huge-ass plate of steak and eggs and hunker down in your rickety basement as we fire up some Deep Purple and drive headlong into the wind.

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A fresh transfer to the Metro West Precinct of the crime-riddled one-time manufacturing mecca, Officer Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) falls prey to a vicious gang of criminals led by the sarcastic, ruthless Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith), who riddles Murphy with bullets and leaves him functionally dead. His body becomes the property of Omni Consumer Products, a monopolistic megacorporation that owns and operates the Police, and is revived on the orders of a sleazy executive (Miguel Ferrer) as a gleaming, fully-programmed cyborg super cop, whose task is to clean up the streets ahead of the imminent construction of OCP’s gleaming new Delta City development. Murphy’s former partner Lewis (Nancy Allen) has to come to the rescue when corporate machinations and organised crime align, and the resurrected Murphy becomes a target of violence from all sides.

With hearty thanks to our listener Jamie Russell for suggesting this episode, we discuss the story’s origins, starting with first-time writer and ascendant young executive Ed Neumeier’s collaboration with radical collaborator Michael Miner; the crucial contribution of Euro cinema madman Paul Verhoeven; and the legacy of the film’s mixture acidic social satire and squib-laden, visceral bloodletting. Join Gali, Devlin and Matt on patrol – you have ten seconds to comply.

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The Rewinders (minus Gali in dry dock) bravely boarded the Orca for a sozzled 4th of July special episode—from which only two thirds of the tipsy trio returned to shore intact—in our first (and potentially last) ever drinkalong, sync ‘n’ drink, audio commentary podcast—Jaws: We Drink to Our Legs. 

To join us on our ill-fated journey, cue up your personal copy of Jaws, sail over to rewindmoviecast.com for the drinking game rules (featuring a selection of 5 levels), and hit play!

You will also find an introductory essay, our companion Jaws RMP episode, various specially curated playlists, and Jaws-themed merch—including Devlin’s beautiful Chief Brody poster print, and Matt’s daft Quint sticker and Tipple-Tote™!

Happy July 4th to you fair Spanish ladies! Scull it outta here, and please drink (to your legs) responsibly.

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New York City cop and aquaphobe-turned-island police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) and his family’s first summer in Amity is tipped upside down when a charchariden charcharidas - a great white - starts terrorising the town’s beaches. The dollar-hungry mayor refuses to shut down the lucrative seafront despite a local skinny-dipper having been scoffed by the beast, but when a repeat attack in broad daylight claims the life of a local boy, a feeding frenzy of a different kind kicks off, as local fishermen vie to snag the shark but fail to land the big one. It’s left to Brody, hooch-soaked certifiable madman Quint (Robert Shaw) and soft-handed rich boy oceanographer Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) to set out aboard the Orca and kill the monster once and for all.

Devout Jaws fanatic Matt looks back at one of cinema’s truly seminal moments alongside first mates Gali and Patrick, as we try to distill what alchemy resulted in its creation, why its resonance has persisted for so long, and take a personal perspective on how the film has impacted us and our love of cinema.

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When student, Casey Connor (Elijah Wood) discovers a parasitic new species that reacts unusually when placed in water, then observes thirsty Herrington High faculty members standing under sprinklers, glugging endless cups of H₂O, and acting peculiarly all round, he begins to unravel the mystery of his school⁠—his teachers are aliens. Could it be a conspiracy? An invasion akin to The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein? Maybe The X-Files is right! A band of rebels, including Zeke (Josh Hartnett), Stokely (Clea DuVall), Delilah (Jordanna Brewster), Stan (Shawn Hatosy), and Marybeth (Laura Harris) must unite in a race against time to prevent these “pod people” from infesting and enslaving the entire town.

Were we tweaking, or did we get some bad sh*t? Did it need a f*cking eye dog, or was it on a yellow brick quest for a brain? Did it flog the bishop, or work hard for that D? Was it a great big bastard mistake, or were we sucking its toes ‘til graduation? With Devlin and Patrick absent, it was up to high school heroes (and geeky Stephen King kids), Gali and Matt, to save the podcast!

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2nd year coach Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton) carries the weight of the post-oil bust town of Odessa’s beleaguered populace on his shoulders. Their pride rests on whether his Permian Panthers can win the State Championship. It seems half the men of the community proudly still sport their ostentatious championship rings while all but ordering the current crop of young athletes - centred around tightly-wound quarterback Mike Winchell (Lucas Black), party boy fullback Don Billingsley (Garrett Hedlund), hard-hitting safety Brian Chavez (Jay Hernandez) and, most vitally, star running back “Boobie” Miles (Derek Luke) - to go get their own. But when a horrendous injury threatens to derail the season, the coach must dig deep to salvage the wins that the die-hard fans demand - demands that come with no lack of implicit threat.

Based on the true life story of the 1988 Permian Panthers, as documented in Buzz Bissinger’s book of the same name, Bissinger’s cousin Berg continued his transition from actor to director with this, his third feature. As the basis for a hugely successful TV drama, the film itself seems to have been somewhat overshadowed, so Gali seeks to rectify this and revisits alongside fellow FNL fans Devlin and Patrick, and novice (and, crucially, American Football agnostic) Matt to see whether the original deserves to take its place among the upper tier of sports movies. Golly bum.

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‘Slinger’ Gibson Rickenbacker (JCVD) is some sort of futuristic ronin, hired by the some of the tattered remnants of humanity to guarantee them safe passage through a plague-ravaged nightmare future world ruled by ruthless, non-swimming pirates led by the towering figure of Fender Tremolo (Vincent Klyn). Gibson happens upon the titular Cyborg - a woman, Pearl (Dayle Haddon), whose computer brain contains the recipe for a cure to the ailment that has brought about the downfall of civilisation. GIbson pursues Fender after he kidnaps Pearl, tormented by the memories of the horrific act of violence the villain perpetrated on Gibson and his adoptive family years before. Much face kicking ensues.

Director Albert Pyun solidified his position as a solid pair of hands for the notoriously thrifty studio, who were relying on this film to help bail them out of a particularly sticky financial situation. Join us as Gali, Devlin, Matt and Patrick as they delve into the murky world of the 1980s’ premier purveyors of churn-’em-out-cheap cinema, the rise of soon-to-be action superstar Jean-Claude Van Damme, and the subtle art of religious symbolism.

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Eventually emerging as an unsinkable box office phenomenon and Oscar magnet, Cameron cashed in all his chips as one of the most successful filmmakers of his era and created the most expensive movie ever mounted - attracting obvious, negative headlines when this venture was earmarked ahead of release as a thuddingly on-the-nose allegory for hubristic folly that would inevitably fail spectacularly. Yet his fervent (or psychotic, depending on your viewpoint) self-belief and meticulous craftsmanship shone through, while his star-crossed romantic pairing of promising young actress Kate Winslet and next-big-thing-in-waiting Leonardo DiCaprio struck a heartstring chord with audiences worldwide, launching both to the top of their profession and paving the way for Cameron to go even further with his mind-bogglingly successful $3 billion-grossing follow-up Avatar.

Join Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt as they light the last two boilers and go full steam ahead, reflecting on their own histories with the film - whether they sniffled silently into their Kickers jumpers as abashed teenagers in provincial multiplexes, or cursed every winsome appearance of sprout-faced Leo and cringed through the ubiquity of Celine Dion’s lachrymose, maximalist theme song. Is this one of the all-time great, audience-uniting epics from one of the premier directors of his generation? Or a cynical exercise in broad-brush pandering that irreversibly pierced the hull of a once-great creative who has been stuck treading water ever since?

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Another imposing, grotesquely-mandibled intergalactic hunter has crashed to Earth in search of trophies, interfering in a fierce drugs-related turf war between two rival factions of questionable racial stereotypes. Finding himself in the middle of this mayhem is middle-aged, renegade hardass cop Detective Mike Harrigan (Danny Glover), a man short of temper and large of trouser. As the gruesome deaths pile up around him, Harrigan and his team (including musician Ruben Blades, Maria Conchita Alonso, and Bill Paxton) try and make sense of things before they find themselves on the receiving end of an impromptu spinectomy.

Our second pass at this action staple, after Devlin and Gali discussed it way back in episode 3, sees Matt and Patrick join the party to see where this film ranks in the shared Alien/Predator universe, what they'd have done differently if they were in charge, and where, exactly, Gary Busey's top half went.

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Belted and buckled badasses Varla, Rosie and Billie (exotic dancers Tura Santana, Haji, and Lori Williams) are three go-go dancers who tear across the desert in their sports cars in search of kicks - and they find more trouble than they'd bargained for when the fearsome Varla casually karate kills some poor sap after a drag race. Grabbing his traumatised girlfriend as a hostage, the trio hole up at the remote farmhouse of a twisted old man who they hear is sitting on a pile of cash, attempting to wheedle information about its whereabouts from the geezer and his two sons - one a musclebound near-mute link, the other a studious but blinkered 'regular' guy. 

Chosen by Devlin and guest Patrick Crain as their preferred point of entry to the filmography of the fearsome Meyer, this monochromatic ode to powerful women, muscular cars, and southern Gothic weirdness showcases the director's fevered editing, razor sharp cinematography, and even sharper dialogue. Will Gali and Matt fall under the spell of the King of Sexploitation, or will this grindhouse walk on the weird side fail to get their motors running?

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To celebrate his centenary, I'm joined by film programmer and writer Patrick Crain, of the Oklahoma FIlm Society and The Apollo Twin, to introduce and discuss the entire filmography of a director who I’ve become hopelessly obsessed with. Covering early ‘nudie cuties’ like The Immoral Mr. Teas, through the phenomenal Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, via smash-hit sex comedy Vixen!, through to the gloriously bonkers Beyond the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, we discuss his origins, his peccadilloes, and his place among his peers and the firmament of all-time great directors - a position put under direct threat by the myriad availability issues surrounding these seminal works. 

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See below for timestamps:

Introduction, the 'nudie cuties': 00:00:00

Fanny Hill: 00:28:14

The Gothic Period (Lorna, Mudhoney, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Motorpsycho!): 00:31:08

Mondo Topless: 01:26:53

Color Melodramas (Common Law Cabin, Good Morning...and Goodbye!, Vixen!, Cherry, Harry and Raquel!): 01:33:15

The Hollywood Movies (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Seven Minutes): 02:29:39

Return to the Independents (Black Snake, Supervixens!, Up!, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens): 02:45:35

Pandora Peaks, later years, legacy: 03:30:18

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After thwarting an elaborate exploding elevator hostage situation, bomb disposal expert Jack Traven (Keanu Reeves) finds himself targeted by the enraged madman responsible (Dennis Hopper). The game? A bomb on a city bus. Once it goes above 50 mph, the bomb is armed. Drop below, and everybody goes kaboom. In the right place at the wrong time is passenger Annie (Sandra Bullock), deployed as emergency driver after the unfortunate regular Sam takes a stray bullet.

After establishing himself as one of the premiere popcorn cinematographers of his era, de Bont set the charges for his directorial career with this runaway hit. Firmly establishing Bullock in the upper echelons of Hollywood, and cementing a post-Point Break Keanu as an action cinema superstar, the film transcended its Die-Hard-on-a-bus origins to become one of the biggest grossers of 1994. But, can those analogue nineties thrills survive in the modern era? Join Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt as they hop aboard and hang on tight. Big thanks to listener Matthew Pinder for his selection!

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Micah (Micah Sloat) buys himself a fancy video camera to document the uncanny occurrences that have been plaguing the home he shares with girlfriend Katie (Katie Featherston). Calling in a medium, Dr. Fredrichs (Mark Fredrichs) they learn that the source of the unusual sounds and moving objects is not a ghost, but a demon- one that has attached itself to Katie and seems reluctant to let go. As Katie’s history with these events is revealed, Micah struggles to impose himself as their powerlessness to intervene becomes unavoidable. 

A runaway success shot for a miniscule budget by a first-time director, Oren Peli, the extraordinary returns paved the way for a mini empire of sequels, and allowed the movie’s enterprising producer Jason Blum to establish himself as one of the most influential names in 21st century horror cinema. Join Gali, Devli, Patrick and Matt as most of the gang experience this spooky chiller for the very first time, courtesy of our fantastic film picker Davey Growls!

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Fresh off a run of world-conquering hits including Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music, Julie Andrews plays the titular Millie, a young woman in the big city looking to stake her place in this newly liberated era by going out and finding herself a job - although, only so she can marry her boss and take up a life of wifely duties. Into her single women’s hotel breezes aspiring actress Miss Dorothy (Mary Tyler Moore), whom Millie takes under her wing. Also appearing suddenly is the nerdy but spirited Jimmy (James Fox), whom Millie begins an on–off flirtation with while she tries to find her wealthy Mr Right. But when young women start going missing from the hotel, a farcical whodunnit interrupts the gaudy Jazz Age proceedings. 

Will Patrick’s 2nd attempt to introduce some showtune pep into the podcast finally break through to the whimsy-averse remaining hosts Gali, Devlin and Matt? Or will Millie’s end-of-an-era spectacle have them longing for the advent of the rapidly oncoming New Hollywood revolution that consigned this type of cinema to the scrapheap for a couple of decades? Toss your curls and cares away, throw on your beads and fling those jazz hands as we find out!

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When Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and his rescue team of cartoonishly manly super soldiers are called in to action by former grunt-turned-CIA operative Dillon (Carl Weathers), what should have been a simple hostage smash-and-grab is complicated not only by the shifty motivations of Dillon, but by the inexplicable nature of the violent fate that has befallen the team that preceded them. As tracker Billy succinctly puts it, "There's something out there waiting for us, and it ain't no man. We're all gonna die."

Critically disregarded as a derivative, slapdash actioner upon release, the film nonetheless grew to become a key cornerstone of the 80s action boom, inspiring countless ripoffs and a mini empire of sequels, sidequels, and extended universe paraphernalia. With one of the most quotable scripts of Arnie’s career from debuting fraternal duo Jim & John Thomas, and a young, hungry McTiernan calling the shots, join Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt as they try desperately to maintain some semblance of objectivity while revisiting this iconic monster mashup. And please head over to rewindmoviecast.com for an essay by Matt where he elucidates his formative fixation with the Austrian Oak, and to Teemill for a poster of this episode’s artwork!

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You all know the story by now - wiseass New York street cop John McClane (Bruce Willis), in an effort to save his flailing marriage, pops up at the L.A. office party of his high-flying executive wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia) at the magnificent, unfinished Nakatomi Plaza, just in time for a gaggle of Euro thieves to turn this classy soiree in to a deadly hostage situation. Cue a seminal cat-and-mouse tale as the wily McClane scampers across the floors, elevator shafts and air vents of the building, taking out the villainous, charismatic Hans Gruber’s (Alan Rickman, in his movie debut) henchmen in an effort to thwart both his schemes, and the bumbling ‘rescue’ efforts of the authorities surrounding the building.

Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt try to maintain some semblance of objectivity as they discuss their history with this seasonal perennial, and try to diagnose how it alchemised to be such a strong template for a huge number of subsequent action movies to follow. And head over to rewindmoviecast.com for a phenomenal essay by Matt about the maestro of mayhem himself, director John McTeirnan.

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After a mysterious 7-year disappearance, the titular imposing, experimental, wormhole-navigating interstellar craft has reappeared, sending the ship’s creator Dr. Weir (a reliably livewire Sam Neill) off on the recovery mission alongside stoic shuttle Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburn) and an assorted Anglo-American crew including such lauded thesps as Jason Isaacs and Sean Pertwee. The ship’s mysterious gravity drive seems to hold the key to the gruesome mystery as to what happened to its original crew - and to the horrifying visions stalking the new one.

A critical and commercial misfire on release, but a sleeper hit on video, the film (and especially its infamous ‘visions of hell’ rapid-fire montages) struck a chord with many a budding gorehound, and retains a sizeable cult following to this day. Did Gali, Devlin and Matt follow Dr. Weir through the gateway, or did they want to join Miller in vapourising it from a safe distance?

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Turtleneck-clad, koan-garbling night manager Lucas hatches a doomed plan to save his beloved independent record store from a corporate takeover by betting the day’s takings on a craps table. Failing, despite being guided by a force much stronger than luck, he’ll have to face the wrath of manager and surrogate cool uncle figure Joe, who is left to try to cover up Lucas’ mess and dodge store owner Mitch’s questions, while the rest of his staff (artsy AJ, preppy Corey, sassy Gina, sullen Deb, burnout Mark, muso Eddie and punk guitarist Berko) prepare for the arrival of a washed-up 80s pop star. Over the course of one crazy day, they’ll grapple with soapy conflicts and angsty tribulations. But can they come together in time to save their spiritual home?

Film-picker (and one-time record shop employee) Devlin picks a beloved teen favourite, while first time viewers Gali, Matt and Patrick come in fresh to see whether the film’s charms hold up to new viewers 25 years after its release, or if those Gen-X cinema goers who stayed away in their droves were correct in their cynicism.

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From a treatment by era-defining teenternatinment maestro and Dimension Films golden boy Kevin Williamson, we wipe away a decade of Thorn-related, increasingly mad low budget sequels with a direct follow-up to 1981’s Halloween II. Jamie Lee Curtis returns as Laurie Strode, now Keri Tate, in hiding as headmistress of a leafy, secluded California private school attended by her 17 year old son John (breakout star Josh Hartnett). John and his friends (including Dawson’s Creek alum Michelle Williams as John’s girlfriend) bail out of a camping trip to hide away for a spot of ill-advised teen shenanigans on campus, on the very night that Michael Myers comes looking for his sister to finish what he started two decades before. 

A financial success on release - the highest grossing since the original - and credited with reviving the fortunes of a film series that had fared worse than its main slasher competition over the preceding years, the gang takes another look at a film which benefited from the remarkable box office one of its direct antecedents in Scream, and ask whether that film’s self-referential, smart-alec influence was a boon for Michael, or if the mask had permanently slipped.

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When 6-year-old Michael Myers slayed his older sister in a violent, unprovoked attack, he was confined to an asylum under the ‘care’ of Dr. Samuel Loomis (Donald Pleasance) - who believes the boy to be a creature of pure evil. Dr. Loomis’ worst fear is realised when, some decade and a half later, Michael escapes and returns to his hometown of Haddonfield, Illinois - donning stolen overalls and a ghostly-pale, amorphously-featured mask to become The Shape. He fixates on bookish, lanky teen babysitter Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), culminating in a terrifying Halloween night for her and her friends.

Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt are back together at last to discuss this landmark film, as well as producer Debra Hill & Carpenter’s somewhat reluctant immediate sequel Halloween II, to see whether their own feelings about the film have changed over the years, how its contemporaries and imitators followed or amended its formula, and whether the core creative team were able to capture lightning in a bottle twice. 

We’ll be back with Part II later this month to dig into the twisty, messy timeline of the 1980s/1990s sequels, culminating in a deep dive into Steve Miner’s teen-friendly update Halloween H20: 20 Years Later.

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Using the three eras of Moore as Bond, from 1973’s Live and Let Die, to A View to a Kill in ‘85, we tackle how filmmakers, Guy Hamilton, Lewis Gilbert, and John Glen, employed ol’ Rog, chart the humour, romanticism, ham and cheese, Bond girls, geriaction, sexual politics, unfortunate aging (in more ways than one), and the uncertain future of the franchise, whilst reappraising and ranking each film to aid you in selecting your next Roger Moore adventure. 

Life-long Moore-guy, Matt, argues the case for the raised eyebrowed one being the quintessential 007, as the Rewinders discuss whether Roger managed to keep the British end up all those years, or if it all got a bit too daft for its own good. Were we double-taking like Moonraker pigeons, or did the bubbles tickle our... Tchaikovsky? Find out on this special, one-off, Nobody Does It Better episode of The Rewind Movie Podcast.

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In a remote underwater facility, doctors Susan McCallister (Saffron Burrows) and Jim Whitlock (Stellan Skarsgaard) are conducting research on mako sharks to attempt to re-activate dormant human brain cells like those found in Alzheimer's disease patients. When the sharks' brains aren’t large enough to harvest enough of the protein compound, the doctors violate the Harvard Compact and utilise gene therapies to increase their brain mass. A larger brain means more protein. It also means smarter sharks. When one of them escapes the facility and attempts to attack a boat full of 90s douchebag teens, the project's financial backers send corporate executive Russell Franklin (Samuel L Jackson) to investigate. Dr Susan and a skeleton crew including shark wrangler and former smuggler Carter (Thomas Jane); Brooklyn’s finest engineering mind Tom (Michael Rappaport); and God-fearing, giant-crucifix-wearing side-story chef, Preacher (LL Cool J), will all find out the answer to life’s greatest riddle: exactly what an 8000-pound mako with a brain the size of a flat head V8 and no natural predators thinks about.

Gali is joined by Matt as he puts his case forward for Renny Harlin as action cinema's forgotten man, and decide where this film sits among cinema's greatest creature features. Join them, an annoying talking bird, some dastardly sharks, and Janice Soprano in this thick slab of 90s schlock.

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A prosthetic-clad Emilio Estevez returns as Billy the Kid, now an elderly gent by the name of "Brushy Bill" Roberts, in 1950s New Mexico. He reveals his true identity to an incredulous attorney and spins his tale, as we travel back to the turn of the 1880s and the aftermath of the Lincoln County War of the first film. Returning costars Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips, Billy's fellow regulators, have been scattered, as loyalties fracture and the law comes looking. The Kid and estranged gang member and “pal” Pat Garrett (William Peterson) soon find themselves on opposite sides of the badge, giving us a new spin on their fabled confrontation.

Matt is joined by Gali as he makes his case for this slick follow-up to be given a reappraisal. Expect power ballads, snappy dialogue, fluffy hair, and six-guns aplenty as we root and toot back to the turn of the nineties in a blaze of glory.

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200 years after Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) took her sacrificial dive into the smelter on Fury 161, scientists from United Systems Military have used blood recovered from the scene to create a clone of Ripley, replete with the alien queen that was gestating within her. Harvesting the creature to once again go about trying to utilise the creatures for military and medical purposes, their new Ripley No. 8 starts to show signs that perhaps the line between human and monster may not be so clear. When a ragtag band of space scoundrels (including a wide-eyed Winona Ryder as a tagalong with a secret) arrives with suspiciously human cargo, the inevitable breaking loose of all hell forges fragile alliances in the scramble for survival. The creatures have not only returned, but evolved…

Working from a script from then-wunderkind Buffy creator Joss Whedon, Jeunet was hot off two highly regarded, visually stunning arthouse hits co-directed with Marc Caro. A breakneck change of pace from the austere misery of Alien3, he brought a slick, sly and slimy approach to the series, but contemporary critics were not enthused. In retrospect, was there any reason to resurrect? Join Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt as they scream into the void one more time.

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In a breakout, star-making performance, Jake Gyllenhaal is Donnie, a troubled teen in an upscale suburban neighbourhood with a penchant for sleepwalking. His latest bout brings him face-to-face with Frank, a disturbing bunny-suited harbinger of the end of the world, which is coming in just 28 days. Returning home to find he has narrowly escaped a falling jet engine, Donnie follows Frank’s guidance to carry increasingly destructive and mysterious tasks. Doing so, he catches the attention of new schoolmate Gretchen (Jena Malone), seeks advice from the only two relatable teachers at his high school (Noah Wyle and Drew Barrymore), and butts heads with his duplicitously moral community represented by evangelical teacher Kitty Farmer (Beth Grant) and local minor self-help celebrity Jim Cunningham (Patrick Swayze).

We discuss the era of talented young filmmakers that afforded a barely-25-year-old writer-director the opportunity to bring such an ambitious project to fruition, the zeitgeist of late 90s/early 00s’ dark side of suburbia tales, Kelly’s use of science fiction tropes, the film’s portrayal of troubled youth and, of course, that soundtrack. Join Gali, Devli, Patrick & Matt as they wake up drooling on a golf course covered in marker pen wondering what just happened.

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Successful lawyer, husband, and father of one Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) finds himself home alone for the weekend, and, caught in a chance rain shower with the intriguing and confident publishing house editor Alex Forrest (Glenn Close), invites her to shelter with drinks at a nearby restaurant. One thing leads to another and an illicit liaison ensues, but Dan’s impulsive act of adultery quickly turns around to bite him as Alex displays some increasingly disturbing behaviour including self-harm and stalking. Moving out of the city with wife Beth (Anne Archer), Dan hopes to escape Alex’s attentions, but the situation only escalates towards an iconic and disturbing conclusion.

A multiple Academy Award nominee (including lead and supporting acting nods respectively for Close and Archer but, interestingly, none for Douglas), the film’s British director Lyne established himself as a pioneer of the erotic thriller genre, setting the template for scores of imitators and mainstreaming the term ‘bunny boiler’. But, to contemporary viewers, has it survived the passage of time and the evolution of social attitudes to mental health and gender politics? Is its modern-day reputation a fair representation of the work, or is there more to it than just a brutal moral fable? Join film-picker Gali, Matt, Patrick and Devlin as they take a trip back to the dark underbelly of the go-go 1980s.

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Joined by our tremendous first-time guest David Biggins, who discovered the film in his later teen years, our panel tackle a film whose creation is almost as famous as the work itself, as the critically acclaimed 2003 documentary Overnight chronicles. A beneficiary of the indie film goldrush of the 1990s, first-time screenwriter Duffy wangled a dream gig as writer, director, and soundtrack artist for his movie with a bumper payday. But, his infamous benefactor Harvey Weinstein cooled on this latest protege due to...personality issues, leaving Duffy to pursue his film at a vastly reduced budget that nonetheless garnered an eventual fervent following on home media.

With two of our panel encountering the film for the first time, but having history with the notorious documentary, and two with nostalgic memories of a genuine cult item, we discuss exploding cats, mad Willem Dafoe, badass Billy Connoly, Celtsploitation, hasty recastings, dodgy ethics, the post-Tarantino movie production landscape, and much more. Join Patrick, Matt, Devlin and David as they strap on an absurd amount of guns and scrawl on some biro hand tattoos to unleash their righteous fury.

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Controversially stripping Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) of her potential happily ever when both Hicks and Newt are killed when her shuttle plummets out of the sky, our beleaguered heroine finds herself stranded on a godforsaken foundry-turned-prison with a rogues’ gallery of double-Y chromo villains, who have found a very apocalyptic version of Christianity at the back end of the universe. Unfortunately, aside from a terminally tattered Bishop (Lance Henriksen), there is, in fact, another survivor of the accident - a familiar, vicious creature set to wreak havoc on the unarmed and disbelieving inmates. Forming a tentative bond with the mysterious medical officer Clemens (Charles Dance), a grudging mutual respect with the evangelical Dillon (Charles S. Dutton), and butting heads with the officious and ineffectual warden Andrews (Brian Glover), Ripley finds herself once again the only person who can stand between the xenomorph and the shadowy Weyland-Yutani Corporation who wish to get their hands on this perfect organism.

Beset by production woes, maligned upon release, and subject to studio interference at every stage, we revisit a film that boasts plenty of positives, not least an intriguing cast of quality British character actors, and the emerging but already identifiable hand of a director who would go on to become one of Hollywood’s most distinctive and exacting. Is this a worthy successor to the landmark films it follows, a deservedly disregarded disaster, or something in between?

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When her family is gunned down by a drug-addled, maniacal DEA agent (Gary Oldman), 12 year old Mathilda (Natalie Portman) seeks shelter in the apartment of her shy neighbour Leon (Jean Reno) - unbeknownst to her, a Mafia ‘cleaner’ who lives a monastic life. Reluctantly taking her in, Leon begins training the vulnerable Mathilda, seeing that her desire for revenge is likely to put her in danger without his guidance.

An influential and iconic cult movie that introduced audiences to a soon-to-be-huge movie star in the young Portman, a reliable go-to character actor in the soulful Reno, and, to English speaking audiences at least, an entire sub-genre of French action cinema that continues to flourish to this day.

Outro Song - 'Moi Lolita' (2000) - Alizee

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JOIN US at rewindmoviecast.com for Matt’s special zombie cliche bingo board, and an extended blog post with information about each film, a YouTube playlist groaning with full movies, clips, extras and other treats, and a Spotify playlist of our favourite undead shuffles.

Part II picks up the last 30 years of zombie cinema, taking us up to the present day:

Braindead (1992)

Return of the Living Dead III (1993)

Cemetery Man (1994)

Versus (2000)

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Land of the Dead (2005)

Black Sheep (2006)

[REC] (2007)

28 Weeks Later (2007)

Dead Set (2008)

World War Z (2013)

Train to Busan (2016)

One Cut of the Dead (2017)

The Dead Don’t Die (2019)

Outro Song - '"Partytime (Zombie Version)" (1984) - 45 Grave

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Willis stars as Dr. Bill Capa, a New York therapist reeling from the very dramatic suicide of one of his patients. Retreating to Los Angeles to stay with his unfathomably rich college buddy Bob (Scott Bakula) in his oddly shaped mansion, Bill sits in on a group therapy session, which introduces a rogues gallery of suspects, including Lance Henriksen and Brad Dourif, when Bob gets murdered in his office. While Bill decides to start living in his dead friend’s house, a mysterious and beautiful young woman (Jane March) suddenly floats into his life. But is she all that she appears to be? Obviously not, otherwise this film wouldn’t be 140 minutes long. 

Mailbox rattlesnakes, mid-coitus steak and pasta dinners, ornate headboards, S&M airbrush art and the frequent deployment of the word ‘daffodil’ as a mental health slur litter the twisty path this film takes to its gonzo denouement. Winner of the Razzie Award for worst film of 1994, and recipient of the lofty accolade of Maxim Magazine’s Best Sex Scene Ever, join us as we try our utmost to untangle this tremendously unusual blip in the career of Bruce Willis.

Outro Song - '"Colourblind" (2002) - Darius Campbell

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Part I covers the inception of the genre all the way up to 1990:

White Zombie (1932)

Night of the Living Dead (1968)

The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974)

Shock Waves (1977)

Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Zombi 2 (1979)

The Evil Dead (1981)

Night of the Comet (1984)

The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

Day of the Dead (1985)

Re-Animator (1985)

Night of the Creeps (1986)

The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)

Dead Heat (1988)

Pet Sematary (1989)

Night of the Living Dead (1990)

Outro Song - '"Wave of Mutilation" (1989) - The Pixies

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An increasingly paranoid, deeply traumatised Jesse James (Brad Pitt), by now already one of the most famous men in America after a string of daring train and bank robberies, finds himself at the head of a rapidly crumbling gang of misfits. Among the last of his acolytes is the callow new recruit Robert Ford (Casey Affleck), a 19 year old who believes he could do great things alongside the man whose antics he obsessively catalogues from nickel fiction and newspaper clippings. Their attraction and repulsion simmers towards an inevitable conclusion telegraphed right in the title, while the viewer is left to untangle the snake knot of motivations of the doomed pair.

Released in a banner year for modern cinema, the film struggled to find the audience that some of its more garlanded, vaguely Western-adjacent peers like No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood garnered. Patrick, Devlin and Gali recall their trip to the cinema together almost 15 years ago, and how their relationship with the film has changed, while first-time viewer Matt weighs in with a fresh perspective. Is this an underrepresented gem unfairly overlooked? Or an overcooked stew of underwhelming miserablism?

Outro Song - '"Just Like Jesse James" (1989) - Cher

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Our first episode focussed on James Cameron’s 1986 sequel, which was for (almost) all of the panel our first contact with the xenomorph. Now, Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt step in to the laser egg room for the origins of the series, as we meet jaded space truckers Captain Dallas (Tom Skerrit), 3rd Officer Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), Science Officer Ash (Ian Holm), Navigator Lambert (Veronica Cartwright), Executive Officer Kane (John Hurt), and technicians Parker (Yaphet Kotto) and Brett (Harry Dean Stanton) aboard an earthbound mining ship. Diverted by what seems to be a distress beacon, they allow into their house one of the single most terrifying and iconic monsters in cinema history, unleashing a horror that continues to resonate some 4 decades later.

We discuss the alchemy behind the film’s creation, to try to unpack how this disparate collection of humans created such a perfect organism, and talk about what the film has meant to us over the years, and how it inspired not just a 40-plus year series but an entire galaxy of imitators and descendents.

Outro Song - '"Starlight" (2006) - Muse

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When indeterminate Government science guy Xavier Fitch (a slumming Ben Kinglsey) decides to follow an intergalactic recipe for alien DNA, he may have inadvertently sown the seeds of the destruction of mankind, as his creation blossoms in to the statuesque Sil, played by newcomer Natasha Henstridge. She’s on the prowl for a mate, scouring Los Angeles for fellas to fornicate with so she can propagate her...species, potentially replacing us as the apex predators on Earth. In response, Fitch collects a ragtag group led by lethargic freelance hired gun Press (Michael Madsen) to hunt her down before she can get down. 

Bone trains, biomechanical boobs and bewildering acting choices ensue as Gali, Devlin and Matt look back at a bona fide box office hit whose charms may have been obvious to ‘90s teen boys, but do they endure today?

Outro Song - '"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" (1979) - ABBA

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Chemical superfreak FBI expert Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage, kicking off his unlikely but lucrative action star run) is drafted in to advise when disgruntled former Black Ops specialist General Francis X. Hummel (Ed Harris) swipes a pile of experimental rockets and takes control of Alcatraz Prison, threatening to vaporise San Francisco if his ransom demands for restitution for his fallen comrades isn’t met. Enter the only man to successfully break out of the infamous institution - British spy John Mason (Sean Connery), whose unique knowledge of the layout leads Goodspeed and a crew of special forces in for a rescue mission that results in much patented Bayhem.

With thanks to listener Louis Naum, Gali, Devlin, Patrick & Matt head to the slammer to discuss the halcyon days of the mid-90s actioner, where brash and brawny bros crafted unapologetically brain-bypassing spectacles. But has the film aged like a fine vintage Connery, or is this missile a dud?

Outro Song - '"Jailbird" (1994) - Primal Scream

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Popular high school guidance counsellor Sam Lombardo (Matt Dillon) is accused of sexual assault by two students - imperiously wealthy society princess Kelly Van Ryan (Denise Richards) and twitchy trailer park denizen Suzie Toller (Neve Campbell). A dizzying array of double-crosses and betrayals follows as loose cannon cop Ray Duquette (Kevin Bacon) ignores his superiors’ instructions and pursues the seemingly closed case.

An infamous late-night TV classic of the 90s, our ostensibly more mature gang look to see if there’s more to enjoy beyond its more infamous scenes. You know the ones. Join Gali, Devlin, Patrick & Matt as they take a trip to wealthy Blue Bay for a head-rush cocktail of teen trash, black comedy and twisty thriller.

Outro Song - "Given the Dog a Bone" (1980) by AC/DC

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Smart-mouthed recruit Pvt. Joker (Matthew Modine), as he’s quickly named by his ruthless new drill instructor (R. Lee Ermey), arrives with his fellow recruits at Parris Island for a hellacious training session. The main target of the instructor’s ire, the clumsy and ill-prepared Pvt. Pyle (Vincent D’Onofrio), puts a brutal full stop on this section, before we are whisked off to the frontline with Joker, now a correspondent with a military magazine. Bullets and bodies ensue.

Joining Pvt. Ridley in the trenches, Gali, Devlin and Patrick discuss the tremendous task of transforming an East London gas works into a theatre of war, the unusual bipartite structure of the film, and Kubrick’s famously exacting directorial style.

Outro Song - '"War" (1970) - Edwin Starr

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The Dude, AKA Jeffrey Lebowski, finds his simple life of bowling, dairy-based cocktails and copious weed intake upended by a case of mistaken identity rug-peeing. Seeking restitution from his ornery millionaire namesake, The Dude is thrown into a kidnapping plot involving nihilist techno bands, strongly vaginal performance artists, stonewalling teenagers, suave pornographers and fascist Police chiefs. Aided/hindered by his hair-trigger Vietnam vet buddy Walter, severed toes and weaponised marmots ensue, with iconic performances from Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi and more. 

First time Rewinder and fellow film school buddy Joe introduces us to a film that is among the most influential and beloved from his formative years. Alongside Gali, Devlin and Matt, the gang chat about a once-ambivalently received oddity that flourished into a full-blown religion. Way to go Donnie!

Outro Song - '"Lookin' out My Back Door" (1970) - Creedance Clearwater Revival

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Monroe stars as Roslyn, a recent divorcee who finds herself unmoored in Reno, Nevada and drifting in to the orbit of aging cowboy charmer Gay (Gable) and temperamental mechanic/pilot Guido (Wallach). The triangle becomes an unsteady rhombus when they pick up punch-drunk rodeo rider Perce (Clift), and head out into the wilderness outside of the city to hunt for mustang. A monochrome, melancholy mood piece, it was a financial flop on its release, and several of its stars and creative team held the film in disregard, while others considered it among their best work.

A film marked by tragedy, this features the final completed performances of both Monroe and Gable, who sadly died only days after filming concluded, and also marked one of Clift’s final films. Dissolving marriages, dependencies on drugs and alcohol, and fractious tempers marked a tortuous shoot, but one that resulted in a film that this episode’s film picker Devlin holds a great deal of affection for. Will first-time viewers Gali and Matt, and 2nd time viewer Patrick, share his enthusiasm, or will it all be too sad to bear?

Outro Song - '"Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" (1975) by Ed Bruce

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We begin the Nice List with Patrick introducing the Salkind-produced British-American coproduction SANTA CLAUS: THE MOVIE, starring David Huddleston as the man himself, who ascends from a beloved toymaker in 14th Century Germany to the immortal, jolly symbol of Christmas cheer. However, ambitious elf Patch (Dudley Moore) unknowingly threatens to derail everything when he gets wrapped up with ruthless toy company executive B.Z. (a full ham John Lithgow) and his madcap plans for CHRISTMAS 2!

Gali follows this up with Richard Curtis’ seminal multi-strand rom-com LOVE ACTUALLY. A murderer’s row of (mostly) British thesps swear, bumble, emote and quip their way through stories that range from a grieving stepdad comforting his stepson via drums and Titanic, to a sassy Prime Minister who has the hots for the tea lady, via a long-shot comeback by an addled old rock star among many others.

We want to thank you all for listening in our rambling chats throughout this year, hope you’ve enjoyed them, and wish you a restful and hopefully movie-fuelled festive break. We’re excited to talk to you all again in 2021!

Outro Song - 'It's Christmas All Over the World' (1985) - Sheena Easton

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On the Naughty List, we start with Matt’s choice of GREMLINS, Joe Dante’s uproarious, puppet-mayhem-fuelled dismantling of the classic American soft-hearted, smalltown, feelgood, Christmas tale. When Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan) receives an adorable little furball called Gizmo for Christmas, the list of seemingly simple rules he has to follow inevitably lead to carnage when little green fellas start destroying the not-so-picture-perfect town of Kingston Falls.

We follow up with Devlin’s choice: Richard Donner’s livewire, cynical, yuppie-era Dickens subversion SCROOGED, starring a noticeably madcap Bill Murray as TV network president Frank Cross spending a night being tormented by some very zany ghosts in an effort to mend his wicked ways - such as celebrating the death of an old lady who he has scared to death with his murder-and-acid-rain-fuelled programme advertising, and threatening to staple antlers to a mouse’s head.

We want to thank you all for listening in our rambling chats throughout this year, hope you’ve enjoyed them, and wish you a restful and hopefully movie-fuelled festive break. We’re excited to talk to you all again in 2021!

Outro Song - 'Put a Little Love in your Heart' (1988) - Annie Lennox & Al Green

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Rolling into town in search of her daddy, Natasha (Yancy Butler, in her first feature) recruits Chance to assist after an, erm, chance meeting in which he rescues her from a mugging with some extremely well-placed slo-mo face kicks. Unfortunately, her dad has already fallen prey to the ruthless Emil Fouchon (Lance Henriksen), who, along with his cold-blooded sidekick Van Cleef (Arnold Vosloo), facilitate the hunting of homeless military veterans on the streets of New Orleans by extremely rich patrons who are seeking a very exclusive thrill. Fouchon soon turns his crosshairs on to the troublesome Chance, as arrows, bullets, and an outrageous amount of doves and pigeons fly.

Join Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt as they rummage in the Bargain Bin to dig out Woo’s truly explosive calling card, blazing a trail from Hong Kong on the back of his incendiary balletic action films to not only establish himself in the big leagues, but also open the door to other filmmakers from the region, while cementing a visual style that quickly became a genre standard.

Outro Song - 'Woo Hoo' (2004) - The 5 6 7 8's

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Quarterback punk and Quantico blue-flamer Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) arrives in town and is assigned his new partner, grizzled/insane FBI vet Pappas (Gary Busey), who has an interesting theory about the string of summer bank heists committed by a gang of guys calling themselves the Ex-Presidents, rubber mask-clad and disguised as Reagan, Nixon, Carter & Johnson. His hunch - that the gang are sssssssurfers - leads Utah to go undercover with a board like a ‘57 Chevy and try to enlist sassy Tyler (Lori Petty) to teach him to surf, before his head is noticeably turned by the enigmatic waverider Bodhi (Patrick Swayze). The two men form a fascinating, subversive bond even as one unwittingly pursues the other, leading to some remarkably heated chases and no small amount of shooting guns off and going ‘aaargh’.

Join film picker Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt as they head out in search of the ultimate. You want this episode so bad, you can taste it like acid in your mouth.

Outro Song - 'Police and Thieves' (1977) - The Clash

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In the notorious project of Cabrini-Green, in the neglected housing blocks that sit in the shadow of the wealthiest districts of Chicago yet remain riddled with crime and gang activity, a gory folk tale has the residents of those towers under its spell: the hook-handed spirit of a brutally murdered man from a century before. University grad student Helen braves the dangerous turf in pursuit of the truth behind the tale, convinced that it’s merely a superstitious avatar for the everyday horrors the local population face. But is she inviting disaster by refusing to believe?

Joining Patrick are Gali, Devlin and Matt as they discuss the curiously British origins of this very American horror, the tenor of the era that lent it an urgent timeliness, and the power of myths that saw a whole generation of kids daring each other to say his name in the mirror.

Outro Song - 'Sweets for my Sweet' (1963) - The Searchers

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It’s time! It’s time! It’s time for the not-at-all-annual Rewind Movie Podcast Hallowe’en movie marathon, as our resident scarehounds Bat (Matt) and Let-The-Devil-In (Devlin) take you on an enormous 2 day, 17 film curated Hallowe’en list to take you from 10am on Friday through to way past your bedtime on Saturday night. But that’s not all! We also have a whole slew of TV episodes, shorts, music playlists, and other assorted treats (and tricks) to fill not only your Hallowe’ekend, but your whole Hallowe’ek. Undisputed classics, hidden gems, they’re all waiting for you to invite them in.

Join us as we collaborate on a series of specially selected double-bills to delight and terrify, and visit our website at rewindmoviecast.com where we’ve created a comprehensive blog with videos, music, and more! JOIN US!

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Brilliant scientist Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum) charms journalist Veronica Quaife (his then-real-life partner Geena Davis) into visiting his warehouse laboratory-come-apartment with the promise of showing her an invention which will change the course of history. Suitably amazed by a demonstration of his revolutionary device for transporting matter, he convinces her to hold off on publishing her findings until he has achieved his ultimate task - human teleportation. They grow closer, but a mixture of hubris and human fallibility leads to a terrifying, slow-burning nightmare of his own doing.

We relive this classic in all its grotesque glory, discussing the pioneering practical effects, memorable score, and affecting performances as Gali, Devlin, Matt and Patrick continue through our Halloween season of tricks and treats.

Outro Song - 'Changes' (1971) - David Bowie

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Striking rock vocalist Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) and his beautiful fiancée Shelley are viciously attacked on Hallowe’en eve, or Devil’s Night, by a gang of thugs who throw Eric to his death from their apartment’s ornate rose window. One year later, Eric rises from his grave to avenge his beloved Shelley, who succumbed later to her injuries, by killing each gang member responsible. Guided by a mysterious crow and now impervious to injury, his face painted to resemble a ghoulish white mask, he stalks the streets of Detroit on a path of righteous destruction that leads him to the sinister gangland boss Top Dollar (Michael Wincott).

We relive the dark and gloomy nineties angst, revel in the industrial/grunge soundtrack, marvel at the weird career of director Alex Proyas, mourn the passing of the film’s rising star Brandon Lee, and mock Devlin for his formative small town miserabilism. Stick with us as all 4 panelists choose their seasonal faves all throughout October!

Outro Song - 'I'm Like a Bird' Nelly Furtado (2000)

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Outlaw brothers Seth (an early breakout role for E.R. heartthrob George Clooney) and Richie (screenwriter and at-the-time ascendant indie movie vanguard Quentin Tarantino) Gecko are on their way to a safe haven south of the border after a daring prison break has left a trail of destruction in their wake. They’re forced to hitch a ride at gunpoint with fallen preacher Jacob (Harvey Keitel) and his teenage kids Kate and Scott, piloting their RV to an all-night biker hellhole called The Titty Twister to await the Geckos’ liaison. Little do they know that their troubles are just beginning, as they are confronted with something far worse than the scummy denizens of whip-cracking bikers toting firearm codpieces and carnival barking, erm, cat enthusiasts.

Join us for this special HalloRe’ewind series, as all 4 panelists are choosing a seasonal favourite that holds a special place in our hearts. Today, we talk Tarantino’s enormous impact on the face of 90s cinema, Rodriguez’s outsider cool, exploitation tropes, and exploding rock bands. Come on, Sex Machine!

Outro Song - 'Bad Moon Rising' Creedence Clearwater Revival (1969)

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Hando (Crowe) leads his group of violent young men in a brutal assault on three young members of the city’s Vietnamese Australian community. Later, Hando and his shy, but equally violent, 2nd in command Davey (the late Daniel Pollock in his final role) notice a new girl in their local pub - the traumatised, epileptic, and very impressionable Gabrielle (Jaqueline McKenzie). When riotous retribution for their earlier attack comes their way, the gang’s ruinous ethos starts to unravel their unity, stripping them down to this core trio for an intense finale.

Uniquely, this is the whole panel’s first viewing of this film - picker Patrick having only heard tell of the mark it left on his dad in his younger days. Joining Gali, Devlin and Matt, we discuss the legacy of a film that split the critical community on release, reflect on how the film now impacts new viewers almost three decades removed from its debut, and the choices of then-32-year-old tyro director Geoffrey Wright in his handling of the material.

Please be advised this episode features discussions of racist violence and racist language.

Outro Song - 'Come Together' - Primal Scream (1990)

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Formula 1 racer and gopher-faced cheeky chap Alex Furlong (Emilio Estevez) wakes up on race day with his fiancee Julie (Rene Russo), unaware that not only does a terrible fiery car accident await him, but so does a bizarre temporal displacement kidnapping/pre-grave robbing of his soon-to-be incinerated body in the second before impact by behelmeted Bonejacker Vacendak (the actual Mick Jagger). Suddenly slung almost 20 years in to the future, Alex awakes in a sketchily drawn sub-Philip K Dick society where the infirm and very wealthy can pluck the nearly-deceased out of their timeline via scientific shenanigans and inhabit their lobotomised bodies in order to bypass age and illness. Now Alex, on the run from his own inhibition as the titular Freejack, tries to: maintain control of his own anatomy; reunite with latter-day corporate go-getter Julie; avoid the attentions of the tank-driving weirdo Vacendak; and uncover the labyrinthine corporate plot of who arranged his jacking that also embroils slimy exec Michelette (Jonathan Banks) and sonorous head honcho McCandless (a clearly contractually-obligated Anthony Hopkins). 

Confused? You will be! First-time viewers Patrick, Devlin and Gali delve in to see why such a deluge of ideas so enraptured a pre-teen Aidan back in his Northumbrian childhood, latching on to such fleeting pleasures as an eccentric turns by lovable 90s weirdo Amanda Plummer and former New York Doll David Johansen, the name Grand L. Bush, and a veritable checklist of corny dystopian tropes under the direction of Rewind alumnus Geoff Murphy (Under Siege 2: Dark Territory).

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Thawed out of cryostasis almost 60 years after her first terrifying ordeal with the Xenomorphs, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) is badgered by a sleazy executive from the shady Weyland-Yutani Corporation in to acting as an ‘advisor’ on a mission to investigate the far-flung terraforming colony Hadley’s Hope, situated on the same planet that Ripley barely managed to escape from, with which the company has lost contact. Gearing up alongside the rugged Colonial Marines, which includes badass Vasquez (Jenette Goldstein), wild card Hudson (Bill Paxton), and ice cool Hicks (Michael Biehn), Ripley’s worst fears are confirmed when familiar, nightmare fuel creatures wipe out most of the team almost immediately.

As Ripley finds herself responsible for the sole survivor of the colony, a small girl called Newt, she must rely on only her wits and courage to survive and escape. Join Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt as they travel back in time to one of the seminal movies of most of our panel’s youths, a movie that detonated a popular sci-fi horror film into a multi-armed media franchise and arguably created an entire subgenre of imitators. Hop on the express elevator to hell, GOING DOWN!

Outro Song - 'BITCH' - Meredith Brooks (1997)

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Grumbling Britalian-American plumber Mario Mario (a visibly confused Bob Hoskins) and his Colombian/Calabrian brother Luigi Mario (John Leguizamo) follow sparky young archaeologist Daisy (Samantha Mathis) through a portal to an alternative dimension where dinosaurs, not simians, were the evolutionary forebears of the humanoid denizens of the cyberpunk trashland known as Dinohattan. Its leader is the slithery and ruthless King Koopa (crazy Dennis Hopper), who intends to use Daisy and her mysterious necklace to take over and rule our world.

We delve into the bizarre origins of the film, the on-set fights over tone and content, and how that affected the final movie, as the directors’ dystopian designs clash with the family-friendly script commissioned while production was already in progress. With all this ground to cover, luckily we have our tremendous guest to keep us on track. Join Gali, Devlin and Em down one of those green tunnel-looking things as we take a deep dive on one of 90s cinema’s most famous flops. Will we unearth a rare and beautiful truffle from under the dirt, or does this mushroom deserve to be flambéed?

You can find Em on social media @verbaldiorama, on her website at https://verbaldiorama.com/, and of course on your favourite podcast platform!

Outro Song - 'That's Amore' - Dean Martin (1953)

PODCAST Recommendation - VERBAL DIORAMA

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We meet small town lothario Paul (Paul Schneider) after he has already become enraptured by his best friend’s younger sister Noel (Zooey Deschanel), and begun a tentative romance that doesn’t sit well with drinking buddy and fellow carouser Tip (Shea Wigham) who knows all too well what his worst impulses can lead to. Before he hit the big time with his Blumhouse Halloween franchise, we return to David Gordon Green’s roots with his second feature, and discuss his idiosyncratic career trajectory. 

Set amongst the natural splendour and post-industrial decline of North Carolina, where Green & Schneider studied film along with co-star Danny McBride, this naturalistic, meditative film was a seminal discovery for Devlin back when he was on the brink of adulthood - does it still hold the same sway now? And will it cast any kind of spell on Gali, Patrick & Matt, who he hassled relentlessly to watch it all those years ago?

Outro Song - 'She's Got Issues' The Offspring (1998)

PODCAST Recommendation - SEEN THE SEQUEL

The movie podcast about the sequels that were never made, probably for good reason. Each week Host Curry and his cast of cinema geeks create the sequels that never happened, covering old favourites to new releases and everything in between.

Seen the Sequel? is available, for free, via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast and all good podcasting platforms.

Follow them on Twitter: @SeenTheSequel

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Ass-kicking explosions cop John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone) is set up for a crime he didn’t commit by wily all-around villain and Dennis Rodman-alike Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) in a fiery conflict, which sees both men sentenced to Cryo-Penitentiary. Phoenix is awoken by some nefarious hand in a now totally pacifistic, utopian 2032, free to MurderDeathKill as many innocents as he sees fit, before the decision is made to defrost the caveman Spartan to renew their hostilities and hunt him down.

Yes, we talk about the three seashells. Yes, it’s disgusting. Join Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt as they revisit a one-time playground favourite and talk the Hunka Chunka, verbal morality code violations, and distracting Jack Black cameos.

Outro Song - 'We Don't Have to Take our Clothes Off' Jermaine Stewart (1985)

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Dream thief Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) finds himself in hot water: exiled from his homeland and separated from his children by a mysterious incident, and on the run from some very angry industrialists, he has no choice but to take a job from the powerful Mr Saito (Ken Watanabe) to mount his most ambitious heist to date - implant an idea in to another person’s unconscious mind. Assembling a team, they will face dangers not just from the mind of their mark Robert Fischer (Cillian Murphy), but the darkness lurking in Cobb’s own.

Will this dazzling critical darling still wow our panel? Did this dream reveal deep truths that our waking minds could devour? Or, looking back, was it all a bit of a sleight of hand trick? We discuss the remarkable rise of Christopher Nolan, his position at the upper echelon of the auteur tree, and the legacy of a film whose success was a real game changer for the filmmaker-as-brand.

Outro Song - 'Together in Electric Dreams' Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder (1985)

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Recently retired, non-specific Government tough guy Brian Mills’ (Liam Neeson) worst fears come true as his beloved 32 year old teenage daughter is kidnapped by literally the first guy she meets on a summer vacation to Europe. Now, he and his particular set of skills are put to the test as he beats people up and that until he finds her.

Gali, Devlin and Matt join Patrick on this U2-following Euro-jaunt through iconic cellphone calls, heavily edited punch ups, and terrible things being said about Albanians, as Brian tears France a new one to rescue his daughter and hunt down the baddies that took her.

TAKEN BY ALBANIA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoH2EiQc3ms&t=4s

OUTRO Song - Blondie 'One Way or Another' 1978

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Turbocharged, go-getting would-be millionaire Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise) arrives in the Big Apple with big dreams, but finds the life lessons he learns behind the bar of TGI Friday from sozzled veteran Doug Coughlin (Bryan Brown) far more appealing than those he learns at business school, and soon his head is filled with Cocktails & Dreams as he and Coughlin set about trying to make their fortune out in Jamaica (mon) before opening their own place.

Heartbreak, bravado, ill-advised sex wagers and terribly portrayed women intervene, as the tonal shifts to follow will make you dizzier than an Alabama Slammer ever would. Join Gali, Devlin, Patrick & Matt down to Kokomo as they try and fathom why exactly this weird booze movie made SO MUCH MONEY.

OUTRO Song: T-Spoon - 'Sex on the Beach' (1997)

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Smalltown tale-teller Darby O’Gill (Irish stage legend Albert Sharpe) spends his days avoiding his groundskeeper duties by spinning pub yarns of his pursuit of the local Leprechauns and specifically their leader, King Brian Connors (comedian Jimmy O’Dea). Tricked out of his crock of gold, Darby vows to get one over on the wily King Brian when his master hires a younger man to take over his duties, to ensure that his daughter Katie (Janet Munro) can retain her homestead.

We look at the odd inception of this project, as Walt Disney himself sunk almost a decade and a half into its development hoping to strike it rich among the Irish diaspora of the US. We also talk impressive sets, excessive stereotypes, and Patrick’s mischievous devotion to making Devlin sit through musical numbers.

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Straight arrow 2nd generation LAPD Sgt. Ed Exley (Guy Pearce) finds himself embroiled with hot-tempered heavy Officer Bud White (Russell Crowe) and jaded, status obsessed Sgt. Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey) in a sprawling investigation that takes in murder, prostitution, and political scandal, where allegiances, ambition, power and morality come in to question.

The gang discuss 90s plot twists, ensemble casts, noir tropes and, surprisingly, James Cameron’s ego in an episode that’s off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush. Shout out to our listener Oli (@Remedi_RPM) for the recommendation!

Outro Song - Doris Day "Hooray for Hollywood" (1958)

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Accompanied by the capable and noble Moor Azeem (Morgan Freeman), Kevin Costner’s Robin romances the radiant Maid Marion, robs the rich, and rebels against the reprehensible Sheriff of Nottingham (an uproariously pantomime-pitch Alan Rickman) with the assistance of a band of tree-dwelling local folk.

The second Kevins Costner & Reynolds collaboration before the ill-fated Waterworld, this epic romp packs in Brian Blessed, Crystal Maze-esque set design, gleaming white asses in waterfalls and more ill-placed Cornish accents than you can shake a big wooden fighting stick at. Join Gali, Devlin, Patrick and Matt as they take to the trees and relive the summer of Bryan Adams. All together now: ”Look in to my eyes…”

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Robin Hood: The Man, The Myth, The Legend (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Behind the Scenes) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VA2CHj_n0s

OUTRO Song - Bonnie Tyler "Holding out for a Hero" (1984)

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