The Rewind Movie Podcast

“Stupid is as stupid does.” We're lacing up our Nikes and just… feel like running with the multi-OSCAR-winning 1994 Robert Zemeckis megahit Forrest Gump.The titular Forrest, Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), born the simple son of a single mother in the Jim Crow South, guilelessly glides through the second half of the American Century in an episodic tale that takes in desegregation, the war in Vietnam, ping pong in Mao’s China, the fall of Richard Nixon, and the attendant political and social upheavals of the Boomer generation.Over 30 years on, does Forrest still offer us a pristine box of chocolates, or has it melted and curdled into a sickly sweet, gooey mess? Rewind Movie Podcast merchandise, and shirt designs from some of our favourite films, are available here.If you have a film you’d like the gang to tackle, send us an email at rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com. For introductions, essays, playlists, and the full back catalogue of episodes and specials, find us at rewindmoviecast.com.

Gali and Devlin are back with another classic Columbo episode discussion - 1977’s Try & Catch Me, featuring Academy Award-winning Hollywood legend Ruth Gordon as an unusually sympathetic perpetrator, a famous mystery novelist driven to kill in revenge. “Is there murder in our civilized hearts? Obviously, there is in mine, and I'm well-paid.”Rewind Movie Podcast merchandise, and shirt designs from some of our favourite films, are available here.If you have a film you’d like the gang to tackle, send us an email at rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com. For introductions, essays, playlists, and the full back catalogue of episodes and specials, find us at rewindmoviecast.com.

“A man who looks at a rock must have a lot on his mind.” James Bond and Sarah Connor face a whole lotta lava in the 1997 disaster epic Dante’s Peak.Bereaved yet dashing volcanologist Harry Dalton (Pierce Brosnan) is dispatched to the titular tiny town that sits nestled beneath a hulking, dormant volcano. Mayor 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.Rewind Movie Podcast merchandise, and shirt designs from some of our favourite films, are available here.If you have a film you’d like the gang to tackle, send us an email at rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com. For introductions, essays, playlists, and the full back catalogue of episodes and specials, find us at rewindmoviecast.com.

“You'll never get anywhere treating your helmet like a lunchbox son.” We’re getting into our three-point stance on the mini gridiron for the 1994 family sports comedy Little Giants.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.Rewind Movie Podcast merchandise, and shirt designs from some of our favourite films, are available here.If you have a film you’d like the gang to tackle, send us an email at rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com. For introductions, essays, playlists, and the full back catalogue of episodes and specials, find us at rewindmoviecast.com.

My wife loves ya! The Rewind Movie Podcast goes small screen as we continue our meandering tour around the career of Steven Spielberg with his feature-length episode of the legendary mystery show Columbo - Murder by the Book. 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. Rewind Movie Podcast merchandise, and shirt designs from some of our favourite films, are available here.If you have a film you’d like the gang to tackle, send us an email at rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com. For introductions, essays, playlists, and the full back catalogue of episodes and specials, find us at rewindmoviecast.com.

“I'd like to report a truck driver who's been endangering my life!” Our Steven Spielberg Series continues with a detour back to where it all started - 1971’s TV movie-turned-theatrical debut DUEL.Mild mannered travelling salesman David Mann (Dennis Weaver) finds himself the unexplained target of escalating threats from a mysterious, smoke-belching truck’s largely unseen 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!Rewind Movie Podcast merchandise, and shirt designs from some of our favourite films, are available here.If you have a film you’d like the gang to tackle, send us an email at rewindmoviepodcast@gmail.com. For introductions, essays, playlists, and the full back catalogue of episodes and specials, find us at rewindmoviecast.com.