The Rewind Movie Podcast

It’s time… it’s time! It’s time for HalloRe’ewind 2025! Your spirit guides, Matt and Devlin, have returned with a specially selected triple bill each of seasonal tricks and treats.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. Head to rewindmoviecast.com for an extended essay discussing our thoughts on each film, specially created poster art, videos, clips, and a stuffed casketful of other creepy delights. Prints and shirts as always available at deadpenpal.teemill.com Big thanks to Mary for lending her voice to our introduction!

"This isn't the f**king X-Files, goddammit!" No, this is a direct sequel to the surprise 1995 naked Natasha Henstridge sci-fi smash hit... it's Species II.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?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.

Patrick has done it again...he has brought the musical back into the podcast, this time to celebrate the 60th anniversary of The Sound of Music.A year after Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews plays Maria, a nun-turned-governess (so, not at all like a nanny) to the seven unruly children of Captain von Trapp (Christopher Plummer). Her 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.Rewind Movie Podcast merchandise, and shirt designs from some of our favourite films, 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.

Devlin, Patrick, and Matt line up to throw a kettle over a pub as they tackle Gali’s fiendish movie trivia quiz as we celebrate 7 years of The Rewind Movie Podcast.We hope you enjoy it and want to thank you for your support - we really appreciate it.Rewind Movie Podcast merchandise, and shirt designs from some of our favourite films, 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.

This…is a revolution of the mind. We’re screaming for tech support with Cameron Crowe’s 2001 mind-bendy romantic thriller Vanilla Sky.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.Rewind Movie Podcast merchandise, and shirt designs from some of our favourite films, 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.

“Good luck exploring the infinite abyss.” It’s a trip back to smalltown New Jersey with sitcom star-turned-indie auteur Zach Braff and his 2004 directorial debut Garden State.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.Rewind Movie Podcast merchandise, and shirt designs from some of our favourite films, 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.

Our Hail to the King series concludes (for now) with another anomaly from the venerable author's assemblage of adaptations - director Fraser C. Heston's 1993 take on his 1991 megatome Needful Things.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.Rewind Movie Podcast merchandise, and shirt designs from some of our favourite films, 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 feel you will have to deal with this matter in the harshest possible way, Mr. Torrance.” Our Hail to the King miniseries continues with Stanley Kubrick’s now-legendary, then-controversial 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s 3rd novel The Shining.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. Head to our website for an extended introductory essay, and shop merchandise from this episode at Devlin’s webstore.

“I'm uh, investigating a laundry folding machine with a bad case of demon possession.” We’re on the road to haunted Maine for Tobe Hooper’s 1995 Stephen King Bargain Bin curio The Mangler.  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.Rewind Movie Podcast merchandise, and shirt designs from some of our favourite films, 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.