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Unkind Rewind
by Munch Casts
Presented by Munch Casts: A podcast inspecting our filmic nostalgia with hosts Josh Duggan, Sean McGrath, and a special guest each week. Examining whether their favorite movies have stood the test of time, Unkind Rewind revisits (and potentially ruins) the beloved movies of our youth, one guest at a time. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unkind-rewind--6119307/support.
Episodes
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Lifeforce with musician/podcaster Conan Neutron
Yes, we're back with an extra special bonus episode where Conan Neutron (of Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends, Conan Neutron's Protonic Reversal, and Movie Night Extravaganza) revisits Tobe Hooper's follow-up to Poltergeist, the 1985 cautionary tale about space travel with sexy space vampires,...
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Announcing Our Next Bonus Movie Lifeforce (and Talking Oscar Nominations)
Yes, we're back with another bonus episode where Josh and Sean talk about this year's Oscar nominations along with setting up next week's brand new bonus Main Event on Tobe Hooper's follow-up to Poltergeist, the 1985 cautionary tale about space travel with space vampires, Lifeforce, which we'll…
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Excalibur with film critic Chad Byrnes
In a break from our regular format, we were joined once again by friend of the pod Chad Byrnes, film critic at LA Weekly and The Village Voice, to talk about a film he feels strongly enough to have a tattoo inspired by it. This time, it's Josh and Sean who have not seen in full since they were...
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Happy Holidays
Obviously we're between proper seasons of the podcast, but that doesn't mean we don't love y'all, as we hope this week's and next week's Bonus Episodes show you. Sean and Josh chat about this year's films as awards season begins its ramp-up, Josh surprises Sean with a blast from the past, and…
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Robin Hood with filmmaker Nick D'Agostino - Main Event
Our guest, filmmaker Nick D'Agostino, was so obsessed with the 1973 animated version of Robin Hood that as a child, family vacations had to happen at places with VCRs where he'd subject his extended family to multiple viewings of Robin Hood and The Lion King. Nick had not seen it though since he...
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Qs and Tease with filmmaker Nick D'Agostino
This week, Josh and Sean are pleased as punch to be joined by filmmaker Nick D'Agostino, who recently relocated from Austin to New York. He talks growing up in the Boston area with older parents, obsessive adolescent movie-watching habits, and hustling on the film scene in Austin. And of course…
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Black Widow with actress Laura Faye Smith - Main Event
Actress extraordinaire Laura Faye Smith comes to the Unkind Rewind to revisit this erotically charged thriller she watched with her mother as a teen to see if it holds up. How would the pairing of Theresa Russell and Debra Winger play nearly 40 years later? Would the titular femme fatale's modus...
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Qs and Tease with actress Laura Faye Smith
After catching up on pod biz, Sean and Josh sit down and chat with actress Laura Faye Smith, talking growing up watching movies with mom, relocating to Los Angeles, playing as yourself in video games, and all things acting before diving into the movie for next week featuring a key performer's...
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The Sting with Forrest Miller of Movie Night Extravaganza - Main Event
With a chance to pull a Robert Redford film from his list, Josh and Sean jumped at the chance to talk about this 1973 Best Picture winner with Forrest Miller, the host of Movie Night Extravaganza. It's impossible to talk about this without talking about certified hot dudes Robert Redford and Paul...
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Qs and Tease with Forrest Miller of Movie Night Extravaganza
After Josh and Sean catch up on pod biz, they are joined by Forrest Miller, the host of Movie Night Extravaganza. He tells how he got into the podcast game and then we dive into his youth in The City and then Upstate before chatting about what he recalls of next week's all-time classic that's...
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Clue with Kt Baldassaro of Movie Runtime and What If I Don't Like It? - Main Event
How would revisiting beloved childhood staple Clue treat Kt Baldassaro (of Movie Runtime and the podcast What If I Don't Like It?) after not having watched it in at least 20 years? Would the Howard Hawksian cadence tickle her fancy as much as it had when she was young? Would the constant groping...
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Qs and Tease with Kt Baldassaro of Movie Runtime and What If I Don't Like It?
After marking some milestones, Josh and Sean are visited by some former guests. Then Josh sits down with Kt Baldassaro, who does Movie Run Time and the podcast What If I Don't Like It and was formerly a co-host on Movie Night Extravaganza, talking growing up in New York, life in film, and about…
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The NeverEnding Story with Steve Miranda - Main Event
Animal-loving writer and TV/film worker Steve Miranda grew up loving The NeverEnding Story, but he hadn't seen it in roughly 30 years and his memory of the film was surprisingly hazy. Could his aversion to revisiting this film have been because part of him knew it wouldn't hold up, or would the...
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Qs and Tease with Steve Miranda
After the guys discuss Canada and Sean bullies Josh about musicals, they sit down with writer and TV and film jack of all trades Steve Miranda to talk about growing up in the greater LA area, cat-dadding, and his experiences with next week's wildly popular film that everyone over 35 not named…
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Risky Business with Rangers prospect writer Scott Lucas - Main Event
How did revisiting Risky Business for the first time in about 30 years treat our special guest, longtime baseball scribe Scott Lucas? Was his recollection of the goings-on in the film even remotely accurate? Was Tom Cruise's then-rising star undeniable? Could a teen movie where said star ran a...
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Qs and Tease with Rangers prospect writer Scott Lucas
Josh and Sean sit down with long-time Rangers writer Scott Lucas, diving into his youth in suburban Texas and what it was like writing about baseball on the internet before it was a thing people did before getting down to brass tacks and diving into his memories involving a film that birthed a…
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Urban Cowboy with actor/sketch comic Lori Ferraro - Main Event
Come on down to Gilley's where the women are wholly unfamiliar with brassieres, the men are all scumbags, and the mechanical bull is the only way to show you're a boss. Yes, we hopped on the bull and lasted longer than eight seconds with the 1980 romantic(?) drama Urban Cowboy, which our guest…
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Qs and Tease with actor/sketch comic Lori Ferraro
Josh and Sean pick up the scraps from last week's episode on Can't Buy Me Love, then they sit down and get to know Portland actor and sketch comic, Lori Ferraro, getting into her Italian-American youth in New York and then Florida, moving across the country for college, and how next week's film…
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Can't Buy Me Love with improv comic and actress Canedy Knowles - Main Event
It had been a few decades since Canedy Knowles last saw the 1987 teen rom-com Can't Buy Me Love. Would time prove kind to this film for which she had a fondness? Were her memories of a film in which the kindly young nerd version of that man who would become McDreamy teaches the coolest girl in...
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Qs and Tease with improv comic and actress Canedy Knowles
Josh and Sean pick up the scraps from last week's episode on Just One of the Guys, and Josh wonders how Sean's still standing after all his traveling. Then they sit down and get to know the comedy powerhouse Canedy Knowles, getting into her youth in the Valley, writing, directing, and performing…
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Just One of the Guys with Stewart Parker - Main Event
Austin's finest art handler Stewart Parker joins Sean and Josh to talk about a film they all grew up with and were revisiting with the perspective of a more discerning adult than that of their younger selves who may have been seeking out the 1985 gender-bending teen comedy and HBO staple Just One...
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Qs and Tease with Stewart Parker
Josh touches on the first round of listener feedback, his appearance on Movie Night Extravaganza to discuss Jackie Brown, and then talks briefly about this week's guest. Then Josh and Sean sit down with the best fine art handler in all of Austin (and maybe the world) Stewart Parker. We dive into...
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Fried Green Tomatoes with Gabe Joyner of SVU Pod: Especially Heinous - Main Event
With Gabe Joyner of SVU Pod: Especially Heinous making herself comfortable in our guest's seat again this week, we grab the cellophane and hop a train to Alabama, where we'll just have to hope Chris O'Donnell isn't torn from our lives in the messiest way possible by the mode of transportation...
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Qs and Tease with Gabe Joyner of SVU Pod: Especially Heinous
Sean and Josh get back together to talk for the first time in a couple months, catching up on what's been happening since the last episode of Season Two, including talking about Josh's appearance on Movie Night Extravaganza to discuss Jackie Brown. After getting that out of the way, they sit down...
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Space Jam with Maayan Olshan - Main Event
New father (congrats on #2!) and parkour/mindset coach, Maayan Olshan joins the pod to proselytize about the 1996 Michael Jordan/Looney Tunes flick, Space Jam. While Maayan can't get enough of this treasured childhood mainstay, Josh and Sean had no childhood affinity for the film. Would his...
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Qs and Tease with Maayan Olshan
After wrapping things up on Gymkata and Pump Up the Volume, Sean and Josh sit down with our next guest Maayan Olshan to talk parkour, being a new father, mindset coaching, and about his childhood with movies. That includes a youth spent loving a very popular film that neither Sean nor Josh saw...
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Pump Up the Volume with Conan Neutron - Main Event
Sean and Josh talk all things Pump Up the Volume with Conan Neutron, of the weekly podcasts Conan Neutron's Protonic Reversal and Movie Night Extravaganza and of the rock band Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends, whose brand new album The Way of the Neutron dropped this week and can be streamed or...
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Qs and Tease with musician/podcaster Conan Neutron
After dispatching of last week's film Gymkata from atop a pair of pommel horses at the village's center, Sean and Josh sit down with Conan Neutron, of the weekly podcasts Conan Neutron's Protonic Reversal and Movie Night Extravaganza and of the rock band Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends, whose...
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Gymkata with Greg Schaum - Main Event
Greg Schaum--former Royals post-game radio host, baseball advisor/agent, Director of Player Development, and current Partner and Director of Sports Recruiting at Klutch MFM--joins us to look back at the film he grew up loving that boldly asked the question: What if we took an Olympic-level…
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Qs and Tease with Greg Schaum
After putting a bow on St. Elmo's Fire and discussing the Oscars, Josh and Sean sit down with Greg Schaum, former baseball advisor/agent, Director of Player Development, Royals post-game radio host and current Partner and Director of Sports Recruiting at Klutch MFM. We talk chasing dreams…
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St. Elmo's Fire with author Chelsea Cain - Main Event
Chelsea Cain--the best-selling author of Heartsick and the subsequent five books in the Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell series, which count themselves amongst the more than a dozen books and comic book series on her bibliography--sits down with us to talk about the movie from which the term…
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Qs and Tease with author Chelsea Cain
After tying up some Phase IV loose ends, Josh and Sean sit down with Chelsea Cain, the best-selling author of Heartsick and the subsequent five books in the Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell series, which count themselves amongst the more than a dozen books and comic book series on her...
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Phase IV with Mightie Minx - Main Event
Neither Josh nor Sean had ever even heard of Phase IV when Mightie Minx submitted her list, but when they saw that it was the only feature directed by graphic design legend Saul Bass--who'd created some of the most striking opening title sequences in cinematic history--they knew they couldn't...
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Qs and Tease with Mightie Minx
After catching up on pod business from the Dreamscape eps with Ted Douglass, UKRW sits down with the Mightiest Minx in the former Royals/Chiefs Twitterverse that's since migrated to other platforms, Tori. If you thought last week's film was an odd one, wait until you see what Tori brought along...
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Dreamscape with actor/sketch comic Ted Douglass - Main Event
Portland-based actor, sketch comic, writer, director, producer, and bon vivant, Ted Douglass comes back this week to discuss the largely forgotten Dennis Quaid star-vehicle from 1984, Dreamscape. Do the film's creators have grounds for a lawsuit against Christopher Nolan for having totally stolen...
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Qs and Tease with actor/sketch comic Ted Douglass
After Josh and Sean catch up on pod business from the last two movies covered, they sit down with Portland multi-hyphenate creative (he can write, he can act, he can direct, he can produce--what can't he do???) Ted Douglass for a raucous journey through his childhood spent mostly in suburban...
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park with Summer Santos Webber - Main Event
Joined by Summer Santos Webber, we talk about one of the top grossing films of the 1990s, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, a movie she so badly wanted to see she built her birthday party around it that year. How did it play now to Summer? How did it play now to Sean and Josh, who didn't have...
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Qs and Tease with Summer Santos Webber
Join us as we chat with Summer Santos Webber, denizen of all corners of the internet, digging into what she remembers about one of the top grossing films of the 1990s, a movie she so badly wanted to see that it was what she did for her birthday party that year. What does she recall? How does she...
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Cloak & Dagger with musician/comic Mike Wiebe - Main Event
Comic and lead singer of Riverboat Gamblers and Drakulas, Mike Wiebe joins us to revisit this surprisingly dark youth-oriented film that puts young Davey Osborne through the ringer in a Hitchcockian wrong man--er, wrong boy tale of international intrigue and kids out on the town. Kindertrauma...
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Qs and Tease with musician/comic Mike Wiebe
This week, Sean and Josh talk with musician/comedian Mike Wiebe, who music fans would know as the frenetic frontman of both the bands Riverboat Gamblers and Drakulas and who comedy fans would know as half of the comedy duo the McCuewans in addition to his more than a decade doing stand-up. We…
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Tuck Everlasting with Karyn Raynor of Chick-Lit, with Karyn and Aubree - Main Event
Having rewatched the beloved teen romantasy flick from her youth, 2002's Tuck Everlasting, Karyn Raynor of Chick-Lit, with Karyn and Aubree, is forced to reckon with its highly problematic (and later stolen) premise in which a 15-year-old girl is groomed by a 104-year-old immortal man in the body...
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Qs and Tease with Karyn Raynor of Chick-Lit, with Karyn and Aubree
Join us as we chat with Karyn Raynor of Chick-Lit, with Karyn and Aubree, digging into what she remembers about a beloved film adaptation of a teen romantasy book that was a bit of an awakening for Karyn and a movie neither Sean nor Josh had any relationship with before this podcast. We also talk...
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Brainstorm with Leo Allen of Voluntary Input and Profound Simplicity - Main Event
We throw on the helmet and strap in for a weird, wild ride this week as we watched the 1983 sci-fi family dramedy Brainstorm, featuring the ill-fated star-crossed lovers Christopher Walken and Natalie Wood, in the film that would prove to be her last, as she died tragically and mysteriously while...
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Qs and Tease with Leo Allen of Voluntary Input and Profound Simplicity
After Sean and Josh catch up on things after a few months down between Seasons 1 and 2, Josh sits down with our special guest for this week and next, Leo Allen, who shares a soft spot in his heart for next week's film, which is simultaneously not well known and yet somewhat significant,...
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Angel Heart with Adam Schwitters of Munch My Benson - Main Event
At the age of 9, a friend's dad traumatized his own son and Munch My Benson's own Adam Schwitters by gleefully letting them watch the darkly sexual and extremely messed up 1987 Mickey Rourke/Lisa Bonet/Robert De Niro gothic horror noir set in 1950s New York and New Orleans, Angel Heart. The first...
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Qs and Tease with Adam Schwitters of Munch My Benson
After Sean and Josh prepare you for the coming weeks without the podcast in the penultimate episode of Season 1, they welcome occasional Unkind Rewind co-host and full-time Munch My Benson co-host Adam Schwitters to the podcast. When Adam was a wee lad of 8, he saw a film that he was roughly ten...
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The Craft with Tasha Crawford of SVU POD: Especially Heinous - Main Event
Tasha Crawford--half of the inimitable hosting duo of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit podcast SVU POD: Especially Heinous--joins us this week to expose to the possibility of ruination The Craft, a formative film she loved as a teen. How would this very 1996 film play in 2024? Would its…
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Qs and Tease with Tasha Crawford of SVU POD: Especially Heinous
After Sean and Josh talk about white stuff, namely Sox and buffaloes, the gents of Unkind Rewind are graced by the presence of Tasha Crawford, one of the inimitable hosts of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit podcast SVU POD: Especially Heinous. Tasha has some all-time great stories in…
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Return to Oz with Max Rieper of Royals Review - Main Event
Having rewatched the nightmare fuel that is 1985's Return to Oz, we sat back down with our special guest, Max Rieper, the managing editor for Royals Review, who contrary to his peers not only loved this film as a child but felt this film was superior to its predecessor The Wizard of Oz because it...
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Qs and Tease with Max Rieper of Royals Review
After Sean tells of a harrowing trip to the cinema, we sit down with our very special guest for this week and next, Max Rieper, the managing editor for Royals Review, to take a trip down memory lane and discuss his childhood standing on an island loving this next film. That it was nightmare fuel...
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Presented by Munch Casts: A podcast inspecting our filmic nostalgia with hosts Josh Duggan, Sean McGrath, and a special guest each week. Examining whether their favorite movies have stood the test of time, Unkind Rewind revisits (and potentially ruins) the beloved movies of our youth, one guest at a time.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/unkind-rewind--6119307/support.
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Presented by Munch Casts: A podcast inspecting our filmic nostalgia with hosts Josh Duggan, Sean McGrath, and a special guest each week. Examining whether their favorite movies have stood the test of time, Unkind Rewind revisits (and potentially ruins) the beloved movies of our youth, one guest at...
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