Rotten Rewind
232 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago - ★★★★★ - 37 ratingsA film podcast that digs through the bottom half of the Rotten Tomatoes barrel to re-evaluate, over-analyze and show our appreciation for all things Rotten.
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Mission: Impossible 2 (with Jourdain Searles)
July 20, 2022 07:01 - 49 minutes - 68.5 MBSUBSCRIBE NOW for early access and exclusive bonus episodes at WWW.PATREON.COM/ROTTENREWIND The "Mission: Impossible" series is the rare Hollywood franchise where each new film somehow manages to top the last. But in the year 2000, the series hit a slight critical bump when John Woo took over for Brian De Palma and delivered what is still the only Rotten entry in the lucrative franchise. Was it the early millennium nu-metal soundtrack featuring Limp Bizkit and Uncle Kracker? Was it the Oakl...
Cocktail & Days of Thunder (with Morgan Maher)
July 13, 2022 07:02 - 1 hour - 110 MBIf you've ever been a bartender, you've heard of Tom Cruise's "Cocktail." You've probably even seen it. Since it's release 34 years ago, the film has become something of a bartender's rite of passage. It's also so much darker than you'd ever think the movie where Tom Cruise flips bottles at a TGIF's would be. For our second installment in our Rotten retrospective on Cruise, we're looking back at 1988's "Cocktail" as well as his 1990 re-teaming with "Top Gun" director Tony Scott for the raci...
Top Gun (with Jake Ures)
July 06, 2022 07:01 - 1 hour - 86.8 MBIs Tom Cruise the last American movie star? For the next four weeks, we'll be diving headfirst into the Rotten filmography of the man that has spent the better part of his career daring God to strike him down. Today, we're kicking things off with the movie that helped catapult him into the A-list and changed blockbuster filmmaking forever: Tony Scott's high-octane bromance, "Top Gun." Cinematographer Jake Ures joins us to unpack the homoerotic tension and Cold War-era propaganda of the fil...
waterworld & escape from LA (with chad alligood)
May 27, 2022 07:01 - 1 hour - 111 MBAfter two months of global destruction, dystopian wastelands and the divorced dads that will do anything to protect their stacked daughters, we say goodbye to our ROTTEN APOCALYPSE miniseries. For our grand finale, we're looking back at one of the most notorious disasters of the 20th century and an underrated late career banger from one of our best directors. First up, it's the infamous 1995 flop "Waterworld" starring Kevin Costner as a half-man/half-fish/100% incel living in a post-apocalyp...
hardware & doomsday
May 20, 2022 08:34 - 54 minutes - 75.2 MBFor our penultimate episode in the ROTTEN APOCALYPSE miniseries, we're talking about two of the most obscure titles in the series: cult director Richard Stanley's 1990 cyberpunk debut "Hardware" and Neil Marshall's 2008 dystopian greatest hits thriller "Doomsday." One of these movies ended up being one of our favorite podcast discoveries yet, while one is definitely one of our least favorite podcast watches to date (hint: the good one is a robot slasher movie featuring a repugnant voyeur who...
tank girl & barb wire (with kae whalen)
May 13, 2022 10:22 - 53 minutes - 73.2 MBPamela Anderson as a bounty hunter who impales nazis with the heel of her stilettos. Ice-T as the leader of a rebel group of half kangaroo men. A Courtney Love produced soundtrack featuring Björk and Face to Face. Lori Petty headlining an MGM-produced adaptation of a cult comic book series. Things that could have only existed in the mid-90s. For the seventh installment of our ROTTEN APOCALYPSE series, we're diving into a pair of steampunk Gen-X flicks that remind us what comic book movies lo...
the island & in time (with logan kenny)
May 09, 2022 07:27 - 1 hour - 111 MBBAYHEM REIGNS we're seguing into post-apocalyptic movies for the second half of our ROTTEN APOCALYPSE series, beginning with two sleek dystopian chase thrillers starring a pair of beautiful white people on the run. first up, it's the return of Michael Bay with his oft-forgotten 2005 sci-fi bomb "The Island" starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson as a pair of clones on the run from an organ harvesting agency in the not-so-distant past/future of 2019. after that, we're heading to the y...
the day after tomorrow & 2012 (with jake ures)
April 29, 2022 08:13 - 1 hour - 110 MBWhat would the disaster movie be without the contributions of German director Roland Emmerich? For over 25 years, Emmerich has made a name for himself destroying cities worldwide, most famously in 1996's "Independence Day". Today on the podcast, we're looking back on Emmerich's magnum opuses: the global warming thriller "The Day After Tomorrow" and the disaster movie to end all disaster movies, "2012". Cinematographer Jake Ures joins us to discuss the effortless charm of John Cusack, Jake Gy...
volcano & san andreas
April 22, 2022 07:08 - 51 minutes - 70.7 MB1997. A time when Tommy Lee Jones could headline a major studio action movie and Los Angeles was still reeling from the Rodney King riots and O.J. Simpson trial. A year when Hollywood gave us two volcano-centric disaster movies, but only one that cut right to the chase and called itself... "Volcano". For the fourth installment in our Rotten Apocalypse series, we're looking back at a pair of Golden State doomsdayers that explore two very different divorced dads and their quests to save (or n...
volcano // san andreas
April 22, 2022 07:08 - 51 minutes - 70.7 MB1997. A time when Tommy Lee Jones could headline a major studio action movie and Los Angeles was still reeling from the Rodney King riots and O.J. Simpson trial. A year when Hollywood gave us two volcano-centric disaster movies, but only one that cut right to the chase and called itself... "Volcano". For the fourth installment in our Rotten Apocalypse series, we're looking back at a pair of Golden State doomsdayers that explore two very different divorced dads and their quests to save (or n...
the day the earth stood still & knowing (with jake ures)
April 15, 2022 07:54 - 1 hour - 115 MBHollywood is in the midst of a serious movie star crisis. in an era of Marvel superheroes and interchangeable Chris's, it's hard to remember a time when we had actual movie stars that could draw audiences to theaters. for our latest chapter in rotten apocalyptic cinema, we're watching the world burn with two of our favorite podcast mack daddies and two of our most timeless leading men: Keanu Reeves and Nicolas Cage. we're discussing two forgotten sci-fi disaster thrillers from the late 2000...
michael bay's armageddon (with nick laskin)
April 08, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 98 MB"Despite what you may have heard, Armageddon is a work of art by a cutting-edge artist who is a master of movement, light, color, and shape—and also of chaos, razzle-dazzle, and explosion." -- Jeanine Basinger, in her essay on Michael Bay's 1998 "Armageddon." if this podcast was made for one director, it would be Michael Bay. for the second installment in our “rotten apocalypse” series, we’re celebrating the ultimate dudes rock disaster banger: “Armageddon.” the 1998 film was many things: t...
don't look up (with morgan maher)
April 01, 2022 09:45 - 1 hour - 84.7 MBin honor of the hell world we currently live in, we're kicking off a 2 month retrospective celebrating one of hollywood's favorite sub-genres: the disaster movie. we're kicking things off with the recent oscar nominated liberal fever dream "don't look up" starring one of the biggest ensembles of proud white folks ever assembled, led by leonardo di caprio and jennifer lawrence as scientists who discover a giant meteor will collide with earth in six months and nobody really gives a fuck. actor...
david lynch's dune (with kelsey holmes)
March 25, 2022 08:18 - 1 hour - 85.9 MBover 35 years before denis villeneuve successfully brought frank herbert's landmark sci-fi novel to the big screen, david lynch entered the pantheon of notorious box office bombs with his own attempt at adapting the famously "unadaptable" classic. with the 2022 oscars finally upon us and denis villeneuve's "dune" more than certain to take home the most awards of the evening, we wanted to take a trip back to 1984 when producer dino de laurentiis thought that he finally had his very own "star ...
jane campion's the portrait of a lady // holy smoke (with lashea delaney)
March 18, 2022 09:32 - 1 hour - 112 MBif there's one win you can count on next weekend at the oscars, it's jane campion becoming only the third woman in nearly 100 years to win best director. in honor of this depressing statistic and campion's legendary 35 year career, we're looking back at two of her biggest critical misfires that aren't the misunderstood masterpiece "in the cut." first up, it's campion's 1996 follow-up to her oscar-winning "the piano" with the nicole kidman-led "the portrait of a lady" followed by the 1999 cul...
roman j. israel // gemini man (with jourdain searles)
March 11, 2022 08:19 - 1 hour - 110 MBfor the next three weeks, we're showing love to some of this years oscar nominees and looking back at some of their biggest critical and financial misfires. this week, two of this years best actor nominees (and two of the biggest stars on the planet) go head to head in a pair of movies that would have crushed in the 90s. first up, it's 2 time academy award winner and 3 time podcast MVP denzel washington in his oscar nominated performance as the titual "roman j. israel, esq." after that, we'r...
batman forever // batman & robin (with kelsey holmes)
March 04, 2022 09:09 - 1 hour - 141 MBto honor robert pattinson in his debut as the sad billionaire vigilante, we're taking a trip back to the mid-90s when joel schumacher ensured that a studio would never greenlight a campy superhero movie again. that's right, we're talking about the '95 megahit "batman forever" with val kilmer, jim carrey, tommy lee jones & a very horny nicole kidman, as well as the unofficial queer canon "batman & robin" wherein george clooney battles arnold schwarzenegger's mr. freeze and battles the twink c...
Freddy Got Fingered & Road Trip (with Olivia Willke)
December 31, 2021 09:02 - 1 hour - 111 MBWhen Roger Ebert gave Tom Green's unhinged feature debut "Freddy Got Fingered" a rare zero star review, he famously said "This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels." He added "The day may come when "Freddy Got Fingered" is seen as a milestone of neo-surrealism. The day may never come when it is seen as funny." Well...
Orange County & Saving Silverman (with Kaycee Felton-Lui)
December 17, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBFor the penultimate episode in our Comedy in the 2000s miniseries, we're diving into the rotten filmography of one of the biggest comedic superstars of the decade: Jack Black. First up, it's the unhinged 2001 buddy/revenge comedy "Saving Silverman" wherein Black co-stars alongside Steve Zahn as two thirds of a Neil Diamond cover band that kidnap their best friend's (Jason Biggs) manipulative girlfriend (Amanda Peet) in hopes of setting him up with a circus acrobat turned nun (Amanda Detmer)....
Josie and the Pussycats & Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (with Ella Talkin)
December 10, 2021 08:31 - 1 hour - 139 MBDuJour means friendship. DuJour means family. DuJour means seatbelts. And most importantly, DuJour means podcast. Illustrator and graphic designer Ella Talkin joins us this week to discuss a pair of early 2000s feminist comedies that updated their respective properties to the candy-colored MTV era of filmmaking. First up, it's the millennial sleepover classic and pop culture satire, "Josie and the Pussycats" starring Rachael Leigh Cook, Rosario Dawson and Tara Reid as the titular Pussycats,...
Dude, Where's My Car? & Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay
December 03, 2021 10:38 - 1 hour - 89.8 MBOur Comedy in the 2000s retrospective wouldn't be complete without a healthy dose of transphobia and lighthearted racism! This week on the podcast, we're taking on a pair of stoner comedies that defined the decade's obsession with buddy comedies steeped in gay panic. First up it's "Dude, Where's My Car?" featuring a pre-"Punk'd" Ashton Kutcher and pre-"Bulletproof Monk" Seann William Scott as a pair of intensely stupid stoners who find themselves immersed in an alien invasion as they search ...
Miss Congeniality & The House Bunny (with Kae Whalen)
November 26, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 101 MBWhile comedy in the 90s and 2000s was dominated by male superstars like Jim Carrey, Adam Sandler and the rise of Judd Apatow, studios were slowly warming to the idea that... women can be funny...? This radical concept was put to work a few times throughout the 2000s, but no movie dominated sleepovers in the early aughts quite like "Miss Congeniality." The Sandra Bullock-starring rom-com/action comedy became an instantly quotable hit amongst millennials and went on to make over $250 million a...
Me, Myself & Irene + Little Nicky (with Nick Laskin)
November 19, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 134 MBFor the second installment of Rotten Comedy in the 2000s, we're checking in with two of the biggest comedy heavyweights of their generation. After dominating comedy in the 90s, Adam Sandler and Jim Carrey were riding high and cashing in on their blank checks in the new millennium. First up, it's the Farrely Brothers follow-up to the massively successful "There's Something About Mary," where the directors re-teamed with Carrey to tackle mental health and cucking with the bi-polar comedy "Me, ...
Scary Movie & White Chicks (with Mariko Enkoji-Busch)
November 12, 2021 09:01 - 1 hour - 102 MBWe’re still steeped in 2000s nostalgia here at the podcast as we kick off our seven week retrospective on comedy in the aughts. An era that began with an overflow of post-"There's Something About Mary" gross-out comedy before transitioning into frat-bro antics in the wake of movies like "Old School" and "Wedding Crashers," before the reign of Apatow exploded in the latter half of the decade with "bromance" comedies like "Knocked Up" and "Superbad." We're kicking off the miniseries with a pai...
Horror in the 2000s Vol. 5: Jason X & Halloween: Resurrection (with Morgan Maher)
October 29, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 133 MBHalloween weekend is finally upon us, which means our five week descent into Horror in the 2000s has come to a close. We couldn’t think of a better way to wrap up our miniseries than by checking in on what two of Hollywood’s most prolific boogeymen were up to at the turn of the millennium. Actor Morgan Maher returns to the podcast to discuss 2001’s notoriously bad 10th installment in the “Friday the 13th” series, “Jason X” (a.k.a. the one where Jason goes to space), as well as “Halloween: Re...
2000s Horror Vol. 4: Cherry Falls & Valentine (with Jourdain Searles)
October 22, 2021 07:27 - 1 hour - 105 MBThe slasher sub-genre was revitalized in 1996 with Wes Craven’s “Scream,” ushering in a whole new era of self-aware slasher films steeped in irony. By the early 2000s though, the genre was on life support yet again. Today, we’re taking a look back at some of the last of the WB-approved era of slasher films with two campy horror flicks that come so, so close to satirizing the genre as “Scream” did in the late 90s. First up, it’s the return of podcast MVP Brittany Murphy in the 2000 cult favo...
2000s Horror Vol. 3: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre & House of Wax (with Nick Laskin)
October 15, 2021 07:50 - 1 hour - 128 MBThe only thing more ubiquitous in horror during the 2000s than torture porn was the onslaught of remakes audiences were inundated with throughout the aughts. Some would argue that, along with "Saw," the Michael Bay school of low budget, gritty, ultraviolent and "realistic" remakes set the tone for horror for at least a decade. Today, we'll be looking back at two nu-metal reboots of two very different horror classics. First up, it's the 2003 reimagining of the 1974 seminal horror classic "The ...
Horror in the 2000s Vol. 3: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre & House of Wax (with Nick Laskin)
October 15, 2021 07:50 - 1 hour - 128 MBThe only thing more ubiquitous in horror during the 2000s than torture porn was the onslaught of remakes audiences were inundated with throughout the aughts. Some would argue that, along with "Saw," the Michael Bay school of low budget, gritty, ultraviolent and "realistic" remakes set the tone for horror for at least a decade. Today, we'll be looking back at two nu-metal reboots of two very different horror classics. First up, it's the 2003 reimagining of the 1974 seminal horror classic "The...
2000s Horror Vol. 2: The Box & The Mothman Prophecies (with Jake Ures)
October 08, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 110 MBWhile torture porn and hard-R reboots of 70s classics were capturing the mood of the Bush-era, the PG-13 horror movie was still thriving throughout the 2000s. After the success of M. Night Shyamalan at the turn of the century, as well as the emergence of Americanized J-horror adaptations throughout the aughts, studios began churning out PG-13 thrillers that were lighter on gore and gratuitous nudity and heavier on jump scares and twists. But not all those films managed to cross over with cri...
2000s Horror Vol. 1: Final Destination & Saw (with Jaime Bolker)
October 01, 2021 07:44 - 1 hour - 126 MBAfter “Scream” revived the teen slasher movie in the late 90s, the genre was on life support again by the early 2000s. But after 9/11 changed the tone of the country, a new wave of horror was ushered in: one that was meaner, grittier, and far more violent than any of the previous decades. Instead of looking for a light escape, Americans seemed angrier and more bloodthirsty than ever. Horror in the new millennium began to reflect that as a new era of franchises satisfied audience’s appetites ...
9/11 at the Movies Pt. 4: Bad Boys 2 (with Logan Kenny)
September 24, 2021 07:53 - 1 hour - 124 MB“I don’t change my style for anybody. Pussies do that.” - Michael Bay This week on the show, we close out our four week retrospective on post-9/11 cinema with what might be the most American film ever made: Michael Bay's "Bad Boys 2." A movie that not only reinvigorated director Michael Bay after his failed attempt to make a more classical wartime romance with “Pearl Harbor,” but also inadvertently reprogrammed audience’s expectations for action movies in the decades to come. A portal into...
9/11 at the Movies Pt. 3: Déjà Vu & The Taking of Pelham 123
September 17, 2021 07:32 - 1 hour - 126 MBWhen discussing the pantheon of the best actor/director collaborations in film, you rarely hear about Denzel Washington and Tony Scott. From 1995 until Scott's untimely death in 2012, the pair worked together on five of the best action films of the 90s and 2000s. While Denzel is one of our most beloved and acclaimed movie stars, Scott long lived in the shadow of his brother, Ridley, mostly written off by critics as a technician and hack. Today on the podcast, we're looking back at their unde...
9/11 at the Movies Pt. 3: Déjà Vu & The Taking of Pelham 123 (with Abid Anwar)
September 17, 2021 07:32 - 1 hour - 126 MBWhen discussing the pantheon of the best actor/director collaborations in film, you rarely hear about Denzel Washington and Tony Scott. From 1995 until Scott's untimely death in 2012, the pair worked together on five of the best action films of the 90s and 2000s. While Denzel is one of our most beloved and acclaimed movie stars, Scott long lived in the shadow of his brother, Ridley, mostly written off by critics as a technician and hack. Today on the podcast, we're looking back at their unde...
9/11 at the Movies Pt. 2: xXx & Shooter (with Morgan Phillips & Jake Ures)
September 11, 2021 08:01 - 1 hour - 157 MBIt’s been 20 years since 9/11 and for this monumental anniversary, we’re paying tribute to two of America’s bravest soldiers: Xander Cage and Bob Lee Swagger. For this jam-packed, very special episode of Rotten Rewind in the 2000s, we’re joined by actor/writer/Swagger Head Morgan Phillips, as well as cinematographer and our in-house 9/11 specialist, Jake Ures, to look back on the cinematic landscape during the War on Terror. This week, we’ll be discussing the 2002 Monster Energy Drink James ...
63: 9/11 at the Movies Pt. 1 // Gone in 60 Seconds & Swordfish (with Nick Laskin)
September 03, 2021 07:19 - 1 hour - 145 MBWhat did action movies look like in that small sliver of time between the dawn of the millennium and the events of 9/11? In our first 2000s miniseries, we'll be looking back at what genre filmmaking looked like before and after September 11th. Today, we'll be joined by podcast regular Nick Laskin to discuss a pair of early aughts action flicks from Bruckheimer protege and music video maverick, Dominic Sena: the 2000 remake of "Gone in 60 Seconds" starring Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Giovan...
9/11 at the Movies Pt. 1: Gone in 60 Seconds & Swordfish (with Nick Laskin)
September 03, 2021 07:19 - 1 hour - 145 MBWhat did action movies look like in that small sliver of time between the dawn of the millennium and the events of 9/11? In our first 2000s miniseries, we'll be looking back at what genre filmmaking looked like before and after September 11th. Today, we'll be joined by podcast regular Nick Laskin to discuss a pair of early aughts action flicks from Bruckheimer protege and music video maverick, Dominic Sena: the 2000 remake of "Gone in 60 Seconds" starring Nicolas Cage, Angelina Jolie, Giovan...
61: Gigli (with Johnny Langan)
August 27, 2021 07:59 - 1 hour - 115 MBWe’re kicking off our monster-sized 2000s Retrospective with what might be the most notorious critical and financial bomb of the decade: Martin Brest’s accidental swan song and the film that might have single-handedly ended the first iteration of Bennifer, “Gigli.” A sensationally weird miscalculation of epic proportions, “Gigli” is the worst film you’ve probably never seen. So, does “Gigli” live up to its reputation? Does anyone walk away from this fiasco unscathed? Was there any version o...
60: The Canyons & I Know Who Killed Me (with Olivia Willke)
August 20, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 139 MBThe tumultuous career of Lindsay Lohan has experienced some of the highest high's and lowest "Loh's" of any young actor we've seen. This week on the show, we're looking back on some of the more pivotal Loh's in Lohan's career: the notoriously rotten "I Know Who Killed Me" and her 2013 soft-comeback, "The Canyons." We're thrilled to be joined again by Olivia Willke, who has come on to defend these Lohan misfires, particularly the Paul Schrader-directed and Bret Easton Ellis-penned "Canyons," w...
59: Addicted to Love & Untamed Heart (with Macy Todd)
August 13, 2021 07:47 - 1 hour - 156 MBHollywood filmmaking peaked in 1993 when actor turned director Tony Bill and stuntman Tom Sierchio teamed up to give America the love story they had been waiting for since the birth of cinema: one in which a small town waitress with terrible taste in men settles for the mentally impaired dishwasher with the heart of a baboon who follows her home and watches her sleep. That’s right, there is a real movie called “Untamed Heart” in which Christian Slater plays a stalker/dishwasher/ferocious rea...
58: The Happening & Old (with Ryan Oliver)
August 06, 2021 07:00 - 2 hours - 172 MBM. Night Shyamalan has had one of the most fascinating, unexpected career trajectories of our lifetime. Over the course of twenty years, Shyamalan has garned Academy Award nominations and billions in global box office while being hailed as the next Spielberg before nearly being laughed out of Hollywood after a series of critical and financial flops. In the last several years, Shyamalan has been experiencing something of a career revival and with his latest movie "Old" opening to number one d...
57: Fast & Furious / F9 (with Nick Laskin)
July 30, 2021 08:21 - 1 hour - 139 MB"It's never goodbye" - Dominic Toretto Our Fast Saga comes to an end this week as we look back at the final rotten installments in the series: 2009's soft reboot "Fast & Furious" and the most recent "F9." Is "Fast & Furious" still the most forgettable, but necessary installment in the franchise? Is "F9" a return to form after the disappointing "Fate of the Furious"? What disturbing haircut will they give Charlize Theron for the final film? Who's the MVP of the Family Cookouts? And most impo...
55: 2 Fast 2 Furious (with Logan Kenny)
July 23, 2021 07:00 - 58 minutes - 80.9 MBEverybody thought "2 Fast 2 Furious" sank the "Fast" franchise for good in 2003. Vin Diesel turned down $25 million to return to the series so he could go off and make another franchise ("xXx") with director Rob Cohen. Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster were out. Even Ja Rule turned down half a million dollars to reprise his role. One thing the sequel did have though: Academy Award nominated director John Singleton. Bringing along his "Baby Boy" breakout, Tyrese Gibson, Singleton steere...
56: The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift (with Logan Kenny)
July 23, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 65.5 MBIf "2 Fast 2 Furious" was a disappointing, but still financially successful sequel, "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" was the death rattle of a franchise dying young. Or so that's what so many thought when Justin Lin's high school/fish out of water spin on the series was released in 2006. In what might be the most 2006 movie ever made, Lin transported audiences to Tokyo and subbed out the angelic crazy ass white boy Brian O'Conner for a troubled high school student with a receding hair...
54: The Fast and the Furious (with Jake Ures)
July 09, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 136 MBIt's hard to believe it's been 20 years since we were first introduced to Dominic Toretto and his family, but this week on the podcast we're kicking off our month long retrospective of one of the most successful film franchises of all time: "The Fast and the Furious." What began as "Point Break" with cars has now become a lucrative nine-film franchise that has seen names like Dwayne Johnson, Charlize Theron and John Cena join the mix as the Toretto Family has graduated from boosting cars and...
53: Velvet Goldmine (with Kae Whalen)
June 25, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 99.8 MBAfter four weeks, we’re saying goodbye to our Queer & Rotten series by paying tribute to one of queer cinema’s most beloved filmmakers, Todd Haynes. We’re excited to be joined once again by Kae Whalen to discuss Haynes’ ambitious third feature, “Velvet Goldmine” starring Christian Bale, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Toni Collette and Ewan McGregor (along with his penis *and* asshole!) We look back at the faux-biopic that shines a light on the glam rock scene in London during the 70s and the bisexual...
52: To Wong Foo & High Heels (with Adrian Elizondo)
June 18, 2021 07:29 - 1 hour - 103 MBFor our third installment of Rotten & Queer, we're thrilled to be joined by actor and flamenco dancer Adrian Elizondo to discuss one of Pedro Almodóvar's rare critical misfires, the 1991 mystery, High Heels and the 1995 cult classic To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar... starring Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes and podcast favorite John Leguizamo as a trio of drag queens on the road. Were the critics right in decrying High Heels as minor Almodóvar? Why do so many people like to sa...
51: Cruising (with Kaycee Felton-Lui)
June 11, 2021 08:08 - 1 hour - 111 MBFor our second installment of Queer & Rotten, we're heading back to 1980 to dissect one of the most controversial movies of the last 40 years: William Friedkin's queer-panic serial killer thriller "Cruising," featuring one of last truly restrained Al Pacino performances. A film that was mired in controversy from the moment it was announced, Friedkin's film became the first studio-funded thriller to set its sights on the queer S&M community. Protests from the New York queer community througho...
50: Gregg Araki's Doom Generation, Living End & Nowhere (with Johnny Langan)
June 04, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 148 MBWe're celebrating some of the most critically defamed queer films of all time this month on the podcast and we couldn't think of a better director to kick things off with than one of the most subversive queer directors of all time, Gregg Araki. Starting in 1992 with Araki's take on the lovers on the run thriller, The Living End and finishing things off with the last two chapters in his Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy, the Rose McGowan-breakout cult hit The Doom Generation and the stacked ensemble...
50: Gregg Araki's Doom Generation, Living End & Nowhere
June 04, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 148 MBWe're celebrating some of the most critically defamed queer films of all time this month on the podcast and we couldn't think of a better director to kick things off with than one of the most subversive queer directors of all time, Gregg Araki. Starting in 1992 with Araki's take on the lovers on the run thriller, The Living End and finishing things off with the last two chapters in his Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy, the Rose McGowan-breakout cult hit The Doom Generation and the stacked ensemble...
49: Den of Thieves & The Ugly Truth (with Morgan Phillips)
May 28, 2021 07:38 - 1 hour - 124 MBThe day has finally come that Rotten Rewind puts some fucking respect on Gerard Butler's name. The Scottish actor has played Dracula and The Phantom of the Opera, he's headlined apocalyptic thrillers and gone toe to toe doing Shakespeare with Ralph Fiennes. Today on the podcast though, we're looking at two very different periods in Butler's career: his late 2000s rom-com phase and his current status as Most Divorced Action Star in America. We're joined by actor, writer and devoted Butler sta...