Dec 18, 2020
What happens when someone makes a movie based on what of your favorite books of all time? Gird your literary loins, that's what - because something is likely not to measure up to what you had conjured in your head. Ally & Eric both describe Betty Smith's A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN as their favorite novel of all time,...
Dec 11, 2020
It's been a rough year, folks ... and if you're looking to unwind with a Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn classic, might we suggest ... ANY OF THEM BESIDES THIS ONE?! Okay, it wasn't as bad as all that, but 1945's Without Love isn't the greatest of the bunch. Still, we had a great time talking about why Ricky Ricardo is...
Dec 4, 2020
A fast-talkin' single career gal from New York City who pretends to be a domestic goddess in a wildly popular magazine column is forced to entertain a war hero at her fictional Connecticut farm, and naturally falls for the guy in ... perhaps the most feminist film ever to be made in the '40s? Deborah Randall (Venus...
Nov 27, 2020
Dame Agatha Christie is the bestselling novelist of all time, so it only makes sense that her work would have inspired some amazing film adaptations. 1945's AND THEN THERE WERE NONE is ... not one of them, sadly. But, the Rewinders have a great time talking about it nonetheless, and lots of other films in the murder...
Nov 20, 2020
Seventy-five years ago, Angela Lansbury scored her second Oscar nomination for only her third film, in 1945's THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, a morality tale by the infamous Oscar Wilde. Come for the hot takes about this movie, ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THEIVES, LOVE ACTUALLY, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, and HOCUS POCUS -- and...