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Unkind Rewind

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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82:53

Robin Hood with filmmaker Nick D'Agostino - Main Event

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/11/01

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 was about 10 years old. Would it pass the test of time for not only Nick, but hosts Josh Duggan and Sean McGrath, who also grew up with a fondness for this film, or would it crash and burn? Why didn't Nick

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79:11

Qs and Tease with filmmaker Nick D'Agostino

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/10/24

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, we talk about his experiences with a treasured film from his childhood with which we surmise the entire audience at home has a relationship. Next week's film is currently available on Disney+.Nick D'Agostino

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130:50

Black Widow with actress Laura Faye Smith - Main Event

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/10/18

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 operandi make sense? Would there be enough for Winger and Russell to do as one chased the other across the country? Could the extremely brief appearances of Diane Ladd and Dennis Hopper be made sense of

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84:50

Qs and Tease with actress Laura Faye Smith

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/10/10

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 return to the Unkind Rewind for the second time this season. Next week's film is currently available on most major VOD platforms for a few bucks and can be streamed free on Hoopla. It can also be found

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131:59

The Sting with Forrest Miller of Movie Night...

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/10/04

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 Newman atop the bill here. We dig into why Forrest didn't recall much of the plot of the film, how much fun the big con was, and what went into the making of this film, complete with prank wars, lawsuits,

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62:07

Qs and Tease with Forrest Miller of Movie Night...

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/09/27

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 certainly appropriate to do now.Next week's film is currently available on major VOD platforms for a few bucks, but it's definitely worth plopping down a little coin. It can also be found streaming extralegally

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125:45

Clue with Kt Baldassaro of Movie Runtime and What If...

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/09/19

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 and leer of the male gaze rankle her now that she was an adult? Would the three endings still play as an ingenious plot device or did they now play as contrived and ill-conceived? The answer to those

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83:10

Qs and Tease with Kt Baldassaro of Movie Run Time and...

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/09/12

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 her relationship to next week's rambunctious movie with which everyone should have a relationship.Next week's film is currently available on MGM+ and on most VOD platforms for a few bucks.Kt Baldassaro can be

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90:47

The NeverEnding Story with Steve Miranda - Main Event

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/09/05

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 smash international hit prove to have much more going for it than he'd have guessed? Was its reliance upon practical effects and a largely unknown cast going to be a credit to the film and director Wolfgang

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52:43

Qs and Tease with Steve Miranda

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/08/29

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 Josh Duggan watched and loved growing up.Next week's film is currently available on Crunchyroll and on most VOD platforms for a few bucks or you can watch the extended version here.Steve Miranda can be found

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109:14

Risky Business with Rangers prospect writer Scott...

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/08/22

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 cathouse out of his parents' suburban Chicago home with sex worker as his co-conspirator hold up the the scrutiny of four decades of evolving social mores and norms? Would Rebecca De Mornay teach Sean he's

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50:50

Qs and Tease with Rangers prospect writer Scott Lucas

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/08/14

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 star we still have to reckon with today.Next week's film is currently only available on most VOD platforms for a few bucks.Scott Lucas can be found on BlueSky and his website scottlucas.com. Go here to find

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106:26

Urban Cowboy with actor/sketch comic Lori Ferraro -...

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/08/07

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 Lori Ferraro grew up watching as she and every woman in America seemed to lust after a cowboyed up John Travolta. But how would Bud Davis play in 2025? Was this still his film, or was he outmatched by Sissy

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72:18

Qs and Tease with actor/sketch comic Lori Ferraro

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/07/31

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 hit her in her youth.Next week's film can be found on most VOD platforms and MGM+.Lori Ferraro can be found on Instagram and Facebook.All music in the show was composed by Divorcio Suave. Josh Duggan can also

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145:21

Can't Buy Me Love with improv comic and actress...

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/07/25

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 school about the value of hard work something that would bear true upon revisiting the film, or was the real premise of the film considerably darker than she'd recalled? Did Patrick Dempsey still play a cute

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72:14

Qs and Tease with improv comic and actress Canedy...

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/07/17

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 in improv, and touching on a bit of prepping before diving into her memories of yet another Arizona-set teen movie to enter into the Unkind Rewind's annals.Next week's film can be found on most VOD platforms

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123:05

Just One of the Guys with Stewart Parker - Main Event

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/07/12

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 of the Guys for some of its more prurient content. Was Just One of the Guys as sex-fueled as they'd remembered? Did Bruce Springsteen's then-girlfriend Joyce Heyser afford herself well when tasked to play a

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50:40

Qs and Tease with Stewart Parker

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/07/03

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 what life was like before we all had the internet in our hands at all times, what it was like growing up in Odessa with a single mom who was a movie nut, and the inability of the pre-internet male to just

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121:12

Fried Green Tomatoes with Gabe Joyner of SVU Pod:...

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/06/27

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 around which our lives now rotate. Along the way, we'll furtively fall in love with the Marys, but not in a way that anyone will explicitly know because Hollywood can't handle it. What Hollywood CAN handle,

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72:39

Qs and Tease with Gabe Joyner of SVU Pod: Especially...

Unkind Rewind ·

2025/06/19

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 with the inimitable Gabe Joyner, tattoo artist extraordinaire and co-host of SVU Pod: Especially Heinous, discussing growing up in Wisconsin, making friends while stabbing them over and over with needles,

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