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.

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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.

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“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.

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