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Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder PodcastWinona Forever #056 – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay discuss the return of Lydia Deetz and how she's evolved (or not) in this long-time-coming sequel to one of her first and best films.
2025-05-1435 minWinona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast055 Gone in the Night (2022)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay talk about Winona and Dermot Mulroney's confusing return —since How to Make an American Quilt — Gone in the Night. The film can't decide if it's a thriller or a romantic comedy, but it's certainly obsessed with the idea that Winona is old.2025-03-0519 minWinona Forever: The Winona Ryder PodcastStranger Things: Season Four (2022)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay talk about the fourth season of Stranger Things. Winona gets a bit lost in this too-many-plotlines season, but they're still rooting for Joyce Byers.2024-12-1844 minWinona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast053 Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine (2020)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay are back... again! This time they discuss the pandemic-special Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine that follows the titular TikTok star/comedian/political lipsyncer as she tries to host an out-of-control news program (and meets Winona's character — very briefly — along the way). Your hosts recorded this one on 4-track, for technical-difficulty reasons. 2024-10-1724 minWinona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast052 The Plot Against America (2020)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay are back! They're joined by producer Chris to talk about The Plot Against America: a mini-series that was too heavy for most of them to watch during a pandemic and is maybe still too heavy, but they did their duty.2023-09-0651 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast051 When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story (2010)In the final regular episode of Winona Forever, Rekha and Lindsay talk about When Love Is Not Enough -- Winona's Hallmark movie -- and are delighted to find so many classic Winona moments (and so many Canadians!).2020-01-2223 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast050 Stranger Things: Season Three (2019)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay talk about the third season of Stranger Things. Winona is still kick-ass, but this time she's fighting Russians.2020-01-0843 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast049 Destination Wedding (2018)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay talk about Destination Wedding, a film that promised us a long-awaited Keanu and Winona reunion, but delivered the most dislikeable Winona and Keanu imaginable.2019-12-2525 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast048 Stranger Things: Season Two (2017)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay are joined by the host of the podcast Riverdale Rude Dudes (Candace Meeks) to discuss their shared love for Stranger Things Season Two's Joyce Byers, and Bob Newby, superhero.2019-12-1153 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast047 Winona's TV AppearancesIn this episode, Rekha and Lindsay discuss all of Winona's TV guest appearances and discover that she is a brilliant comedic actress.2019-11-271h 06
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast046 Stranger Things: Season One (2016)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay finally discuss season one of Stranger Things, including how smart, strong, and compassionate Joyce is, and how much they love the vindication of women in this season.2019-11-1346 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast045 Show Me a Hero (2015)Rekha and Lindsay discuss the stressful political drama Show Me A Hero, Winona's performance as real-life city councillor Vinnie Restiano, and her latest go at a New York accent.2019-10-3046 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast044 Experimenter (2015)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay discuss the film Experimenter, Winona's love for Peter Sarsgaard, and the ethics of social psychology experiments.2019-10-1640 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast043 Turks & Caicos (2014)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay allowed a TV movie into the podcast with Winona's first political-drama, the star-studded Turks & Caicos.2019-10-0232 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast042 Homefront (2013)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay talk about Winona as an action movie villain and her reunion with James Franco in the Jason Statham action flick Homefront. Our low expectations really worked in this one's favor.2019-09-1830 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast041 Frankenweenie (2012)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay talk about Frankenweenie, an animated film Rekha actually likes and marks Winona's chance to play her iconic dark teen character again.2019-09-0434 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast040 The Letter (2012)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay get brutally honest about The Letter, a very pretentious art film that wants to be Black Swan and Mulholland Drive but just isn't that good.2019-08-2128 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast039 The Iceman (2012)In this episode, Rekha, Lindsay and producer Chris grouse about the sanitized portrayal of mobsters in biopics, as well as Winona as a mob-wife in The Iceman.2019-08-0730 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast038 The Dilemma (2011)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay suffer through The Dilemma despite their mutual hatred for Vince Vaughn. Winona has good hair, though. They show their ignorance of Channing Tatum’s career and then take a deep dive down an IMDb rabbit hole.2019-07-2430 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast037 Black Swan (2010)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay celebrate the escape from the 2000s with Rekha's film school friend Adam Holman. Upon rewatch, they're all reminded that Black Swan is like Mean Girls with body horror.2019-07-1055 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast036 Stay Cool (2009)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay talk about Stay Cool, a film that might contain more Hilary Duff than Winona Ryder, but that features Winona having sex with a guy while they listen to his audiobook.2019-06-2625 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast035 Star Trek (2009)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay are joined by Lee Wiesblatt to talk about Winona as Spock's mom, weird Star Trek-related trivia, and how much this version of Star Trek fails its women. In this episode there were a few things mentioned that we thought might warrant more information. First, our hosts mention the Canadian film Last Night in which guest host Lee Wiesblatt played the younger version of writer/director/actor Don McKellar. Find yourselves a copy so you can see now-internationally-famous-Canadian Sandra Oh and director David Cronenberg act in a 1998 film about the end of the world in...2019-06-1240 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast034 The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay talk about The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, another Winona-Keanu team-up and another film where Winona is barely present and stuck in her purgatory as the secondary, poorly written friend-or-mistress.2019-05-2932 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast033 The Informers (2008)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay talk about The Informers, based on a Bret Easton Ellis book and featuring too little Winona.2019-05-1527 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast032 The Last Word (2008)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay talk about 2008's The Last Word and are surprised to find they liked Ray Romano better than Winona.2019-05-0129 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast031 Nigel Goodall InterviewRekha and Lindsay take a break from the chronology of Winona's movies to talk with Nigel Goodall, the author of the unauthorized biography of Winona Ryder. Stick around until the end to hear the co-hosts debate what's happening with Winona in the 2000s.2019-04-1752 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast030 Sex and Death 101 (2007)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay talk about a small light in the darkness that has been the 2000s for Winona: Sex and Death 101, featuring Winona as a vigilante on a coma spree.2019-04-0333 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast029 The Ten (2007)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay talk about The Ten, an anthology series that had a promising cast but was ruined by rape jokes, puppet sex and librarian stereotypes.2019-03-2035 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast028 A Scanner Darkly (2006)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay talk about cartoon Winona, the history of rotoscoping, and how ugly and distracting Richard Linklater's application of it is in 2006's A Scanner Darkly.2019-03-0650 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast027 The Darwin Awards (2006)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay suggest that the only good thing about The Darwin Awards is David Arquette. That's not a good sign.2019-02-2028 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast026 S1m0ne (2002)In this episode, Rekha, Lindsay, and producer Chris discuss the creepy comedy S1m0ne and its unconvincing premise that a virtual actress is better than Winona.2019-02-0641 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast025 Mr. Deeds (2002)In this episode, the Winona Forever gang reveal how little they know about sports and how much they hate Adam Sandler movies as they talk about Mr. Deeds and its connection to Winona's alleged shoplifting scandal.2019-01-2332 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast024 Lost Souls (2000)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay take you through the qualifications of a future Anti-Christ and count the number of times people other than Winona say "Jesus" in the film Lost Souls.2019-01-0926 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast023 Autumn in New York (2000)In this episode, Rekha, Lindsay, and guest Michelle Lovegrove-Thomson discuss the hilariously out-of-touch Autumn in New York. If you want to hear about Winona as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl and Richard Gere as a guy who says things like, "Women seem to love it when you lie to them," tune in to this episode!2018-12-2636 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast022 Girl, Interrupted (1999)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay talk with writer (and return guest) Anne Theriault about the memoir-turned-movie, Girl, Interrupted. As they all try to remember how they felt about this movie in 1999 vs. today, Rekha and Anne do a deep dive comparison between the book and the movie.2018-12-1259 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast021 Celebrity (1998)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay are forced to watch and discuss Woody Allen's terrible film, Celebrity. Not only do they hate the movie, and its director, but Rekha has nothing nice to say about Winona's hair.2018-11-2816 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast020 Winona Ryder Music Video SpecialIn this episode, Rekha and Lindsay take a break from films to watch all of Winona's music video appearances. Learn what our duo thinks about music in the '90s, what songs were influenced by Noni, and enjoy more talk about Matthew Modine than you might expect, all as part of our Winona Ryder Music Video Special!2018-11-1433 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast019 Alien: Resurrection (1997)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay talk with illustrator and Alien fan Matthew Daley about Alien: Resurrection. Together, they discuss Winona as a tiny action hero, consider what a weird and wonderful thing an Alien movie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and written by Joss Whedon could be, and, of course, celebrate Ripley.2018-10-311h 03
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast018 The Crucible (1996)Rekha and Lindsay talk with Joey Lewandowski (founder of the CageClub Podcast Network) and Samantha Singleton about Winona's intense portrayal of Abigail Williams in The Crucible. Is her character a villain or just not the "good woman"?2018-10-1754 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast017 Boys (1996)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay talk about Boys, a strange film in which Winona is paired with a uncomfortably younger love interest rather than her usual uncomfortably older man. Is this the worst Winona film to date? Listen to find out!2018-10-0329 min
#KeanuClub: The Keanu Reeves Podcast076 Destination Wedding (2018)Destination Wedding marks the fourth pairing of Keanu Reeves with Winona Ryder, and by far their most substantial one to date! To commemorate the special occasion, we had to bring in Lindsay Gibb and Rekha Tulsiram of the Winona Forever podcast to talk about 85 minutes of Keanu and Winona bickering in strangely endearing ways.2018-09-2747 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast016 How to Make an American Quilt (1995)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay talk about the problem with the "chick flicks" label, try to make sense of the convoluted plot of yet another adaptation, and the overall mediocrity of How to Make an American Quilt.2018-09-1928 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast015 Little Women (1994)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay talk with guest, writer Anne Theriault, about Little Women, Rekha's favorite Winona film. Rekha and Anne discuss their long history with the film (including Rekha's fan site from the '90s) and Lindsay shares her fresh take, having just watched it for the first time.2018-09-0545 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast014 Reality Bites (1994)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay talk with journalist Alison Lang about Reality Bites, the iconography of the '90s, the relatability of 20-something-shitheads, and bringing back the term "Outtie 5000."2018-08-221h 03
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast013 The House of the Spirits (1993)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay talk about Winona's third adaptation in a row! Heads fly, tables float and fewer ghosts visit than we would have liked in The House of the Spirits.2018-08-0833 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast012 The Age of Innocence (1993)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay are joined once again by producer Chris to discuss Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence. They talk about Winona's turn as May, the sort-of-villain of the piece, and try to turn one of Scorsese's films into a musical.2018-07-2534 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast011 Dracula (1992)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay discuss Winona's team up with Francis Ford Coppola and her dream cast in Bram Stoker's Dracula.2018-07-1139 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast010 Night on Earth (1991)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay discuss Jim Jarmusch's 1991 anthology film, Night on Earth, in which Winona plays a young (yet wise) cab driver who has a gross habit of chewing gum and smoking cigarettes at the same time.2018-06-2721 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast009 Mermaids (1990)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay discuss the wonders of a good Winona voiceover, a strong first film role for Christina Ricci and the overwhelming strength and beauty of Cher in the film Mermaids.2018-06-1352 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast008 Edward Scissorhands (1990)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay discuss the candy-colored (yet super dark) film Edward Scissorhands. They consider whether or not Edward was human, praise the late-Vincent Price, and talk about Winona as a preppy blonde.2018-05-3033 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast007 Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael (1990)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay discuss one of Winona's best characters, Dinky Bossetti, in the film Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael. They're joined by special guest, musician Matt White, who wrote a song based on the film.2018-05-1637 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast006 Great Balls of Fire! (1989)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay discuss the notoriously creepy Jerry Lee Lewis with Winona Forever producer Chris Landry. In discussing Great Balls of Fire!, they reflect on yet another film in which an adolescent Winona becomes romantically involved with an adult man.2018-05-0233 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast005 Heathers (1988)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay compare their high school days to Heathers and introduce their first special guest, author and cultural critic Soraya Roberts.2018-04-1855 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast004 1969 (1988)In discussing 1969, Rekha and Lindsay talk about the technicalities around Winona's first "real" kiss, the template of '80s Vietnam War movies, and the time Rekha met one of the cast members.2018-04-0428 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast003 Beetlejuice (1988)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay discuss Beetlejuice, Winona's portrayal of the darkly relatable Lydia, and all the incredible characters that came out of this film.2018-03-2130 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast002 Square Dance (1987)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay discuss Square Dance, a film in which a 13-year-old Winona falls in love with 20-something Rob Lowe.2018-03-0721 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast001 Lucas (1986)In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay discuss Winona’s first appearance on the big screen and her limited role as a girl in love with Corey Haim in the 1986 film Lucas.2018-02-2125 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder PodcastWelcome to Winona ForeverIn this introductory episode, Rekha and Lindsay discuss what first drew them to Winona, and what to expect from the podcast.2018-02-0205 min