Winona 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.
May 14, 2025•35 min
Winona Forever: The Winona Ryder Podcast
Join a pop culture writer and a Winona fanatic as they journey through the entire filmography of Winona Ryder. Whether you love her or don't remember what happened to her between the 80s and Stranger Things, Rekha and Lindsay will enlighten you.
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Episodes
055 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.
Mar 05, 2025•19 min
Stranger 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.
Dec 18, 2024•45 min
053 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.
Oct 17, 2024•25 min
052 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.
Sep 06, 2023•51 min
051 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!).
Jan 22, 2020•24 min
050 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.
Jan 08, 2020•44 min
049 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.
Dec 25, 2019•26 min
048 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.
Dec 11, 2019•54 min
047 Winona's TV Appearances
In this episode, Rekha and Lindsay discuss all of Winona's TV guest appearances and discover that she is a brilliant comedic actress.
Nov 27, 2019•1 hr 6 min
046 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.
Nov 13, 2019•46 min
045 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.
Oct 30, 2019•47 min
044 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.
Oct 16, 2019•41 min
043 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.
Oct 02, 2019•32 min
042 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.
Sep 18, 2019•31 min
041 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.
Sep 04, 2019•34 min
040 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.
Aug 21, 2019•28 min
039 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.
Aug 07, 2019•31 min
038 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.
Jul 24, 2019•30 min
037 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.
Jul 10, 2019•55 min
036 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.
Jun 26, 2019•25 min
035 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-fa...
Jun 12, 2019•40 min
034 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.
May 29, 2019•32 min
033 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.
May 15, 2019•27 min
032 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.
May 01, 2019•29 min
031 Nigel Goodall Interview
Rekha 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.
Apr 17, 2019•53 min
030 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.
Apr 03, 2019•33 min
029 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.
Mar 20, 2019•35 min
028 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.
Mar 06, 2019•50 min
027 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.
Feb 20, 2019•29 min
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