Legends of Halloween celebrates eight hundred episodes with the thirteenth. Friday the 13th, that is! Courtesy of Listener Matthew, we’re recording a never-before-recorded review on Legends Podcast of the slasher film that set Jason Voorhees, that hockey-mask-wearing, machete-wielding, unstoppable killing machine, loose on the world. Well, kinda. We’ll get there in a minute. With a…

Legends of Halloween starts early this year with Rita’s pick, a 2003 horror flick that remakes a 1971 hit. The film stars Crispin Glover as a misfit who befriends a colony of rats living in his basement, later using them to get revenge on those who have wronged him. Written and directed by The X-Files…

Legends of Halloween starts early this year with Rita’s pick, a 2003 horror flick that remakes a 1971 hit. The film stars Crispin Glover as a misfit who befriends a colony of rats living in his basement, later using them to get revenge on those who have wronged him. Written and directed by The X-Files…

The year is 2027, and for the past two decades, humans have been unable to reproduce. The infertility crisis has brought the globe to the breaking point, with Britain now a totalitarian, anti-immigrant state. Clive Owen plays Theo, a depressed bureaucrat tasked by his insurgency leader ex, played by Julianne Moore, with escorting a woman…

Last week, we talked about Song Sung Blue, Neil Diamond, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This week, we’ve got another color, musical icon, and Midwestern city in mind: purple, Prince, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Yes, the Purple One himself makes his feature film debut in this 1984 Albert Magnoli-directed rock opera. By 1984, Prince had already established himself…

For her 2025 release pick, Rita selected a film with loads of local Milwaukee flair. Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson play Mike and Claire Sardina, a real-life Neil Diamond tribute duo known as Lightning & Thunder. Documentary filmmaker Greg Kohs captured the couple’s attempted comeback in a 2008 festival favorite, where Hustle & Flow director…

From the depths of his birth year – 1980 – Beef brings us a tale of horror and suspense based on Stephen King’s classic novel. Yes, for the second month in a row, Beef picked a movie based on a story by Stephen King. Redrum! Redrum! Redrum! Yes, it is that movie, the one directed…

Aug-Heist comes to a close with this 1995 Michael Mann film starring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, sharing screen time for the first time in their careers. Mann already made this movie once, in 1989 as a made-for-TV movie called L.A. Takedown. In this iteration, De Niro plays the leader of a sophisticated band…

Our first-ever Aug-Heist pick, 1973’s The Sting, saw Paul Newman and Robert Redford re-team with director George Roy Hill for a Depression-era crime caper. Now, we’re reviewing the 1969 film that brought the three of them back together for the first time. The film, from a script by legendary writer William Goldman, is loosely based…

In 2021, I, Tonya and future Supergirl director Craig Gillespie unleashed the live-action origin story of Disney’s 101 Dalmatians baddie Cruella De Vil. Emma Stone dons the iconic black-and-white wig as the dognapping fashionista, here an orphaned up-and-coming designer in ’70s punk rock London who also does crime. Emma Thompson plays her foil, the Baroness,…