Thirty years ago, Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich launched a franchise with this blockbuster movie starring Kurt Russell and James Spader – though maybe not in the way they expected. When an Egyptologist decodes the symbols on an ancient artifact, the U.S

Legends Podcast is coming to you from ITHACON! Recorded on April 27, 2024, Legend’s Podcast’s very own Jonolobster moderated “Re-Awakenings: Disney’s Gargoyles 30th Anniversary Panel,” the very first panel of ITHACON 47! Join Joe Rybandt, Execut

In honor of Disney’s Gargoyles 30th Anniversary – and Lobster’s recent panel at ITHACON – we’re watching the four-part “City of Stone” saga from the classic Disney Afternoon series. When Demona broadcasts a magic spell that turns every human in

We’re heading back to Rebel Moon for Part 2! After Part One – A Child of Fire lit up Netflix screens in December of last year, we had to wait four months for the second half of Zack Snyder’s Seven Samurai in Space. Now, it’s here, and it is indeed a m

Patrick Swayze’s career hit its peak in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, cementing his status as a Hollywood hearthrob. In the span of five years from 1987 to 1991, he starred in megahits Dirty Dancing, Ghost, Point Break, and this 1989 movie about a b

We’re on the road (house) again with the remake! Swapping the Kansas City suburbs for the Florida Keys, this Amazon MGM release – exclusively on the Prime Video streaming platform – trades Patrick Swayze for Jake Gyllenhaal as the man named Dalton who get

Bruce Willis was at the height of his career in the early ‘90s, with Die Hard and Die Hard 2: Die Harder securing his spot in the action movie pantheon. However, a 1991 release threatened to derail this trajectory. The flop in question concerns a recent

This 2022 film, from the directing duo known as Daniels – Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – tells the story of a middle-age laundromat owner who taps into the multiverse in order to repair her relationships with her family. The mind-mending flick was Eve

In 1974, Roman Polanski (now a fugitive, convicted sex criminal) directed a script from Robert Towne for a film produced by Robert Evans. Set against the backdrop of Los Angeles in the 1930s, this neo-noir mystery explores wealth, power, and water in a ci

Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird’s self-published comic, the absurdly-titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, hit shelves 40 years ago. Since then, it’s been a Saturday morning cartoon (or three), two live-action movie franchises, a toy aisle staple, and a du