Legends Podcast is cracking open the cinematic vault and bringing you a whole month of cons, capers, and car chases! Whether you’re a wrongfully-convicted banker or an aspiring fashion designer, you’ll find the big score right here on our podcast. This is Aug-Heist! This week takes us to Maine’s Shawshank Prison for a 1994 film…

This week, we’re visiting L.A. for a 1988 film that takes place almost entirely in one night, in one neighborhood, along Wilshire Boulevard. When a jazz trombonist meets a diner waitress at a museum, sparks fly – up until he gets a phone call telling him the end is nigh! With nukes about to fall,…

This week, we’re wrapping up our great “Mash-Up” picks with a film that combines mystery and comedy by parodying some of the greatest mysteries of our time. Released in 1976 from a script by the great playwright Neil Simon, this “whodunnit?” stars a veritable “who’s who?” of screen royalty, including Peter Sellers, David Niven, Maggie…

This week, we’re eating out with a 1989 cult film from director, writer, and visual artist Peter Greenaway. The film centers on a cook, Richard, played by Richard Bohringer; a thief, mobster Albert, played by Michael Gambon; his wife, Georgina, played by Helen Mirren; and her lover, Michael, played by Alan Howard. Through a series…

We’re celebrating summer by heading to the drive-in! Over the next two weeks, we’re bringing you a double bill of blockbuster movies from last summer. Maybe you saw them, maybe you missed them, but we think you’ll enjoy Last Summer’s Drive-In Movie Double Feature! Hit the restroom, refill your popcorn, and settle in for a…

We’re celebrating summer by heading to the drive-in! Over the next two weeks, we’re bringing you a double bill of blockbuster movies from last summer. Maybe you saw them, maybe you missed them, but we think you’ll enjoy Last Summer’s Drive-In Movie Double Feature! Grab a corndog, tune in your radio, or hang that weird…

Director James Whale brought Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to the big screen in 1931, and followed it up with classics like The Invisible Man, The Old Dark House, and Bride of Frankenstein. Throughout his Hollywood career, Whale lived as an openly gay man, something quite rare in the ’20s and ’30s. Along with his horror pictures,…

This week, we’re celebrating Pride with the movie that brought the drag queen road trip genre to America! Hot on the high heels of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert from 1994 Australia comes this 1995 American release starring Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguizamo. When their car breaks down in small-town…

This week, we’re spending time with Melvin James Kaminsky, better known to the universe as comedy icon and director Mel Brooks! After lampooning westerns, monster movies, and world history, Brooks turned his signature sense of humor to the cinematic sci-fi outings of Star Wars, Alien, 2001, and Planet of the Apes. With an all-star cast…

Aside from the release of Christopher Nolan’s period piece magician caper The Prestige, the year 2006 had one more trick up its sleeve in the form of Neil Burger’s adaptation of Steven Millhauser’s short story “Eisenheim the Illusionist.” Set in turn-of-the-century Vienna, Austria, the film stars Edward Norton as a poor magician who falls in…