Legends Podcasts

Legends Podcast #580; The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Pride Month)

It’s Pride Month and Legends Podcast is celebrating all colors of the cinematic rainbow with four films featuring LGBTQIA+ stories. This week, we’re headed to the Land Down Under, where the wind does blow and men dress like sheilas in Stephan Elliott’s 19

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Legends Podcast #579; Moonlight (Pride Month)

It’s Pride Month and Legends Podcast is celebrating all colors of the cinematic rainbow with four films featuring LGBTQIA+ stories. Next up is Barry Jenkin’s 2016 look at black and queer masculinity throughout three phases of a young man’s life. The

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Legends Podcast #578; Bound (Pride Month)

It’s Pride Month and Legends Podcast is celebrating all colors of the cinematic rainbow with four films featuring LGBTQIA+ stories. First up is a lesbian crime caper from 1996 that also happens to be the directorial debut of the Wachowski siblings. Star

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Legends Podcast #577; Spider-Man (20th Anniversary)

Twenty years ago, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man swung onto the big screen for the first time. A cinematic version of one of Marvel Comics’ most prominent heroes had been in development since the ’80s, with names like James Cameron attached. Sony e

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Legends Podcast #576; Top Gun (Action Movies)

Before Top Gun: Maverick jets onto movie screens this weekend after a two-year delay, we’re rewatching the original blockbuster that earned Tom Cruise his action hero wings. Co-starring Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards, Val Kilmer, and Tom Skerrit, it wa

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Legends Podcast #575; The Last Blockbuster (Documentaries)

Imagine if podcasting had existed 20 years ago, before streaming video was readily available. If all three of us wanted to watch the same movie at home on the same day, unless it was on TV, we’d have to go to the video store. Most likely, it would have

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Legends Podcast #574; CODA (Oscar Winners)

This year’s Academy Awards ceremony was nothing if not surprising. You could even call it, if you will, an about-face that rocked the Oscars, where the most powerful statement was made not with words, but with hands. I’m referring, of course, to Troy

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Legends Podcast #573; The Blues Brothers (Musicals)

Director John Landis and actor John Belushi had already made a hit film together – 1978’s National Lampoon’s Animal House – when they teamed up with Dan Ackroyd to make movie based on Belushi and Ackroyd’s Saturday Night Live characters. The resulting fil

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Legends Podcast #572; The Batman (Comic Book Movies)

We’re back with another take on DC’s Comics’ Caper Crusader. This time, Dawn of the Rise of the War for the Planet of the Apes director Matt Reeves offers his film noir spin on the World’s Greatest Detective, starring Robert “Robbat Battinson”

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Legends Podcast #571; Nightmare Alley (Film Noir)

Among the nominees for Best Picture at last month’s Academy Awards was director Guillermo Del Toro’s follow-up to his 2017 Oscar winner The Shape of Water. Starring Bradley Cooper as a down-on-his-luck carnie with a mysterious past, this remake of the

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