Legends Podcasts

Legends Podcast #570; Death on the Nile (Murder Mystery)

Director Kenneth Brannagh released two films in 2021. One of them was nominated for seven Academy Awards, seven Golden Globes, and six BAFTAs – winning Best Original Screenplay, Best Screenplay, and Outstanding British Film, respectively. The other one is

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Legends Podcast #569; Last Night in Soho (Thrillers)

The swingin’ Sixties have long been Hollywood’s playground. Most films romanticize the era’s free spirits and even freer sexual attitudes in a time of social change and historical upheaval. While recent nostalgia trips like Once Upon a Time in Holly

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Legends Podcast #568; Lake Placid (RIP Betty White)

Betty White’s film and television career spanned seven decades and was filled with reinvention. From radio actress to game show staple, from a Golden Girl to being Hot in Cleveland, she never failed to leave us laughing. In 1999, she played a foul-mouth

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Legends Podcast #567; The Godfather (50th Anniversary)

Fifty years ago, Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Mario Puzo’s bestselling novel premiered in movie theaters to near-universal acclaim, spent twenty-three consecutive weeks at number one at box office, and became the highest-grossing movie of all-

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Legends Podcast #566; 8 Mile (Musicals)

Twenty years ago, Eminem was one of the most successful – and divisive – recording artists in the world. He was a white rapper from the poor suburbs of Detroit whose meteoric rise to fame was perhaps only eclipsed by his ability to cause controversy with

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Legends Podcast #565; The King’s Man (Action Movies)

Director Matthew Vaughn’s series of Kingman films, based on the comic book by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons, focus on a secret British intelligence agency. A prequel, also directed by Vaughn, telling the origin story of the Kingsman during The Great War,

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Legends Podcast #564; Free Guy (Video Game Movies)

Canadian treasure Ryan Reynolds has gone from rom-com star to failed DC superhero to successful Marvel anti-hero, as well as doing action movies with The Rock and playing a Pokemon. He returned to the video game genre with his most recent film, playing a

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Legends Podcast #563; The Harder They Fall (Action Movies)

Director Jeymes Samuel’s debut film brings together the all-stars of the American Wild West – Nat Love, Rufus Buck, Marshall Bass Reeves, “Stagecoach” Mary Fields, and “Treacherous” Trudy Smith, among others – all real-life historical figures, a

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Legends Podcast #562; The Warriors (Action Movies)

Director Walter Hill’s third movie adapted source material based on Greek history following an army of soldiers on a long march home across hostile territory. In this case, the soldiers are a group of street toughs making their way across a 1970s New Y

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Legends Podcast #561; Big Trouble in Little China (Action Movies)

Director John Carpenter always wanted to make a martial-arts movie. He got his chance with his eighth feature film – and his third time teaming up with actor Kurt Russell – an action-comedy set in the mythical and murky underworld of San Francisco’s Ch

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