Legends Podcasts

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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Legends Podcast #560; Nobody (Action Movies)

The creator of John Wick and director of Hardcore Henry teamed up to create an action-comedy movie starring Better Call Saul actor Bob Odenkirk. What more do you need to know, buddy? Originally postponed by the pandemic, the film was released in theaters

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Legends Podcast #559; Moulin Rouge! (Musicals)

Director Baz Luhrman’s theater-themed “Red Curtain” trilogy drew to a close in 2001 with the follow-up to his breakout hit Romeo + Juliet. As with Baz’s take on The Bard, this film was filled with anachronism. It was a jukebox musical that fused c

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Legends Podcast #558; A History of Violence (Comic Book Movies)

Director David Cronenberg is best known for mind-bending body horror in films like Scanners, Videodrome, and The Fly, but he made his first “comic book movie” in 2005, an Academy Award-nominated adaptation of a graphic novel – and we do mean graphic.

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Legends Podcast #557; The Matrix Resurrections (Sci-Fi)

The Matrix Trilogy redefined action movies, but by the third film in the franchise it had begun to topple under its own weight. The film’s creators, the Wachowskis, seemed to recognize this and went on to other projects, forswearing any future sequels.

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Legends Podcast #556; Romancing the Stone (Adventure)

Robert Zemeckis was an unemployed movie director at the start of the 1980s, but by the end of the decade he was one of the most successful blockbuster directors with films like Back to the Future and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? under his belt. He got his big

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Legends Podcast Bonus; Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Commentary

As a holiday treat, we’re taking a break from our usual format and laying down a commentary track for one of our favorite movies! In the wake of Spider-Man: No Way Home becoming the highest-grossing film since 2019 and the biggest Sony release of all time

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Legends Podcast #555; 8-Bit Christmas (New X-Mas Classic?)

Bob Clark’s 1983 film A Christmas Story has become a holiday classic, but for most kids born in the ‘80s, a Red Ryder BB gun was not at the top of their wish lists. We wanted something a little more high-tech – the Nintendo Entertainment System. HBO M

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Legends Podcast #554; Happiest Season (New X-Mas Classic?)

The Christmas rom-com movie genre got a much-needed update in 2020 from Hulu with the release of Clea DuVall’s semi-autobiographical coming-out comedy-of-Yuletide-errors. Filmed earlier that year just prior to the Covid shutdown, the Pittsburgh-shot hol

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Legends Podcast #553; Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (20th Anniversary)

J.R.R. Tolkien’s massively popular fantasy epic, The Lord of the Rings, was long thought to be unfilmable due to the size and scope of the story and the technology limitations of the times. Kiwi director Peter Jackson proved them all wrong by shooting a

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