Legends Podcasts

Legends Podcast #522; The Boys in the Band (Gaypril)

Playwright Mart Crowley’s The Boys in the Band opened in 1968 as an Off-Broadway production with a limited engagement – just five curtain calls. However, the show’s popularity led to a change in venue to a larger theater where it ran for 1,001 performance

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Legends Podcast #521; But I’m a Cheerleader (Gaypril)

Director Jamie Babbit made her feature debut in 1999 after she found success at Sundance with her short film Sleeping Beauties. Starring Natasha Lyonne as a high school cheerleader sent to conversion therapy camp, the film also features Clea DuVall and Me

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Legends Podcast #520; Brokeback Mountain (Gaypril)

Director Ang Lee had already achieved international success when he took the helm of an adaptation of Annie Proulx’s short story that was co-written by Lonesome Dove author Larry McMurty. Starring Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal as two cowboys who carry

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Legends Podcast #519; Heavenly Creatures (Gaypril)

Director Peter Jackson rose to prominence directing horror-comedies, but it was his 1994 film Heavenly Creatures that earned him international recognition and his first Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay with his partner, Fran Walsh. Retelling

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Legends Podcast #518; Zack Snyder’s Justice League

Four years after its original release, the fifth film of the DCEU is back on screens courtesy of HBO Max. Zack Snyder’s Justice League, however, presents an almost entirely different vision from Joss Whedon’s theatrical version, and is the direct resu

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Legends Podcast #517; Last Action Hero (Arnold)

The career of action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger is full of hits, but 1993 handed him his first major flop. Following his career-defining performance in Terminator 2: Judgement Day, the John McTiernan-directed spoof Last Action Hero saw Arnie play a fictio

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Legends Podcast #516; The Town (St. Paddy’s Day)

After facing a career downturn and seeing his personal life turn to tabloid fodder, Ben Affleck solidified his status as an actor-director with his sophomore outing, 2010’s The Town. Starring Affleck, Rebecca Hall, Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm, and Pete Postel

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Legends Podcast #515; Lockout (Sci-Fi)

In 2012, the French sci-fi action film Lockout asked the question: what if Luc Besson ripped off John Carpenter’s Escape from New York? When a convicted ex-soldier is asked to infiltrate a floating maximum-security prison to rescue a member of the First

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Legends Podcast #514; Cube (Sci-Fi)

In 1997, the Canadian sci-fi horror film Cube asked the question: what if six strangers were trapped in a maze filled with traps and the only way for them to escape was by using… math? Okay, so on paper Cube is a movie that should not work. It was made

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Legends Podcast #513; One Night In Miami… (Black History)

The global box office shut down has led many theatrical releases to seek other avenues for distribution – including films seeking award recognition. Earlier this year, Amazon Prime released One Night in Miami…, which is the first film directed by Regina

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