Legends Podcasts

Legends Podcast #699; Legends of Halloween: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Legends of Halloween has come to the end of the road. A twisty cliffside road high in the Carpathian Mountains. And at the end of that road, there is a castle. Owned by a kindly old count named… Vlad. The year is 1992 and Francis Ford Coppola is bringin

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Legends Podcast #698; Legends of Halloween: The Fly (1986)

This week, Legends of Halloween checks in with the inventor of pod casting, Seth Brundle. Brundle, played by Jeff, uh, Goldblum, is a reclusive scientist on the cutting edge of baboon-killing technology. While trying to crack the code of instantaneous tel

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Legends Podcast #697; Legends of Halloween: Color Out of Space (2019) feat. ITHAQA Comic Book Creator Michael Watson

Legends of Halloween takes a detour into Lovecraft Country with special guest comic book author Michael Watson. Based on the 1927 short story, H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space” follows the aftermath of a mysterious meteorite that crashes on

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Legends Podcast #696; Legends of Halloween: Death Becomes Her (1992)

Legends of Halloween gets in touch with its inner girl with a 1992 “satirical surrealistic black comedy fantasy film” – and yes, that’s how Wikipedia categorizes it. Directed by Back to the Future and Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Helmer Robert Zemeckis,

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Legends Podcast #695; Legends of Halloween: Van Helsing (2004)

Legends of Halloween is back for another spooky season with a throwback from twenty years ago, which is itself a throwback to the classic Universal Monster movies. Director Stephen Sommers had found success five years earlier in reanimating another Univer

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Legends Podcast #694; The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)

Nineteen-eighty-four launched a number of sci-fi/comedy franchises, including Ghostbusters, Gremlins, The Toxic Avenger, and the continuation of series like Star Trek and Indiana Jones. Meanwhile, action/comedies like Beverly Hills Cop and Romancing the

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Legends Podcast #693; Listener Jeff’s Rebel Moon Director’s Cut Review (2024)

We’re joined by listener Jeff to present his exhaustive (and exhausting) take on Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon director’s cut! Clocking in at six hours and seventeen minutes, Jeff took on the Herculean task of watching the entire saga in one sitting, whi

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Legends Podcast #692; The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)

We’re back with a film about filmmaking, spycraft and celebrity, starring the one and only Nicolas Cage. In the movie, Cage plays a fictionalized version of himself, down on his luck and struggling to connect with his teenage daughter, when a wealthy fan

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Legends Podcast #690; Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

I am awaited! After a long time away, a bombastic veteran makes a triumphant return to the stage that made him famous. I’m talking, of course, about director George Miller, the driving force behind the Mad Max films since the first one hit the gas in 19

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