Legends Podcast is heading to Korea for Netflix’s most successful original release ever! Based on – holy moley – this is an original I.P.?! It’s not a comic or video game? Wow! Based on an original idea by co-director Maggie Kang, this 2025 film from Sony Pictures Animation centers on an all-girl trio of K-pop…

Court is in session on this 2001 Reese Witherspoon star vehicle, based on the book by Amanda Brown, who channeled her own real-life experiences as a blonde Stanford law student into a book that sparked a studio bidding war. Reese Witherspoon faced her own struggles landing the lead role after being typecast as Tracy Flick…

Today on LEGENDS PODCAST, we’re diving into a visually driven, dialogue-free sci-fi story set entirely to Daft Punk’s Discovery. Directed by Leiji Matsumoto, it’s a masterclass in music-led storytelling and stylized world-building. Quick note—our guy Lobster is out this episode, holding it down at South by Southwest. We’ll carry on without him. Let’s get into…

We’re dropping our first listener pick of 2026, and it comes from twenty-five years ago, courtesy of Listener Bryan. In 2001, actor-turned-director Peter Howitt released his sophomore film (following 1998’s Sliding Doors), a techno-thriller with a hot young cast including Ryan Phillippe, Claire Forlani, and Rachael Leigh Cook. In the film, tech mogul Gary Winston…

Aspiring screenwriter Max Frye wrote a spec script in film school about a straitlaced yuppie’s “best worst night ever,” which his agent later told him would be perfect for either Martin Scorsese or Jonathan Demme to direct. Since Scorsese was busy on another “yuppie’s best worst night ever” movie, After Hours, Demme ended up getting…

Nineteen Seventy-Six. America’s bicentennial was a great year for cinema, with films like A Star is Born, King Kong, All the President’s Men, Carrie, and The Omen heating up the box office, and instant classics Rocky and Network earning the most accolades. After a six-decade career in the director’s chair, Alfred Hitchcock released his last…

One of the breakout hits of 2016 was this based-on-a-true-story tale of the first manned missions to outer space. Focusing on the black women at NASA – mathematicians, engineers, and computers – who made these early spaceflights a reality through sheer brainpower while often going unrecognized for their contributions, Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and…

Nineteen Eighty-Three was a great year for cinema. Scarface. The Big Chill. The Outsiders. Risky Business. The Right Stuff. Videodrome. Return of the Jedi. And to represent the year he was born, Lobster picked… this movie. Based on their breakout characters from the sketch comedy show SCTV, Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis star as Canadian…

Director Guillermo del Toro has been making movies about monsters his entire career, from Mimic to Hellboy to Pan’s Labyrinth to The Shape of Water. His most recent film, an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s ultimate monster story from 1818, is the culmination of del Toro’s long-held dream to breathe new life into his favorite novel…

In 2017, Hugh Jackman led an ensemble cast in a musical based on the life of circus ringmaster P.T. Barnum, which proved to be a smash hit at the box office. Co-starring Zac Effron, Michelle Williams, Rebecca Ferguson, Paul Sparks, and including Zendaya, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Keala Settle, Sam Humphrey, Eric Anderson, and Natasha Liu…