Legends Podcast

Here we discuss Entertainment Legends, and Legendary entertainment. Cult, Classic, New, Old, Original, Sequels, Reboot, Remake, Web, TV, Comic, Video Games and more, for better or worse. Come listen to a rotating cast of hosts (including some special guests) as we comment on our favorite entertainment.

Legends Podcast is a member of the GonnaGeek Podcast Network but is not owned by GonnaGeek.

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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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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