From the 1988 film My Neighbor Totoro, best known to American audiences from the 2006 English-dub version released by Disney, the titular Totoro has become a brand icon for Studio Ghibli – a silent, imposing counterpart to Mickey Mouse. Written and direct

We’re wrapping up our Kurosawa trilogy with 1958’s The Hidden Fortress. Cited often as one of George Lucas’s direct inspirations for Star Wars, The Hidden Fortress features two bumbling fools, a fugitive princess, a badass swordsman, and a scarred b

We’re continuing the month with Kurosawa’s 1954 film Seven Samurai. Released by Toho Studios the same year as the first Godzilla, Seven Samurai actually cost more than the monster flick and took three times as long to shoot, and though both would be r

We’re kicking Japanese classics month off with Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film Rashomon. Notable for its use of conflicting points-of-view on the same event, Rashomon has become synonymous for storytelling by unreliable narrators or differing takes on a si

We all hoped for a good movie to close out this awful year, but does Wonder Woman 1984 make us want to renounce our wish? Join us for our final review of 2020 and a look back at the year’s top stories. You can also follow us on Twitter @LegendsPodcast

It’s one of the longest, darkest, coldest nights of the year. What better time to talk about child vampires? This week we’re taking a detour from our usual format and comparing the 2008 Swedish film Let the Right One In with its American remake, 2010

The 2005 neo-noir dark comedy caper Kiss Kiss Bang Bang combines Robert Downey Jr.’s charm, Val Kilmer’s swagger, Michelle Monaghan’s legs, and Shane Black’s penchant for setting his movies during the Most Wonderful Time of the Year. You can als

***This cast was nearly lost :/ and barely wrestled back from the missing audio gods…. Sorry for the uneven, sometimes poor audio quality*** We’re joined by author and John Hughes enthusiast D.X. Ferris to unpack the third film in the National Lampoo

The first Bond movie not to be based on an Ian Fleming story, GoldenEye was a huge hit, grossing more than Dalton’s two flicks combined. Directed by Martin Campbell (who would return to introduce a new Bond with Casino Royale) and introducing Judi Dench

Episode Five Hundred of Legends Podcast is here, and we’re going back to where we started: with Ah-nold. Last year’s Terminator: Dark Fate, a reboot/sequel of the long-running franchise, saw the return of Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton, along with