Legends Podcast

Fall back in time with Legends Podcast! All month long, we're talking about time travel, paradoxes, and giving yourself the perfect day. Director Richard Curtis helms a quintessentially British time travel movie about love, fatherhood, and family.  About Time stars Domhnall Gleeson as the latest in the line of a family of time-travelers - and all he wants to do is get a girlfriend. With a quirky s...

Fall back in time with Legends Podcast! All month long, we're talking about time travel, paradoxes, and beating yourself up. Before he helmed The Last Jedi, Rian Johnson directed his first sci-fi feature, Looper. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis as a hitman's present and future self, this time travel thriller was a breakout hit that solidified Johnson's status as an ace movie directo...

Stephen King's classic novel of childhood terror got an update last year courtesy of director Andy Muschietti, after the project spent years in development hell. Twenty-seven years after Tim Curry's Pennywise haunted our childhoods, "It" returned once again, this time in the form of Bill Skarsgard. 2017's IT managed to float away with the box office and became the highest-grossing horror film of a...

Panos Cosmatos took film festivals by storm this year with Mandy, a gruesome, neon-tinted revenge film that showcased Nicolas Cage at his most, well, Nicolas Cagey. After the brutal murder of his wife at the hands of religious cult, Cage goes on a killing spree to take down the cult leader and his biker gang henchmen. Guest host Ian Scott Todd from Primal Scenes joins us to delve into what  he cal...

Korean animation director Yeon Sang-ho's first live-action film, Train to Busan, quickly became a breakout hit. Yeon paired intense action with class conflict in the claustrophobic setting of high-speed commuter rail. With an inevitable English-language remake on the way, Legends Podcast jumps aboard the KTX 101 to find out if this zombie flick is worth the trip or if it goes off the rails. This i...

Director Tim Burton is known for his gothic eccentricity and distinctive visual style. Nowhere is this more evident than in his second feature film, Beetlejuice. A tale of death and dismemberment that somehow plays as a family film, Beetlejuice helped propel Burton to Legendary status, as well as cementing the movie star status of Michael Keaton (who would don the cape and cowl for Burton the foll...

Before he took the reins of the Batman franchise in the '90s, director Joel Schumacher helmed a youthful '80s take on the other iconic creatures of the night: vampires. The Lost Boys was an instant classic, but does it still pack a bite after thirty years? We decide to mullet over. This is Legends of Halloween!   Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! These discussions will be spoiler filled and may explic...

Earlier this year, the Mister Rogers documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor? became the highest-grossing biographical documentary of all time. The film was part of the current trend toward docs featuring serious examination of entertainment properties, driven in part by crowdfunding on sites like Kickstarter. This week, we're taking a look at a documentary on another important children's television...

This week we're paying homage to the late, great Burt Reynolds, who passed away earlier this month, with one of his most famous roles. But we're also celebrating the start of football season with a gridiron classic. When a disgraced quarterback runs afoul of the law, he must field a team of hardened convicts to take on the abusive guards in a game behind bars and on the gridiron. The Longest Yard,...

This week we're back to general movie legends after a month of heists and capers, and what better place to start then with a revival of one of the most legendary movie franchises - Rocky. A decade after Rocky Balboa purportedly ended the franchise, and forty years after the original title bout, director Ryan Coogler brings Rocky's rival's son into the ring in Creed. Frequent Coogler collaborator M...

Legends Podcast is cracking open the cinematic vault and bringing you a whole month of cons, capers, and car chases! Whether you're a grifter, a hacker, a freelance spy, a bank robber, or a wheelman, you'll find the big score right here on our podcast. This is Aug-Heist! This week we're talking about Baby Driver from 2017. This film marked the first big-screen outing for director Edgar Wright afte...

Legends Podcast is cracking open the cinematic vault and bringing you a whole month of cons, capers, and car chases! Whether you're a grifter, a hacker, a freelance spy, a bank robber, or a wheelman, you'll find the big score right here on our podcast. This is Aug-Heist! This week we're talking about Inside Man from 2006. This film marked the fourth collaboration between acclaimed director Spike L...

Legends Podcast is cracking open the cinematic vault and bringing you a whole month of cons, capers, and car chases! Whether you're a grifter, a hacker, a freelance spy, a bank robber, or a wheelman, you'll find the big score right here on our podcast. This is Aug-Heist! This week we're talking about Ronin from 1998, which brings together a band of covert operatives in post-Cold War France on the...

Legends Podcast is cracking open the cinematic vault and bringing you a whole month of cons, capers, and car chases! Whether you're a grifter, a hacker, a freelance spy, a bank robber, or a wheelman, you'll find the big score right here on our podcast. This is Aug-Heist! This week we're talking about Sneakers from 1992, which sees the return of Heist-Meister Robert Redford. When a ragtag group of...

                             Legends Podcast is cracking open the cinematic vault and bringing you a whole month of cons, capers, and car chases! Whether you're a grifter, a hacker, a freelance spy, a bank robber, or a wheelman, you'll find the big score right here on our podcast. This is Aug-Heist! This week we're talking about The Sting from 1973, which reteamed the crew of Paul Newman, Robert R...

From the movie studio that brought you Frozen a year later, which probably made you forget this movie existed, comes a tale of a video game villain in search of a higher calling. Combining funky animation with character cameos from across the arcade spectrum, Wreck-It Ralph established the template for overstuffed nostalgia-laden films like The Lego Movie and Ready Player One, not to mention the f...

This week, we're skipping the movie and devoting an entire episode to running down all the news, trailers, panels, celebrity sightings, cosplay, and sweet, sweet swag from San Diego Comic Con. We're joined by the man who was there, Wil AKA Rum Daddy, from the GonnaGeek Network's own erstwhile Flash podcast Crimson Comet. Plus we discuss the weekend's sequel driven box office and react to Disney's...

Join us this week as we dust off AVP and give it a 2nd opinion! Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! These discussions will be spoiler filled and may explicit language, so consider yourself warned.   For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com You can find us on iTunes under ''Legends Podcast''. Please subscribe and give us a positive review. You can also follow us on Twitter @LegendsPodcast or even bett...

In the distant future, a man wakes up in a pod after a thousand years of suspended animation and encounters bug-eyed mutants and a world he doesn't recognize. Bad news, everyone! We're not talking about Futurama. We're discussing the 2009 film Pandorum. Starring Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster, this sci-fi/horror flop found a cult following online, but does the film deserve to make it to the new world...

In honor of the Fourth of July, we're opening the Legends Vault and serving up a retro episode from our storied past. Sit back and enjoy "Independence Day" with John D., Shooter, DefaultProphet, and Xer01 in Legends Podcast #89 from May of 2012. We'll return to our regularly scheduled programming next week with Pandorum! Enjoy the fireworks, and welcome to Earth!   Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! Th...

I live for this sh_t... again!   Spoiler Alert! Spoiler Alert! These discussions will be spoiler filled and may explicit language, so consider yourself warned.   For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com   You can find us on iTunes under ''Legends Podcast''. Please subscribe and give us a positive review. You can also follow us on Twitter @LegendsPodcast or even better, send us an e-mail. You ca...

Twenty-five years ago, an amazing entertainment spectacle showcased a radical new technology that brought extinct creatures to life and captured the imagination of the entire world. The fact that it happened to be a movie about an entertainment spectacle that showcased a radical new technology bringing extinct creatures to life was purely coincidental. Unlike the titular amusement park, the movie...

  Legends Podcast makes a detour to the Western Coast of Australia for a wannabe Tarantino flick from director Kriv Stenders! Co-starring Westworld's Luke Hemsworth (brother of Thor), Kill Me Three Times also brings us Simon Pegg as a sardonic hit man in a layered tale of betrayal and revenge. The movie has more twists than you could shake a didgeridoo at, but is Kill Me Three Times worth watching...

A mere five months after Star Wars: The Last Jedi divided fans with its treatment of beloved characters, Lucasfilm goes back to the well of the franchise's mythos for another anthology piece, this time focusing on a young Han Solo. Although Solo: A Star Wars Story's opening was a box office disappointment, early reviews and fan reaction were positive. Now Legends Podcast is wading into the fracas,...

With Solo: A Star Wars Story hitting the big screen, Legends Podcast takes a look back at another swashbuckling band of spacefaring misfits: the crew of Serenity from Joss Whedon's Firefly. We think Mal and company could sit comfortably beside Han, Chewie, and Lando, so we've picked out a pair of episodes from Firefly's first and only season, "The Train Job" and "Our Mrs. Reynolds," which we think...