Legends Podcast

Mike Judge ruled the '90s with his animated hits Beavis and Butt-Head and King of the Hill. For his first live-action project, Judge drew on his brief career at a Silicon Valley tech firm and his Milton animated shorts to create Office Space, a satire of white-collar workplace life. With an ensemble cast and a gangsta rap-infused soundtrack, Office Space spoke to Gen-Xers who found themselves caug...

Director Steven Soderbergh became the poster boy for independent cinema in the early '90s with sex, lies, and videotape, which made him the youngest director to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes at 26. His career floundered through most of the decade, until 1998 when he released an adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel with two little-known actors named Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney. Out of Sight w...

Troy Duffy's script for The Boondock Saints set off a bidding war, with the ultimate price tag of $450,000, but a troubled production and studio unease following the Columbine school shooting led to the film's release in five theaters for only seven days, grossing a mere $30K. However, the film found glory on home video, becoming a cult classic and earning a sequel a decade later. But does it dese...

We're back in the bathroom of the cinematic calendar - the month of January - and this year we're hitting the bargain bins to dig up some turds from the comic book movie genre. Grab some TP and "goggles up!" because this show is not pretty - this is Canuary! After his low budget superpower flick Chronicle impressed audiences - and, more importantly, the brass at 20th Century Fox - director Josh Tr...

We're back in the bathroom of the cinematic calendar - the month of January - and this year we're hitting the bargain bins to dig up some turds from the comic book movie genre. Grab some TP and recite the oath - this is Canuary!   The DCEU got off to an abortive start when Green Lantern failed to light up the box office in 2011. Starring Ryan Reynolds as a test pilot turned emerald space cop, the...

We're back in the bathroom of the cinematic calendar - the month of January - and this year we're hitting the bargain bins to dig up some turds from the comic book movie genre. Grab some TP (and some Band Aids) because the streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood - this is Canuary! From "visionary director" Zack Snyder comes the long-awaited adaptation of the greatest graphic...

We're back in the bathroom of the cinematic calendar - the month of January - and this year we're hitting the bargain bins to dig up some turds from the comic book movie genre. Grab some TP and take a seat - this is Canuary! This week, we're getting in touch with our feline side and watching one of the worst movies ever made, according to Wikipedia. Released in 2004, starring Halle Berry, directed...

We're wrapping up 2018 with last year's Academy Award winning film The Shape of Water. Starring Sally Hawkins, Richard Jenkins, Michael Shannon, Octavia Spencer, and Doug Jones, the film earned thirteen Oscar nominations and won four, including Best Picture and Best Director for Guillermo del Toro. The Shape of Water delighted audiences and Academy voters with a modern fairy tale set in 1962 Balti...

Legends is celebrating the Christmas season with two modern classics that celebrate their 15th anniversary this year! This week we're talking about 2003's Love Actually, written and directed by Richard Curtis, which spawned a number of holiday themed knock-offs with interconnected characters (Mother's Day, anyone?) and boasted numerous actors in smaller parts who have now achieved mega-stardom. It...

Legends is celebrating the Christmas season with two modern classics that celebrate their 15th anniversary this year! First up is 2003's Elf, directed by Jon Favreau, which spawned a Broadway musical and a TV holiday special, and launched Favreau's career as a blockbuster director. It's now a staple of holiday viewing, but is it a Christmas Legend? Or should this "Elf" stay on the shelf?   Spoiler...

One-hundred and fifteen episodes ago, Wing, Beef, and Shark Taco decreed that Highlander was one of the worst movies they'd ever seen. It joined Spring Breakers at the bottom of the ratings chart, where it has remained until this day. This has stuck in Lobster's craw since he joined the podcast two years ago. Now is the time of The Gathering, when an elderly Spaniard will join Lobster in the fray...

It's the timeless tale of a little boy who lies sick in bed one wintery Chicago day. He plays a video game called "Hardball," produced by Accolade, Inc., in 1985, for the Commodore 64 computer system. It's the bottom of the third inning, and Allen steps up to the plate... What kind of story is this? Is this a trick? I thought we were doing something epic for our Four Hundredth Episode. Keep your s...

Fall back in time with Legends Podcast! All month long, we're talking about time travel, paradoxes, and receiving whalesong. When a mysterious probe threatens Earth, the erstwhile crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise must travel back in time to the '80s to find the only creature that can answer its call - the humpback whale. Wrapping up the trilogy that began with The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek IV: The Voy...

Fall back in time with Legends Podcast! All month long, we're talking about time travel, paradoxes, and being the same forwards as you are backwards. When twelve alien ships arrive on Earth, a linguist must uncover the secrets of their language to discern their true purpose. But the more she learns, the more she remembers... about her future. Director Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi hit, starring Amy Ad...

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...