Legends Podcast

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the first Godzilla film, Japanese movie studio Toho unleashed a new installment in its historic franchise last year. Set in Japan in the days following World War II, the film serves a prequel of sorts to the 1954 film, introducing a smaller - yet still destructive - version of the kaiju. Led by a dishonored kamikaze pilot, a group of Japanese veterans and ord...

We're rewinding the clock to 2020 with a release of our review (repeating from Legends 246) of Mad Max: Fury Road, the sequel to the recently released Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga film. Believe it or not, we were just starting to hear rumblings of a long-promised Furiosa prequel in development four years ago. But does this mayhem-and-motor oil pyro-technical knock-out still have enough guzzoline in the...

So Spider-less It was held an extra week... Beef is sorry.... From the studio that brought us Venom and Morbius comes the latest attempt by Sony to make a Spider-Man movie without Spider-Man in it! When Cassandra Webb's mother is bitten by a magic spider, she grows up with the power to see the future. But even she couldn't predict that this movie would be crowned the worst of the year. Starring Da...

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On burst onto the internet stage in 2010 with a three minute YouTube video. In three short videos, the world fell in love with the tiny, soft-spoken, introspective mollusc as he showed us his everyday life in a human-sized home. Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp and voiced by actress Jenny Slate, Marcel's adventures jumped to the big screen in 2021 with a feature length f...

Putting a new spin on the traditional coming-of-age teen movie, director Emma Seligman mashes up The Breakfast Club with Fight Club for an action-packed, surreal romp through high school. Starring Rachel Sennot and Ayo Edebiri as two lesbians who start a "self-defense" club to get girls, this 2023 film explores the life of the "untalented gays" at Rockbridge Falls High School as they deal with foo...

Thirty years ago, Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich launched a franchise with this blockbuster movie starring Kurt Russell and James Spader - though maybe not in the way they expected. When an Egyptologist decodes the symbols on an ancient artifact, the U.S. military opens a portal through the stars leading to another galaxy. On the distant world, they must lead a rebellion against the sun god Ra to...

Legends Podcast is coming to you from ITHACON! Recorded on April 27, 2024, Legend's Podcast's very own Jonolobster moderated "Re-Awakenings: Disney's Gargoyles 30th Anniversary Panel," the very first panel of ITHACON 47! Join Joe Rybandt, Executive Editor at Dynamite Entertainment, the publisher of Gargoyles' record-setting revival, and other panelists for a discussion of the show's history, its c...

In honor of Disney's Gargoyles 30th Anniversary - and Lobster's recent panel at ITHACON - we're watching the four-part "City of Stone" saga from the classic Disney Afternoon series. When Demona broadcasts a magic spell that turns every human in Manhattan to stone at night, the Gargoyles must team up with their enemy, Xanatos, to break the spell. Meanwhile, the nature of Demona and Macbeth's relati...

We're heading back to Rebel Moon for Part 2! After Part One - A Child of Fire lit up Netflix screens in December of last year, we had to wait four months for the second half of Zack Snyder's Seven Samurai in Space. Now, it's here, and it is indeed a movie that we have seen. But was it worth the wait or was it better off left to our imagination? And how does it compare to that other Part 2 of a sci...

*** Sorry for this being released again, and out of order. The original got deleted somehow... sorry again*** Patrick Swayze's career hit its peak in the late '80s and early '90s, cementing his status as a Hollywood hearthrob. In the span of five years from 1987 to 1991, he starred in megahits Dirty Dancing, Ghost, Point Break, and this 1989 movie about a bouncer hired to clean up a rowdy honkyton...

We're on the road (house) again with the remake! Swapping the Kansas City suburbs for the Florida Keys, this Amazon MGM release - exclusively on the Prime Video streaming platform - trades Patrick Swayze for Jake Gyllenhaal as the man named Dalton who gets hired to clean up a rowdy bar. Produced once again by Joel Silver, this time around The Bourne Identity and Edge of Tomorrow director Doug Lima...

Bruce Willis was at the height of his career in the early '90s, with Die Hard and Die Hard 2: Die Harder securing his spot in the action movie pantheon. However, a 1991 release threatened to derail this trajectory. The flop in question concerns a recently-paroled cat burglar who is swept up in an international conspiracy to steal the pieces of a gold-producing alchemy machine invented by Leonardo...

This 2022 film, from the directing duo known as Daniels - Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert - tells the story of a middle-age laundromat owner who taps into the multiverse in order to repair her relationships with her family. The mind-mending flick was Everywhere during awards season last year, taking home two Golden Globes, four Critics Choice awards, and a BAFTA. The film won almost Everything it...

In 1974, Roman Polanski (now a fugitive, convicted sex criminal) directed a script from Robert Towne for a film produced by Robert Evans. Set against the backdrop of Los Angeles in the 1930s, this neo-noir mystery explores wealth, power, and water in a city that is always thirsty for more of all three. Starring Jack Nicholson as private detective J.J. "Jake" Gittes, the film also features Faye Dun...

Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's self-published comic, the absurdly-titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, hit shelves 40 years ago. Since then, it's been a Saturday morning cartoon (or three), two live-action movie franchises, a toy aisle staple, and a dubious rock-n-roll stage show. The latest animated iteration, from Seth Rogan, Evan Goldberg, and Mitchells vs. The Machines director Jeff Rowe, upd...

Legends has reached that fateful number - Six Hundred Sixty-Six - and we're celebrating with an appropriately devilish movie. After his wife delivers a stillborn baby, an American diplomat adopts an orphan. Then, a series of mysterious circumstances lead him to suspect the boy may be the Antichrist. Starting Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw, and Harvey Stephens as Damien, di...

Football season may be over, but we're going into overtime with an ESPN documentary from the 30 for 30 series. From 1990 to 1993, the Buffalo Bills ascended to the heights of NFL greatness, winning four consecutive AFC Championships. With a locker room filled with big personalities, including future Hall of Famers Jim Kelly, Bruce Smith, Thurman Thomas, and Andre Reed, led by legendary coach Marv...

We're doing the other half of Barbenheimer with Christopher Nolan's biopic about the head scientist behind the Manhattan Project! Starring Cillian Murphy as the titular physicist, the film features an all-star cast including Emily Blunt, Florence Pugh, Matt Damon, and Robert Downey Jr. The first film Nolan released with a studio other than Warner Brothers, bringing in $959.9 million for Universal....

Happy Valentimes! Legends Podcast is getting in the mood with a classic rom-com from 2009. Starring Sandra Bullock (2009's The Blind Side) and Ryan Reynolds (2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine) as a publishing exec and her assistant who try to pull off a Green Card marriage, the film was a hit that grossed over $300 million at the box office. Helmed by Anne Fletcher, the director of 27 Dresses, and c...

Everybody get dressed! Legends Podcast is going out to eat! From director Mark Mylod comes a tale of wealth, class, and the perils of haute cuisine. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Ralph Fiennes, Hong Chau, John Leguizamo, Janet McTeer, and Reed Birney, the movie presents a seven-course meal that starts with oysters and ends with slaughter. The screenplay by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy was...

Emerald Fennell played Midge in Barbie last week, but she is the director of this week's movie. When an Oxford scholarship student befriends the son of a wealthy family, their summer holiday is filled with sex, lies, and bathtub shenanigans. Starring Barry Keough, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E. Grant, and introducing Alison Oliver, the film had a limited theatrical run before becoming one...

The cinematic cultural phenomenon known only as Barbenheimer roller-bladed into theaters last summer with the force of an atomic explosion. The double-feature from those ingenues of cinema verite, Greta Gerwig and Christopher Nolan, promised to be the box office event of the summer, along with all the meme culture meets pop culture cachet that came with it. While both films performed well, the for...

Director Zach Snyder signed on to make a Star Wars movie back in 2012, shortly after the franchise was purchased by Disney. When that film never materialized, Snyder redeveloped the project for Netflix in the shape of Rebel Moon, a sci-fi epic about an evil empire determined to crush an uprising on a distant colony. Part one of two-part opening debuted late last month, quickly becoming the top fil...

We're kicking off 2024 with an absolute banger from last year: the long-awaited follow-up to 2018's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse! Where the first film introduced us to Miles, Gwen, Peter B., and taught us that anyone can wear the mask, the new film blows the dimensional barrier wide open and calls in the Spider Society, a league of extraordinary arachnids with the mission to protect the multi...

Legends Podcast puts the missile in mistletoe with a bloody take on a Christmas movie! When a disenchanted Santa Claus gets caught up in a home invasion, he has to give out lumps of coal to everyone on his naughty list. and he's all out of coal, so they'll just have to take their lumps! Starring Stranger Things' David Harbour, this Die Hard meets Miracle on 34th Street mashup takes the violence up...