Legends Podcast

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...

Legends Podcast is getting into the Christmas spirit with a brand-new movie and a filmmaker interview! When a family's tradition of hand-making Christmas decorations dredges up an old rift between two sisters, it's up to a misplaced wish, a mysterious ornament, and an army of evil tchotchkes to end this family feud. This mash-up of horror and Hallmark movie tropes creates a family-friendly blend o...

The final film in Peter Jackson's adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings came to a conclusion twenty years ago this month. Following the success of the first two films, the question remained whether the third could meet the expectation - and the hype - in the days leading up to its release. Needless to say, the film was a hit on an epic scale, coming in as the top film of 2003 and th...

Christopher Nolan loves playing with time in his films like Memento, Inception, and Tenet and telling stories about the push and pull between family and duty. For his follow-up to The Dark Knight Rises, Nolan plays with both big ideas in a story about a future where mankind's only hope rests among the stars, and a father who must leave his children behind to venture to a new galaxy. Starring Matth...

Doctor Who first hit the airwaves in 1963 - sixty years ago! - but the TARDIS went dark in 1989 for an indefinite hiatus. In the mid-1990s, plans started brew to import the iconic British sci-fi series across the pond to America. The BBC partnered with the Fox network to produce a TV movie, which, if it performed well, could serve as the backdoor pilot for a revived series. English actor Paul McGa...

After lengthy delays due to director turnover, the pandemic, studio shake-ups, and behind-the-scenes drama featuring its lead actor, DC Comics' Scarlet Speedster finally raced onto movie screens this past summer. Director Andy Muscetti helmed the pic, staring Ezra Miller as a Barry Allen who goes back in time to meet another Barry Allen, Sasha Calle as Supergirl, Ben Affleck as Batman and also bri...

We're not ready to leave Halloween behind, so we're kicking off the month with a comedy-horror classic courtesy of Sam Raimi. After spending not one but two sylvan getaways battling Deadites courtesy of the Necronomicon Ex Mortis (in The Evil Dead and Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn), S-Mart employee Ash Williams takes the ultimate unplugged vacation all the way back to the year 1300 in Medieval Englan...

Legends of Halloween draws to a close with a classic from the master of twists, M. Night Shyamalan himself! An isolated 19th century village is surrounded by mysterious woods filled with threatening creatures, but when a terrible crime is committed, a young woman uncovers the village's dark secret. Starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, and Bre...

Legends of Halloween celebrates Lobster's upcoming birthday with a trip to everyone's favorite family fun zone. Where else can you find junk food, arcade games, a stoic Nicolas Cage, pinball, singing animatronic rodents, human sacrifice, and a ball pit? This Five Nights at Freddie's-inspired horror film gained an instant cult following when it debuted on VOD in 2021. Co-starring Emily Tosta, Ric R...

It's a Legends of Halloween Miracle as we conduct our first live interview with filmmakers in 648 episodes! We're talking to director Robyn August, writer and star Tom Kiesche  and production designer and friend of the show Rick Rifle. They're the team behind KillHer, a delightfully retro gorefest from Dark Sky Pictures, available now video-on-demand and in select theaters! We spoil the heck out o...

SPOILER ALERT! This is a brand new movie! Rent it on VOD or go out into the wild and check it out!     Legends of Halloween continues with an extra special installment! We're reviewing an upcoming release for the first time in Legends Podcast history! And that movie happens to be a delightfully retro gorefest from director Robyn Augst and writer Tom Kiesche. When a bride-to-be brings her three bes...

Legends of Halloween continues with more vampire hunting action, this time coutesy of Marvel Comics! Before Bryan Singer's X-Men (2000), before Sam Raimi's Spider-Man (2002), and before Ang Lee's Hulk (2003), director Stephen Norrington launched Marvel to the big screen with his blood-drenched take on the daywalking half-vampire Blade. Played by Wesley Snipes, the film also stars Stephen Dorff as...

Legends Podcast is trick-or-treating this month with a bunch of scary movies! We're kicking the month off with the cult classic collaboration between Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. Half independent crime thriller, half B-movie slapstick gorefest, this 1996 release starred George Clooney, Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Salma Hayek, Cheech Marin, Cheech Marin, and Cheech Marin. W...

Legends Podcast is getting a jumpstart on the spookiest season with the latest installment in the Ghostbusters franchise! Jason Reitman sits in the director's chair in place of his father, Ivan, who helmed the first two. Trading New York City for small-town Oklahoma and introducing a new generation of 'busters including McKenna Grace, Finn Wolfhard, Logan Kim, and Celeste O'Connor, the film also s...

We're blowing into the cartridge and pressing start on the second-biggest movie of 2023 to date! Based on several long-running video games series from Nintendo, this animated movie brings together the voice talents of Chris Pratt and Charlie Day the titular brothers, with Anya-Taylor Joy as the princess, Seth Rogan and Keegan-Michael Key as their allies, and Jack Black as the bad guy. Produced by...