Legends Podcast

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...

Rian Johnson's 2019 mystery-comedy Knives Out carved out $311 million at the box office on a budget of $40 million, making it the second-highest-grossing original movie of the year not based on existing IP. The sequel rights set off a bidding war between the top streamers, with Netflix beating Amazon and Apple with a $469 million offer. Released December 23rd, 2022, the follow-up saw the return of...

We're getting back to our regular programming with a special request from one of our listeners! Following our episode on The Road, listener Jeff shared his  recommendation for another post-apocalyptic movie. According to Jeff, "It's an old one, but it still checks out." Released in 1977, the same year as Star Wars, and two years before Mad Max, this "road movie" see a small group of survivors of W...

We're rolling the final dice of this gambling game we call Aug-Heist, and it just so happens to have 20 sides! After the 2000 film doomed the franchise to the plane of Box Office Oblivion, the Gary Gygax-created tabletop fantasy roleplaying game enjoyed a resurrection thanks to retro references in shows like Stranger Things and web series like Critical Role. Now, the prophecy has been fulfilled an...

Updated audio, beef is sorry Legends Podcast is cracking open the cinematic vault and bringing you a whole month of cons, capers, and car chases! Whether you're a stoic getaway driver, some ne'er-do-well thieves, a misdirection master, or some fantasy friends, you'll find the big score right here on our podcast. This is Aug-Heist!  Director Louis Leterrier brought a kind of magic to the heist genr...

Before he played Ken, Ryan Gosling portrayed a nameless driver in Nicolas Winding Refn's 2011 film based on the James Sallis novel. When a Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver gets romantically involved with his neighbor, he is drawn into a mobster's plot and must use all his skills to stay alive. With an all-star cast including Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, Bryan Cranston, Christi...

And we're on to the film that launched Wes Anderson's directing career! Starring real-life brothers Luke Wilson and Owen Wilson as non-brothers Anthony and Dignan, two friends who commit felonies for fun, along with Robert Musgrave as their friend Bob and real-life third Wilson brother Andrew Wilson as Bob's in-movie brother Future Man and returning Aug-Heist con man James Caan, this caper was mad...

We're starting the month in style with our wildest Aug-Heist pick yet! When a group of seafaring thieves set out to rob a luxury ocean liner, they find a mysterious monster has beaten them to the punch - and they're about to be eaten for lunch! Starring Treat Williams, Famke Janssen, Wes Studi, Kevin J. O'Connor, and Anthony Heald, this heist-slash-disaster-slash-monster movie genre mash-up was wr...

Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost followed up Shuan of the Dead with the second installment of their now so-called Three Flavours Cornetto Triology - or, alternatively, the "Blood and Ice Cream" trilogy - trading zombie movie rom-com parody for buddy cop movies (Point Break or Bad Boys II?) and rural paranoia thrillers like The Wicker Man. When top London cop Nicholas Angel is transferred t...

Based on Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, this post-apocalyptic "road movie" pairs Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee as father and son traversing a hostile landscape. Co-starring Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Michael K. Williams, Garrett Dillahunt, and Guy Pearce - in about one scene each - the film presents a stark and desolate landscape ravaged by a civilization-ending calami...

For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com   It's 1968, One of the most turbulent years in US history.  Richard Nixon wins the election against Hubert Humphrey.  The US is entwined in the war between North and South Vietnam and Lyndon B. Johnson, who is still president, increases our own ground troops to 550,000.  Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy are both assassinated.  The Civil Rights A...

With a lil treat this 4th of July, We re-release our The Vast of Night cast from the early dark days of the pandemic! Have a great 4th     The coronavirus quarantine has been a boon to streaming, but our favorite film of the lockdown is a low-budget, retro, Twilight Zone-esque meditation on the power of storytelling in film. You are entering Legends Podcast. Tonight's episode: The Vast of Night.  ...