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 Brendan Gleeson, Shymalan’s third film since his breakout hit The Sixth Sense was a box office success ...
Oct 31, 2023•57 min•Ep. 650
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 Reitz, David Sheftell and Beth Grant, it beat the actual Five Nights at Freddie’s film (out this week...
Oct 25, 2023•46 min•Ep. 649
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 of the movie and talk behind-the-scenes secrets, so be sure to watch before you listen! Watch KillHer:...
Oct 23, 2023•45 min•Ep. 65535
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 besties on a camping trip, chaos soon breaks loose and the bodies start piling up. Is the mysterious reclus...
Oct 18, 2023•43 min•Ep. 648
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 the villanous Deacon Frost and Kris Kristofferson as Blade’s mentor and armorer, Whistler. The film ...
Oct 11, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 647
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. When two bank robbers kidnap a family to escape south of the border, they make a pitstop at a all-nig...
Oct 04, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 646
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 stars Carrie Coon and Paul Rudd as the grownups and features cameos from the original cast. Released ...
Sep 27, 2023•49 min•Ep. 645
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 Illumination, the studio behind the Despicable Me and Minions movies, the film super-smashed box off...
Sep 20, 2023•46 min•Ep. 644
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 Daniel Craig’s Southern sleuth Benoit Blanc, with another all-star cast of characters populating th...
Sep 14, 2023•51 min•Ep. 643
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 World War 3 attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland to where they hope more survivors are livin...
Sep 07, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 642
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 and a big-budget version was unleashed in theaters in March of this year. Starring Chris Pine, Michell...
Aug 30, 2023•55 min•Ep. 641
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 genre with this 2013 breakout hit. Featuring a stacked deck of an ensemble cast, including Jesse Eisenber...
Aug 23, 2023•50 min•Ep. 640
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, Christina Hendricks, Ron Perlman, and Albert Brooks, the film won Refn the Best Director award at Cannes. O...
Aug 16, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 639
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 made for $5 million but only grossed about $500,000. Nevertheless, critics did take note, with Martin S...
Aug 09, 2023•58 min•Ep. 638
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 written and directed by The Mummy’s Stephen Sommers. Released in January 1998, the film sank like a st...
Aug 03, 2023•52 min•Ep. 637
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 to a quaint countryside village and is saddled with inept partner, he begins to suspect that the town...
Jul 27, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 636
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 calamity. (And no wonder - they shot it in Pittsburgh!) Following McCarthy’s passing last month at age 89,...
Jul 19, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 635
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 Act is passed. Riots outside the Democratic National Convention in Chicago breakout and Chicago’s mayor ord...
Jul 12, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 634
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. For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com You can find us on iTunes under ''Legends Podcast''. Please s...
Jul 04, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 65535
Director Rachel Mason set out to make a documentary about her parents’ bookstores in the West Hollywood and Silver Lake neighborhoods of Los Angeles. For much of her childhood, Karen and Barry Mason kept the nature of their business a secret from Rachel and her brothers, but the children later learned that their mother and father’s stores were at the center of gay culture in L.A. In a true story that spans the struggle for gay rights, the porn industry, the AIDS crisis, the moral panic of the 19...
Jun 28, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 633
Based on a true story - sort of - this Elizabeth Banks-directed film bit off a chunk of the box office earlier this year. In the style of Snakes on a Plane and Sharknado, its absurd title promised campy animal chaos that audiences needed to see to believe. When a drug smuggler dumps kilos of Columbian cocaine on Blood Mountain in the Chattahoochee National Forest in Georgia, a bear then snorts the coke and goes on a bloody bender. Starring Keri Russell, Ray Liota, Margo Martindale, Isaiah Whitlo...
Jun 21, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 632
*******SPOILER ALERT****** (MINOR SPOILERS FOR RANDOM ISH STARTING AT ABOUT 45MINS .. sorry beef forgot the alerts!!) Based on a true story, this 2014 film follows a group of gay and lesbian activists who lend their support to a Welsh mining village during the 1984-1985 miners’ strike, uniting two very different communities in the process. Starring Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, Paddy Considine, Andrew Scott, George MacKay, Joseph Gilgun, and Ben Schnetzer, the film written by Stephe...
Jun 14, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 631
After a successful franchise reboot with Batman Begins, auteur director Christopher Nolan leaned into the gritty aspects of the comic with a grounded take on the Clown Prince of Crime as the lead villain in a mob-centric tale of Gotham City. Christian Bale once again dons the Batsuit alongside Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, and Gary Oldman, with Heath Ledger joining the cast as Joker, Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent, and Maggie Gyllenhaal taking over for Katie Holmes as Rachel Dawes. The sequel wil...
Jun 07, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 630
Stand-up comic and SNL star Eddie Murphy broke out on the big screen in Eighties movies like 48 Hrs and Trading Places, but his biggest box office successes came while playing Axel Foley, a street-smart Detroit detective as a fish-out-of-water in Beverly Hills, California. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson, the first two films were huge hits commercially and critically, and while the third film (directed by John Landis) was panned, it still brought in enough to put the franchise over...
Jun 01, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 629
One of John Hughes's most well-know films and decade-defining teem comedy, this ensemble film was made for a million and it is still playing on cable TV. Often imitated but never remade - at lease not yet, anyway- Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Ally Sheedy, and Anthony Michael Hall star as five high schoolers serving Saturday detention in suburban Chicago high school under the watchful eye of an assistant principal, played by Paul Gleason. Joining us this week is a special guest au...
May 25, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 628
Writer-director John Hughes made his mark on ‘80s cinema with the National Lampoon’s Vacation films and his Brat Pack teen comedies. By the late ‘80s, he’d transitioned to writing more “grown-up” comedies, starting with 1987’s Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Continuing his partnership with actor John Candy in The Great Outdoors, which Hughes wrote, and then the next film he directed, released in 1989. Starring Candy as a bachelor uncle called upon to care for his nieces and nephew in the Chicago...
May 17, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 627
With Arnold Schwarzenegger’s star rising in the early 80s, the Austrian bodybuilder filmed his first sequel, a follow-up to his 1982 role in the John Millius sword-and-sorcery epic Conan the Barbarian. Based on the works of Robert E. Howard, the Raffaella De Laurentiis production brought back Mako from the first film and introduced Grace Jones, Wilt Chamberlain, Tracey Walter, and Olivia d'Abo to the Hyborian Age. Written by two Marvel Comics authors, with less gore and more humor than the origi...
May 11, 2023•52 min•Ep. 626
In the early Eighties, Martin Scorcese was struggling to get The Last Temptation of Christ into production. After Paramount abandoned the adaptation, Scorcese decided instead to focus on smaller, independent projects. The script for this 1985 black comedy came to him by way of his lawyer, was written as an assignment for a film class, inspired by a surrealist monologue, and later infused with dialogue from Kafka by Scorcese. The result was a cult classic, recently inducted into the Criterion Col...
May 03, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 625
Fifteen years ago, the Marvel Cinematic Universe kicked off with a grounded take on one of their most ____ characters ever. Debuting in 1963, genius billionaire playboy philanthropist Tony Stark became a founding member of the Avengers and also an alcoholic. For the film, director Jon Favreau and producer Kevin Feige cast Robert Downey, Jr., an actor with his own history of substance abuse. Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Terrance Howard round out the cast of what was only 2008’s eighth-highe...
Apr 26, 2023•57 min•Ep. 624
Director Robert Rodriguez teaming up with famed comic creator Frank Miller to bring the pages of Miller’s noir-soaked graphic novel to life. Co-directed by Miller (with a scene by Quentin Tarantino), this anthology movie draws not only its inspiration from the page - in many cases, it’s a shot-for-shot recreation of the book’s stylized black-and-white art. Starring too many people to name in a podcast intro, the film delivers standout performances from Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Benicio del To...
Apr 19, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 623
