Legends Podcast #754; Frequency (2000) - Chronovember
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Fall back in time with Legends Podcast! All month long, we’re talking about time travel, paradoxes, and Andre Braugher aging like a fine wine. In the year 2000, Primal Fear and Fallen director Gregory Hoblit and writer Toby Emmerich brought a new twist to the time travel genre: using ham radio to connect two generations of a New York City family. Dennis Quaid plays the father, a firefighter, and Jim Caviezel plays the son, a cop, who realize that their special connection can change both their lives. But when things change for the better, a serial killer is set loose, threatening both...
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Legends Podcast #753; Primer (2004) - Chronovember
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Fall back in time with Legends Podcast! All month long, we’re talking about time travel, paradoxes, and deducing that the problem is recursive. In 2004, independent filmmaker Shane Carruth released his first feature, a time travel twister made on a budget of $7,000. Carruth wrote, produced, directed, edited, scored, and starred in this film that won the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, and went on to earn 120 times its budget. In the 77-minute film, two inventors discover time travel and exploit it for personal gain, but things quickly spin out of control. Join...
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Legends Podcast #752; Pleasantville (1998) - Chronovember
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Fall back in time with Legends Podcast! All month long, we’re talking about time travel, paradoxes, and separating out the things that are pleasant from the things that are unpleasant. In 1998, Big and Dave screenwriter Gary Ross made his directorial debut with a quirky comedy starring Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon. The young up-and-coming stars were cast opposite stalwarts William H. Macy, Joan Allen, Jeff Daniels, and J.T. Walsh in a romp through classic television - literally. When a mischievous TV repairman (played, of course, by sitcom legend Don Knotts) sends the Ninties teens...
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Legends Podcast #751; The Substance (2024) - Legends of Halloween
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It’s Lobster’s birthday, and what better way to acknowledge the toll aging takes on our bodies than to watch a movie about what goes wrong when we try to cheat the clock. From writer-director Coralie Fargeat comes the tale of Elizabeth Sparkle, a former sex symbol and acclaimed actress turned daytime tv aerobics instructor. When a mysterious treatment offers to restore her youthful appearance, the realization that beauty is only skin deep is only the first of many horrors that await. Starring Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley in dual roles, this 2024 release burst onto the scene at Cannes,...
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Legends Podcast #750; Dolls (1987) - Legends of Halloween
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In 1987, Re-Animator director Stuart Gordon tapped into a force more terrifying than any zombie, vampire, werewolf, mummy, alien or otherworldly threat: little girls’ playthings. This film takes us off the beaten path to a remote mansion on the longest night in the world. Inside, horrors await, but first we must be served soup by two kindly old folks, before all hell breaks loose in the form of two-foot tall toys. With child actor Carrie Lorraine taking the lead in this funhouse horror comedy - what is it with us putting kids in danger this month? - absurd kills and slapstick one-liners...
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Legends Podcast #749; 28 Years Later (2025) - Legends of Halloween
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After nearly two decades in development hell, the long-awaited continuation of the 28 Days Later saga finally chewed its way into cinemas. Returning are director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland, the creative team behind the original films. The film sees a time jump as well, as it is now nearly three decades since the Rage virus turned the U.K. into mindless zombies. We follow Spike, a young boy who has grown up on an isolated island off the British coast, as he navigates a coming-of-age trip to the mainland impress his father by killing his first infected. Of course, things go sideways,...
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Legends Podcast #748; Nosferatu (2024) - Legends of Halloween
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Last year, director Robert Eggers, who burst onto the horror filmmaking scene with The Witch and The Lighthouse, premiered his remake of the classic 1922 silent German Expressionist vampire film. Starring Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, and Willem Dafoe, the film sees Bill Skarsgård step into the iconic Max Schreck role of Count Orlock. This is adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula bewitched audiences, becoming Egger’s highest-grossing film to date, and earned four Academy Awards nominations for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best...
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Legends Podcast #747; Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
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Twenty years ago, director Ridley Scott returned to the historical epic, the same genre that won him an Oscar in 2000 for Gladiator. Swapping the Roman colosseum for the Middle East in the time of the Crusades, Scott assembled an all-star cast including Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson, Liam Neeson, and an uncredited Edward Norton. A post-9/11 movie about Christians fighting Muslims would have seemed an easy win at the box office, but the film performed poorly stateside while doing well in Arabic-speaking countries, especially Egypt. Scott blamed the...
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Legends Podcast #746; The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
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It’s a movie that reimagines one of the most iconic superheroes in history — not with grit and gloom, but with plastic bricks, rapid-fire jokes, and a whole lot of heart. Directed by Chris McKay and released in 2017, this animated spin-off features a voice cast that’s nothing short of legendary: Will Arnett as the brooding and self-absorbed Batman / Bruce “Bruno” Wayne, Michael Cera as the wide-eyed Robin, Rosario Dawson as the fierce Barbara Gordon/Batgirl, Ralph Fiennes as the ever-wise Alfred, and Zach Galifianakis as the Joker who really just wants to be in some kind of a...
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Legends Podcast #745; E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
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In 1982, director Steven Spielberg followed up Raiders of the Lost Ark with a family-centered feature about a young boy who meets an alien, based on his own childhood experience of creating an imaginary friend after his parents’ divorce. With a budget of just over $10 million, Spielberg and screenwriter Melissa Mathison brought the alien to life with the help of Italian special effects master Carlo Rambaldi, with the music of John Williams hitting all the right notes. Add in some product placement from Reese’s Pieces (let’s not talk about that Atari video game) and a stellar young cast...
info_outlineWe’re heading back to high school for a Legend of ‘99 - that’s 25 years ago! When a prank goes wrong leaving the most popular girl in school dead in the trunk of a car, her clique will stop at nothing to cover up their crime. Starring Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, Julie Benz, and Judy Greer, this film written and directed by Darren Stein didn’t take a huge bite out of the box office, with many critics souring it at the time of release. However, as time passed, audiences have come to see it as a cult classic alongside similar films like Heathers and Mean Girls. There has even been talk of a musical or television adaptation. But are we sweet on Jawbreaker, or is this wallflower in desperate need of a makeover?
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