Legends Podcast #792: Aug-Heist: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
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Our first-ever Aug-Heist pick, 1973’s The Sting, saw Paul Newman and Robert Redford re-team with director George Roy Hill for a Depression-era crime caper. Now, we’re reviewing the 1969 film that brought the three of them back together for the first time. The film, from a script by legendary writer William Goldman, is loosely based on the real-life Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker (Newman), and his partner Harry Longabaugh, (Redford), who in 1888 are on the lam after a string of train robberies. The film also stars Katherine Ross as Etta Place, Ted Cassidy as Harvey Logan, and...
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Legends Podcast #791: Aug-Heist: Cruella (2021)
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In 2021, I, Tonya and future Supergirl director Craig Gillespie unleashed the live-action origin story of Disney's 101 Dalmatians baddie Cruella De Vil. Emma Stone dons the iconic black-and-white wig as the dognapping fashionista, here an orphaned up-and-coming designer in ‘70s punk rock London who also does crime. Emma Thompson plays her foil, the Baroness, an established couturière, in the story by The Devil Wears Prada screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna. With her little dog, too, comes an ensemble cast including Mark Strong, Joel Fry, Paul Walter Hauser, John McCrea, and Kirby...
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Legends Podcast #790: Aug-Heist: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
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Legends Podcast is cracking open the cinematic vault and bringing you a whole month of cons, capers, and car chases! Whether you’re a wrongfully-convicted banker or an aspiring fashion designer, you’ll find the big score right here on our podcast. This is Aug-Heist! This week takes us to Maine’s Shawshank Prison for a 1994 film directed by Frank Darabont based on a Stephen King novella. When Andy Dufresne is locked up for a crime he claims to be innocent of, he’ll go to extraordinary lengths to survive, including ripping off the crooked warden and planning an elaborate escape. With an...
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Legends Podcast #789: Miracle Mile (1988)
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This week, we’re visiting L.A. for a 1988 film that takes place almost entirely in one night, in one neighborhood, along Wilshire Boulevard. When a jazz trombonist meets a diner waitress at a museum, sparks fly - up until he gets a phone call telling him the end is nigh! With nukes about to fall, he will risk it all to get the girl and get out alive! Starring Brat Pack-adjacent faces Anthony Edwards and Mare Winningham (who got hitched in real life in 2021!) along with a cast of cameos, this apocalyptic romance features a synth-drenched score by Tangerine Dream and on-location shooting for...
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Legends Podcast #788: Murder By Death (1976)
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This week, we’re wrapping up our great “Mash-Up” picks with a film that combines mystery and comedy by parodying some of the greatest mysteries of our time. Released in 1976 from a script by the great playwright Neil Simon, this “whodunnit?” stars a veritable “who’s who?” of screen royalty, including Peter Sellers, David Niven, Maggie Smith, James Coco, Peter Falk, Eileen Brennan, Elsa Lanchester, Truman Capote, Nancy Walker, James Cromwell, and Alec Guinness. When a group of guests are invited to a remote country mansion, they are challenged to solve an impossible crime… and...
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Legends Podcast #787: The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989)
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This week, we’re eating out with a 1989 cult film from director, writer, and visual artist Peter Greenaway. The film centers on a cook, Richard, played by Richard Bohringer; a thief, mobster Albert, played by Michael Gambon; his wife, Georgina, played by Helen Mirren; and her lover, Michael, played by Alan Howard. Through a series of dinners at Richard’s fancy London restaurant, Le Hollandais, which Albert owns, the lavish meals devolve into debauchery, while Georgina and Michael’s affair evolves into a plot of lust, murder, and revenge. Filmed on massive, color-coded sets and featuring...
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Legends Podcast #786: The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)
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We’re celebrating summer by heading to the drive-in! Over the next two weeks, we’re bringing you a double bill of blockbuster movies from last summer. Maybe you saw them, maybe you missed them, but we think you’ll enjoy Last Summer’s Drive-In Movie Double Feature! Hit the restroom, refill your popcorn, and settle in for a late night… our second feature is starting now! Marvel’s first family has had a long and sometimes tortured cinematic history. After several Saturday morning cartoons, they almost made their first big-screen outing in 1994 in a low-budget production from B-movie...
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Legends Podcast #785: Superman (2025)
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We’re celebrating summer by heading to the drive-in! Over the next two weeks, we’re bringing you a double bill of blockbuster movies from last summer. Maybe you saw them, maybe you missed them, but we think you’ll enjoy Last Summer’s Drive-In Movie Double Feature! Grab a corndog, tune in your radio, or hang that weird staticky speaker in your window… our first feature is starting now! In 2022, after Discovery, Inc. and WarnerMedia merged to become Warner Bros. Discovery, CEO David Zaslav hired director James Gunn and producer Peter Safran to lead the newly-formed DC Studios,...
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Legends Podcast #784: Gods and Monsters (1998)
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Director James Whale brought Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to the big screen in 1931, and followed it up with classics like The Invisible Man, The Old Dark House, and Bride of Frankenstein. Throughout his Hollywood career, Whale lived as an openly gay man, something quite rare in the ‘20s and ‘30s. Along with his horror pictures, Whale directed Remember Last Night?, Show Boat, and The Man in the Iron Mask before retiring from filmmaking in 1942. One of his last major pictures, The Road Back, a sequel to the Great War movie All Quiet on the Western Front, was the victim of studio...
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Legends Podcast #783: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)
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This week, we’re celebrating Pride with the movie that brought the drag queen road trip genre to America! Hot on the high heels of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert from 1994 Australia comes this 1995 American release starring Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes, and John Leguizamo. When their car breaks down in small-town Nebraska, three drag queens must win the hearts and minds of the local townsfolk while evading a bigoted sheriff. With supporting turns by Stockard Channing, Blythe Danner, Chris Penn, Arliss Howard, and cameos by RuPaul, Naomi Campbell, Robin Williams, and the...
info_outlineIn 2021, I, Tonya and future Supergirl director Craig Gillespie unleashed the live-action origin story of Disney's 101 Dalmatians baddie Cruella De Vil. Emma Stone dons the iconic black-and-white wig as the dognapping fashionista, here an orphaned up-and-coming designer in ‘70s punk rock London who also does crime. Emma Thompson plays her foil, the Baroness, an established couturière, in the story by The Devil Wears Prada screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna. With her little dog, too, comes an ensemble cast including Mark Strong, Joel Fry, Paul Walter Hauser, John McCrea, and Kirby Howell-Baptiste. Released in the dog days of the Covid-19 pandemic, the flick floundered at the box office while getting a simultaneous PVOD release for stay-at-home viewing, but still managed to fleece audiences for $233 million. However, it did go on to appropriately earn an Oscar for Best Costume Design for Jenny Beavan, and was also spotted among the nominees for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Now we’re going to the dogs and checking in on the future mistress of Hell Hall with Cruella!
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