Legends Podcast

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 may be hiding a dark secret. Featuring Jim Broadbent, Timothy Dalton, Paddy Considine, Olivia Colman, and a whole village's worth of stalwart British stars, the film was an instant hit and proved to be the highest-grossing "flavour" of the three. Now we're taking a trip to Sandford, Gloucestershire, to get brainfreeze with Hot Fuzz!

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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, we're hitting The Road to see how the pic based on an Oprah's Book Club pick holds up.

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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 orders his police, "shoot to kill." The country is at odds.

One Broadway musical is getting all the attention with a scene where all the performers drop their clothing and appear fully nude. This new show plays with the division between the existing culture at the time, and the counterculture of the "hippie generation" and marks the birth of the "Rock-Musical"

A decade later, Milos Forman, Director of the Oscar winning film, One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest sets his sights bringing it to the big screen with major changes. Screenwriter Micheal Weller rewrites the script to have a more narrative structure.

Casting John Savage, fresh off his work on the Deer Hunter and launching the careers of Beverly D'Angelo and Treat Williams (RIP), with "blink and you'll miss them" appearances from Nelle Carter and "Mrs. Garret's" Charlotte Rae, Forman begs the question, "Do we cut it short, or do we let it all hang out?"

This week, we talk about the 1979 film adaptation of HAIR!

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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.

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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 1980s, and the effects of the internet on brick-and-mortar establishments. Along the way, Mason uncovered her mother's connection to Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, her father's near arrest on federal felony charges, her brother's harrowing coming-out story, and the importance of her parents' store to the development of gay life in L.A. Released on Netflix, Circus of Books is in award-winning look at a business, a community, and a family.

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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 Whitlock Jr., Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Alden Ehrenreich, O'Shea Jackson, some kids and a CGI black bear, the film packs in scares, gags, and gore into 90-minutes of drug-fueled ursine rampage. When the movie is called Cocaine Bear, you have to wonder if it's up to snuff or simply unbearable to watch.

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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 Stephen Beresford and directed by Matthew Warchus received critical acclaim and a Golden Globe nomination. Set against the backdrop of Margaret Thatcher's Britain, the film incorporates historical details and enough recognizable British talent to appeal to the Harry Potter crowd, but didn't exactly strike paydirt at the box office. We're celebrating Pride with Pride!

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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 wildly outperformed the first installment, bringing in over a billion dollars at the box office and becoming the highest-grossing film of 2008. Heath Ledger's performance earned multiple awards, including the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor - awarded posthumously following the actor's untimely death of a drug overdose prior to the film's release. We've fired up the Bat Signal to summon Wing back to the Legends Cave to talk The Dark Knight and answer the immortal question: "WHY SO SERIOUS?"

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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 $700 million at the box office. Oh, and the movie brought us the tune made famous by Crazy Frog. We're wrapping up a month of Eighties classics with Beverly Hills Cop!

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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 author and podcaster D.X. Ferris to review a Brat Pack classic. Does that answer your question? Sincerely your... The Breakfast Club