Legends Podcast

Director Danny Boyle made his big-screen debut with a shoestring budget film about four Scottish flatmates - one deceased - and a suitcase full of cash. This black comedy film, co-written by frequent Boyle collaborator John Hodge, raked in the most cash of any British film of 1995, even through the crew had to auction off props during production to buy more film stock in order to keep shooting. Starring Ewan McGregor, Christopher Eccleston, and Kerry Fox, the film was primarily shot in Glasgow as the city's film fund offered them a £150,000 grant. As Rum Daddy prepares to head across the pond, we're getting to the bottom of Shallow Grave!

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Director Rick Famuyiwa went from USC film school grad to Sundance darling to the Star Wars universe and was even the second of five directors attached to direct The Flash movie for WB DC. Common threads through his works are friendship and intersectionality within communities of color, on display his 2015 film starring Shameik Moore, Tony Revolori, Kiersey Clemons, Lakeith Stanfield, Blake Anderson, and Zoë Kravitz among others. Starring Moore as the real-life Miles Morales from Into the Spider-Verse, this movie is The Breakfast Club meets Breaking Bad with palm trees. Now we're getting a cut of the good stuff with Dope!

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Spike Lee's third film, released in 1989, presented a day-in-the-life portrait of a neighborhood: Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, on the hottest day of the year. Boasting an all-star cast including Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, and Samuel L. Jackson, along with the feature film debuts of Martin Lawrence and Rosie Perez, the film was a hit at Cannes and a critical and commercial success. Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, its release was also marked by controversy over its content and depictions of racism, with some commentators expressing the fear that audiences might riot after seeing it. More than thirty years after its release, the message of the film is starkly relevant. Join us as we try to do right by Do the Right Thing.

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Writer-director Jordan Peele followed up his genre-bending breakout hit Get Out with Us, a straightforward horror film. For his third outing, Peele returned to the mash-up: this time mixing neo-Western with a Close Encounters of the Third Kind (and a bit of Jaws thrown in, but we'll get to that.) Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer star as siblings who inherit one of Hollywood's oldest working horse ranches, only to find out that some else has made their range its home. In a week when the country has been beset by unidentified flying objects - purported to be Chinese balloons - we're each keeping one nervous eye on the sky while we watch this week's movie. Because we know it's not what moves through the sky you have to worry about… it's what stays still… NOPE!

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Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe concluded last year with the release of Ryan Coogler's follow-up to 2018's Black Panther. Following the unexpected death of Chadwick Boseman in 2020 from colon cancer, Marvel chose not to recast the role, instead allowing the mantle to pass, in the film, to a new Black Panther, as had happened many times before in the comics. Marvel did not, however, advertise who the new Black Panther would be prior to the film's release. For the sequel, a new threat is introduced in the form of Namor, the Sub-Mariner, of the underwater realm of Atlantis. It's better down where it's wetter, so we're rallying to the battle cry of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever!

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We're ending the Most Dangerous Month where it began, with a remake of the 1932 classic based on the 1924 short story reimagined as a TV show released in short episodes on a steaming app in 2020, and then on another streaming service in 2021 when the first streaming service went bankrupt, and finally re-edited as a movie and released on a third streaming service in 2022. Look, we told you this month was dangerous! Longtime listeners will remember Hashtag #QuibiSucks, when we covered the rise and fall of the Jeffrey Katzenberg-backed steaming experiment in short-form television. After Quibi went under, Roku purchased and repurposed many shows from the Quibi library on their platform, including this one starring Liam Hemworth and Christoph Waltz. Now renewed for a second season, Amazon Prime has also released a movie-length compilation of the series - and that's what we watched, because this a movie podcast. No matter how it started, we're going to finish it. Most Dangerous Month, Most Dangerous App, Most Dangerous Game!

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We're continuing the Most Dangerous Month with another movie with a controversial history. From director Craig Zobel and horror producer Jason Blum, this politically charged take on the human hunting genre was pulled from release after two high profile mass shootings. In the meantime, it became a cause célèbre over its alleged portrayal of a certain red-hat wearing demographic. Ultimately, the film was released in theaters on Friday the Thirteenth - of March 2020: the very week the Covid-19 pandemic shut down every movie theater in the country. Three days later, the film was released on PVOD, and no one paid any attention because they were too busy hoarding toilet paper. Now we're checking out The Hunt to see if it's really as deplorable as people said it was on Twitter.

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We're continuing the Most Dangerous Month with a British invasion and the film formerly known as Boyz in the Wood. The debut film from music video director Ninian Doff tells the tale of four boys from the mean streets of Glasgow on a Duke of Edinburgh Award wilderness trip to the highlands of Scotland. When they find themselves being hunted, possibly by the Duke himself, they'll have to work together to survive. The movie premiered at SXSW where it won the Midnighters Audience Award and was picked up by Amazon for release exclusively on the Prime Video streaming service in 2020. Now we're heading for the Highlands to Get Duked!

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We're continuing the Most Dangerous Month with a Japanese cult classic that was effectively banned in the United States for over a decade. Based on the controversial 1999 novel by Koushun Takami, concerns over the film's violent content and recent school shootings made it difficult to find a distributor, as well as complicated rights issues around the film's international release. Featuring a group of schoolchildren forced to fight to the death, Quentin Tarantino called the film one of his favorites and its influences can be felt in properties like The Hunger Games and Squid Game - and games like PUBG and Fortnite. Now we're taking a class trip to the island for Battle Royale!

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We're kicking off 2023 with a month dedicated to hunting the most dangerous game: man! And we're beginning The Most Dangerous Month by reviewing the film that started it all, the 1932 adaptation of the O.Henry award-winning Richard Connell short story. Produced alongside King Kong, the Pre-Code classic features a big-game hunter played by Joel McCrea and a castaway played by Kong heroine Fay Wray who both find themselves in Count Zaroff's clutches on his man-hunting secret island. The film has been remade multiple times (including the 2020 Quibi series starring Liam Hemsworth and Christoph Waltz) and inspired countless similar stories, including the rest of this month's movies. We're tracking down The Most Dangerous Game to see if it still packs a punch ninety years later!

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