Legends Podcast

This week, we're going abroad with a bunch of bumbling burglars in Britain in Charles Chricton;s 1988 caper. Starring John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, and Michael Palin, this comedy won big at the box office and scored multiple awards, including a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Kline. Following the aftermath of diamond robbery, the film tracks the multiple double-crosses, triple-crosses, and multiple canine assassinations as four crooks and one philandering lawyer try to claim the ill-gotten gains. But does one-third of Monty Python equate comedy gold? Join us we wanda if this limey-crimey filmy-wilmy pulls off the perfect crime as AugHeist just keeps swimming with A Fish Called Wanda!

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This week, we're paying tribute to James Caan, who passed away last month at age 82, with his starring role in Michael Mann's 1981 directorial debut. Co-starring Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson and Robert Prosky, the film also features the big screen debuts of Dennis Farina, William Petersen and James Belushi. Mann brought in real-life professional thieves to consult on the film, which was co-produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and features a synth-heavy soundtrack by German electronica group Tangerine Dream. Playing a jewel thief and safecracker, James Caan often said that, next to The Godfather, this was the movie of which he was proudest. Now we're tracking down the fifth alarm and stealing a peek at Thief to kick off Aug-Heist 2022!

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In 2013, director Edgar Wright concluded his Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, all co-written with Simon Pegg, produced by Nira Park, and starring Pegg and Nick Frost. Alternatively called the Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy, the first two films, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, riffed on zombie movies and the buddy cop genre. For the final entry in the trilogy, Wright and Pegg tackled sci-fi alien invasion flicks like Invasion of the Body Snatchers with a film centered on five high school mates reuniting for a pub crawl in their hometown. Also featuring Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike, and Pierce Brosnan, the film wraps up the trilogy's themes of individualism vs. the collective and the dangers of perpetual adolescence. Now we're bending our elbows and crossing over with Westworld Weekly to follow the boys from their first sip all the way to The World's End. But in the sober light of day, is this movie good to the last drop?

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Seventy years ago, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's famed producer Arthur Freed, the force behind hits like The Wizard of Oz and Meet Me in St. Louis, released one of the most adored movie musicals of all time. Starring Gene Kelly (who co-choreograhped the film's extensive tap numbers), Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds, the film is set at the dawn of "talkie" films and follows the trio through the reinvention of motion pictures. The film largely features songs from previous MGM musical films of the 1929–39 period, with only two original songs written specifically for the movie. The lavish musical was only a modest box office success for MGM, but - and I'm quoting directly from Wikipedia here - "it has since been accorded legendary status by contemporary critics, and is often regarded as the greatest musical film ever made and one of the greatest films ever made." Now we're donning our galoshes to watch Singin' in the Rain and decide for ourselves if it deserves the praise… or fails to make a splash.

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STAND BY ME (1986)

This week Lobster is out, so ......... {Insert written intro here}

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In 1985, Steven Spielberg, Richard Donner, and Chris Columbus teamed up to make a movie: The Goonies. That's it. That's the intro.

The movie was, needless to say, a major hit, and a childhood-defining one for many '80s kids - but not Lobster! Starring Sean Astin, Corey Feldman, Josh Brolin, Jeff Cohen, Jonathan Ke Huy Quan, Kerri Green, Martha Plimpton, and John Matuszak, with Anne Ramsey, Robert Davi, and Joey Pants, the film was selected into the National Film Registry in 2017 for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant," and one of the many inspirations for Stranger Things. Now we're joining the search for One-Eyed Willy's buried treasure and staying one step ahead of the Fratelli crime family with The Goonies.

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It's Pride Month and Legends Podcast is celebrating all colors of the cinematic rainbow with four films featuring LGBTQIA+ stories. This week, we're capping off the month with a 2022 release set in the gay resort destsination Fire Island. Written by and starring Joel Kim Booster, the film was directed by Andrew Ahn and features a diverse cast including Bowen Yang, Conrad Ricamora, James Scully, and Margaret Cho. Originally pitched as a Quibi series (hashtag #QuibiSucks), the movie was picked up by Searchlight, released exclusively on Hulu, and is re-telling of Jane Austen's classic romance Pride and Prejudice… emphasis on the "Pride." But does this summer movie fire on all cylinders, or does it miss the ferry?

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It's Pride Month and Legends Podcast is celebrating all colors of the cinematic rainbow with four films featuring LGBTQIA+ stories. This week, we're headed to the Land Down Under, where the wind does blow and men dress like sheilas in Stephan Elliott's 1994 jukebox musical-slash-road comedy film. Starring Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, and Terrence Stamp, this movie was a box office hit, won the Oscar for Best Costume Design (werk!), and became an instant cult classic. It also served as the inspiration for a hit musical… and that musical was Mamma Mia. Just kidding, mates, it's The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert… crikey! I was just having a laugh. But almost three decades later, is Priscilla still the queen of the screen, or is actually it kind of a drag?

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It's Pride Month and Legends Podcast is celebrating all colors of the cinematic rainbow with four films featuring LGBTQIA+ stories. Next up is Barry Jenkin's 2016 look at black and queer masculinity throughout three phases of a young man's life. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, with Mahershalla Ali making history as the first Muslim to win an Oscar (for Best Supporting Actor), but it almost missed its moment to celebrate its Best Picture Award after La La Land was mistakenly announced as the winner. Hold on, we've just been handled the correct envelope and can confirm that this week's movie is Moonlight!

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It's Pride Month and Legends Podcast is celebrating all colors of the cinematic rainbow with four films featuring LGBTQIA+ stories. First up is a lesbian crime caper from 1996 that also happens to be the directorial debut of the Wachowski siblings. Starring Gina Gershon, Jennifer Tilly, and Joe Pantoliano, the film was a critical success and won several festival awards, but it failed to run away with the box office. Nevertheless, the film proved to studio financiers that the Wachowskis could make a movie, and their follow-up was The Matrix. Now it's time to grab the remote and turn up the volume to figure out what the hell Jennifer Tilly is saying in Bound!

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