Legends Podcast

Following his breakout success with American Beauty, director Sam Mendes had a variety of projects to choose from, including films like A Beautiful Mind, K-PAX, and The Shipping News. Mendes chose instead to adapt a graphic novel about a hitman and his son on the run in the Prohibition Era Midwest. Starring Tom Hanks, Jude Law, Stanley Tucci, a pre-Bond Daniel Craig, and featuring Paul Newman in his last on-screen film role, the film draws on gangster flicks, Kurosawa, Once Upon a Time in America, and Lone Wolf and Cub to bring the story from page to screen. Nominated for six Academy Awards, cinematographer Conrad L. Hall won a posthumous Oscar for his work, and Tom Hanks himself counts his turn as hitman Michael Sullivan among his most underrated roles. The night is dark, the wind is cold, and we’re on the Road to Perdition!    For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com   You can find us on iTunes under ''Legends Podcast''. Please subscribe and give us a positive review. You can also follow us on Twitter @L

Thirty-six years after the original film, a sequel to Top Gun was finally released. Develoment started in 2010 but was delayed by the death of director Tony Scott. Production began in 2017 with the hiring of Joseph Kosinski as director, with filming taking place in 2018 and 2019, with a release date pushed back several times due to the complex shoot and, of course, the pandemic. Multiple streaming outlets attempted to purchase the film, but returning star and producer Tom Cruise remained adamant that the film be released exclusively in theaters - which occurred last Memorial Day weekend. The wait proved worth it as the film grossed almost $1.5 billion worldwide, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 2022 and the highest-grossing film of Cruise's career. The film won multiple awards, including an Oscar for Best Sound and was nominated for Best Picture. Among its many achievements, the film is largely credited with “bringing people back to the theaters” after over two years of relatively low interest. N

Director Joel Schumacher was well-known for bring a dark and stylish flair to his films, from teenage vampires in The Lost Boys to benippled Batmen in in his neon-soaked Gotham City. By contrast, his 1993 potboiler starring Michael Douglas and Robert Duvall stands in the unflinching glare of the Los Angeles summer sun, with two middle-aged men on a collision course for a sunset showdown on the Venice Pier. Critics were mixed at the time of the film’s release, with Douglas’s character seen as the embodiment of the “angry white man” stereotype. The passage of time may have been less kind, as character’s attitudes towards multiculturalism and political correctness serve as cable news talk show and chat room fodder for the far right. But right or wrong, left or right, this week’s movie is Falling Down… and that’s what’s up!   For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com   You can find us on iTunes under ''Legends Podcast''. Please subscribe and give us a positive review. You can also follow us on Twitter @LegendsP

This week we’re talking about the final three episodes of season 1, “If You Can’t Win, Don’t Play,” “Hockey Brings People Together,” and “Don’t Poke the Bear,” with our special guest Sean. The back half of the season sees Shoresy attend his family reunion and face a dilemma when off-ice shenanigans force the studs to miss their game against the North Bay Norsemen. Faced with suspension, Nat, Miig and Ziig go to the NOSHO’s league commissioners to appeal. Finally, it’s time to face the Soo - the Sault Ste. Marie Cyclones - for the final two games of the season. The Bulldogs are gonna compete, so get yer bums in a seat! What do you think, Nina?   For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com   You can find us on iTunes under ''Legends Podcast''. Please subscribe and give us a positive review. You can also follow us on Twitter @LegendsPodcast or even better, send us an e-mail: LegendsPodcastS@gmail.com You can find all our contact information here on the Network page of GonnaGeek.com Our complete archive is alway

This week we’re talking about the first three episodes of season 1, “Never Lose Again,” “Veteran Presence,” and “Know Your Role.” The first half of the season sees Number 69 of the Sudbury Bulldogs vow to never let his team lose again - and if they lose, they fold. General manager Nat finds the Bulldogs a new sponsor, and Shoresy recruits some veteran players to boost - or is it “bloost”? - the team’s hopes. Then, while reluctantly coaching rookie coach Sanguinet, Shoresy and the Bulldogs face off against the Timmins Timberkings and the infamous Appeldoorns. Run ‘em up and fill ‘em in, that’s new Bulldogs hockey. Let’s get on the go, b’ys! Do you guys like Shoresy?   For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com   You can find us on iTunes under ''Legends Podcast''. Please subscribe and give us a positive review. You can also follow us on Twitter @LegendsPodcast or even better, send us an e-mail: LegendsPodcastS@gmail.com You can find all our contact information here on the Network page of GonnaGeek.com Our co

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!   For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com   You can find us on iTunes under ''Legends Podcast''. Please subscribe and give us a positive review. You can also follow us on Twitter @LegendsPodcast or even better, send us an e-mail: LegendsPodcastS@gmail.com   You can write to Rum Daddy directly: rumdaddylegends@gmail.com You can find all our contact information here on th

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!    For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com   You can find us on iTunes under ''Legends Podcast''. Please subscribe and give us a positive review. You can also follow us on Twitter @LegendsPodcast or even better, send us an e-mail: LegendsPodcastS@gmail.com   You can write to Rum Daddy directly: rumdaddylegends@gmail.com You can find all our contact information here on the Network page of

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.    For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com   You can find us on iTunes under ''Legends Podcast''. Please subscribe and give us a positive review. You can also follow us on Twitter @LegendsPodcast or ev

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!   For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com   You can find us on iTunes under ''Legends Podcast''. Please subscribe and give us a positive review. You can also follow us on Twitter @LegendsPodcast or even better, send us an e-mail: LegendsPodcastS@gmail.co

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!   For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com   You can find us on iTunes under ''Legends Podcast''. Please subscribe and give us a positive review. You can also follow us on Twitter @LegendsPodcast or even better, send us an e-mail: LegendsPodcastS@gmail.com   You can write to Rum Daddy directly: rumdaddylegends@gmail.com Y

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 Dange

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.   For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com   You can find us on iTunes under ''Legends Podcast''. Please subscribe and give us a positive review. You can also follow us on Twitter @LegendsPodcast or even better, send us an e-mail: LegendsP

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!    For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com   You can find us on iTunes under ''Legends Podcast''. Please subscribe and give us a positive review. You can also follow us on Twitter @LegendsPodcast or even better, send us an e-mail: LegendsPodcastS@gmail.com You can find all our contact information here on the Network page of GonnaGeek.com Our complete archive is always available a

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!    For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com   You can find us on iTunes under ''Legends Podcast''. Please subscribe and give us a positive review. You can also follow us on Twitter @LegendsPodcast or even better, send us an e-mail: LegendsPodcastS@gmail.com You can find all our contact information here on the Network page of GonnaGe

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!   For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com   You can find us on iTunes under ''Legends Podcast''. Please subscribe and give us a positive review. You can also follow us on Twitter @LegendsPodcast or even better, send us an e-mail: Legend

Twenty Twenty-Two was a milestone year for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It completed “Phase Four” with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, boasted the return of Sam Raimi to Marvel with Doctor Strange and Mulitverse of Madness, and saw one of its first core characters receive an unprecedented fourth film with Thor: Love and Thunder. Meanwhile, the television side continued to expand with the moody Moon Knight, the Muslim Ms. Marvel, and the meta She-Hulk: Attorney-at-Law further widening the scope of the MCU. (And we got some shorts about Baby Groot, too!) Finally, 2022 brought a completely new release format to the MCU arsenal: the “A Marvel Studios Special Presentation,” a near film-length one-off story, brought to our screens via our Disney+ streaming subscriptions. We got two, in fact, both released to coincide with a particular holiday: Werewolf By Night, timed with Halloween, and The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, for celebrate that strange thing we Earthlings call Christmas. To wrap up 2022, we

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol has been remade countless times, from Patrick Stewart to Bill Murray to the Muppets. The latest version, starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds, incorporates both a meta-take on the source material and musical numbers - because the afterlife is a musical, for some reason. After a one-week theatrical run, this Apple Original Film was released on the tech giant’s streaming service Apple TV+. Now we’re getting in the holiday spirit with Spirited and deciding, in our final film review of 2022, if it belongs on the nice list or if it, in fact, unredeemable. Good afternoon!   For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com   You can find us on iTunes under ''Legends Podcast''. Please subscribe and give us a positive review. You can also follow us on Twitter @LegendsPodcast or even better, send us an e-mail: LegendsPodcastS@gmail.com You can find all our contact information here on the Network page of GonnaGeek.com Our complete archive is always available at www.legendspodcast.com, w

Here come the holidays, and if you’ve ever felt trapped in a house with insufferable relatives fighting like terrorists or dodging Grandma’s fruitcake like bullets, might relate to director John McTiernan’s 1988 action movie. Released in July, this Bruce Willis-led shoot-’em-up launched the actor’s movie career and its title became shorthand for a high-concept thriller, “It’s Die Hard on a [blank].” Featuring Alan Rickman in a star-making turn as the exceptional thief Hans Gruber, the movie robbed the sleepy summer box office and became perenial Christmas counterprogramming. It’s not the Yuletide season until Hans Gruber falls off Nakatomi Plaza… and it’s a good day to talk about Die Hard!   For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com   You can find us on iTunes under ''Legends Podcast''. Please subscribe and give us a positive review. You can also follow us on Twitter @LegendsPodcast or even better, send us an e-mail: LegendsPodcastS@gmail.com You can find all our contact information here on the Network pag

The second film of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy hit movie screens twenty years ago this month. While the first was a major hit for New Line Cinema the year before, the success of the second installment was no sure thing. Star Trek: Nemesis was opening the week before, and the Christmas frame included new films from Spike Lee, Martin Scorcese, and Steven Spielberg. There was also the issue of the film's title with its cryptic reference to twin towers just a year after 9/11. Nevertheless, it proved to be a major hit that outperformed the first film on opening weekend and would finish as the highest-grossing release of 2002 - ahead of Harry Potter, Spider-Man, Star Wars, Men in Black, and James Bond. Now we’re headed back to Middle-earth for some more sightseeing - look, there’s Helm Deep! The Dead Marshes! Fangorn Forest! And The Two Towers!   For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com   You can find us on iTunes under ''Legends Podcast''. Please subscribe and give us a positive review. You can al

Christopher Nolan has been playing with time in past films like Memento, Inception, and Interstellar and nuclear bombs in his future film Oppenheimer. For his 2020 film, Nolan plays with both big ideas in a story about a temporal cold war with protagonists and antagonists moving forwards and backwards in time to prevent/cause the end of the world. Starring John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, and Kenneth Branagh, the film was highly anticipated but suffered repeated delays due to the Covid-19 pandemic. When it was finally released as the first major film after the pandemic, a muddy audio mix marred the theatrical experience. The move by Warner Brothers to simultaneously release their entire 2021 film slate on HBO Max strained Nolan’s long-standing relationship with the studio, prompting him to move to rival Universal for his next film. We’re ending Chronovember with Tenet… or is it just the beginning?    For more geeky podcasts visit GonnaGeek.com   You can find us on iTunes under ''Leg