Dec 7, 2022

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...

Dec 1, 2022

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...

Nov 23, 2022

South Korean director Lee Chung-hyun adapted the 2011 English-language film The Caller into a 2020 Korean-language thriller starring two of his country’s biggest actresses. The film, written and directed by the then-thrity-year-old former advertising agent, earned multiple awards and nominations despite its...

Nov 17, 2022

Director Duncan Jones followed up his breakout hit Moon by developing a time-loop script from The Black List about a solider trying to prevent a terrorist attack. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, and Jeffrey Wright, the movie was mainstream hit, eclipsing Moon’s box office with $147 million....

Nov 9, 2022

Six hundred episodes ago, Legends Podcast reviewed Predator, the classic Arnold Schwarzenegger-led jungle actioner directed by John McTiernan, for our very first episode. To celebrate our anniversary, we’re revisiting the franchise with its latest installment, the Amber Midthunder-led period-piece actioner directed by...