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Arthouse Legends Podcast

Welcome to Arthouse Legends Podcast - Where High Art and Geek Culture Collide! The goal of this podcast is to take a look at critically acclaimed and well-received films and consider if these films truly deserve their revered status in the cultural zeitguest. Using our combined film knowledge, geeky obsessions and general fart jokes, we take a bite out of much-beloved films, sometimes in love, other times in scorn, but never out-of-bounds.

Aug 31, 2016

In 1997, playwright-turned-filmmaker Neil Labute along with a tiny budget and a handful of unknown actors headed to Fort Wayne, Indiana and filmed In the Company of Men, based on Labute's play. The story centered on two spurned upper management trainers played by Aaron Eckhart and Matt Malloy who decide to maliciously...


Aug 24, 2016

In 1950, hit filmmaker Billy Wilder took on Hollywood's dark side head-on when he created Sunset Blvd. The story about a hack screenwriter (William Holden) who becomes dangerously intertwined with a reclusive former silent movie star (Gloria Swanson) ripped open tensiltown's obsession with age, sex and power that became...


Aug 17, 2016

In 1995, during the post-Hannibal Lecter craze of films featuring serial killers, Writer Andrew Kevin Walker and Director David Fincher release Se7en, which tells the story of a pair of detectives trying to catch an elusive psychopath staging his murders in a savage religious sermon. The film launched Fincher's career...


Aug 10, 2016

In 1981, at the hight of a new historical drama boom, Warner Brothers released a Cannes Film Festival darling, Chariots of Fire, which told the story of two sprinters who competed at the 1924 Olympics despite the religious hurdles that stood in their way. But does the film deserve gold or does it stumble out of the...


Aug 3, 2016

In 2003, the first wave of the Latino explosion of filmmakers were starting to settle into Hollywood from their respective parts south of the border, new filmmakers were starting to follow in their footsteps. One such filmmaker from Brazil, Fernando Mierelles, adapted a true crime novel based on a series of...