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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.

Oct 31, 2016

In 2012 coming off the critical success of Coraline, Laika Studios released their follow-up feature about a young boy who communicates with the dead tasked with dealing with an angry spirit and the horde of zombies at its call. ParaNorman once again captured the hearts of critics but could at best create a...


Oct 26, 2016

After the massive success of Star Wars, science fiction became the go-to genre in Hollywood. But while other filmmakers were trying to make grand space epics, director Phillip Kaufman opted to adapt a seminal 1950s classic horror film Invasion of the Body Snatchers to modern times. The result was a remake that...


Oct 20, 2016

In 1931, Universal Studios released two horror films that would become immediate box office smashes and would start the first cinematic universe and a whole new genre of horror. One of those films was James Whale's Frankenstein. With such success, Universal ordered a sequel to be made (a very rare thing at the...


Oct 14, 2016

In 2014, New Zealand comedians Taika Watiti and Jermaine Clement, after achieving success internationally through television and film, retunred to a short they made nearly a decade before and turned into a feature-length mockumentary about a group of vampire flatmates who are trying to survive in the modern age...


Oct 6, 2016

In 1983 cult director David Cronenberg, fresh off the success of Scanners, created his most ambitious horror film of his career, following a sleezy television executive who after pickup a rogue transmission starts down rabbit hole of sex, violence, paranoia and the grotesque. Starring James Woods and Debbie Harry,...