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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.

Dec 30, 2015

 

As a final farewell to 2015, the gentlemen of Arthouse Legends is discussing one of the year's most discussed films with the stars of the year's most successful film. When a young man is invited to the secluded home of his genius employer, he it invited to partake in an experiment to test the world's first AI...


Dec 23, 2015

 

In 1946, with World War II officially at an end, Hollywood was getting back to business as usual with filmmakers and actors alike coming out of their military service. For Frank Capra, this was the time to finally make a film he had in the works prior to the war. Enlisting Jimmy Stewart once again, he tells the...


Dec 16, 2015

 

In 1977, independent filmmaker George Lucas took on his most ambitious project yet, an homage of science fiction serials of the 1950 utilizing new visual techniques not yet tested on film and under a very constrictive budget. What would come of it has become a worldwide phenomenon simply known as Star Wars. But does...


Dec 9, 2015

 

In 1994, director Ted Demme and MTV comedian Denis Leary collaborated on a holiday comedy about a house burgler who takes a very unhappily married couple hostage on Christmas Eve. The critics lauded the sharp witty dialogue and the performances by Leary, Kevin Spacey and Judy Davis. But does the film deserve a...


Dec 2, 2015

 

Last Month, Netflix released it's first original film about a young boy from an unnamed African country thrust into becoming a soldier after losing everything. Directed by True Detective's Cary Joji Fukanaga and starring Idris Elba as the charismatic commander of these children along with newcomer Abraham Attah,...