New BatChums episode now on YouTube. We recap and review "The Joker’s Last Laugh" featuring Cesar Romero. Audio version available on esonetwork.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/HCpsRtDlpeI

“I never felt silly. I was focused on trying to be a superhero. I think before they cast me they saw some musclemen, but they couldn’t move. I had to be a little bit campy for the whole thing. I really enjoyed doing it. I always looked forward to the shooting days.” RIP Daniel Seagren (1943-2025)

New BatChums episode now on YouTube. We recap and review "A Riddling Controversy" featuring John Astin as the Riddler. Audio version available on esonetwork.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/0BN-2jsi_Gs

“I love it when you just come heart to heart. That’s the way I knew it coming up, so that’s the way I like it.” RIP Jimmy Cliff (1944-2025)

New Earth Station Who episode now on YouTube. Our review of the first two Ninth Doctor and Rose adventures from Big Finish. Audio version available on earthstationwho.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/I8CW4zNrHzk

“I like to work with directors where you feel they make the movies not for the audience, but make them for themselves. They don’t care if it’s a success financially. That’s what I like.” RIP Udo Kier (1944-2025)

New BatChums episode now on YouTube. We recap and review "Batman’s Anniversary” featuring John Astin as the Riddler. Audio version available on esonetwork.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/uoUtaHP_hYc?...

Join @newlegendmike.bsky.social @natebob.bsky.social & Ashley as we talk about the legendary film #spartacus starring Kirk Douglas and directed by Stanley Kubrick. We discuss the plot, acting, dialog, direction, themes, behind-the-scenes and more. Check it out! 42cast.com/index.php/20... #epic #film

New BatChums episode now on YouTube. We recap and review "Penguin’s Disastrous End" featuring Burgess Meredith and Carolyn Jones. Audio version available on esonetwork.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/Vypd8wjL-zQ

“My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm, and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.” RIP Sally Kirkland (1941-2025)

“You’re willing to take a plunge from any height. There’s just something about being in front of a camera. And being in front of an audience is the same thing. It’s hopeless. I guess I’m just a ham.” RIP Tatsuya Nakadai (1932-2025)

“Through film, you could see how another culture lived. And that’s what I’ve been doing now, reflecting our culture for other people to see.” RIP Lee Tamahori (1950-2025)

New Legend Lounge Episode Four - Jukebox Thrillers Michael and Darin announce a totally awesome anthology of short stories by top talents inspired by top tunes from the 1980’s. You may be familiar with the songs and even the videos, but you’ve never seen them like this! youtu.be/6U74FLMh7Fc

“I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It’s a challenge to make goodness appealing.” RIP Pauline Collins (1940-2025)

New BatChums episode now on YouTube. We recap and review "Penguin Sets a Trend" featuring Burgess Meredith and Carolyn Jones. Audio version available on esonetwork.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/q4ui3k2uc1U

“I’m not an actor. I’m a teacher. The screen or the stage is my blackboard, and so whatever I taught is what’s in you.” RIP Diane Ladd (1935-2025)

Needless Things - Batman Forever Forever Recorded live at Dragon Con 2025! Dave and a panel of Batmanologists discuss Batman Forever LIVE from the American Sci-Fi Classics Track. @needlessthings.bsky.social needlessthings.podbean.com

“When I’m shooting, I am always very conscious that I’m shooting actors, not locations. I have to shoot for the actor, for his character, what will look right and say the right things about the actor and character.” RIP Adam Greenberg (1938-2025)

New Earth Station Who episode now on YouTube. Our review of the Seventh Doctor adventure, Silver Nemesis. Audio version available on earthstationwho.com and all podcast platforms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6tT...

New BatChums episode now on YouTube. We recap and review "Penguin Is a Girl’s Best Friend" featuring Burgess Meredith and Carolyn Jones. Audio version available on esonetwork.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/IkzmmPx75d4

“The joy of being an actor is to deliver good writing to people.” RIP Prunella Scales (1932-2025)

“When you’re working, you’re very professional and you do the work. You know your lines and you hit your marks and your collar’s clean. There is a wonderful world out there besides what you do on screen.” RIP June Lockhart (1925-2025)

“I really wanted to create a character who would be memorable…I relished the idea of driving children back behind the sofa. I knew that if I got Sil's laugh right, it would be the clincher.” RIP Nabil Shaban (1953-2025)

“We wanted to make catchy but twisted pop songs, but we were just two weird guys from Leeds Poly art school. Being in the charts was never the plan. We were electro punks. We never saw ourselves as ‘new romantics!‘” RIP David Ball (1959-2025)

New BatChums episode now on YouTube. Elaine and Matt Sweatman join us as we recap and review “Scat! That Catwoman" featuring Julie Newmar and Leslie Gore. Audio version available on esonetwork.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/uvhG7ELYEm4

New Earth Station Who episode now on YouTube. Our review of the Fourth Doctor story, “Planet of Evil,” featuring Sarah Jane Smith. Audio version available on earthstationwho.com and all podcast platforms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYr7...

“One of two things happen in heavy dramatic moments like that, as actors. You either put the bit between your teeth and do it. Or you realize how totally dotty being an actor is. …Feigning fear, or courage. It’s the Peter Pan syndrome, never got past the age of five.” RIP Samatha Eggar (1939-2025)

“A lotta people have come up to me and tell me, you know if it wasn’t for me they would have never picked up a guitar. If I knew that was gonna be the case, I probably woulda practiced a little more.” RIP Ace Frehley (1951-2025)

“This is my hobby, this is my life, this is my passion, this is what it’s all about ... making art.” RIP Drew Struzan (1947-2025)

“Comics have been my whole life…They were my first passion, and kept me going when things were tough…Comics - reading them, making them - gave me escape. I never had the career I hoped for, but at least I’m staying true to that love, right to the end.” RIP Christopher Mills (1965-2025)

New episode of my podcast THE BEST STUFF IN THE WORLD, talking all things Alfred Hitchcock with guests @newlegendmike.bsky.social and Heather Stephenson! Vertigo! Notorious! Psycho! North by Northwest! Rear Window! Shadow of a Doubt! Rebecca! And more!

“I get hired for my style and my feel. So, if a song calls for…the ‘Rebel Yell’ alley — that kind of style — then they’ll hire me. I kind of do it the best. I mean, it’s not just that style, either…I can do whatever it takes for the feel to sound good.” RIP Thommy Price )1956-2025)

“I just have to keep going back to the core and think that we’re all afraid of it and when we’re afraid of it, you run to something much easier, something that looks like candy.” RIP Diane Keaton (1946-2025)

“I’ve never wanted the accolades. It’s just wonderful to have them, but it’s not what I’ve been after. I just want to play my bass and make sure everything I do on that bass is the right thing, for what I think is the right thing for that particular song.” RIP John Lodge (1943-2025)

New BatChums episode now on YouTube. We recap and review "The Penguin Declines" featuring Cesar Romero and Burgess Meredith. Audio version available on esonetwork.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/DIealqyq1V0

“John Woodvine is a very serious actor…but underneath all of that there’s a sort of wicked twinkle in his eye constantly and when the camera is not on him he’s doing something to you just waiting for you to go.” - Davyd Harries in Doctor Who “The Armageddon Factor” RIP John Woodvine 1929-2025

New Earth Station Who episode now on YouTube. Our review of the Second Doctor Adventures: James Robert McCrimmon by Big Finish. Audio version available on earthstationwho.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/MskPvxvcle8

New BatChums episode now on YouTube. We recap and review "The Joker’s Hard Times" featuring Cesar Romero. Audio version available on esonetwork.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/iZl0w-JZJg4

“It takes a lot of scribbles. The table gets covered in them. Then, you throw them away. Slowly you narrow it down. You subtract, you don’t add…The less you give away, the better.” RIP Renato Casaro (1935-2025)

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of ditterence you want to make.” “I fell in love with Tarzan and I was very jealous of that wretched wimpy Jane of his.” RIP Jane Goodall 1934-2025

New BatChums episode now on YouTube. We recap and review "The Zodiac Crimes" featuring the dastardly duo team up of the Joker and the Penguin. Audio version available on esonetwork.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/ShsqIesoRC8

“I never felt scandal and confession were necessary to be an actress. l’ve never revealed myself or even my body in films. Mystery is very important.” RIP Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025)

New Earth Station Who episode now on YouTube. Our review of the Third Doctor classic story, The Mutants, featuring Jon Pertwee and Katy Manning. Audio version available on earthstationwho.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/19Lh9siIpYo

Earth Station DCU Episode 422 - James Gunn's Superman Superman must reconcile his alien Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as reporter Clark Kent. Join Drew Leiter, Cletus Jacobs, and Michael Gordon as they discuss James Gunn's Superman Movie! esonetwork.com/the-earth-st...

New BatChums episode now on YouTube. We recap and review "The Mad Hatter Runs Afoul" featuring David Wayne. Audio version available on esonetwork.com and all podcast platforms. youtu.be/-ROE0oDpRjs

“All of the films that l've made are about the country I live in and grew up in...I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies.” RIP Robert Redford (1936-2025)

“All of the films that l’ve made are about the country I live in and grew up in...I’ve always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that’s where complexity lies.” RIP Robert Redford (1936-2025)

“Whenever I go and do a new project, I never think about the outcome. It’s always just about the work at hand. That’s the fun part. The other part is always something Ive had a struggle with, which is promoting the film. I know it’s important.” RIP Robert Redford (1936-2025)

“We had an opportunity to do a lot of music that was married to visuals, and so, that in itself kinda seems to ensure that they’ll have a life of their own that’ll probably far outlast mine.” RIP Bobby Hart (1939-2025)

“I had to come all the way out here to be included in a chain gang.” - Sgt. Richard Baker, Hogan’s Heroes Season 6 Episode 23 “Look at All the Pretty Snowflakes” (1971) RIP Kenneth Washington (1936-2025)