The Tiffany Memorandum (1967)
Between None But the Lonely Spy, FX 18 Secret Agent, three appearances as Agent 077 Dick Malloy (Agent 077: Mission Bloody Mary, Agent 077: From the Orient with Fury and Special Mission Lady Chaplin) and this movie, Ken Clark is really the John Carradine of Eurospy films. Here, he stars in a co-production between Italy, France and […]
Espionage in Lisbon (1965)
Jess Franco wrote the script and music for this movie, so between that and me watching over a hundred Eurospy movies in a month, I just had to tackle this. Brett Halsey in the main role? Added bonus. An international gang pretends to have the means to destroy a small country in thirty seconds. A […]
Special Mission Lady Chaplin (1966)
For my money, Alberto De Martino made the best non-Bond Italian Bond film with OK Connery. He also covered so many genres in his career: giallo (The Man with Icy Eyes, Carnal Circuit, The Killer Is On the Phone, Strange Shadows in an Empty Room), gothic horror (The Blancheville Monster), peblum (The Triumphs of Hercules), Spaghetti Westerns (100.000 dollari […]
One Night in October (2020)
Before I watched the trailer, based on the theatrical one-sheet featuring a ponytailed, plaid skirted schoolgirl—complete with ax and skull mask—I was expecting a (predictable) slash of Brian DePalma’s Carrie with a splash of John Carpenter’s Halloween. I figured: we have a non-psychic Carrie White as a tortured prep school student—with a love of Halloween […]
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
The first Austin Powers film was a modest success, but this was a monster, earning more its first weekend than the first film did in the entire time that it was in theaters. After getting married to Ms. Kensington in the last film, it turns out that she’s one of the fembots. She attempts to […]
Abominable (2019)
Director Jamaal Burden made the 2018 movie Elves which has nothing to do with the Nazi elf epic Elves. Now he’s made a movie called Abominable that has nothing to do with the cartoon Abominable. A research team is looking for a special plant that medical research believes can cure almost anything. Of course, much like every movie that […]
One Missed Call 2 (2005)
One year later, One Missed Call 2 continues the story of cursed cell phone calls. Kindergarten teacher Kyoko Okudera and her friend Madoka Uchiyama are eating at the restaurant where Kyoko’s boyfriend Naoto Sakurai works. The chef, Mr. Wang, gets one of the cursed calls from his daughter’s phone, which immediately sets his face on fire. […]
Octopussy (1983)
When Octopussy came out, I was 11 years old and in full James Bond fever. I’d been watching all the old ones on ABC and HBO whenever they were on and playing the Victory Games James Bond 007 role playing game. I was probably more excited for this movie than anything else that year. That same year, […]
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