REPOST: Double Team (1997)
AUTHOR’S NOTE: This article was originally posted on July 9, 2019. You have to love when a movie starts like The Prisoner and ends with Dennis Rodman, Mickey Rourke and a tiger menacing a baby. If you think of directors from the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema, Tsui Hark has to be on the list […]
Dick Tracy (1990)
Warren Beatty wanted to make this movie all the way back in 1975. In 1980, United Artists became interested in financing and distributing the movie, getting James Bond and Superman writer Tom Mankiewicz to start the script. However, the deal fell through when Chester Gould, creator of the comic strip, pushed for a heavy hand in […]
Licensed to Love and Kill (1979)
Charles Bind is back — from his last film, No. 1 of the Secret Service — even if Gareth Hunt from The New Avengers is playing him now. It’s time for a Lindsay Shonteff written and directed version of Bond. You can also find this movie under the titles An Orchid for No. 1, The Man from S.E.X. and Undercover […]
Electra One (1967)
This 1967 Spanish/Italian/French film was directed by Alfonso Balcazar (A Pistol from Ringo) in an experimental 70mm 3D filming technique. A criminal organization — led by Electra One (Daniele Vargas, Eyeball, The Arena) — has created an aggression serum that they plan on using to hold the world hostage. The Americans and the Soviets join forces to stop them. George Martin, […]
The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966)
You know how I’ve discussed how Eurospy films often feel like the United Nations, what with so many countries working together to make these movies? This American/French/Austrian made-for-television spy and anti-drug film — also known as Danger Grows Wild — was made with the United Nations themselves as part of a series of television specials designed […]
My Name is Fleming, Ian Fleming (2016)
This documentary tells the story of Ian Fleming, real-life spy, ladies’ man and sportsman. He was there at the real birth of MI-5 and the CIA, which gave him the background to tell the story of one of pop culture’s most beloved heroes, James Bond. From how Fleming created Chitty Chitty Bang Bang for his son […]
The World Is Not Enough (1999)
The first Eon Bond film to be released by MGM, this is the third Pierce Brosnan outing, with Bond dealing with the murder of billionaire Sir Robert King by the terrorist who cannot feel pain, Victor “Renard” Zokas (Robert Carlyle, whose cameo as John Lennon makes Yesterday). Soon, Bond must protect King’s daughter Elektra (Sophie […]
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