Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (1998)
Back in 1998, before the Marvel Cinematic Universe was a thing, the best Nick Fury could rate as a TV movie on the Fox Network. And playing the man who put together the Avengers? Oh, you know. David Hasselhoff. Written by David S. Goyer, who also worked on the Blade and Dark Knight films, and directed […]
Tank Girl (1995)
Why did this movie run this week instead of our failure week? It made $6 million on a $25 million budget, was critically attacked to put it mildly and creators Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett disliked the final product. That said — nearly every woman I know adores this movie and points to it as […]
The Devil’s Man (1967)
Guy Madison somehow found himself in two of the oddest Eurospy films — this one and LSD Flesh of the Devil — movies that have only a tenuous connection to spying and instead devolve into pure strangeness. I wouldn’t have it any other way. This movie is much closer to an American movie serial than a spy […]
S*H*E* Security Hazards Expert (1980)
Lavinia Kean is S*H*E*, a secret agent in the early 80’s. Director Robert Lewis did the film because it let him spend three months in Rome on someone’s else’s money. He also claimed that Anita Ekberg was difficult with and he fired her, but brought her back when she told him that she would behave. […]
Special Agent Super Dragon (1966)
Just when you thought we couldn’t all get along, the French, German and Italians all got together and made a James Bond ripoff. That should warm your heart. Directed by Giorgio Ferroni (Mill of the Stone Women) — using the amazing fake name Calvin Jackson Padget — this Amsterdam-shot caper played double bills with another movie […]
Becoming Bond (2017)
Directed by Josh Greenbaum, who also made Behind the Mask for Hulu, this documentary is all about the left and times of the man who played Bond just one time, George Lazenby. I love the set-up that they wrote for the film: “The stranger-than-fiction true story of George Lazenby, a poor Australian car mechanic who, through […]
Die Another Day (2002)
All things come to an end with Bond, as this is the last Pierce Brosnan movie. It’s packed with product placement — even more than many Bond films — and was nearly the pilot for a series of films with Halle Berry’s Jinx Johnson character. MGM wanted to move on to a new series, to […]
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