The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
Sean Connery turned down the roles of the Architect in The Matrix films and Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. He would have made $450 million off that last role, so that led to him taking this movie, even though he didnt understand the script. But hey — $17 million makes things much simpler, […]
Barbarella (1967)
Shot directly after Mario Bava’s Danger: Diabolik, this Roger Vadim-directed movie is based on the comic book of the same name by Jean-Claude Forest. The film stars Vadim’s then-wife Jane Fonda as Barbarella, a United Earth agent sent to find scientist Durand Durand, who has created a weapon that could destroy humanity. Vadim was hired to […]
REPOST: Danger: Diabolik (1968)
AUTHOR’S NOTE: I can’t lie. This is probably my favorite Eurospy movie of all time, if not one of my favorite films ever. It was one of the first movies that we featured on the site, all the way back on July 12, 2017. I consider it the best comic book movie ever made — […]
The Man Called Flintstone (1966)
After Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!, this was the second Hanna-Barbera motion picture. It’s also the last production of the original Flintstones series, ending it before it would be brought back in the 1970’s. Special Agent Rock Slag looks exactly like Fred, which means that as soon as they meet in the hospital, Fred takes over […]
REPOST: Three Fantastic Supermen (1967)
AUTHOR’S NOTE: We first wrote about this movie on April 26, 2019. There was a whole series of these films, which combine Eurospy and Batmania action all into one quite silly group of movies. One of the posters for this literally said, “Move over 007.” You gotta love this Amazon description, which assumes that we […]
Tombstone Rashomon (2020)
If you loved the music of the Clash and the Sex Pistols, you loved the movies of Alex Cox. Alex Cox was punk. Alex Cox’s movies were college de rigueur in the ‘80s. No self-respecting lover of punk music and underground film would have a music or movie collection without copies of the VHS and […]
Casino Royale (2006)
Casino Royale goes back to the beginning, with Daniel Craig playing a rougher and more brusque Bond at the start of his career As for the story, Eon Productions won the rights in 1999 after Sony Pictures Entertainment exchanged them for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s rights to Spider-Man. How odd that 40 years into Bond, it is he […]
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