22 June 2021
02 July 2021
Fleming Friday: The James Bond/ Dr Who connection.
Two Icons of British pulp and pop culture. There are links.. DOCTOR WH007! IN NEWS THIS PAST WEEK: We might be getting a new Doctor! OLLY ALEXANDER has denied being TARDIS bound, for now. GREAT actor. Shame everyone is touting him as the first ‘GAY ACTOR’ rather than just...
01 July 2021
#TBT: TERMINATOR, PRINCE OF THIEVES. How Two Movies reinvented the blockbuster, forever!
ROBIN HOOD / T2: 1991. What’s the connection? The legacy? It is all too easy to throw out these ‘thirty years of’ such and such a film every five minutes. Trick is to somehow find a thread. For want of better term, was there some ‘viral’ quality at work?...
28 June 2021
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#5movies I have seen on over ten occasions..
It’s THE hashtag viral definition on Twitter today. Pick FIVE movies you have seen over ten times. The great and the good, including James Gunn, have chipped in with their choices. Here are mine. In no particular order.. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: Blends genres, seamlessly. It makes an...
23 June 2021
25 YEARS OF MOVIE MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE(S). The Question remains: IS Ethan Hunt really just a gambler?
25 YEARS OF MOVIE MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE(S). The Question remains: IS Ethan Hunt really just a gambler? Full disclosure: my love or otherwise for MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE depends a great deal on my mood. Each movie has things I love and can enthuse about, lyrically, on demand. And sometimes, I notice things I...
18 June 2021
Fleming Friday: What if you swapped a few Bond actors between their movies?
Imagine you can take individual Bond movies and actors from their time streams and mix it up a bit? Here’s what I would do.. SEAN CONNERY: Let’s stick him in Casino Royale. Have him genuinely fall for Vesper and thereby lose all his abilities to be hard and tough...
