The brilliant, base-level absurdity of James Bond, Insurance Inspector, cannot be denied. Elke Sommer and Sylvia Koscina most likely make the best pair of ...
On the latest Cinema Shame podcast Dan Day, Jr. serves up a Shamedown of 6 Hammer Horror films you might not have seen. We talk about why Hammer Film's horror o...
I invited some friends to come on the Cinema Shame Podcast to celebrate the life and work of Burt Reynolds. In the first of two episodes dedicated to the Bandit...
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to consider for a moment the unlikely journey of the Mission: Impossible franchise.
(My apologies for the cl...
During this year's Turner Classic Movies Film Festival, Action A Go Go's James David Patrick met filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles. The director discusses his life, his career, and his seminal 1971 film.
My elevator pitch for Red Sparrow:
“It’s a Kubrickian-ish Tinker Tailor told from the perspective of From Russia With Love’s Tatiana Romanova by way of Femal...
On June 12th, 1967, You Only Live Twice premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London. James Bond had reached a cultural apex with Thunderball -- and in...
Like the other Universal horror films, The Mummy (1932, originally titled Im-Ho-Tep) relied on mood and setting. There’s nothing face value terrifying about the...
Bond 25 News and Rumblings: Christopher Nolan's Syncopy to Produce?
We've waited months for any shred of information about the next entry in the Bond series,...
Many moons have passed since #Bond_age_ last visited Remington Steele and Laura Holt and Murph... oh Murph... poor ineffective Murph. #SteeleTweet Vol. 4 happe...
Daniel Craig's debut occurred four years after Die Another Day left Bond in a proverbial gutter... or, if you buy into the Fever Dream theory, in a literal gutt...
On May 22nd 1996, Ethan Hunt received new orders.
Directed by Brian de Palma and starring Tom Cruise, this shiny new reboot of the Mission: Impossible TV fra...
I have long thought about doing the Mission: Impossible films as live tweets. There's a bunch of them, and for the most part, they're all pretty damn entertaini...
Writer with a movie problem. My writing (fiction and non-) can be found at PANK Magazine, Bartleby Snopes, Empty Mirror, Monkeybicycle and Specter Literary Magazine among others. James runs the James Bond Social Media Project at thejamesbondsocialmediaproject.com and hosts the #Bond_age_Pod and Cinema Shame podcasts.
