Saturday, June 28, 2025

00 Week: Planes with atom bombs don't get stolen in real life. Except that they do. You're slowing down, James... Don't give me that crap about real life. There ain't no such animal.


THUNDERBALL

1965
Directed by Terence Young
Written by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, Ian Fleming, Richard Maibaum, and John Hopkins

Spoilers: severe

Friday, June 20, 2025

00 Week: Now you're talking. What are we going to do? Rob the end of a rainbow?


GOLDFINGER

1964
Directed by Guy Hamilton
Written by Richard Maibaum and Paul Dehn (based on the novel by Ian Fleming)

Spoilers: severe

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Turning Lebanon into a Lebaoui


THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME

2025
Directed by Wes Anderson
Written by Roman Coppola and Wes Anderson

Spoilers: moderate

Sunday, June 15, 2025

Killing strangers so we don't kill the ones that we love


BALLERINA

2025
Directed by Len Wiseman and/or Chad Stahelski
Written by Shay Hatten

Spoilers: high (for nerds, anyway; for non-nerds who can already guess what could go wrong with an action movie smooshed into a preexisting intellectual property, moderate)

Thursday, June 12, 2025

00 Week: In his particular line of business, peace had reigned for nearly a year. And peace was killing him.


FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE

1963 UK/1964 USA
Directed by Terence Young
Written by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkeley Mather (based on the novel by Ian Fleming)

Spoilers: severe

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

You take your car to work, I'll take my board


THE SURFER

2025
Directed by Lorcan Finnegan
Written by Thomas Martin

Spoilers: moderate

Saturday, June 7, 2025

You spend too much time on the Internet!


MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE-THE FINAL RECKONING

2025
Directed by Christopher McQuarrie
Written by Erik Jendresen and Christopher McQuarrie

Spoilers: moderate