In the 1960s everyone was trying to jump on the James Bond bandwagon but it was not only the big screen that saw this influx of international intrigue, enter I Spy from NBC. This action espionage series pitted a pair of intelligence agents posing as a tennis pro and his coach who would go on…
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Get Smart: Island of the Darned (1966) – Review
In the mid-1960s, Buck Henry and Mel Brooks were tasked with creating a show about a bungling James Bond-like hero and that simple goal resulted in the creation of Maxwell Smart, a top-secret government agent who, while being absurdly clumsy and dim at times, managed to outwit numerous nefarious villains. Today we will look at…
Modesty Blaze (1966) – Review
In the 1960s United Artists was making truckloads of money with their James Bond films so every other studio worth its salt were looking for their own secret agent to milk the spy craze with, which led to such offerings as Dean Martin’s Matt Helm and James Coburn’s Derek Flint, but today we will be…
Never Too Young To Die (1986) – Review
In the 1980s it was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone who were battling it out as to who could be the king of the action movie genre, each of them cutting a swath of destruction across cinemas worldwide, but in 1986 one young man entered the ring to challenge these two cinematic titans of testosterone…
James Bond: The Sean Connery Years (1962-1983)
In 1953 author Ian Fleming created one of the most well-known literary characters in history, a British Secret Service Agent whose exploits in twelve books and two collections of short stories have since been eclipsed by his cinematic achievements in what is currently the longest ongoing film franchise. The road to movie legendary status had…