Hot librarians on screen
The hot librarian is a visual cliché that goes back long before I actually heard it described that way. It’s the image of a beautiful woman whose fashion sense is …
Category: Movies
Let’s take a look at some movies I’ve watched from the years before I was born!
Movies, so many movies!
Science fictional super-spies (or) everything is Bondage
It won’t be news to most of our readers that James Bond was a very big deal in the 1960s. The years after Goldfinger (1964) were the era of “Bondage.” …
“I see nobody in your family is a rank amateur”: Operation Kid Brother (1967)
As I mentioned in last week’s Casino Royale post, my Bond films book also includes the 1967 Operation Kid Brother, AKA OK Connery AKA The New Spy Vs. Divided Evil. Normally I …
The Psychedelic Send-Up Bond: The 1967 Casino Royale
Few movies have wasted as much talent as the 1967 film adaptation of Casino Royale. Let’s see, we have David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Peter Sellers, Woody Allen, Orson Welles and …
(Black) Knights in White Satin: The Strange Early Life of Dane Whitman
As probably everyone reading this knows by now, The Eternals introduces us to the MCU’s Dane Whitman, AKA the Black Knight. It’s one case where cutting out some of the …
Question of the Week: What is your favorite great movie by a ‘not-so-great’ director?
Let’s check out some movies!