Darker than Deathstroke: The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
Writing about Identity Crisis last week, I complained that I often found comics attempts at doing hard-edged, “this is the real world, we can’t play fair” stories as naive as …
Category: Movies
‘Sky Captain’ Interview, Part 3
I’ve been sitting on the last part of my interview with Kevin Conran and Michael Sean Foley for a few years now, waiting to coincide with the long-delayed release of Kevin’s beautiful book, Sky Captain and the Art of Tomorrow. That day is finally upon us; the release date is today, February 23, and with it, here’s the conclusion of our interview.
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 …
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 …