Quantum of Friendship
66 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingRichard Drumm is a lifelong Bond fan. Jonathan Victory is not. Together they will watch and discuss each James Bond film. Join them on this journey from the socially regressive lows to the sassy Dench highs, from the sexy to the sexist, as one fanboy shows a fresh-eyed friend the adventures of 007 for the first time, finding filmmaking follies, famous fights with formidable villains, fiery flirtations with femme fatales, frivolous quips and balls hit with whips and maybe, along the way, they will learn a little something about friendship. .....Quantum of Friendship.
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Get Pierced #5 - Final Score (2018)
September 28, 2018 16:23 - 1 hour - 134 MBFinal Score is our final episode. This fifth installment of Get Pierced will be our last before taking a hiatus, from which we may or may not return. We discuss our reasons, as well as the latest #Bond25 update, that True Detective's Cary Joji Fukunaga is directing the next James Bond movie. Since we're no closer to this next movie and it's been three years since we started this podcast, we have concluded it's about time we take a break. Enjoy one last hurrah with Sky Cinema's Final Score,...
Mission: Impossible 1, 2 & 3
August 31, 2018 18:44 - 1 hour - 179 MBBefore discussing the first three movies of the Mission: Impossible series, Richard picks apart the latest Bond news that Danny Boyle is no longer directing the final Daniel Craig film in the James Bond series. Jonathan also announces our new fictitious sponsor, and will continue to do so until actual sponsors reach out to us. The trilogy of spy action films that enabled Tom Cruise's adrenaline-junkie lifestyle is reviewed in its entirety here. So if you've never seen them you can get throug...
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
July 31, 2018 21:25 - 1 hour - 159 MBDelivered just in the knick of time Mission Impossible style, this month's episode has suppressive persons Richard and Jonathan watch Mission Impossible: Fallout. This installment of the franchise pushes the envelope for action stunt work and audience ability to ignore Tom Cruise's Scientology. There is discussion of that along with tangents about Elon Musk, the Irish Presidential election and other movies' casting decisions. Jonathan ponders Henry Cavill's bizarre comments on #MeToo while R...
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)
June 28, 2018 15:55 - 56 minutes - 105 MBThis marks the first episode of our non-existent strand "You Know What Seydoux: The Filmography of Léa Seydoux". She stars alongside Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg and Sawyer from Lost in 2011's Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. Richard discusses everything he likes about this solid spy adventure while Jonathan speculates on how Elon Musk would fit into a real-life espionage plot. Together, they might even figure out whose body was hidden inside the spacesuit in the Tesla he sent into space. They ...
O.K. Connery - Operation Kid Brother - Operation Double 007
June 11, 2018 17:19 - 51 minutes - 94.8 MBBeyond the Canon. Beyond Eon? As in, Beyond The Eon Productions Canon. Look, this strand of the podcast can have multiple names, lots of things do. Consider 1967's "O.K. Connery", aka "Operation Kid Brother" aka "Double Agent 007". There are many exploitation parodies of James Bond before you even leave the cinema of Italy. Where better to start than with the parody starring Sean Connery's real-life brother Neil Connery? Watch the quickest rise from Edinburgh plasterer to 1960s Doctor Strang...
Now You See Me 2
May 28, 2018 13:20 - 1 hour - 131 MBIt's the return of cinema's favourite iconic team, the Horsemen. Now You See May looks at the magician franchise which against all odds got a sequel. This episode looks at Now You See Me 2, in which Jon M Chu, director of "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never", directs cinema's longest card-flicking-based heist scene. Jonathan provides a brief overview of Chu's career, including the upcoming "Crazy Rich Asians". Richard tries to decipher how the tricks of Now You See Me 2 were done, and crucially,...
Now You See Me
May 13, 2018 22:48 - 1 hour - 115 MBIt's "Now You See May" with our close look at Now You See Me, the movie where magicians are considered cool for some reason. Enter the world of everyone's favourite iconic character team, the Four Horsemen. There's Jesse Eisenberg playing a Jesse Eisenberg-type. Woody Harrelson playing a Woody Harrelson-type. Dave Franco is a thief and Isla Fisher is an actual witch with unexplained supernatural powers. FBI agent Mark Ruffalo will convincingly hunt them down in a bizarre and inexplicably suc...
Get Pierced #4 - Death Train (1993)
April 25, 2018 22:16 - 51 minutes - 93.7 MBThis latest instalment of Get Pierced looks at a surprisingly obscure Pierce Brosnan movie. What a highly-rated YouTube comment called "another good train movie". 1993's Death Train also stars Patrick Stewart, Christopher Lee and Buffalo Bill him, her or themselves, Ted Levine. Alexandra Paul of Baywatch fame stars as a feisty modern 90s woman who don't need no man. But there's a man she has to team up with; a Pierce Bros-man who is more sexist in these movies than any of his Bond outings. T...
Get Pierced #3 - The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
April 20, 2018 06:20 - 51 minutes - 94.5 MBThunderballers, Piercings, 90s kids, lend us your ears. Throw your hands in the air like The Thomas Crown Affair. Our series on the filmography of Pierce Brosnan continues. This episode looks at the 1999 Netflix release Annihilation. Writer-director Alex Garland follows up Ex Machina with a romantic heist caper starring Natalie Portman, Tessa Thompson, Rene Russo and returning collaborator Oscar Isaac(s?). Can Thomas Crown steal paintings from a mysterious Shimmer that appears to bend the la...
Tomb Raider (2018)
March 28, 2018 23:08 - 1 hour - 126 MBIt's not just 2018's "Tomb Raider" that brings Lara Croft to the big screen. There is also 2001's "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" and its stilted 2003 sequel "The Cradle of Life". Whether it's Alicia Vikander or Angelina Jolie, Lady Croft is the most down-to-earth ass-kicking, globe-trotting, robot-fighting, communing-with-dead-spirits, sprinting-up-pyramids, espionage-expert, archaeologist-adventurer billionaire you're likely to find. Richard shares extensive knowledge of the video games on which...
The Boondock Saints (1999)
March 17, 2018 10:24 - 1 hour - 122 MBHappy St. Patrick's Day! Following on from last year's festive episode on Taffin, we sought out another Irish-themed vigiliante movie with eccentric performances. The Boondock Saints comes from the unlikely auteur, Troy Duffy, an Irish-American who ran into production problems. Jonathan discusses those problems, self-inflicted and otherwise, as well as some of the cultural misunderstanding between the Irish and Irish-Americans. Meanwhile, Richard is in awe of Willem Dafoe's iconically over-t...
For Eva Alone #2 - The Dreamers (2003)
February 21, 2018 23:57 - 1 hour - 111 MBEva Green made her film debut in 2003's "The Dreamers", where she and her brother lure an American student in Paris into some really dodgy, not-okay, erotic shenanigans. Now that is one big pile of wank. Richard revels in the ultra-heightened Frenchness of Eva Green. Jonathan vents his frustrations about the film's politics, pacing and pretentiousness. Hear them discuss abusive directors, auteur theory, arthouse cinema and the connections with the #MeToo movement on this episode. To lighten ...
For Eva Alone #1 - Penny Dreadful
February 13, 2018 01:10 - 1 hour - 137 MBAt last! The work of Beloved Eva has a podcast of its own. This is the first in our new series "For Eva Alone". Eva Green made the Showtime series Penny Dreadful what it was. Yes, John Logan was the showrunner and Richard has plenty to say about him. Jonathan brings us up to speed on the three season arc of the show "briefly"; in the sense that he covers three seasons of a TV show in the space of this episode. It begins with an update on HBO's Confederate and ends with a fictitious story abo...
Get Pierced #2 - Urge
January 28, 2018 23:29 - 1 hour - 126 MBThe second episode in a month to look at a Pierce Brosnan Netflix movie. The second episode in half a year to look at a house of rich people driving themselves crazy. Urge follows some insufferable one-percenters as they discover the titular drug; a mysterious CG vape whose euphoric high brings with it a collapse of inhibition. As more and more blandly attractive extras give in to their primal desires, society falls apart. Why would the kindly drug dealer played by Pierce Brosnan unleash som...
Get Pierced #1 - The Foreigner (2017)
January 11, 2018 11:51 - 1 hour - 122 MBCONTENT WARNING for discussion of racial slurs and bad Ulster accents. You take the director of Goldeneye & Casino Royale, Chinese finance and Netflix distribution, throw in Jackie Chan and THAT is how you make a movie where Pierce Brosnan plays a thinly-veiled Gerry Adams. Transparently-veiled. There basically is no veil in The Foreigner, in which alleged IRA veteran Liam Hennessy, uses alleged contacts, to allegedly stop a radical terror cell. But as Jonathan says, "Jackie Chan is losing...
Episode 50: The Best of Bond - Rankings
December 26, 2017 20:20 - 1 hour - 156 MBIt's been 50 episodes of Quantum of Friendship and to celebrate, we're looking back at the best of James Bond. The world of 007 has been introduced by Richard Drumm, to Jonathan Victory, who now deeply regrets and apologises for much of what has been said on the podcast. It's been quite the journey over the last two years looking at cinema's most popular rapist. Movies are engrained with sexism. More has now been revealed about how engrained it is in the making of movies. Humanity has a long...
Episode 49: James Bond Video Games
November 27, 2017 17:57 - 1 hour - 175 MB007 has seen service in this whole other medium of video games. Richard remembers several James Bond video games with nostalgic fondness. Jonathan is brought to tears at how perfect the casting of David Bowie as Nikola Tesla was in The Prestige. They discuss Tesla and Tolkien, whose Lord of the Rings is being adapted for TV by Amazon. If this episode is strange and meandering, it is very much reflecting the present state of the world. Or it just meanders a bit since Jonathan is a fake gamer ...
Episode 48: Gothic (1986)
October 30, 2017 16:34 - 56 minutes - 104 MBOur Halloween special, marking two years of our podcast, looks at Ken Russell's 1986 "Gothic". During 1816, volanic ash created a Year Without A Summer, with many cold storms keeping people indoors. Among those losing their minds in a Swiss villa, were bad-boy Lord Byron and SJW Percy Shelley. A writing contest among the guests led to the inspiration for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Polidori's The Vampyre, paving the way for a century of flourishing Gothic horror literature. That is wha...
Episode 47: The Rock
October 18, 2017 17:00 - 1 hour - 127 MBYou voted for us to do an episode on this, Thunderballers. Did Sean Connery's James Bond return in the 1996 Michael Bay film The Rock? If he did, he's using the codename John Mason (or "Mashon"), and he was caught smhuggling the truth about JFK, Roswell and who knows what else out of America. Getting imprisoned in Alcatraz makes him the guide of its secret passageways as Nicolas Cage tries to defuse chemical weapons and moderate the volume of his voice. Richard is less than impressed with ce...
Episode 46: Kingsman
September 25, 2017 12:46 - 1 hour - 144 MBAnother spy series that pushes the envelope for decency is Kingsman, written by Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman. "Kingsman: The Secret Service" sees lowly chav Gary Unwin taught how to be a gentleman, but, like, in a positive way. This is through becoming a Kingsman, part of an unaccountable shadowy spy organisation set up by people who didn't like all these unaccountable shadowy spy organisations. After Kingsman: The Secret Service sets up this benign version of Spectre, Kingsman: The Golde...
Episode 45: The Man Who Haunted Himself (feat. Enemy, The Double and The Prestige)
September 17, 2017 11:07 - 56 minutes - 104 MBThe 1970 Basil Dearden film "The Man Who Haunted Himself" was one of Roger Moore's last big films before playing James Bond. It is a very strange film about a man who appears to have someone stealing his identity. An alternate title for the film could have been "It's All So Frightfully Queer" given the tone and posh idiom of every conversation. Richard delights in Roger Moore's peak-poshness while Jonathan finds comparisons in spoiler-filled discussions of recent films Enemy (2013), The Doub...
Episode 44: Beyond the Canon
August 17, 2017 16:28 - 1 hour - 154 MBThis episode looks beyond the canon of official and semi-official James Bond movies to see the immensely broad cultural impact 007 has had around the world. You can tell by how many awful knock-off movies have been made of it. Such movies feature in the list of topics discussed here: HBO's Confederate For Your Height Only, of the Phillipines The plague In Like Flint James Bond 777, of Tollywood James Bond Junior Sherlock Holmes and the 22nd Century Licensed to Kill, with a 'd...
Episode 43: Atomic Blonde (feat. Jack Taylor)
August 15, 2017 23:46 - 39 minutes - 71.7 MBAfter a brief message to Nazi punks (concerning their fucking off) and a look at the Iain Glen (Sir Friendzone on Game of Thrones) detective show Jack Taylor, a staple of Irish television apparently, Richard and Jonathan review Atomic Blonde. Charlize Theron is 'the living manifestation of destiny' as a badass spy at the end of the Cold War. Named Lorraine. Richard gets into spoilers and Jonathan really gets into the lesbian scenes. The depiction of bisexuality in this film leads to a discus...
Episode 42: James Bond Comic Books
July 25, 2017 19:40 - 50 minutes - 91.7 MB007 also appears regularly in comic books so Richard introduces Jonathan to some recent releases; Vargr and Eidolon, written by Warren Ellis and the post-Brexit one-shot Service, written by Kieron Gillen. Service deals with white supremacists, Vargr with bionic experiments and Eidolon with double-crossing inside British intelligence. These are much more gritty and graphically violent than usual Bond fare, showing how much variation there can be in adaptations of the James Bond character. ...
Episode 41: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (& Dunkirk)
July 23, 2017 22:02 - 55 minutes - 102 MBIn 2015, the successful spy franchise uncovered a shadowy intelligence organisation running its own operations counter to security services that had to be thwarted by attacking their Moroccan data centre then handing them over to the police in London. While Spectre was disappointing for many reasons, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation had pretty much the same storyline and produced a more enjoyable film. We may return to the Tom Cruise franchise that seems to be producing better movies than pe...
Episode 40: Spectre Revisited ("DANIEL CRAIG IS BACK" Part 2)
June 29, 2017 21:18 - 1 hour - 110 MBContinuing our discussion of Daniel Craig's confirmed return... to discussion on our podcast, Richard and Jonathan pick apart Spectre. Jonathan gets frustrated and tears it to pieces while Richard can only imagine an army of Michael Fassbender clone-bots ejaculating the elixir of life that creates xenomorphs. We go really tremendously off the rails in this one. We are so sorry.
Episode 39: DANIEL CRAIG IS BACK (Part 1)
June 28, 2017 10:04 - 1 hour - 134 MBIt has been confirmed that Daniel Craig is... being discussed on our podcast again. We deliver our long-promised episode revisiting the Craig Era and the highs and lows of Casino Royale, Quantum of Friendship and Skyfall. Spectre is getting its own episode and it's gonna get it rough. There's also a look at the Maryam D'Abo (you know) documentary "Bond Girls are Forever" looking at the legacy and cultural evolution of Bond girls.
Episode 38: Austin Powers
May 25, 2017 21:35 - 1 hour - 145 MBAll set for our shagadelic episode on the swinging Austin Powers trilogy? Because Roger Moore passed away the day of recording so we of course pay tribute to him first. Eyebrows raised at half-mast for the first James Bond to die. The Austin Powers series is abound with references to Bond movies, jokes that hold up really well, others not so much and Beyoncé making an appearance that would be really beneath her in hindsight. Richard considers temporal paradoxes and the prospect of a fourth A...
Episode 37: Casino Royale - The Other Other One
May 07, 2017 11:27 - 45 minutes - 84 MBIn 1967, the first cinematic adaptation of Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel 'Casino Royale' was released. Nestled in the final forty minutes of this infamously bizarre comedy's two-hour running time, the classic game of wits plot between Peter Sellers' James Bond and Orson Welles' Le Chiffre plays out. Except in this version, James Bond IS a code-name and agent 007 James Bond gives everyone his code name. He's played by David Niven. John Huston is in this too. So is Ronnie Corbett, Debor...
Episode 36: Casino Royale - The Other One with Jimmy Bond
April 29, 2017 12:17 - 41 minutes - 76.9 MBThe name's Bond. Jimmy Bond. Yes, the very first screen adaptation of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale was a one-hour CBS special for "Climax! Mystery Theater". This not only has an abrupt and confusing climax, it's strange and boring throughout as Barry Nelson (the hotel manager from The Shining) faces off in a deadly card game with suprisingly-nasally villain Peter Lorré. And by deadly, we do mean boring. Like so boring it's kinda fascinating just how boring it is. But then pop culture cornerst...
Episode 35: Ian Fleming - A Life in Pictures (Fleming, Spymaker, Golden Eye)
April 23, 2017 23:44 - 1 hour - 126 MBTrigger warnings for the expression "Negro bar" as we hear our latest episode on the life of James Bond creator Ian Fleming. Richard and Jonathan look at three biopics of Ian Fleming that are so far from historical truth they're basically live-action fan-fiction. Dominic Cooper and Eva Green-alike Lara Pulver star in the Sky One 2014 mini-series "Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond" while 1990's "Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming" features Kristin Scott Thomas and Sean Connery's son Ja...
Episode 34: Taffin (Get Pierced #0)
March 17, 2017 12:10 - 1 hour - 149 MBIf you're expecting this to be another Bond review, then Maybe You SHOULDN'T BE LISTENING HEEEEEEEERE!!!!!!!!!!! This is our special St. Patrick's Day episode, where we look at the closest thing to an Irish James Bond; Mark Taffin. Pierce Brosnan, the star of Noble House and Remington Steele, one of THE leading men of the 80s, stars in this notoriously bizarre Irish cult film about an intellectual tennis match between evil industrialists and the loner vigilante who gets results. Taffin tells...
Episode 33: Post-Credits Endings
March 01, 2017 00:04 - 38 minutes - 70 MBRichard and Jonathan look back on the entire canon of Bond films they have now watched and try to pitch a post-credits ending for each one.
Episode 32: Die Another Day
February 26, 2017 23:00 - 1 hour - 188 MBOkay, so that last episode was obviously Pierce Brosnan's commentary for Die Another Day. Now Richard and Jonathan provide their analysis, completing their consecutive watch of each James Bond film. Our longest episode yet has plenty to pick apart including a jaw-dropping realisation behind the infamous Moneypenny VR scene. But there are plenty more episodes coming soon, for podcasts never die another day. Wait.
Episode 31: Special Guest Pierce Brosnan on Die Another Day
February 22, 2017 11:49 - 14 minutes - 27.2 MBYes. We were surprised too. Pierce Brosnan is a fan of our podcast and he agreed to join Richard and Jonathan for their live record of watching his last film as 007, Die Another Day. To have him actually literally join us in the same room was an honour and he was affable throughout sharing fond memories with us, in person.
Episode 30: The World Is Not Enough
January 26, 2017 00:32 - 59 minutes - 109 MBThe phrase "Very Much Bond's Equal" was losing all meaning until Elektra King proved to be one of the best Bond villains in 1999's The World Is Not Enough. Pierce Brosnan returns, back from an unspecified war, to team up with Richard's childhood crush Denise "The Childhood Crush of" Richards. Scotland. Though this episode derails several times, it completes the James Bond canon for Jonathan; this was the first Bond movie Richard saw and the last Bond movie Jonathan saw. They extend a formal ...
Episode 29: Tomorrow Never Dies
January 17, 2017 00:01 - 1 hour - 131 MBThe franchise that never dies sees Pierce Brosnan return as James Bond in Tomorrow Never Dies. You've heard Jonathan's bad singing; Now hear Richard's creepy singing. The music of Simple Minds, Sheryl Crow and many more await you on their tangents. Richard gives Jonathan a belated Christmas present and in return, Jonathan tells Richard about his lordship Julian Fellowes' social commentary on paedophilic entanglements.
Episode 28: Goldeneye + The World of 007
December 20, 2016 22:40 - 1 hour - 177 MB"The world is a fucking horrible place... As of right now, at the time of recording". We hope our episode on 1995's Goldeneye finds you well. We have looked at the Fearing Effect, now consider the Joss Whedon Compromise, where women can be better written but must still be hot. This is after all a modern update of James Bond for the go-go 90s. Richard comes to terms with his waning enthusiasm for the first outing of his childhood Bond, Pierce Brosnan. Jonathan finds time to review "The World ...
Episode 27: Goldeneye - Journey into Madness/Preview?
December 14, 2016 20:09 - 8 minutes - 14.8 MBHear our exclusive outtakes from our upcoming festive episode on 1995's Goldeneye. Sometimes when we record Quantum of Friendship we have mental breakdowns and fits of laughter following our failed impersonations.
Episode 26: Licence To Kill
November 30, 2016 13:56 - 53 minutes - 97.5 MBCan inanimate stone-statue women give consent? Can sentient stone-fish wink approvingly at your love? And just how stoned were they when they made Licence to Kill, Timothy Dalton's final movie as James Bond? Richard reveals how horrible vodka martinis actually taste while Jonathan can't help thinking the young Benicio Del Toro looks EXACTLY like Brad Pitt.
Episode 25: The Living Daylights
November 21, 2016 22:59 - 1 hour - 144 MBRichard and Jonathan briefly react to Trump's election and distract themselves by naming people involved in Bond movies who they've met. They then get stuck into 1987's The Living Daylights which sees Timothy Dalton play 007 for the first time. With his gallant allies in the Taliban, he'll get the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan and beneficent Allah shall honour his-- Wait... Yes, this does appear to be a Bond movie where he teams up with the Mujahideen. What could be more timely than a film...
Episode 24: A View To A Kill
October 31, 2016 17:54 - 1 hour - 136 MBOne Moore Time for Roger Moore as James Bond and for Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny. A View To A Kill marks the end of the Moore Era and also features. Christopher. Walken. As a Bond. Villain. His manic, machine-gunning, blimp-flying villainy is bemusing to Richard. Meanwhile Jonathan becomes far more amused by actresses with funny names, marking a new low point in his immaturity. Together, they (hopefully) bring an end to the recurring segment "Is It Rape or Not?" as the 1980s is possibly ...
Episode 23: Never Say Never Again
October 02, 2016 17:46 - 1 hour - 113 MBThis may be our hilariously worst episode but fittingly it's about the worst Bond film that isn't technically a Bond film. Sean Connery's final outing as 007 sees him team up with producer Kevin McClory to remake Thunderball. You know what this means. Patricia Fearing is back. Jonathan concludes our segment "Is It Rape Or Not?" needs a broader definition to cover all sexual assault. Meanwhile Richard gets tired of 80s Bond movies but learns new things about the female vagina.
Episode 22: Everything or Nothing - A History of Bond
September 30, 2016 10:45 - 49 minutes - 91.4 MBIs Imogen Poots a secret agent or has she undeservedly attracted the scorn of Anton Yelchin Truthers? Could Kubrick have directed the Beatles in Lord of the Rings? OR Richard's concept for "Space Pussy" where dogs battle moooooon cats? These and other questions relating to the James Bond series are explored in a special look at EON Production's documentary "Everything or Nothing". Jonathan takes us through a history of the production of Bond movies while Richard considers the life of the tro...
Episode 21: Octopussy
September 13, 2016 15:48 - 1 hour - 128 MBThe name's Pussy. Octopussy. The game's a nuclear bomb spelling catastrophe. The villain is explaining every detail of his plan to James Bond. Plane Fight! Wait a minute, a lot feels familiar in this sorta remake of Goldfinger. Yet Richard struggles to get a grasp of the plot while Jonathan discovers a new fetish for sitar-playing women. Together they face their most agonising installment of "Is It Rape Or Not?" yet. They also talk about Hitler for a bit.
Episode 20: For Your Eyes Only
August 23, 2016 22:22 - 1 hour - 155 MBSwinging 80s here we come with our milestone 20th episode taking an in-depth look at For Your Eyes Only. For your ears only, everything gets explored from the Fearing Effect to the Kuleshov Effect but thankfully not a teenage ice-skater's body. Our special edition of "Is It Rape or Not?" concludes that Bond does have a line he won't cross; the world of espionage is murky enough as it is without paedophilic entanglements. Jonathan is less than happy with the appearance of Lady Thatcher while ...
Episode 19: Bond Production Update
August 03, 2016 15:16 - 6 minutes - 11.6 MBA brief minisode on the current state of the 007 franchise. Jonathan ponders whether or not Craig will return for the next Bond film or if they will announce a new actor soon. Richard talks about a bigger problem; what studio will take over the rights to James Bond?
Episode 18: Moonraker Part Two
August 01, 2016 19:04 - 18 minutes - 34.5 MBIn a very special episode of our James Bond podcast, hear Richard and Jonathan react to the insanity of Moonraker in real time. Highlights of our live records usually fit into larger episodes but the clips here stand on their own, especially if you know the visuals they're seeing. Richard steers us clear of jokes already made by James Bonding while Jonathan concludes Jaws is better with women than Bond will ever be.
Episode 17: Moonraker Part One
July 29, 2016 16:33 - 1 hour - 138 MBThis is the movie where James Bond goes into space. No, really. This is a film that exists. Jonathan finds the stratospheric heights of this insane masterpiece surprisingly endearing. Richard finds the film's events on Earth to be no more grounded than the lazer-battle in space. This is crazier than all the previous films put together.
Episode 16: The Spy Who Loved Me
July 21, 2016 14:42 - 54 minutes - 99.7 MBSwinging 70s here we come, with Roger Moore returning for The Spy Who Loved Me. Recorded during one of Ireland's most extreme heatwaves, Richard and Jonathan discuss one of the best-regarded Bond films. Jonathan reveals how Stanley Kubrick came in to light one of the sets some Sunday morning. Another set for the MI6 office shocks Richard for being the dumbest and most culturally-insensitive yet. And in this episode's very special edition "Is It Rape Or Not?" they explore whether Vin Diesel's...