Tag: 1970s
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Shaken, Not Stirred: Moonraker (1979)
Shaken, Not Stirred takes a (brief) look at the James Bond canon from Eon Productions. Twice a month, Chris and Jon share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and in terms of the cultural landscape as well as the genre it helped to create, not to mention its intersection in the…
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Shaken, Not Stirred: The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
It’s the BIGGEST. It’s the BEST. It’s BOND. And B-E-Y-O-N-D. Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
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Shaken, Not Stirred: The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Shaken, Not Stirred takes a (brief) look at the James Bond canon from Eon Productions. Twice a month, Chris and Jon share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and in terms of the cultural landscape as well as the genre it helped to create, not to mention its intersection in the…
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Shaken, Not Stirred: Live and Let Die (1973)
Shaken, Not Stirred takes a (brief) look at the James Bond canon from Eon Productions. Twice a month, Chris and Jon share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and in terms of the cultural landscape as well as the genre it helped to create, not to mention its intersection in the…
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Hooptober 12.0 – Day Of The Animals (1977)
Being Film #23 for Hooptober 2025 I’ve never been one to revel in bad movies. I know folks that do, and dedicate copious amounts of time and words to the pursuit of the bad, the cheesy, and the exploitive. I need a little more, certainly more than a shirtless Leslie Nielsen wildly fighting a bear.…
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Hooptober 12.0 – Demon Pond (1979)
Being Film #22 for Hooptober 2025 I came away from Demon Pond with a lot of questions. Not about the plot: this is a relatively straightforward folktale about forest spirits, obligations and the ramifications of not obliging them. The film is made with an abundance of care and no small amount of visual flourish. But…