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 Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE (LETTER)BOX(D): LOOK UP! LOOK DOWN! … Continue reading Shaken, Not Stirred: Thunderball (1965)
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 Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE (LETTER)BOX(D): EVERYTHING HE TOUCHES TURNS … Continue reading Shaken, Not Stirred: Goldfinger (1964)
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 Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE (LETTER)BOX(D): THE WORLD’S MASTERS OF … Continue reading Shaken, Not Stirred: From Russia With Love (1963)
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 Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE (LETTER)BOX(D): NOW MEET THE MOST … Continue reading Shaken, Not Stirred: Dr. No (1962)
Being Film #30 for Hooptober 2025
Here’s the deal. I just realized I got all my requirements in for this year’s Hooptober by review #29. So rather than watch films I thought I needed, I picked two films I needed. As in, “my stress level is so high I just need some FUN” needed. And so I jumped in on something a lot of us who love this genre have been waiting literal years for: Macon Blair’s remake of the Troma classic The Toxic Avenger. Maybe it’s impossible for a film with such a history behind its troubled journey to the screen to live up to expectations, but you know what? I dug the hell out of it. Blair has written and directed not only a film that lives up to the original’s over-the-top squishy gooey effects and story, but it also pays beautiful homage in its style to the studio and its uniquely skewed perceptive.
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Something Like a Filmography takes a (brief) look at the filmography of Akira Kurosawa. Twice a month, Chris and Jon share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and in terms of Kurosawa’s legacy and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts’ lives. FROM THE BOX: Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Akira Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed Sanjuro. In this … Continue reading Something Like a Filmography: Sanjuro (1962)
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