A James Bond Podcast that is shaken and definitely not stirred, unless it's by George Lazenby. Hosted by Ben Waterworth, Colin Hilding & Noah Groves
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Cracking the Code of Spy Movies podcast - your premiere source for decoding spy movies from classisc to James Bond and current! Your field operatives Dan and Tom dig deep and analyze key scenes, uncover key connections, present detailed reviews, interview cast and crew, host special guests so that you discover something new in every episode and enhance your viewing experience of any spy movie covered. Discover something new in every episode! “If you’re a spy movie fan, you’re going to really ...
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* Winner: Arts & Culture Award - Australian Podcast Awards 2021 * The Best Movies That Hollywood NEVER Made.
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A podcast that reviews the James Bond films randomly! We're our own thing, and we hope you like us! Hosted by Robert Fulton and Sean Faust!
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Heart Takes, Not Hot Takes. A counterintuitive pop culture podcast. Hosted by Seth Sommerfeld.
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James Bond Radio is the podcast for 007 fans. Every Friday, join lifelong Bond fanatics Tom Sears & Chris Wright, as they explore the world of 007. From celebrity interviews with the likes of Sir Roger Moore, Bruce Glover, John Glen, and Peter Lamont, to all the latest news and reviews. With 5 years of faithful service to the Bond community and features in Variety, The Times and on BBC Radio 2, James Bond Radio is your guide to all things Bond. Disclaimer: James Bond Radio is an unofficial e ...
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PENNY DREADFUL is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama.
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Time to take a break and just relax. These are a few stories and poems to listen to narrated by actress Jane Merrow, even some written by her! Jane has had an over 50 year career, with many credits. Jane received a Golden Globe nomination, when she co-starred as ' Alais' in 'THE LION IN WINTER", with Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins and Timothy Dalton, Jane has also worked with Patrick McGoohan, Roger Moore, Lee Majors, Leonard Nimoy, Tom Selleck among many others.
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The name “James Bond” is synonymous with action, espionage, sex and swagger. While the man of mystery is truly one of a kind, his essence is a pastiche of Ian Flemming’s original literature and the eight men lucky enough to don the moniker in cinema. Join Rupert Carmichael and Mr. 007 himself, George Lazenby, in an eight-episode series investigating the Tux, Talk, Tech and ‘Tini of each legendary actor who once called himself Bond, James Bond.
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‘And You’ve Had Your Six’ is dedicated to James Bond. Reviews, debates, trivia, laughs and a whole lot more. Your hosts are Alan Shenton and Suhan Balendran. With every episode we release, our aim is to provoke discussion and debate amongst ourselves, and hopefully our listeners. From the hardcore Bond fan to the casual one, we aim to please all.
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Timothy Dalton's James Bond: The Living Daylights & Licence to Kill (with Jason Baxter)
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Can a star of one of film's biggest franchises get memory holed? Jason Baxter returns on a not so secret mission to revive awareness for the James Bond films starring Timothy Dalton: 1987's The Living Daylights & 1989's Licence to Kill. We dive into the influential seriousness Dalton brought to the role, banger theme songs by A-ha and Gladys Knight…
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PART 1 OF 2 Support the show on PATREON Buy our MERCH Our most requested report this season is about the long in development project from DC... PLASTIC MAN. The Wachowski's actually took TWO stabs at this. Once in the 90s and again in the 2000s with their key star Keanu Reeves oft reported as their top choice. 00:00 - Intro 01:54 - The History of t…
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Gadgets in GOLDENEYE and TOMORROW NEVER DIES
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How many of the gadgets do you remember from Pierce Brosnan’s first two James Bond movies, GOLDENEYE and TOMORROW NEVER DIES? In this episode, Dan and Tom decode about 30 of them. We also let you know if we think a gadget is believable! So, how many different pitons do we talk about in these two movies? Do we think they are believable? Do you? Tom …
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John Carpenter's SHADOW COMPANY - PART 2 (w/ Zachary Ruane)
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PART 2 OF 2 Support the show on PATREON Buy our MERCH This week we are joined by our friend Zachary Ruane from Aunty Donna to talk about the unmade John Carpenter film from the 1980s... SHADOW COMPANY. Is this the most 80s film to never exist? 00:00 - Intro/Recap 08:40 - The Story (Continued) 47:24 - What Happened? 58:35 - Outro CAST: POLLARD - Eri…
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A Salute to George Lazenby Click here to watch the video version of this episode George Lazenby has announced his retirement from public life. This is a well-earned retirement and we wish him nothing but the best. In this episode, Dan and Tom bring Mike Reyes back for a salute to the second Eon Productions actor to play James Bond. George had huge …
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Episode #152 - B.U.N.N.I.N.G.S S.N.A.G - No Time To Die Commentary (Redux)
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It’s another episode of your favourite James Bond podcast in which we avoid the episodes we promised by bringing you new versions of old episodes, as we once again talk about No Time To Die by doing a REDUX commentary of it! Why are we so pumped to be talking about this film again, even though we have done more episodes than most people have had ch…
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John Carpenter's SHADOW COMPANY - PART 1 (w/ Zachary Ruane)
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PART 1 OF 2 Support the show on PATREON Buy our MERCH This week we are joined by our friend Zachary Ruane from Aunty Donna to talk about the unmade John Carpenter film from the 1980s... SHADOW COMPANY. Is this the most 80s film to never exist? 00:00 - Intro 02:40 - The History of the Project 12:09 - The Story 57:55 - Outro CAST: POLLARD - Erik Ruof…
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What makes a spy movie great? Are they built with common elements? Dan and Tom decode the blueprint that most spy movies use in creating their story. From the protagonist, the villain and a variety of other essential elements we look at how to build a spy movie. What do we need if we want to build a spy movie? Some of the things decoded include: Ob…
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BEETLEJUICE GOES HAWAIIAN (w/ Cameron Logsdon)
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Support the show on PATREON Buy our MERCH This week we are joined by our friend Cameron Logsdon to talk about the unmade sequel to Tim Burton's Beetlejuice... A film written by Johnathan Gems titled 'Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian'! 00:00 - Intro/Recap 01:57 - The History of the Project 07:25 - The Story 1:04:10 - What Happened? 1:09:46 - Outro CAST: BE…
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HOGAN'S HEROES – a comedy spy WW II TV series “Hogan’s Heroes” was a comedy series in the US from 1965 to 1971. But it was a spy, espionage and sabotage show as well – with plenty of violence. It was based on a group of prisoners of war in World War II who were assigned to Stalag 13. On this show, spy missions rule! Decoding this show, we will show…
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Episode #151 - That is Man in the Flesh - Dr No Commentary (Redux)
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Apparently the REXUX commentary is a thing again as we once again recycle an old episode by bringing you a new version of it, as we REDUX our very first commentary from 2016 and talk over Dr No once more! Just why is this a Ben episode to do a Ben thing? Are we excited to be back with the dongs? How are we so pervy in this episode of bottoms and me…
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PART 2 OF 2 Support the show on PATREON Buy our MERCH This week we finish talking about the unmade Ghostbusters 3 and explain how the film was eventually developed into Ghostbusters (2016) and Ghostbusters: Afterlife. 00:00 - Intro/Recap 04:36 - The Story (Continued) 38:42 - What Happened? 48:03 - Outro CAST: MOIRA - Dani Siller FRANKY - Jay Zadeh …
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THE HEROES OF TELEMARK – Decoding a movie about real World War II heroes In this episode, Dan and Tom decode a movie about some real World War II heroes, namely, the movie THE HEROES OF TELEMARK. This movie stars Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, Ulla Jacobson, and Michael Redgrave. Plus, many supporting actors in this movie have appeared in other spy …
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PART 1 OF 2 Support the show on PATREON Buy our MERCH WE ARE BACK! To kick off the season we are taking a look at the LONG road to Ghostbusters 3. The film spent years in development hell before being rebooted in Ghostbusters (2016) and Ghostbusters: Afterlife. We get into the project, which morphed into something known as 'Ghostbusters: Hellbent' …
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MY SPY: THE ETERNAL CITY - Is it worth your time? MY SPY: THE ETERNAL CITY is the much-anticipated follow-up to the 2020 action-comedy MY SPY. It reunites a wonderful cast led by Dave Bautista and Chloe Coleman. The movie takes us on a feel-good adventure set in some of Europe’s most storied destinations. In this episode, Dan and Tom decode this mo…
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Build-A-Bond Constructing the next James Bond
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Build-A-Bond – What Does The Next Bond Need to Be? Dan and Tom look at how to Build-a-Bond. In other words, what are the key elements of Bond over the decades that should go into the best Bond? We will help Eon Productions here as we Build-a-Bond! What were the positive qualities of James Bond for each of the previous six actors that Eon Production…
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Episode #150 - Simple Colin - Ranking The Posters
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IT’S OUR 150TH EPISODE! YAY! So what are we doing to celebrate it? Getting another famous Bond actor on to talk about their time on the show? Going on location to a Bond location? Making a James Bond movie to celebrate? NONE OF THE ABOVE! Because this time to celebrate our GROUNDBREAKING 150th episode we are here to do ANOTHER RANKINGS! YAY! So you…
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EYE OF THE NEEDLE – A WW II spy thriller EYE OF THE NEEDLE is a 1981 spy thriller starring Donald Sutherland. In it, one key plot point exposes one of the acts of deception that we discussed in our episode “OPERATION BODYGUARD - Behind the Spies in Movies and Novels”. In this episode, Dan and Tom decode EYE OF THE NEEDLE, discussing the high-level …
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OPERATION BODYGUARD - Behind the Spies in Movies and Novels
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OPERATION BODYGUARD AND DECEPTION IN WORLD WAR II Your field operatives, Dan and Tom, talk with author and historian Rick Beyer about the deception techniques used in the war. Operation Bodyguard and its sub-operation, Operation Fortitude, which helped win the war, are highlighted. Operation Bodyguard was an overall deception operation to assist th…
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The Best of Double Oz Seven - Part 16
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Another clip show? Sign us up! And sign yourselves up too right now as you get ready for the 16th ‘best of’ episode of your favourite James Bond podcast! Today you’ll hear clips of the first round of our series featuring films by each of the first six actors who have played James Bond, with each episode bringing a variety of highlights that will ma…
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3 DAYS OF THE CONDOR – A Fresh Look The 1975 spy movie, 3 DAYS OF THE CONDOR, is a “reluctant spy” movie starring Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway. Cliff Robertson, and Max von Sydow. Dan and Tom take a fresh look at this movie, decoding the plot, characters, direction, and more. What are the influences on 3 DAYS OF THE CONDOR as well as what movies/T…
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It seems forever ago that we actually started as a podcast and it also seems forever ago that we talked about Spectre before it was even released. Well it’s time to remember those good old days as our 15th ‘best of’ episode celebrates our coverage of the very first James Bond movie that was released after we were born! That’s right, it’s time to go…
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SPIONE And Its Influence On Spy Movies SPIONE And Its Influence On Spy Movies is a look at this 1928 Fritz Lang spy movie. And, Dan and Tom fill you in on just how big an influence SPIONE is in the spy movie genre. Significantly, SPIONE is the first spy movie we’ve been able to find that isn’t based on a war. Not surprisingly, this movie laid out …
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SPECTRE – can this James Bond movie be defended?
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SPECTRE – can this James Bond movie be defended? Dan and Tom bring Vicky back to answer this question. While SPECTRE is not often in a James Bond fan’s top 5 list, it is often in a Bond fan’s bottom 10 list. Why is that? What about this movie turns fans off? Dan, Tom, and Vicky uncover both the positives and the negatives of SPECTRE to try to figur…
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Episode #149 - A Proud Gay Kookaburra - Ranking The Bond, James Bonds
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It’s another rankings episode and time for a bit of fun as we go over all the times our favourite character has uttered his name in that true James Bond style as we rank all the Bond, James Bonds! Why are we extra mad at Colin for not being here this time? Why has Ben stuffed up the intro by not going with something obvious? Why are we so excited t…
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Before you go on to this episode, "You Only Live Thrice, Mr. Bond,” if you haven't seen NO TIME TO DIE, there are some spoilers here so you probably should skip this one – NOW! You Only Live Thrice, Mr. Bond James Bond is dead! Dead as a door nail. Dead! Your field operatives Dan and Tom decode the fundamental meaning of James Bond dying in NO TIME…
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Dan and Tom decode the 1952 classic spy movie, 5 FINGERS. This excellent movie starring James Mason is a fantastic espionage thriller, but not an action thriller. And we think it works quite well that way. 5 FINGERS is based on the true story of Albanian-born Elyesa Bazna, who worked as a valet for the British ambassador to Turkey during World War …
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Episode #148 - The Most Beautiful Man Alive - Pierce Brosnan Birthday Spectacular
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Last week we celebrated the most beautiful man alive with his 71st birthday. That’s right, Pierce Brosnan got a year older but another year more beautiful. So what better way to celebrate him and that occasion than with a special episode dedicated to the man himself at a very special event in Sydney! To celebrate him, a special double screening of …
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Chicago 007 Fans May 2024 Meetup - Fan Interviews
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Chicago 007 Fans May 2024 Meetup Dan and Tom held their first Chicago 007 Fans Meetup on May 9, 2024, at Ma O’Brien’s Irish Pub in Chicago. Part of the event was a James Bond trivia quiz and people from all over the world played, including those in the pub. The questions ranged from fairly easy to "nobody got this one". The winning score was 18 out…
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Maestro John Morris Russell Talks James Bond Concert
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John Morris Russell Talks Shaken Not Stirred Dan and Tom interview Maestro John Morris Russell (JMR) about his Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert, “Shaken Not Stirred,” musical scores, and James Bond music. As you might have guessed, the concert’s focus is the music of James Bond. You may know JMR from his work as the conductor of the Cincinnati Po…
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SPY HUNT – 1950 Cold War Espionage Classic Decoded!
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Dan and Tom decode SPY HUNT, a 1950 espionage B movie. And they don’t agree on this one. SPY HUNT was based on the book “Panther’s Moon” by Victor Canning. It has espionage, a MacGuffin, a train, a dead drop, escaped black panthers, a budding romance, and quite a few interesting characters. Dan and Tom call out some interesting plot points that may…
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Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (with Jason Baxter)
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May the 4th be with you! With Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace returning to theaters for its 25th anniversary, Jason Baxter returns to defend one of the most openly hated movies in cinema history. We go deep on epic scenes like the podrace (non-war action!) and Duel of the Fates, the whole point of a plot centered around political points l…
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Episode #147 - That’s Where Poo Comes From! - Ranking The Gun Barrels
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Another rankings episode coming your way today as we get into the nitty gritty of your favourite franchise by ranking all the unique gun barrel sequences that (mostly) start every single film! Why has Colin failed to show up again? Why is Die Another Day set to once again get blasted? What does Aaron Carter have to do with anything? Why does Only F…
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