Note: This article more or less ran last year in my Bondathon project, because it seemed ridiculous to write a similarly structured article about the same movie twice. So far during the run of this Cinematic Century project I’ve encountered a few movies that I’d already […]
Well folks, it looks like it’s time to poke fun at Nazis again. And this time, a little more directly and forcefully. No, the film we’ll be highlighting today doesn’t feature quite as much vitriol and righteous anger for Nazi Germany as The Great Dictator did a couple weeks […]
You know what the hardest type of movie to write about is? Ones that are just fine. A movie that I feel really passionately about, even if it’s negatively, can be a breeze to write about, and will often lead me to have to reign myself in […]
A while back I talked about an incredibly fun novel by Cracked writer Jacopo della Quercia called The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket-Watch Conspiracy. It was a hilarious, shockingly well-researched, and action-packed story that had President Taft jet-setting around the world to stop an absurd James Bond-esque plot involving JP […]
The spy genre is very similar to the Western. There was certainly a heyday where most of the classics of the genre came from, but it’s continued to come about. Because the spy genre is one that people will never get old of. There’s always going to […]
When it comes to a franchise like James Bond, it can be pretty hard to pick a favorite. It’s a series that has spanned 24 films, so there’s certainly a lot of choose from. You can figure out who you favorite Bond is, your favorite theme song, your […]