For spy film and fumetti fans, episode three of the Super7even web series is now on line, starring Jerry Kokich as the titular Super7even, and crowd favourite Olivia Dunkley as Sandra West, ex-agent of T.H.E.M. This episode finds our red-suited hero attempting to convince ex-agent West to ‘come in from the cold’ and rejoin T.H.E.M. [...]
19Jul11
Super7even: Operation Four Play
14Jul11
From Paris With Love (2009)
Release Year: 2009 Country: France Director: Pierre Morrel Starring: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak, Richard Durden Music: David Buckley From Paris With Love is another fast paced thriller from Luc Besson’s Europacorp – the company behind Taken, The Transporter series, 22 Bullets, Crimson Rivers, District 13 and far too many others to mention. [...]
4Jul11
Unknown (2011)
Country: UK | Germany | France | Canada | Japan | USA Director: Jaume Collet-Serra Starring: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, Aidan Quinn, Frank Langella, Bruno Ganz Music: John Ottman, Alexander Rudd Based on the novel Out of My Head by Didier Van Cauwelaert Unknown serves up a mixture of well-worn spy movie tropes [...]
23Jun11
Super7even: Operation Breakdown
I am a bit late posting this one – maybe the poster should have a sticker over it saying ‘Second Big Week’. The second of Bob Griffith’s web series, featuring the red suited, fumetti inspired Super7even is back in an all new adventure called Operation Breakdown. Click here to head over to Bob’s Youtube Channel
Permission to Kill is now a proud member of M.O.S.S. – the Mysterious Order of the Skeleton Suit, and to paraphrase (steal) Blofeld’s speech from Thunderball – ‘we are a dedicated fraternity whose strength lies in the integrity of its members’. The individual MOSSmen and MOSSettes are a pretty phenomenal bunch of bloggers and podcasters [...]
1Jun11
Yuki 7: Looks That Kill
Globetrotting secret agent Yuki 7 should need little introduction to spy fans (for those you who somehow missed last year’s Seductive Espionage, you can find out more about Kevin Dart’s creation – and her universe here). This short film (2 minutes and 22 sec of absolute genius) is a fantastic animated promo for the next [...]
Rob Mallow’s blog The Deighton Dossier has achieved the impossible (well the almost impossible) - an interview with legendary spy novelist Len Deighton. Parts One, Two and Three are all up now at the Dossier, comprising the entire interview session. In the first part, the author discusses his writing habits, what he’s working on now, and the Harry [...]
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Tagged Blogs, Len Deighton, The Deighton Dossier
For those who enjoy fumetti style mayhem, Bob Griffith recently shot a pilot webisode called “Superseven: Triple Cross”, a homage/parody of those great, cheesey masked hero-spy flicks of the 1960′s. With plenty of babes, bullets and 2 fisted campy action. Click here to head over to Bob’s Youtube Channel
If you haven’t been watching Steve Mayhem’s Fighting Femmes, Fiends and Fanatics series, you are really missing out on some fantastic reviews of cult cinema. Actually, ‘reviews’ is the wrong word – these are mini documentaries, highlighting all that is good and bad in these productions. Embedded here is Episode 10 – which looks at [...]
20Apr11
Black Cat
In the twenty-one years since its release, Luc Besson’s La Femme Nikita has indelibly burnt itself onto the minds of action fans. This is best illustrated by the fact that it spawned an American remake called Point of No Return or Assassin (depending on what country you’re in) starring Bridget Fonda, and two television series, [...]
