Lana, you’d better call Kenny Loggins…
I SPY NBC 1966 POSTER MAN FROM UNCLE NBC 1966 POSTER GET SMART NBC 1966 POSTER These posters were part of a lot sold in May, 2011 at Heritage Auctions. The UNCLE poster is by an artist named Allison (from the signature), and went for $84. The I Spy poster is by Gustav Rehberger, and [...]
Fiction, especially spy fiction, is rife with robots created by evil geniuses bent on world domination and/or destruction. Sometimes those robots are destroyed by superhero secret agents, but sometimes they miraculously develop a moral consciousness, turn on their creators, and choose to do good. Let’s take a look at a pair of those today! The [...]
Tagged Brad Bird, Cybernauts, Get Smart, Mister 8, Ted Hughes, The Iron Giant
Peel and Steed encounter a Cybernaut Today, we’ll be looking at the trenchcoat- and trilby-wearing metal automatons known as the Cybernauts! The bots made their first appearance in the October 1965 episode of The Avengers that was later the first one to be broadcast in the United States (in March 1966). The episode has proved [...]
Tagged Cybernauts, Emma Peel, John Steed, Mister 8, Peter Cushing, Television Series, The Avengers, The New Avengers
Country: United States Director: Boris Sagal Starring: Roger Moore, Patrick Macnee, John Huston, Charlotte Rampling, David Huddleston, Gig Young, Geoffrey Moore Music: Richard Rodney Bennett Based on characters by Arthur Conan Doyle Regular visitors to this site, may have read this review before (originally posted in Jan 2010), but as the film has finally been [...]
Tagged Charlotte Rampling, John Huston, Patrick Macnee, Professor Moriarty, Roger Moore, Sherlock Holmes
Country: United States / United Kingdom Director: James Frawley Starring: Andrew Clarke, Kevin Tighe, Christopher Marcantel, George Rose, Holland Taylor, Caitlin Clarke, Ben Vereen Music: Mark Snow Based on characters created by Leslie Charteris I’m a bit late on this, as it has been out for a couple of weeks, but Madman Entertainment have just [...]
Tagged Andrew Clarke, Leslie Charteris, Simon Dutton, Simon Templar, Television Series, The Saint
The latest mission for Superseven and Sandra West is online – and it is entitled Operation: Permission to Kill – so it would be remiss of me not to post it here. Enjoy!
A cavalcade of boxing posters, from the MovieGoods website. May sees the launch of King of the Outback, the sixth book in the popular Fightcard series – and my literary debut (writing as Jack Tunney). Accordingly, in a month long celebration, Permission to Kill will be looking back and some of the highlights – and [...]
Tagged Boxing, Fight Card, Film Posters, Frank Bruno, Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Lennox Lewis
