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. [...]
14Jul11
From Paris With Love (2009)
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
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 [...]
15Dec10
The Balearic Caper (1966)
Original Title: Baleari operazione Oro Country: Spain / Italy / France Director: José María Forqué Starring: Mireille Darc, Venantino Venantini, Daniela Bianchi, Jacques Sernas, Marilù Tolo, Harold Sakata, José Luis López Vázquez, Music: Benedetto Ghiglia AKA: Zarabanda Bing Bing Espionage month, marches on at Teleport City, and today’s installment is The Balearic Caper. In the [...]
14Dec10
Field Reports: 3
There must be something in the air this December. I don’t know about you, but this summer (it’s Summer Down Under – apologies to those who are suffering through extreme blizzards at the moment) I am going to sit at home in my underwear armed with a remote control and indulge in filmdoms most sexist, [...]
Country: Spain / Italy / France Starring: Ray Danton, Pamela Tudor, Sylvia Solar, Dada Gallotti, Francesca Rosana, Fernando Cebrian, Marco Guglielmi, Julio Pena Director: Giancarlo Romitelli Music: Carlo Savina Teleport City continues its espionage festival, and today’s contribution is another Eurospy feature: Si Muore Solo Una Volta. The sub-genre of spy films, known as Eurospy [...]
Country: Italy / France Starring: Roger Browne, Fabienne Dali, Massimo Serato, Dina De Santis, Rosalba Neri, Antonio Gradoli, Mino Doro Director: Umberto Lenzi Music: Angelo Francesco Lavagnino Original Title: Superseven chiama Cairo December is espionage month at Teleport City, and my first contribution is a review of the Eurospy feature Superseven Calling Cairo. The film [...]
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Tagged Blogs, EuroSpy, Roger Browne, Teleport City, Umberto Lenzi
Tagged Blogs, EuroSpy, Roger Browne, Teleport City, Umberto Lenzi
18Nov10
FX-18 Superspy (1965)
Original Title: Coplan FX-18 Casse Tout AKA: Agent 077 Summergame, Agent 777 Mission Summergame, The Exterminators, Coplan FX 18 Country: France / Italy Director: Riccardo Freda Starring: Richard Wyler, Robert Manuel, Jany Clair, Valeria Ciangottini, Maria-Rosa Rodriguez Music: Michel Magne To confuse things, a lot of Eurospy movies called them self ‘077’ movies, but in [...]
16Nov10
Mexican Slay Ride (1967)
Original Title: Coplan ouvre le feu à Mexico Country: France /Italy / Spain Director: Riccardo Freda Starring: Lang Jeffries, Sabine Sun, Frank Oliveras, Silvia Solar, Luciana Gilli, Guido Lollobrigida Music: Jacques Lacome Mexican Slay Ride (and the many other names this film travels under) is the fifth in the series of Coplan films based on [...]
