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Category Archives: Watch

La Dolce Vida con Omicidio

Mario Bava’s The Girl Who Knew Too Much

Posted byKeithJanuary 4, 2022January 4, 2022Posted inWatchTags:1960s, Diabolique, Giallo, Horror, John Saxon, Mario BavaLeave a comment on La Dolce Vida con Omicidio

League of Gentlemen

League of Gentlemen is a little bit like if Bulldog Drummond’s humorous classified ad was answered by a fellow demobilized officer putting together a crew for a heist.

Posted byKeithDecember 28, 2021December 24, 2021Posted inWatchTags:1960s, Basil Deardon, HeistsLeave a comment on League of Gentlemen

Bubblegum Ninjas

Camp, Kobayashi, and the Psychedelic Grandeur of Black Tight Killers

Posted byKeithDecember 19, 2021December 23, 2021Posted inWatchTags:1960s, Akira Kobayashi, Diabolique, Espionage, Japan, NikkatsuLeave a comment on Bubblegum Ninjas

From Mumbai with Love

It may have taken until 1983’s Octopussy for James Bond to visit India, but 007’s influence on the subcontinent’s cinema stretches back much farther, part of a global phenomenon that produced hundreds of swanky spy films.

Posted byKeithNovember 5, 2021November 5, 2021Posted inWatchTags:1960s, Dharmendra, Espionage, IndiaLeave a comment on From Mumbai with Love

Asia-Pol

Asia-Pol‘s plot is as simple and convoluted as one expects from your average spy film: Jô Shishido stars as George, a Japanese-Chinese gangster who hates Japan and has vowed to destroy it by smuggling gold and destroying its economy.

Posted byKeithSeptember 20, 2021December 24, 2021Posted inWatchTags:1960s, Asia, Espionage, featured, Hong Kong, Japan, Jimmy Wang Yu, Jo Shishido, Nikkatsu, Ruriko Asaoka, Shaw BrothersLeave a comment on Asia-Pol

Who Saw Her Die?

Who Saw Her Die? is the rare giallo that succeeds on an emotional level, thanks primarily to a committed performance from former James Bond George Lazenby.

Posted byKeithAugust 22, 2021November 5, 2021Posted inWatchTags:1970s, Anita Strindberg, George Lazenby, Giallo, ItalyLeave a comment on Who Saw Her Die?

Ypotron

Ypotron is a light and airy espionage adventure with sci-fi elements and almost no interest whatsoever in its own plot, so enamored is it instead with low-budget globe-trotting and extremely large hats.

Posted byKeithJune 8, 2021November 5, 2021Posted inWatchTags:1960s, Eurospy, Janine ReynaudLeave a comment on Ypotron

Asambhav

This movie is a total bomb, and that didn’t stop me from enjoying it. Don’t listen to me, because I’m going to tell you to see Asambhav. The universal chorus of bad reviews this movie received are right, and I am wrong.

Posted byKeithJune 8, 2021November 5, 2021Posted inWatchTags:2000s, Espionage, IndiaLeave a comment on Asambhav

From 007 to Gogol 13

Golgo 13 was (is) a long-running Japanese comic book aimed primarily at bitter guys in dead-end salaryman jobs who harbored daydreams of being tough-as-nails murderous sex machines.

Posted byKeithJune 8, 2021November 5, 2021Posted inWatchTags:1960s, 1970s, 1980s, Animation, Golgo 13, James BondLeave a comment on From 007 to Gogol 13

Scorpions and Miniskirts

If you can roll with the first five minutes of Scorpions and Miniskirts, then you are probably going to be able to walk away with a sense of having been entertained while feeling like you didn’t quite get everything for which you’d hoped.

Posted byKeithDecember 24, 2020November 5, 2021Posted inWatchTags:1960s, 1967, Eurospy, Germany, Italy, SpainLeave a comment on Scorpions and Miniskirts

Everything Gets Boring

Grappling with Sex Revolution Disappointment in Deep End

Posted byKeithMarch 28, 2019December 23, 2021Posted inWatchTags:1970s, Diabolique, Swinging London, Youth in RevoltLeave a comment on Everything Gets Boring

One Slow Descent into Respectability

Prostitutes, Profumo, and the Pleasure Girls

Posted byKeithMarch 21, 2019December 23, 2021Posted inWatchTags:1960s, Diabolique, Great Britain, Swinging London, Youth in RevoltLeave a comment on One Slow Descent into Respectability

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