1999 was a good year for cult classics. If you’re an IT guy or even just an office drone, then your bible sprang into being in the form of Office Space. Nearly 20 years after 9 to 5 debuted, Office Space stepped back from the former’s feminist focus to show the rot in corporate America…
Every so often, I do a Bond marathon. When I found myself single years ago, I collected all the Bonds on DVD. I was alone and on my own schedule. I could binge whatever I wanted. A couple years ago, we attempted a movie night James Bond marathon, one every Sunday. At the time, that…
Like the Doctor, James Bond is one of the most sought after roles in the film industry. Ever since Sean Connery did his first gun barrel sequence in 1963’s Doctor No, every Bond movie has drawn speculation and even screen tests from the most obvious to the most bizarre from the obscure (Michael Billington from…
Daniel Craig’s tenure as James Bond comes to an end, and, spoiler alert, does not have a happy ending. And yet it does. Prior to Craig’s debut in 2006’s Casino Royale, the first Bond movie in years to follow the source material, continuity was alternately ignored or stretched to the breaking point and beyond. We…
In 1991, I took my girlfriend at the time to see Terminator 2. A first-run movie cost me about $9 for an evening showing for two people. I spent more at the late, lamented Chopstick Garden after the show. In 2019, I took my two youngest stepsons to a matinee showing of The Rise of…