Alien Minute

Film professor Erin Hamer Beck joins John and Mitch to discuss minutes 42-49 which begin with Bond telling his host that their hospitality “overwhelms me” and end with Bond accompanying Karim to kill Krilencu on a dark Istanbul street.

This week John and Mitch are joined by documentarian Christy Henry (upcoming documentary ROMA IN AMERICA) to talk about minutes 35-42 which begin with sewer rats on the oar of the rowboat and end with Bond enjoying the performance of a belly dancer at a “gypsy” encampment.

Film professor and author Dr. Cynthia Baron joins John and Mitch to talk about minutes 28-35 which begin with Bond asking Karim where he can contact Tania and end with Bond and Karim taking a rowboat through the catacombs beneath Istanbul.

This week, John and Mitch welcome Bruce Scivally, Author of James Bond: The Legacy and writer/director of Bond Documentaries to talk about minutes 21-28 which begin with M telling Bond he’s “booked on the 8:30 plane in the morning” to Istanbul and end in the office of Karim Bey who tells Bond that “something smells.”

A second examination of minutes 14-21 with author Dr. Monica Germana (Bond Girls: Body, Fashion and Gender).

This week, John and Mitch are joined by Pete the Retailer (Star Wars Minute, ABCD:TOS) and Joe Mazel (ABCD:TOS) to talk about minutes 14-21 of From Russia with Love which start with  Tatania Romanova leaving the Russian Consulate building and end with Bond telling M that he is really “not too busy at the moment, sir”.

John and Mitch are joined by Kaite Stover of the Kansas City Public Library to discuss minutes 7-14  which begin with Kronsteen handily dispatching his chess opponent and end with some people leaving a building in Istanbul.

John and Mitch welcome author Mark O'Connell (Catching Bullets: Memoirs of a Bond Fan) to discuss minutes 0-7 of From Russia with Love, which begin with the classic gun barrel sequence and end with a chess player tearing up a note.

Oft mentioned Alien Minute listener and host of the Effectively Speakingpodcast Eric Moore joins us to wrap up Dr. No.

This week, John and Mitch welcome marketing consultant, bon vivant, and James Bond nerd, Tom Tipton to talk about minutes 98-105 which begins with Bond emerging from the air duct and ends with Bond emerging from a corridor with a bank-vault like door.