Did you know this month marks the 60th anniversary of the James Bond movie franchise? If you listen to our podcast I bet you did! Fix yourself a martini and join us as we celebrate six decades of our favorite fictional spy by ranking the Bond actors, naming our ten favorite villains and leading ladies and imagining our own original Bond movies in a 007 draft!

As Sean Connery’s badass imprisoned spy character John Mason says, “Losers are always whining about their best — winners go home and listen to this podcast!” Hell yeah. We’re talking 1996’s ‘The Rock!’ Finally! Fix yourself a martini and join us as we talk Sean Connery’s excellent wig game, Nicolas Cage’s surprising lack of a wig, Ed Harris’ consistent, timeless greatness, Michael Bay and Hans Zimmer really going for it and one of the best supporting casts of any action flick! Then as a bonus segment we all list our five favorite Nicolas Cage movies!

Take a Roger Moore Bond flick, replace 007 with a Cockney kid, add Samuel L. Jackson, Mark Hamill, a cute pug and a Kentucky church Massacre and you pretty much get ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service.’ Fix yourself a martini (stirred, for once, this time) and join us as we dive into Matthew Vaughn’s 2015 franchise-spawning spy romp! And as a bonus we each name our five favorite Colin Firth movies, along with a lot of Firth puns no one asked for!

How does one get away with the ultimate art heist? Sleep with the insurance investigator out to get you — obviously! Mix yourself a martini and join us as we discuss Pierce Brosnan’s non-Bond film from 1999, John McTiernan’s super slick remake of ‘The Thomas Crown Affair!’ And then as a bonus we each list our top five movie remakes!

Forget Iron Man and Captain America! We’re talking John Steed and Emma Peele, the original Avengers! Mix yourself a martini and join us as we dive into the 1998 film adaptation of the ‘60s TV classic, starring Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman and Sean Connery! Then as a bonus we each name our top five movies adapted from TV shows!

Allow me to introduce you to the best action movie you’ve probably never heard of starring an actress you probably hate! Oh, and also Ewan McGregor, Michael Fassbender, Channing Tatum, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Bill Paxton and not one single stuntman! Pour yourself a scotch and join us as we dive into Steven Soderbergh’s under-seen 2011 action flick and as a bonus list our favorite Soderbergh films!

*Note: For this episode Max accidentally recorded directly onto his computer instead of his microphone, so we apologize for the audio quality not always being the greatest.

Can you believe the first Bourne movie was released 20 years ago? Join us as we discuss this modern action classic and count down our top five Matt Damon flicks!

You may know him as a Top Gun, a Legend, or a Last Samurai, but to us he’ll always be our favorite IMF (that stands for the Impossible Mission Force baby!) agent Ethan Hunt! Dude likes masks, motorcycles, very occasionally sex, and boy oh boy Kittridge, my man, have you never seen him very upset. This week Gentlemen Prefer Bonds continues our series of Bond-related titles with a discussion on Brian De Palma’s 1996 blockbuster ‘Mission: Impossible,’ as well as each of our five favorite Tom Cruise movies! 

It’s my happening baby and it freaks me out! Gentlemen Prefer Bonds is taking a break from 007 himself and branching out into a mini-series discussing some of our favorite movies that influenced or were influenced by the Bond franchise. This week that means one of the funniest films of the ‘90s — ‘Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery!’ Join us as we unpack all the best ways the film spoofs Bond (as well as pretty much everything else from the the 1960s), debate whether this is the best of the three Powers flicks and, as a bonus, list each of our personal Mount Rushmores of film parodies. We also like to live dangerously…

Remember when Sean Connery remade his own Bond movie 18 years later? Mix yourself a martini and join us as we discuss arcade casinos, your standard expository tango, stealing a president’s eye and the fact that Steven Seagal trained Connery for this movie and it does not show!