The James Bond Complex

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Breaking news! This just in! Finally, the podcast reviews Pierce Brosnan's sophomore effort as 007, 1997's TOMORROW NEVER DIES. It's been a long time coming, especially when considering that we've discussed DIE ANOTHER DAY not once but twice already.

Matt and Edgar are so excited to delve into this jewel of the late 1990s that they cover a large enough variety of topics to make a global media empire blush: Brosnan's breath of fresh air, a Bond movie for simpler times, getting overly excited when firing at computers, BMW blues, sexy spy outfits, how to neutralize a spy when you're a media baron, a little Danish, and much more.

So sit back, relax, and let the James Bond Complex media empire whisk you away with stories and opinions galore. We're your trusted source for Bond film movie reviews.

Let the mayhem begin!

Exploring the James Bond franchise recipe, Emery and Matt dive into the initial adventure of 007: Dr. No.  They sample the original cocktail for what turned out to be the modern action-spy adventure series. Join us for a return journey to Crab Key!

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It's been a while, but the time has arrived to return to our best frienemy, John Gardner. When last we discussed one of his continuation novels, hosts Matt and Edgar were slowly but surely starting to warm up to his oeuvre. It was SLOW but it was still happening. Can the upward trend continue???

This week the boys review the eighth novel, WIN, LOSE, or DIE. We shan't spoil whether the discussion takes a positive or negative spin, but we can tease you with some of the topics broached: Hellraiser, torture porn, unintended Star Trek references, other episodes we're currently editing, having real-world heads of state as supporting characters in a novel, how much Jason loves the idea of a British PM being a Bond villain, and one of the longest plot synopses in the show's history (because when you don't know what to say about a book, just regurgitate the plot).

So sit back, relax, and enjoy this latest episode of the show. Enjoy as much as Matt and Edgar enjoyed WIN, LOSE, or DIE. On second thought, maybe that's not a good idea.

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Temps fugit. Despite that over a year has passed since the release of NO TIME TO DIE, it seems as though Daniel Craig keeps coming back into our lives. Sometimes at the movies, sometimes at the theatre, and sometimes for a comfortable chit-chat session. At the most recent Montclair Film Festival in New Jersey, Stephen Colbert graciously hosted former 007 Daniel Craig for a feature-length Q&A.

Our own International Man of Mystery, Jason Kim, was present to appreciate the lively talk. For this week's episode, Edgar puts Jason under the debriefing spotlight to find out more about the Montclair Film Festival's Bondian evening. How drunk did the parties get on stage? How tired is Craig of talking about James Bond? What's the rapport between Craig and KNIVES OUT and GLASS ONION director Rian Johnson? How many members of the fan community attended the evening's event along with Jason?

So sit back, relax, and regale in Jason's stories from the Colbert and Craig Q&A. 

Find out more about the Montclair Film Festival

This week's poster image is courtesy of Jason Kim, taken at the event on Friday, October 28th, 2022. 

Hello dear friends,

We welcome you to the castle of Count Dracula. Take off your coats and boots. It's a cold, wet night and the fire inside is so inviting. There are women to entertain you and our host will be arriving soon. You may never want to leave!

It's that time of year again. Late October can only mean one thing at The James Bond Complex: the Halloween Special 2022. Matt and Edgar make good on of their earliest Halloween Special ideas from a few years ago. The Hammer film vault is opened up and look who's inside: Christopher Lee as Dracula in THE HORROR OF DRACULA from 1958!

The hosts really sink their fangs into this one. It's such a nourishing, juicy film with so many topics. Among the terrifying sights and sounds in this ghoulish episode: awful Transylvanian accents, trying to remember what Roman Polanski's vampire film is called, trying to remember what Polanski's wife's name was, the defunct horror-sci-fi channel Scream (which became Dusk, which became something else), Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee being great friends in real life, loose adaptations of horror stories, vampirism upping one's libido levels, DRACULA: UNTOLD starring that dude who plays Tanner in Edgar's Bond 26, and much more!

So sit back, relax, and enjoy this horrifyingly great Halloween Special 2022. The leaves have turned yellow, orange, and blood red. Mmmm, blood red. Delicious.

We pay a quick tribute to Riobbie Coltrane before discussing the 60th anniversary celebrations that our friend; Jean Goyette of James Bond Québec.

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While some literary Bond fans are enjoying the new novel Double Or Nothing, we at the James Bond Complex are enjoying the not-quite-as-new With a Mind to Kill. Author Anthony Horowitz completes his Fleming-era trilogy with this late-career adventure for James Bond, 007.

Matt and Edgar sit down, face-to-face for once, to discuss the book in depth. Horowitz being the quality writer that he is, many highly intellectual ideas sprout such as: caring about people as tools, Montreal as a bastion of mind control, Horowitz performing an Auclarification, comparing the writer to John Le Carré, using British expressions to describe stuff in the book, Paul Rudd as Colonel Boris, how to market the film adaptation, and how much it must suck to be a spy.

So sit back, relax, crack open your copy of With a Mind to Kill and let us as we take over your minds with our brilliance.

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