Michael May's Blog, page 4

After Lunch | The Man from UNCLE (2015)

While Rob and I wait for Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part One to come out, we follow up Henry Cavill's performance in Fallout with another Cavill spy movie, Guy Ritchie's The Man from UNCLE.
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After Lunch | On Her Majesty's Secret Christmas

Since we just talked about On Her Majesty's Secret Service last episode, now seems like a good time to revisit this conversation from my old Sleigh Bell Cinema podcast in which I talk with Carlin Trammel about the movie and how (or if) it functions as a Christmas movie.
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After Lunch | On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

After some Goldfinger and Thunderball trivia that you can play along with, Rob, Karen Flieger, and I talk about George Lazenby's grounded and human James Bond, Diana Riggs' lovely and kickass Tracy di Vicenzo, and Telly Savalas' tough and brutish Ernst Stavro Blofeld. It's an unusual entry in the series, but is it also good? Once we settle that, we wrap with some On Her Majesty's Secret Service trivia, too.
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After Lunch | After Dinner Lounge – This Changes a Man

Rob, Michael DiGiovanni, and I talk about The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Star Wars Visions Season 2, Ted Lasso Season 3, Unicorn: Warriors Eternal, the Our Man Flint movies, Hammer's Frankenstein movies, Peter Pan and Wendy (2023), streaming service avatars, Fast X, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Silo, Disney’s Stan Lee documentary, how our buying and reading of comics has changed, aging and wisdom, budgeting entertainment time, and other things we've been watching and thinking about.
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After Lunch | After Dinner Lounge – Flintstones Calisthenics

As Pax recovers from vacation, Evan returns to the Lounge for a bit with me, Rob, and guest-lounger Michael DiGiovanni. In this first half of the discussion, the conversation includes butt tattoos, underwear preferences, Joe Hill, nepotism, how horror works in books vs film, jazz trombone, William T Riker, Fourth Chair Carryover Questions, the difference between the book and movie versions of Prisoner of Azkaban, The New Classic Film Jerks, the Off Panel comic book interview podcast, the Purple Stuff podcast, letting your kids introduce you to new music, celebrity podcasts, Action Comics, Dawn of DC, Star Trek: Double Double by Michael Jan Friedman, Cassandra Cain as Batgirl, and X-Men comics.
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After Lunch | Batman (1966), Season 4

Rob and I welcome Erik Johnson and Noel Thingvall to create a fourth season of the Adam West Batman series by crossing it over with other late-'60s TV shows. In addition to the new guest-characters, some of the stories also include new villains pulled from comics of the day and played by popular actors of the period. 
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Seriously Felicity | The Love Bug

Kristi and I blow off midterms, audition for a movie, and try to avoid getting mono.
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After Lunch | Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)

Rob and I finish our Mission: Impossible movies catch-up with a discussion of Fallout. Henry Cavill, Vanessa Kirby, and Angela Bassett join the series while other favorites return. But is that, plus emotional closure and fantastic stunts, enough to make this one of our favorite in the series?
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Hellbent for Letterbox | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

Pax and I watch the Coen Brothers' anthology movie, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. Plus, Pax listens to the 1001 Stories from the Old West podcast and I watch The Secret of Convict Lake (1951) and Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949).
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After Lunch | You Only Live Twice (1967)

This extra-sized episode opens with Rob, Karen Flieger, and I answering trivia questions about Dr No and From Russia With Love. The questions are multiple choice, so play along as you listen. 
After that, we return to the official Bond film series with Sean Connery's first last appearance in the role. And we are not in agreement about the quality of this film. We'll talk about why before wrapping up with more trivia, this time about You Only Live Twice.
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