Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

For the 100th episode of the queer James Bond podcast, Shane and Andrew talk about the Bondiest things they've ever done, their favourite non-Bond movie spies, and their final all-time ranking of the Bond movies! They also reveal exciting plans for the future -- the next phase -- of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang!

Amazon takes over Bond! Bond songs get covered at the Oscars! We break it all down, then we discuss our movie namesake, the 2005 L.A. noir comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, starring Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer.

Shane and Andrew discover the extraordinary 60s spy spoof Modesty Blaise, starring Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, and the very gay Dirk Bogarde.

In the final casting episode of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Shane and Andrew dream-cast You Only Live Twice, The Man With the Golden Gun, and the short stories from Octopussy and The Living Daylights.

The last of Fleming's Bond stories were collected posthumously in the collection Octopussy and the Living Daylights. Shane and Andrew dig into the final tales, discover the truth about Bond's sexuality, and review their ratings of all the Bond books. Donate to Trans Lifeline: https://translifeline.org/donate/ Donate to LA Wildfire support: https://www.calfund.org/ Buy us a Faberge egg: https://www.faberge.com/products/limited-edition-guilloche-enamel-octopussy-egg-objet-3646

Shane and Andrew offer their (spoiler-free) thoughts on the current slate of spy TV shows, including: Slow Horses Citadel Mr and Mrs Smith The Agency Black Doves Day of the Jackal

It's the movie the queer James Bond podcast was born to cover! Daniel Craig is queer in Luca Guadagnino's Queer.

We've finally reached our final movie in our Bond movie rewatch, but have we saved the best for last? No. No, we have not.

Big boys blast bad boys in Guy Ritchie's historically innacurate true historical fiction.

We wrap up our spooky season of horror movies starring iconic Bond women with Halle Berry in the psychological supernatural thriller Gothika.

Enter the Theater of Blood for a camp horror classic starring Dame Diana Rigg and Dame Vincent Price!

For October we're checking in with three horror movies starring iconic Bond women, starting with the Famke Janssen 1989 action horror Deep Rising!

Timothy Dalton dons the bow tie for a confusing dip into the 80s, and Shane and Andrew offer an in-depth critical reappraisal of Necros the henchman.

Our attention turns to the work of John Le Carre in the 60s spy classic starring Richard Burton!

A special bonus episode looking at the Bond-themed runways in the third episode of the first season of RuPaul's Drag Race Global All Stars!

Shane and Andrew check out the last Bond novel completed by creator Ian Fleming and ask the key questions: Could Christopher Lee have played Paco 'Pistols' Scaramanga? And which Mary Goodnight is better, the book or the movie?

Akiko Wakabayashi played a thankless role in You Only Live Twice, but she gets to shine in Toho's 1964 kaiju classic Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster. Shane and Andrew wade into the monster mash to check out the most spy-adjacent kaiju movie!

Alfred Hitchock's take on Scottish writer John Buchan's adventure hero Richard Hannay serves as a prototype of sorts for the movie version of Bond. Shane and Andrew offer their best Mae West impressions (it sort of makes sense in context) as they climb the 39 Steps.

Roger Moore's second outing as Bond is Ian Fleming's last novel starring the super spy. It's a party in the South China Seas with Christopher Lee, Herve Villechaise, Britt Eklund, and you!

For the annual Pride episode, Shane and Andrew revisit one of Daniel Craig's trashiest movies, the 2003 Angelina Jolie action movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider!

Shane and Andrew dive deep into the last Bond novel completed in Ian Fleming's lifetime, You Only Live Twice. Content warning: This episode contains mention of suicide and racism.

And Shane wept, for there were no more Austin Powers movies to cover. For his birthday episode this year, Shane made Andrew watch the James Bond homage episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; "Our Man Bashir."

James Bond heads to Japan in the movie that introduced the West to ninjas -- and perpetuated the awful tradition of yellowface.

Shane and Andrew check out The Ipcress File, the first of the "anti-Bond" spy movies, starring Michael Caine as Harry Palmer.

Shane and Andrew check out four episodes from the fourth season of 60s action comedy series The Avengers, starring Bond veterans Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee.

Shane and Andrew fan-cast new movie adaptations of three more Ian Fleming Bond novels; Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

George Lazenby is back, back, back, albeit very briefly, in this wild and trashy 80s Bond-inspired spy thriller starring John Stamos, Vanity, and Gene Simmons.

He might never be Bond, but Henry Cavill gets to play a very Bond-adjacent character in the 2024 box office bomb Argylle. Shane and Andrew share their thoughts on this very strange confection for better (Catherine O'Hara) and worse (The Beatles?).

Shane and Andrew explore the novel version of On Her Majesty's Secret Service -- and talk Traitors!

With the announcement of a new James Bond actor expected to take place in 2024, Shane and Andrew count down their list of their favorite contenders for the role.

Shane and Andrew celebrate the holidays with everyone's favourite Christmas movie, 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service. George Lazenby's only outing as Bond is a very different type of Bond movie and one of the franchise's most stylish, but is Lazenby as bad as he's reputed to be? Also in this episode, our hosts discuss 007 Road to a Million on Prime, and review Bowmore's Aston Martin whisky!

Shane and Andrew revisit the classic (?), iconic (?), feminist (!?) action movie Charlie's Angels, starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, and Lucy Liu.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang takes a Halloween horror detour with 1986 camp classic Vamp, starring one of our favourite Bond women, Grace Jones!

Angelina Jolie almost had her own spy franchise with Salt, a movie and role that nearly went to Tom Cruise. What went wrong?

Shane and Andrew unpack the many problems in Ian Fleming's least popular Bond novel and find themselves staring at the thesis at the heart of this whole podcast.

DVD board games were a thing in the early 2000s. Andrew and Shane unbox a 2004 "007 Edition" of the movie trivia board game Scene It and go head-to-head to test their James Bond knowledge!

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang returns with a tale of billionaires, submarines, and hubris. It's the 1977 Roger Moore classic The Spy Who Loved Me!

Pride Month is here and it's time for another camp classic with a Bond leading man! This time it's Pierce Brosnan's turn to humiliate himself as he honks his way through the ABBA jukebox musical Mamma Mia!

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang rounds out its coverage of the Austin Powers trilogy -- and its spy spoof season -- with 2002's Goldmember, the movie that made Spectre a joke several years before Spectre was even written.

Spy spoof movie season continues on Kiss Kiss Bang Bang with Leslie Nielsen's Spy Hard. It's a dumb movie, but is it somehow better than Johnny English, the dumb movie from the actual Bond movie writers?

Spy spoof season continues with Rowan Atkinson's Bond parody -- from the actual writers of the Bond movies. Treason!

We're kicking off our countdown to the last Austin Powers movie by checking out some other classic spy spoofs from the 90s and beyond, starting with 2015's Paul Fiege comedy Spy, starring Melissa McCarthy.

It's the movie that almost killed the Bond franchise, but how does it hold up today? Shane and Andrew revisit the final Brosnan Bond movie Die Another Day to reappraise Halle Berry's Jinx, the campy villains Graves and Frost, and that Madonna theme.

Shane and Andrew provide live commentary as their gaymer friends Jomar and Levi play the re-released GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo Switch. It was a game that revolutionized the first person shooter, but how does it hold up today, and how closely does it evoke the GoldenEye movie and the world of Bond?

We've watched the movies based on the novel, now it's time for the novel based on the screenplay, Ian Fleming (and friends') 1961 novel Thunderball, perhaps the horniest of the Bond novels.

Shane and Andrew dive deep into one of the weirdest Bond pastiches ever made, the 1960s Italian spy comedy OK Connery, starring Sean Connery's brother Neil Connery as hypnotist plastic surgeon Dr Neil Connery--and co-starring a whole host of Bond movie performers!

Thunderball is such a classic, Sean Connery made it twice. It didn't work out so great the second time. Shane and Andrew explore the strange story of Never Say Never Again, the unofficial Bond movie that almost created a new franchise.

We're back for a new year with an all-time classic, the 1965 Sean Connery movie Thunderball. We hit the highs (Fiona Volpe) the lows (James Bond's spa break) and the Junkanoo too!

Roger Moore is The Chief in the iconic classic of British cinema, Spice World. Is it a Bond movie? Probably not. Is it a good movie? Possibly not. Is it an amazing experience and well worth your time? Listen and find out!

Shane and Andrew count down their picks of the best outfits and fashions in Bond movie history. Suits, swimsuits, beautiful gowns, it's all here -- and inevitably, they disagree enormously and somehow come together in the end.

Henry Cavill may never be Bond -- but maybe he's played the part already, or pretty close to it. Shane and Andrew check out the once-and-future Superman's 60s spy thriller The Man from UNCLE (co-starring aspiring celebrity cannibal Armie Hammer), with Cavill in the very Bond-esque role of Ian Fleming's Napoleon Solo.