Kill James Bond!

Oh yeah, this one's not going to be insanely fraught to talk about ----- TSHIRT ALERT: ADVERSE CONDITIONS MOVIE CLUB PREORDERS NOW OPEN Thats right, the long-awaited Adverse Conditions Movie Club shirt is finally available for preorder on our website. Featuring art from the incredibly talented Mika

A round half a year ago, when our transition from Eurospy to Heist was written in stone, many of our beautiful listeners told us that a perfect film to smooth that boundary would be the 1964 euroheist caper Topkapi. And on this occasion we really need to hand it to you. You were spot on. This has ev

This week on the Kill James Bond Podcast, we're joined by long-time friend, two-time guest, comedian and man with 'too many podcasts', Milo Edwards! We're taking a jog down memory lane today with the daddest of dad movies, the italian job! Michael Caine stars as a thief released from prison in 1960s

This week on Kill James Bond: A wrong righted. As much as we wanted it to be the case, the Transporter series featured ZERO HEISTS. So today, November and Devon meet in a shady basement to give Jason Statham his Due. Based in broad strokes on a true-ish story, The Bank Job is the story of the 1971 B

If I had a penny for every time we've reviewed a poorly-thought out 2010s reboot of a 2000s film series that prominently features three women dressed in identical wigs to fool security cameras, I would have two pennies ----- FREE PALESTINE Hey, Devon here. As you well know I've been working with a f

The adventures of gay asexual trans man Frank Transporter continue, but this time- get this- the package he has to transport is a young woman who barely speaks english. Will he break his rigidly-defined set of rules to ooh fuck me of course he bloody will its the SAME its theSAME MOVIE ----- Remembe

You'd better believe they made a second one of these ----- FREE PALESTINE Hey, Devon here. As you well know I've been working with a few gazan families to raise money for their daily living costs in the genocide. We're putting all our energy into this one campaign as we have a real chance to get Ahm

Kill James Bond is setting our sights on the Fast and Furious movies, but we need to do a little genre research first. We need to- NEED to- watch Mr 'acquitted on all charges' himself, Luc Besson's English-language French Statham Vehicle, The Transporter! ----- Check out our hundreds of bonus episod

So two weeks ago we attempted to recall the plot of You Only Live Twice from memory, after having last watched the movie in 2021. This week, we all watched the Nick Cage vehicle (get it) Gone in 60 Seconds a matter of days before recording and somehow remembered it even less. Joining us is returning

This week, Clive Owen has planned out the perfect heist. What's his secret? Doing Russian Sleep Experiment shit. Can Denzel Washington figure out what the hell is going on before Willem Dafoe and the NYPD just go in guns blazing? ---- FREE PALESTINE Hey, Devon here. As you well know I've been workin

This week on the free feed, we're getting into not only a titan of Heist cinema, but a titan of early Al Pacino. You can imagine which of us was practically chewing the bars of their cell waiting to get to this one. Dog Day Afternoon is the true-ish story of a pair of men who held up a New York City

In the latter half of the 2010s, hollywood invented an idea called 'feminism'. What 'Feminism' consisted of was making new movies from studio-owned IPs, cast of entirely women. One example of this phenomenon is 'Ocean's 8', a movie about Danny Ocean's sister Debbie Ocean doing a girl heist for girl

Of this, i can say merely; it was a movie i watched in 2025 ----- FREE PALESTINE Hey, Devon here. As you well know I've been working with a few gazan families to raise money for their daily living costs in the genocide. As a ceasefire has been announced, we hope soon plenty of Aid can get in and hel

Welcome to Kill James Bond 2025, and welcome back to the Ocean's series! Boy, we're only one sequel in and it's already getting VERY thin on the ground here. The Gang from 'Ocean's 11' continue to do heist nonsense in Europe. ----- Donation links for the LA Wildfires Climate change will be experienc

Happy New Year from Kill James Bond! We offered you, on our twitter and bluesky accounts, the chance to vote on a movie for us to cover for this episode. You chose to make us watch the second star wars movie, and let it never be said that the Kill James Bond podcast shies away from adversity. So ton

It's the holiday season once again, so we're back with KJB Christmas Staple John McClane to check out yet another Die Hard movie It's the holiday season once again, so we're back with KJB Christmas Staple John McClane to check out yet another Die Hard movie. And I gotta say, the first and second wer

Alright, enough beating around the bush. Lets get into the good stuff. Let's take a look at 2001's smash hit Ocean's Eleven. Starring an ensemble cast of George Clooney, Matt Damon, and Don Cheadle, among others, A group of thieves attempt to rob three Vegas casinos simultaneously during a boxing ma

This week, we literally cannot help ourselves. No sooner are we free of the 1960s do we dive right back in to talk about the original Ocean's 11! This Rat Pack classic caper stars various white boys sure to make your nan point at the screen and pog out. ----- FREE PALESTINE Hey, Devon here. For the

Thats right folks, it's a whole new season, it's a whole new look (Courtesy of John Delucca), it's a whole new us! But in most of the really critical ways it is very much the same us. It's time for the long-awaited "Heist Szn"(sic)- and we open with a little film called Heat. You may have heard of i

Not a grand finale, but a finale nonetheless. This week, we conclude our Eurospy season by taking a look at the final movie of the Diabolik reboot trilogy, Diabolik: Who Are You? After spending one movie on Eva and one on Ginko, the writers have finally sighed and written some Diabolik backstop. Tur

In this sequel to Diabolik!, Ginko finally lays a trap and discovers Diabolik's hideout. While fleeing, Diabolik abandons Eva Kant, and she decides to get her revenge. Diabolik and Ginko do not talk to each other even once in this movie. ----- FREE PALESTINE Hey, Devon here. For the past few months

Hey everyone, sorry if you submitted ideas for movies to cover at the end of Eurospy season, we trauma bonded with the 1968 italian comic book movie Danger Diabolik and immediately committed to covering the 2020s remake trilogy. This is the first of these. Eva Kant, a wealthy south african diamond m

Check out the video of this live show on our youtube! King Johnny the First of England has been let go from MI7 for killing the Queen, and has taken up teaching. Prime Minister Liz Truss struggles to make Britain relevant. Johnny English and Bough attempt to save the world from a nefarious tech guy

Check out the video of this live show on our youtube! It's years later. King Johnny the First of England has been fired from MI7 for gross misconduct. Bough is nowhere to be seen. The world calls out- Will he answer? This- recorded live at Conway Hall on the 10th of August- is Johnny English Reborn!

James Bond is Dead. Austin Powers has been Refrozen. Charlie is with the Angels now. Who else is left? This- recorded live at Conway Hall on the 9th of August- is Johnny English! Watch the VOD of this live show here! https://youtu.be/ct0UIxs_R-U ----- FREE PALESTINE Hey, Devon here. For the past few

Get your live show tickets Here!- But do it fast ----- Thank you so much for suggesting this one, whoever it was. This was a shot of pure, beautiful, comic book bullshit at the end of what has been a very long season of solidarity. A mob boss is blackmailed by a police detective into helping him hun

Get your live show tickets at https://Killjamesbond.com/live ----- This week on the free feed, Alphaville. What happens when a prominent director of the french new wave gets a hold of a pulp detective IP? It turns out, he invents going 'woah, computers' ----- Friend of the show Blake is fundraising

Get your live show tickets at https://Killjamesbond.com/live! ----- This week we're taking another trip down memory lane as we attempt November's original concept for season two- Attempting to recall the Bond movies entirely based on having seen and discussed them several years ago. This week, we ar

This is the 1969 sequel to 1967's Deadlier Than The Male. Lloyds insurance agent Bulldog Drummond is pitted once again against Carl Peterson and his army of female agents- except this time, something is very, very wrong with the ladies... ----- FREE PALESTINE Hey, Devon here. For the past few months

In the first time we've ever seen a recast get worked into the plot, OSS 117 gets plastic surgery to look exactly like a deadly criminal, then infiltrates Gay Spectre. You read that correctly. ----- FREE PALESTINE Hey, Devon here. Give money to people crowdfunding for passage out of Rafah first and

This movie, based (loosely) on the Bulldog Drummond series of pulp novels, posits the question "What if women?". The answer, dear listeners, may surprise you. ------ FREE PALESTINE Hey, Devon here. Give money to people crowdfunding for passage out of Rafah first and foremost. While the crossing migh

This week: We're fucking back to fucking eurospy you mother fuckers. Our Duty is ironclad, our Will steadfast, our Vision clear... And we're using this to derive a perfect forumla for a Eurospy movie. The names change but the roles remain the same every time. 009? M? Bond? The 'our man in [location]

Three Nights, Three Shows. This, dear friends, is the third night of the "Kill James Bond Presents: A Masterpiece of Feminist Cinema" series of shows, and we ended it the only way we know how: Dressed up reeeeeal sexy then talked about a mid movie we'd all seen. This, recorded live at the Streatham

They made a second one. I don't know how to tell you this, but they did a second Charlie's Angels in 2003. How will this series about fun and cool women spies who are friends and love each other deal with making a sequel in the aftermath of the terrorist attack that shook the west? How will the earl

We've talked a lot about Men, in our time. But what if there were a fairer sex? What if the year was 2000, the cold war was won, history was over, 9/11 was never going to happen, and it was finally time to start thinking about whether Women could be in movies. This, recorded live at the Streatham Sp

It's time for another Eurospy spoof. This movie, based on the 'Modesty Blaise' comics by Peter O'Donnell, was written and directed by Joseph Losey to be 'A pop-art inspired spoof, with over-the-top set design, """Avante-garde editing""", and deliberate continuity problems'. It was nominated for a Pa

I hope this Shark finds you well, ------ FREE PALESTINE palestineaction.org/donate https://www.map.org.uk/donate/donate ----- Consider supporting us on our reasonably-priced patreon! https://www.patreon.com/killjamesbond ------ *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer b

Alright, thats quite enough vaguely muddling through the depths of Eurospy. Going forward, it's Bangers Only- and kicking that off is That Man in Istanbul, or as it will come to be known, the Ballad of Tony Mercedes. But we simply couldn't do it alone. Joining us on this episode is A.J. from The Wor

This week, we're joined by Alex Ptak from the podcast Quorators to discuss another German spy movie. Remember a few episodes ago when we realised that the director was an architect of the french new wave? This is the same except we find out that the director invented a new kind of child pornography.

OSS 117, your enemy on this mission is an amazonian indigenous tribe. Your ally? Why, the humble Billionaire Cattle Rancher... ------ FREE PALESTINE palestineaction.org/donate https://www.map.org.uk/donate/donate ----- Consider supporting us on our reasonably-priced patreon! https://www.patreon.com/

This week we're inexplicably back in Vienna, to watch a movie that spends more time humanising it's villains than the protagonist. And joining us is none other than Josh Boerman from the Worst of all Possible Worlds podcast! ------ FREE PALESTINE Well, we're all witnessing a genocide on our phones,

This one is inexplicably a spy movie funded partially by the City of Vienna for tourism purposes. I say 'inexplicably' because Vienna looks like an absolute heap of shit for the entire movie and I can't imagine this made anyone want to visit. ------ URGENT APPEAL FOR ACTION FOR PALESTINE Aid is not

The Strike may be over, but our commitment to Eurospy is ironclad. This week, there's another dead Soviet defector, so there must be another microfilm with something important on it floating around europe. Fuck it, lets send our best spy to go have a general look about. I'm not even going to front w

When an eccentric European aristocrat dies, his wife stands to inherit his collection of weapons patents. All the great powers of the world send their finest James Bond to attempt to claim them. How could this be anything other than great? This one is a hugely enjoyable movie thats inexplicably horr

Look, I know what you're thinking, this is just another bad eurospy movie- but this movie was made by Claude Chabrol, one of the directors of the French New Wave, during his middle period. He may have made this movie entirely to keep the lights on, but he clearly used the opportunity to try some thi

This week, as if to karmically reward us for weathering Fx-18, the universe rewards us with a perfect Moore-era bond film- except it's french and released in 1964! Join OSS 117 as he travels to Thailand to investigate missing vaccines, and gets drawn into conflict with an evil magus named Dr Sin...

Alright look, I never said these movies would all be good. I just said it would be interesting. This one... this one wasn't either. In this heap of hot trash, secret agent Francis Copland is assigned to infiltrate some kind of boat-based smuggling operation. ------ THE MOVIES ARE ON STRIKE! SAG-AFTR

Let me set the scene: It's 1963, the movie 'From Russia With Love' has just released and pre-production on 'Goldfinger' is already taking place. The People are clamoring for international nonces of mystery, and the great film-mills of Europe are only too happy to hard shift from the declining 'sword

In case you don't use Twitter, or X or whatever, the topic of our Season of Solidarity has been revealed! Join us in two weeks as we set out on a whole new film criticism adventure....

"Before you embark on a rampage of revenge, you must first dig fifty to sixty tunnels" - November Kelly It's Rambo again, but this time they turn their profoundly racist attention to the nation of Mexico. Content warning for discussion of sexual assault, human trafficking. Before you donate to the s