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Its the final episode of Season 2, and we decided to watch one more Stallone movie just to say goodbye to the big fella himself- And what better than Demolition Man? We recorded this one at the end of four hours of continuous podcasting and we were all insane and variably inebriated. Enjoy! ------ T

"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

As a companion piece to Cop Land, we're looking at the true story of what happened to NYC corruption whistleblower Frank Serpico. In this Biopic he's played by a young Al Pacino and Devon is going entirely feral about it ------ THE MOVIES ARE ON STRIKE! SAG-AFTRA and the WGA are both on strike for a

It's the fourth Rambo film. Sylvester Stallone reckons this is 'the best film he's ever made' because it's 'the most truthful'. We reckon it's the worst movie we've ever seen. ------ THE MOVIES ARE ON STRIKE! SAG-AFTRA and the WGA are both on strike for a number of reasons, from pay for streaming re

It's another 2-host episode this week as Devon is away on holiday in Chicago. They've asked me to stress that this is normal holiday leave, not Dome Leave. And so, it's time to settle in with your favourite Girls as they discuss the 2021 prequel to 101 Dalmations, Cruella! This one's also taking the

It's a Double Dragon this week as Abi is getting, and I'm quoting directly here, 'Dome the likes of which you cannot imagine'. So instead of trying to imagine this, we watched the 1997 movie Cop Land! If you're one of the fans who suggested this, I chose this one because of you specifically. Promise

It's Rambo 3, it's the third Rambo. Did you know that the 'dedicated to the brave mujahedeen fighters of Afghanistan' thing is just an urban legend? It's the full four-man cohort of KJB today, as our editor and producer Nate Bethea joins us to ask and answer one simple question: Is afghanistan about

The gang goes feral watching Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, and Isabella Rossellini. ------ *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/ Kill James Bond is hosted by Alice Caldw

Alright fine, it's time to admit it. We hate America. We're absolutely sick to death of Yanks. And all it took to finally tip us over the edge was watching the movie Rambo: First Blood Part II ------ Consider supporting us on our reasonably-priced patreon! https://www.patreon.com/killjamesbond -----

I still can't believe the founder of Gucci was a guy called Guccio Gucci. Thats cunt ------ *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/ Kill James Bond is hosted by Alice C

Kill... John.... Brambo... ------ 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 behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen

It's movie night at the big house we all live in together, and it's cowboy time again... or is it? Oh of course, it's Akira Kurosawa's 3.5 hour Seven Samurai. Because Dev got to pick the movie this time. ------ *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website

It's the big finale of the KJB Three Nights Of Power. The stakes have never been higher, we have never been more insane. They made a third Austin Powers movie. Recorded live at the Streatham Space Project on the 15th of April 2023, It's.... Goldmember! ------ Consider supporting us on our reasonably

It's cowboy time again babey. It's time to get a little more serious as we watch a revisionist western criticised by real life cowboy Sam Elliott for being "too gay". ------ *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach

There was a hint of a good movie in the first one. There were some solid jokes that landed reasonably well. Not so to the sequel, Recorded live at the Streatham Space Project on the 14th of April 2023, It's.... Austin Powers! ------ *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the desig

It's cowboy time babey. It's time for the true-ish story of Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the gunfight at the OK Corral! Featuring a whole bevy of guys we love to see, guys we've loved to see, and guys we would have loved to have seen. ------ *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and

You asked, and like the monomyth, we refused the call. Several times. But now, we've finally relented. Recorded live at the Streatham Space Project on the 13th of April 2023, It's.... Austin Powers! ------ Consider supporting us on our reasonably-priced patreon! https://www.patreon.com/killjamesbond

OOOouuugh fuck. What happen in this movie ------ *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/ Kill James Bond is hosted by Alice Caldwell-Kelly, Abigail Thorn, and Devon. Yo

This week, a one-off episode to bridge the gap before our Austin Powers live shows: Atomic Blonde! Charlize Theron stars in a nest of spies type situation in cold war Berlin... a movie with immense potential that sadly completely fucks itself with that most insidious of poisons: Masculinity. ------

That's right, we're back once again to answer your most pressing and urgent questions. If your question didn't get asked it wasn't good enough. ------ *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https

Well lads, this is it. We're finally at the end of the UNCLE films. A bittersweet send-off as we watch a genuinely quite solid reboot movie, but one whos' sequel hook will forever remain unfulfilled. CIA guy Napoleon Solo (Massive) finds himself forced to team up with KJB operative Ilya Kuryakin (Ma

This week on KJB, Alice shares with us a film that holds an immense amount of meaning for her; Pedro Almodóvar's 1999 'All About My Mother'. The film follows a woman trying to find meaning for herself after the death of her son, and the episode of KJB is of a distinctly Hedwig style. Joining us is r

It's the final 60s UNCLE, and it's a fitting send-off. Solo goes on a peyote vision quest, Ilya babysits a wannabe protagonist, and "Waverly is fucking dying. A rogue UNCLE agent has created a secret society based in the LAX Airport Terminal in a desert in the middle of the Himalayas, and he's plann

Abi's away on business (Dome), so it's up to just Alice and Devon to talk about the 2011 Indonesian action film 'The Raid'. A team of cops descend upon a tower block to kill the crime lord on the top floor. All that stands in their way? A million extremely damp guys who all know the martial art Penc

As the Winter of Content comes to a close, we tackle the Wachowski Sisters' 2008 film adaptation of the 1960s anime Mach Gogogo! Recieved badly upon its' initial release, the film has since seen a renaissance and a critical reappraisal as a musing on art, artists, cycles of trauma, and what it truly

This week, UNCLE strike a bargain with a reformed ex-villain to help them crack into a reclusive scientist's safe and steal a superweapon, Napoleon forgets he's in an UNCLE film, and Ilya debuts his new Tactical Drip... ------ THE WINTER OF CONTENT: THE FINAL MONTH If you do feel you have money to s

This week we're joined by Komodo Dad from War_Takes to discuss the classic 1992 Legal Thriller that features Jack Nicholson yelling 'YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH!'. Join us as we explain why Marines are a kind of Samurai, Why sexual harassment was actually a dischargeable offense in 1992, and just what

It's time for yet more UNCLE! This week we meet not one, but TWO Bond Villains as they get their various pussy-getting problems solved by Ilya and Solo. Finding it difficult to describe this one, honestly. It's like three consecutive episodes of a Samurai show but where the only problem he solves is

Gentlemen, Ladies, whatever else: It's time to finally return to Old Man Connery. This week, we're joined by Dr Arthur Asseraf, Lecturer in the history of France and the Francophone World at the University of Cambridge. Dr Asseraf is a historian of North Africa, France, and the Mediterranean, which

It's time to once again venture into the uncharted territory of the Man from UNCLE. This week, Ilya joins a Union, Napoleon has a run-in with the Mob, and we face an absolutely baffling degree of racism against Italians.... THE WINTER OF CONTENT We're joining the war on christmas... on the side of t

In this 100th episode of Kill James Bond, we experiement with the original concept for the show after we had finished No Time To Die... Doing the bond films over again- without rewatching them or checking our notes! So here, enjoy us attempting to recall a movie that we last saw nearly two full year

It's finally time for more UNCLE! In this one, Ilya is chasing pussy all over soho, while Napoleon gets swept up in intrigue involving Milfs, Evil Rodney Dangerfield, and the return of Cal Bolder. We recorded this one nearly a month ago and I truly cannot recall what it was about. thanks ------ THE

Thats Right. ------ THE WINTER OF CONTENT We're joining the war on christmas... on the side of the RMT! Mick Lynch needs your help to secure concessions from the government to make the trains in this country slightly less fucking awful, and you can donate to the RMT's strike fund here: https://www.r

Napoleon Solo faces off against his most dangerous foe yet: A guy who thinks he's gonna become like Alexander the Great and rule the world if he breaks all of the ten commandments. Like five steps in this guy's plan is the '?????' step. He's truly just doing shit and having fun with it. ------ THE W

It's the second best trenchcoat action gun martial arts movie about being transgender produced in the early 2000s! And boys, there's a bit of a fucking gap between first and second place in this ranking. In a world where emotion is outlawed, one man will change everything by learning that it's okay

It's Napoleon Solo's second outing, and it's fuckin wierd. I think this is maybe our funniest episode since Cars 2, genuinely. There's just such a rich tapestry of insane things this movie puts in front of you. Napoleon Solo is kidnapped and replaced with an evil agent that has had plastic surgery t

This week, Alice takes us to the GDR as we watch our first-ever German-language movie, a movie that poses the question: What if a Stasi guy got into a parasocial relationship with the people he is assigned to monitor? ------ THE WINTER OF CONTENT The UCU has a fighting fund that you can contribute t

MI6's James Bond: Eliminated Jason Bourne: Eliminated Jack Ryan: Eliminated U.N.C.L.E.'s Napoleon Solo: .... Active Dear friends, it's time to embark upon a new venture. Join us, as we head all the way back to 1964 and crack into a whole new series as we hunt down The Man from U.N.C.L.E.... It's tim

Let's get parasocial babey! This time: Do we miss Bond? Which young adult novels did we read? What was the origin of our names? and what is our favourite Wierd Gun? ------ THE WINTER OF CONTENT The UCU has a fighting fund that you can contribute to here: https://www.ucu.org.uk/fightingfund If you do

It's a very spooky halloween spooktactular as we turn our vision towards a subject few would dare discuss: Teenage girls! Writer, Youtuber, Podcaster and Elected Government Official (Swedish) Mia Mulder joins us to ask one very simple question: Is this movie about 9/11? The answer is yes, by the way

Welcome... to Da Cerebral Hour as we discuss the Senegalese Southern/terror Saloum. But we are not alone on this venture, as joining us is Author and certified Gambian, ML Kejera! You can find ML's Mum's youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4QV0_d0j0YUm8IZ3d-jjUg And find ML's wri

It's honestly somewhat refreshing to see a movie be genuinely, wholeheartedly and earnestly racist against the English. I've never felt real hate like this before and I can only respect it. Anyway this movie is shit ------ THE WINTER OF CONTENT As mentioned in the episode, the UCU has a fighting fun

Find bonus episodes at our reasonably-priced patreon! https://www.patreon.com/killjamesbondAlright, after taking a brief vacation to the land of Lazenby, it's time to return to Jack Ryan. This one is a modern reboot from 2014 that is somehow equal parts James Bond, Jason Bourne, and Alex Rider Storm

Lets not beat around the bush here: Alice did not participate in bringing a movie that means a lot to her, instead opting to show us Winter Kills. After an internal disciplinary process, she performed malicious compliance and dropped a transgender emotional nuke on us. So, we watched Hedwig. And we

Woah, wait a minute- This isn't Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit starring Chris Pine! No. In the time between episodes, our beloved Queen Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II passed away. So, in loving tribute to the queen who birthed all english people like a queen ant does, we watched a movie about her life an

Surely EVERYONE wasn't kung fu fighting. that would be insane ------ *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/ Kill James Bond is hosted by Alice Caldwell-Kelly, Abigail

Alright, look. Permit us this one. This was pretty nice to do. *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/ Find us at https://killjamesbond.com and https://twitter.com/kill

Further to the theme of last episode's taught depiction of actual spy work, today we're taking a look at the dramatisation of the true story of Robert Hanssen, an FBI agent who spent decades spying for the USSR, and later Russia. This is a well-acted, high stakes retelling that somewhat unfortunatel

The gang are joined once again by the wonderful Shannon Strucci- editor, podcast host, video essayist, and foremost Lupin III scholar that we happen to know- to discuss Hayao Miyazaki's directorial debut; the 1979 animated movie 'Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro'. You can find Shannon at https://

It's finally here, after much fanfare and buildup: Season 2 of KJB starts off not with a bang, but with a knowing hmm as we kick off Da Cerebral Hour Syriana is potentially the best depiction of spy work we have covered, and it's serious themes lead us to a very thoughtful and introspective discussi