Introducing a young movie fan to his first James Bond film is something of a rite of passage between fathers and sons. However, as the franchise has expanded across decades and multiple actors, and has changed in many significant ways over time, where does one begin? Which movie should be a kid’s first experience with… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 18 | Goldfinger (1964)
Although the title is undoubtedly more famous as the second movie in the James Bond film franchise, From Russia, with Love was originally the fifth novel by author Ian Fleming to feature his Agent 007 character. In bringing Bond to screen, the movie producers had very little concern for translating the work faithfully. The books… Read More Bond in Books | From Russia, with Love (1957)
As only the second James Bond movie, and a quick sequel cranked out for release just one year after the first, From Russia with Love finds the series still in a formative stage, not entirely settled into the formula that would define it for the next several decades. In fact, From Russia in particular stands… Read More No Substitute for Experience | From Russia with Love (1963) 4K Ultra HD
We’ve got twins upon twins in the Film at 11 podcast this week, as two real-life twins review the 1988 comedy blockbuster Twins! Will my 11-year-old sons like the movie, or will they hate it? Will they even have the same opinion as each other? How will actual twins rate Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 17 | Twins (1988)
Made on a budget barely equivalent to $1 million USD at the time, the film adaptation of Ian Fleming’s spy thriller Dr. No was very modest even by 1962 standards. Although producers Harry Saltzman and Albert “Cubby” Broccoli surely had high hopes for it, I doubt even the most optimistic of projections could have foreseen… Read More World Domination, That Same OId Dream | Dr. No (1962) 4K Ultra HD
I may have backed myself into a corner on the Film at 11 podcast a couple weeks ago. At the end of our E.T. episode, I made my son Joseph play a game where he picked a random year, from which I would then need to choose a movie for our next episode together. Joseph… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 16 | Hairspray (2007)
Confident that the Predator franchise is finally back on track, executives at 20th Century Studios greenlit not just one but two new movies for release in 2025, both shepherded by Prey director Dan Trachtenberg. The first, an animated prequel/side-story called Predator: Killer of Killers, arrived directly on Hulu streaming (as Prey had) to serve as… Read More I Pray You Bloody Your Spear Tonight | Predator: Killer of Killers (2025) on Hulu
With (arguably, but not very) only one good movie out of the six made to that time, the Predator franchise was in considerably poor shape by the early 2020s. Although the studio wasn’t ready to give up on it yet, the next installment would skip a theatrical release and debut instead on Hulu streaming. To… Read More A Hunter Doesn’t Wait | Prey (2022) 4K Ultra HD
Apparently, neither two failed direct sequels nor two failed Alien crossovers were quite enough to keep one good Predator down. Perhaps they should have been. Even though three decades of trying to turn the Arnold Schwarzenegger 1987 action classic into a sustainable franchise had not thus far worked out, someone in the studio had what… Read More Not My Space Animal | The Predator (2018) 4K Ultra HD
Is it a smart idea to let a pair of 11-year-old twins watch the PG-13 rated Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story? In the latest episode of Film at 11, we learn the hard way exactly why parental guidance may be needed for this comedy classic. I blame the kids’ school for this one. I had… Read More Film at 11 Podcast: Episode 15 | Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
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