James Bond & Friends

Join us as we watch 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me together as a group experience.  For this episode, don your flared trousers, grab some fish food, and cue up your copy of The Spy Who Loved Me as the panel chats over the film in real-time with observations, trivia, insights, and irreverence. Along the way, we discover MI6's bring your own phone policy, camel fanciers, speculate on Blofeld's budget,...

Join us as we watch 2006's Casino Royale together as a group experience.  For this episode, don your tailored tuxedo, grab a properly made Vesper martini, and cue up your copy of Casino Royale as the panel chats over the film in real-time with observations, trivia, insights, and irreverence. Spoiler alert: everyone loves this film. As well as dropping some lesser-known behind-the-scenes facts, we...

If you missed the live video stream, you can now catch up with the first-ever James Bond & Friends podcast video panel.  The 'watchalong' regular crew of James Page, Calvin Dayson, Dr. Lisa Funnell, Bill Koenig, David Leigh, and Ben Williams take a break this week from commentary on a film and instead discuss the latest 'No Time To Die' developments, theorize what will become of Bond in the future...

Join us as we watch 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies together as a group experience. For this episode, don your HALO suit, grab a heavy motorcycle, and cue up your copy of Tomorrow Never Dies as the panel chats over the film in real-time with observations, trivia, insights, and irreverence. Along the way, we learn how to type one-handed, wonder where the internet went, and discover Maxwell connections,...

Join us as we watch 1971's Diamonds Are Forever together as a group experience. For this episode, don your pink kipper tie, grab a radiation shield, and cue up your copy of Diamonds Are Forever as the panel chats over the film in real-time with observations, trivia, insights, and irreverence. Along the way, we discover romantic trips to mausoleums, a real-life murder mystery, CGI panties, death tr...

Join us as we watch 1999's The World Is Not Enough together as a group experience. For this episode, don your x-ray specs, grab some sour cream, and cue up your copy of The World Is Not Enough as the panel chats over the film in real-time with observations, trivia, insights, and irreverence. Along the way, we discover helium balloons, paramilitary napkins, a newfound appreciation of Denise Richard...

Join us as we watch 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service together as a group experience. For this episode, don your frilly shirt, grab some caviar (from north of the Caspian), and cue up your copy of On Her Majesty's Secret Service as the panel chats over the film in real-time with observations, trivia, insights, and irreverence. Along the way, we discover an unfilmed screenplay, ponder the prev...

Join us as we watch 1963's From Russia With Love together as a group experience. For this episode, don your best suit ever, grab some yoghurt and figs, and cue up your copy of From Russia With Love as the panel chats over the film in real-time with observations, trivia, insights, and irreverence. Along the way, we mourn another Canada loss, identify the many cameos, discover an over-indulged horse...

Join us as we watch 2012's Skyfall together as a group experience. For this episode, don your leather gloves, grab some Union Jack bunting, and cue up your copy of Skyfall as the panel chats over the film in real-time with observations, trivia, insights, and irreverence. Along the way, we try and keep track of Bond's leather gloves, ponder stolen paintings, and wonder what happened to Kincaid's do...

Join us as we watch 1987's The Living Daylights together as a group experience. For this episode, don your leather jacket, grab a key fob, and cue up your copy of The Living Daylights as the panel chats over the film in real-time with observations, trivia, insights, and irreverence. Along the way, we discover baddies leaving their babies with the neighbours, disruptive monkeys, pig fingers, Harrie...

Join us as we watch 1995's GoldenEye together as a group experience. For this episode, don your Brioni suit, grab a sandwich (not that one!), and cue up your copy of GoldenEye as the panel chats over the film in real-time with observations, trivia, insights, and irreverence. Along the way, we discover the first CGI bullet, hanging crosses, goons with PPKS, the origins of Pain Face, a world-saving...

Join us as we watch 1981's For Your Eyes Only together as a group experience. For this episode, don your flared trousers, grab some pistachios, and cue up your copy of For Your Eyes Only as the panel chats over the film in real-time with observations, trivia, insights, and irreverence. Along the way, we discover a quite interesting parrot, age gaps, a museum of Bond chairs, youthful red lighting,...

Join us as we watch 2008's Quantum of Solace together as a group experience. For this episode, don your ripped suit, grab some bronzer, and cue up your copy of Quantum of Solace as the panel chats over the film in real-time with observations, trivia, insights, and irreverence. Along the way, we discover a bullet-deflecting IV stand, the sweepy brush man, Ben's embarrassing x-wind, alternate operas...

Join us as we watch 1989's Licence To Kill together as a group experience. For this episode, don your baggy suit, grab a Bud with a lime, and cue up your copy of Licence To Kill as the panel chats over the film in real-time with observations, trivia, insights, and irreverence. Along the way, we discover a lighter Leiter lighter, a new idea for a Bond costume party, a corsage hidden in plain sight,...

But don't look back in anger, I heard you say.  We kick off discussion this week with the recent GoldenEye watch-along with Pierce Brosnan, hosted from his Hawaiian home. Inevitably we muse on his long association with the iconic part, dating back to 1981, together with the frustration of having Bond snatched away from you, twice: first by NBC contract option in ’86 and then getting dumped by phon...

Join us as we watch 1979's Moonraker together as a group experience. For this episode, don your shiniest space suit and cue up your copy of Moonraker as the panel chats over the film in real-time with observations, trivia, insights, and irreverence. Along the way we discover the perfect 007 theme park ride, rare POV shots, untapped prop replica potential, glued pigeon feet, stiffed tips, a furry c...

Join us as we watch 2002's Die Another Die together as a group experience. For this episode, strap yourself in and cue up your copy of Die Another Day as the panel chats over the film in real-time with observations, trivia, insights, and irreverence. Along the way we discover Pierce Brosnan waving, a lack of Korean extras, a familiar-looking shooting target, emergency stairs, strategic use of cact...

Join us as we watch 1962's Dr. No together as a group experience. For this episode, cue up your copy of Dr. No as the panel chats over the film in real-time with observations, trivia, insights, and irreverence. Along the way we discover Ben's encyclopedic knowledge of James Bond's wrong guns, things they glued on Connery's head, bad Uber rides, towel dresses, unfortunate spiders, the unique use of...

What was the impact and cultural context of GoldenEye's release in 1995? In this episode, we reflect on the release of GoldenEye back in 1995, the challenges it faced, and the lasting legacy it had on the series. Where was Bond fandom at the time? Is it fair to still frame the film as a critical judgment of the character? Did the film succeed in tackling the issues its publicity ran on? Did the vi...

What just happened and how will 'No Time To Die' fare in November? In this episode to mark the one year anniversary of the podcast, we take a quick trip down memory lane and recount some of the standout moments before getting on to the big news of the week... On Monday, an open letter suggesting a delay to the release of No Time To Die went viral, and by Wednesday the franchise had officially post...

How are we feeling about No Time To Die's marketing campaign? This week we round up the latest ‘No Time To Die’ news, and Bill reports from Toronto where he and a large group of Bond fans assembled for ‘Skyfall’ in Concert. We discuss the experience of seeing the film live with an orchestra and what other scores are ripe for the ‘in concert’ treatment before segueing to Billie Eilish’s UK chart su...

How many times has James Bond died? In this episode, as rumours swirl about the fate of 007 in No Time To Die, we ponder how many times James Bond is assumed to be dead or pretends to be dead, and how effective was the ruse? Along the way, we walk around a SPECTRE shrubbery, mourn poor crater guy and Bond's blue-collar victims, discover a crocodile puppet show, the villains who must have left the...

How was Billie Eilish's title song for No Time To Die Received? In this episode, we gather a mega panel to discuss the reaction to the new No Time To Die title song by Billie Eilish that was released yesterday. Joining host JAMES© Page this week are BILL® Koenig, LISA™ Funnel, WARREN℠ Ringham, DAVID© Leigh, PHIL® Nobile Jr, and JOE™ Darlington. Along the way, we ponder Bond's emotional state, the...

What makes the Bond musical ‘sound’? This week Warren Ringham of Q The Music returns to the show to talk about the James Bond sound and his life as a performer dedicated to 007. We discuss the challenge of composing an original Bond-esque song as Warren has just completed his first composition. Along the way we tackle mainstream journalists writing about Bond music; Bond themes as a snapshot of th...

How was EON's new film received and what lies in store for 007 after 2020? In this episode, Bill draws the straw to go to one of the first US screenings of EON Productions' new film The Rhythm Section and files his report. Back in the world of James Bond, we follow up on the Billie Eilish news and ponder what the Oscar ceremony may have in store (or not), and from one long production to another, d...