Oddjob Pod - A James Bond Podcast

  Terry, Gary and Graham dive back into the landfill and uncover an action movie that did more than provide a sweet distraction for a couple of hours but became the focal point of an online phenomenon that would dominate Cinema for decades to come.  There is also a wicked fight scene in a billiard hall. Download the podcast here or listen on the player below. The Oddjob Pod is also avail...

  Introducing our new stand of podcasts: While they were Bond . In this new series we look at the film starring James Bond actors during their tenure as James Bond. Our first episode focuses on Sidney Lumet's extraordinary and harrowing wartime prison drama, The Hill, starring Sean Connery who by 1965 was anxious to be cast in roles very different to 007. He certainly got his wish with this o...

  In this latest edition of the Action Movie Landfill,  Gary, Graham and Terry dissect Paul Verhoeven's Sci-Fi action flick, Starship Troopers. Opinions on the significance of this film differ among is cohort of fans. Is it a biting satire on fascism and the US military industrial complex or is a fun action movie where the guys dressing up like Nazis is just a costume decisions. Does thi...

  The Action Movie Landfil is heading to Tombstone. AND HELL'S RIDING WITH US! George P Cosmatos1993 western, retelling that great mythologised tale of the Gunfight at the OK Corral has been fished out of the landfill for full evaluation and appreciation. Tombstone had a troubled production and there are elements that unravel sufficiently to deny it a place in one of the greatest westerns of...

The Oddjob crew have emerged from the Action Movie Landfill clutching another nineties classic. Enemy of the State (1998) is a Washington DC political thriller about a rogue cell within the NSA who are on the hunt for a lawyer who has accidentally come into possession of a tape that incriminates a senior NSA figure (Jon Voight) in the murder of a senator. The film's principle theme is about the po...

  Want to feel old? Last year the Goldeneye 007 video game for the N64 turned 30 years old.  This game is and remains one of the most celebrated James Bond games ever and represented a breakthrough for Nintendo and in first person shoot-em-ups.  In this episode of the OddJob Pod, Gary, Graham and Terry share our own personal recollections of Goldeneye 007 and explore its legacy. We...

Gary, Terry, and Graham are back with another edition of Action Movie Landfill . This time, Gary has dragged out John Woo’s 1996 nuclear heist thriller, Broken Arrow . Woo arrived in Hollywood with a reputation for high-octane Hong Kong action movies, and just a year later he’d cement his legacy with the classic Face/Off , once again teaming up with John Travolta. But how much does Broken Arrow se...

  After reacting to the news that control of the James Bond movies franchise we spend some time on the 1967 screwball comedy adaptation of Casino Royale, a film that sits outside the official franchise and is not received with universal acclaim. Gary, Graham and Terry reflect on the film's troubled production which featured an all star cast but has 5 (five) directors. Download the podcast her...

  The Oddjob Pod returns with another edition of the Action Movie Landfill . On each episode of the Landfil, Gary, Graham and Terry fish out a DVD from the vast, imaginary pile of action movies from the sell-thriugh era and decide of they shoud be placed on the shelf or returned to the Landfill. In this edition we have unearthed Michael Bay's The Rock starring Ed Harris, Nicholas Cage and Sea...

To celebrate Christmas 2024 Gary, Terry and Graham gathered to record a very special musical podcast. Don't worry we don't do that much singing, we leave that to the professionals. In this episode the Oddjob Pod team imagine that they are stranded on a desert island with just six pieces of music from the James Bond films to keep them company while they await rescue or succumb to the anaconda nymph...

  The Oddjob pod make another trip to the Action Movie Landill. In this edition, Graham leads the show after having retrieved Michael Mann's 1995 classic, Heat , from the landfill.  Download the podcast here  or listen on the player below. The Oddjob Pod is also available on  Apple Podcasts ,   Spotify  and Amazon . Alternatively,  add our feed to your podca...

Our film-by-film review of all the Eon-produced James Bond films comes to a close with the latest release, the 2019 film No Time To Die, which was delayed until 2021 due to the pandemic lockdown. Given its denouement, this film takes a somewhat darker tone the closer it gets to the conclusion. As Graham says, "It's not your typical ITV4 James Bond film." Like all Daniel Craig Bond films, this one...

  The Oddjob Pod crew are back at the Action Movie Landfil. This time is was Gary's turn to fish out a dusty VHS, slot it into the machine and see if it's worth keeping or chucking back on the pile. His choice? An absolute doozy: Paul Michael Glazer's distopian sci-fi actioner, The Running Man starring Arnold Scwarzenegger.  Download the podcast here  or listen on the player below....

  In this particularly brown episode of The Oddjob Pod, Gary, Terry and Graham don their colour corrected glasses and ceremonial Blofeld wigs and take a close look at Spectre . This film was hugely anticipated after the success of Skyfall but doesn't quite land in the way it should despite being a beautifully shot film and a fine example of the Brown genre. Download the podcast here  or...

  The Oddjob Pod returns for another edition of the Action Movie Landfill. A periodic dive into the almost limitless mound of action films from the sell through era in the late twentieth, early twenty first century. For this episode it was down to Terry to choose and it’s fair to say that he chose… poorly. Not for the first time Terry allowed his fond memories of a film from years gone by to...

Sam Mendes Skyfall marked a a stylistic departure at a time when the James Bond franchise was undergoing a renaissance with the Daniel Craig era. Mendes took what has always been a series of films that has prided itself on lavish productions and elevated the aesthetic to art. The mise en scene , cinematography and set pieces are spectacular and beautiful in equal measure.  But the film has it...

  Stephen Norrington’s Blade sits if you’ll pardon the pun at the leading edge of big-screen Marvel movies. Not counting Howard The Duck , the 1998 film is the first Marvel superhero to be given a cinema release and heralded the wave of X-Men and films and Disney’s cinematic universe. The film also sits on something of an intersection in 90s Vampire films; the most successful being Neil Jorda...

  Gary is in the UK so we took the time to get together and record a podcast. This edition is on Daniel Craig's second James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace. We had a lot to say about this film. It's one we enjoy despite its flaws, which we discuss in depth. Download the podcast here  or you can listen to it on the player below. The Oddjob Pod is also available on  Apple Podcasts ,&nb...

  The Oddjob Pod’s foray into the action movies of the sell-through era continues with Shane Black’s 2005 film, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Black’s neo-noir satire and homage acts as a comeback movie for one of its stars, Robert Downey Junior whose reputation in Hollywood has taken something of a knock for well-documented reasons. The film is a meta, fourth-wall-breaking action comedy which received...

In this episode of the Oddjob Pod we celebrate Daniel Craig’s first film in the role of James Bond: Casino Royale. If you sat a panel of film critics in front of all 26 James Bond films and asked them to pick the best – not their favourite – but the best, there’s a good chance that most would pick Casino Royale. Daniel Craig was a controversial casting of James Bond and there was an ineffective on...

Action Movie Landfill is back, and we are going all the way back to the early years of the Landfill. The helicopter conspiracy action thriller, Blue Thunder, starring Roy Scheider, Malcolm McDowell, Candy Clarke, and the magnificent Warren Oates. This film, written by Dan O'Bannon, was originally intended to be a First Blood in the air but was watered down a bit. Instead, we had what we discovered...

Gary, Graham and Terry complete their review of Pierce Brosnan's canon with Die Another Day. Regular listeners will know that, despite its incredibly strong opening act, this is not our favourite entry. That said every Bond film is somone's favourite and we are mindful of this when expressing our own views. It is, after all, a James Bond film and we love James Bond films. Why else would we do a Ja...

  The Action Movie Landfill returns. This time, Terry, Gary and Graham discuss Simon West's pseudo-indie, art house, liberal action blockbuster Con Air . Some of us were genuinly blown away by this film. Not so much by what it's trying to tell us but by what it said. Give it a listen then watch the movie again and let us know what you think. Download the podcast here  or you can listen t...

Happy Christmas to all our listeners. The Oddjob Pod crew have a festive cracker for you. We take a deep dive into the South China seas for a thorough examination of Tomorrow Never Dies . Pierce Brosnan's second Bond outing has just celebrated its 25th year. It is a film that we all love but acknowledge its many flaws. Join Gary, Terry and Graham as they patiently Bondsplain where it goes wrong an...

  The Action Movie Landfill is our side-project that explores the classic (or otherwise) movies made during the golden age of sell-through video. The film we have chosen for this edition, is The Transporter . Made in 2003 it is at the end of the golden age but was still a big hit on the DVD market.  The movie is significant for tough guy actor and former diver, Jason Statham who had play...