The James Bond Complex

Hello sports fans! Are you ready for some…. Watches? Yes our dapper gentlemen have some interesting choices for wrist bling. Edgar, Jason and Emery present the Watch Draft. A watch per host in 3 categories: Leading Lady, Villain and of course, 007. Watch (get it?) along via Spotify or log onto YouTube for more!

*****IMPORTANT INFO: The recording between Edgar and Emery had to be done in two sessions. The second begins at around the 6:45 mark and, sadly, the audio quality dips considerably. Thank you for your understanding.  Hello dear listeners! 2022's chapter is now written. It was a momentous calendar year for fans of the franchise as the film series celebrated its 60th anniversary. The movies and...

Pierce Brosnan was James Bond through the 1990's and the early 2000's. But musically it's different! In this episode we groove the tunes of Eric Serra & David Arnold baby!

Hello dearest listeners! We go off the beaten James Bond trail once again with a detour but this time, this time it is splendid. We review, in anticipation of the upcoming Netflix sequel, 2019's Knives Out. Starring not one but two pre-No Time To Die alumni (is that how this works?) in Daniel Craig and Ana De Armas, your hosts Emery and Jason revisit Rian Johnson's 2019 dark comedy.  When a w...

Hello dear listeners! Breaking news! This just in! Finally, the podcast reviews Pierce Brosnan's sophomore effort as 007, 1997's TOMORROW NEVER DIES. It's been a long time coming, especially when considering that we've discussed DIE ANOTHER DAY not once but twice already. Matt and Edgar are so excited to delve into this jewel of the late 1990s that they cover a large enough variety of topics to ma...

Hello dear listeners! This week on the show, EC squared (name still pending folks) take the time to deconstruct the Bond Sound. Emery and Edgar dig deep into the Doctor No official motion picture soundtrack and discuss Monty Norman's legacy, John Barry's masterful orchestration and of course, everything in between. Who wrote the James Bond theme song? Did John Barry save the film (nobody does it b...

Exploring the James Bond franchise recipe, Emery and Matt dive into the initial adventure of 007: Dr. No.  They sample the original cocktail for what turned out to be the modern action-spy adventure series. Join us for a return journey to Crab Key!

Hello dear listeners! It's been a while, but the time has arrived to return to our best frienemy, John Gardner. When last we discussed one of his continuation novels, hosts Matt and Edgar were slowly but surely starting to warm up to his oeuvre. It was SLOW but it was still happening. Can the upward trend continue??? This week the boys review the eighth novel, WIN, LOSE, or DIE. We shan't spoil wh...

Hello dear listeners, Temps fugit. Despite that over a year has passed since the release of NO TIME TO DIE, it seems as though Daniel Craig keeps coming back into our lives. Sometimes at the movies, sometimes at the theatre, and sometimes for a comfortable chit-chat session. At the most recent Montclair Film Festival in New Jersey, Stephen Colbert graciously hosted former 007 Daniel Craig for a fe...

Hello dear friends, We welcome you to the castle of Count Dracula. Take off your coats and boots. It's a cold, wet night and the fire inside is so inviting. There are women to entertain you and our host will be arriving soon. You may never want to leave! It's that time of year again. Late October can only mean one thing at The James Bond Complex: the Halloween Special 2022. Matt and Edgar make goo...

We pay a quick tribute to Riobbie Coltrane before discussing the 60th anniversary celebrations that our friend; Jean Goyette of James Bond Québec.

Hello dear listeners! While some literary Bond fans are enjoying the new novel Double Or Nothing , we at the James Bond Complex are enjoying the not-quite-as-new With a Mind to Kill . Author Anthony Horowitz completes his Fleming-era trilogy with this late-career adventure for James Bond, 007. Matt and Edgar sit down, face-to-face for once, to discuss the book in depth. Horowitz being the quality...

October 2022 Debriefing : We're Back! Summer is over. We are back at work and recording new episodes of The James Bond Complex! This week, the hosts discuss the 60th anniversary and what they've been up to during summer 2022.

Hello dear listeners! First of all we want to thank you for your continued support. In 2022, we hit a milestone, 100 000 thousand downloads and that was all because of you. Its obvious, but without you, there would be no show. That being said, it is time for us to take a break. With the weight of a pandemic and the drive to deliver a new exciting episode ever week since 2017, we need to hit pause...

Hello dear listeners! On the Wednesday before the release of his next book, Mind To A Kill, we dig into Anthony Horowitz's first 007 novel, Trigger Mortis. It's not often we get a James Bond novel set in the original Ian Fleming timeline, and its ever better when the book is so well written. Matt and Emery dissect the first of the Horowitz trilogy to extract is Fleming essence, the film influence...

2002 marks the 20th anniversary of well... The 20th Bond film; Die Another Day. Is this Bombactic,  Bond Adventure still as loathed by 007 fans today as it was at the time of it's release? Is the Korean spoken with the proper accent? Do the subtitles match what the actors are actually saying? Well, you'll have to listen in to find out if this film warrants a new evaluation or if it's still is the...

Hello dear listeners! Welcome back to the final lap of our Editing Bond series. It's been an extended but always stimulating dissection of how our favourite films are put together. Independent filmmaker Simon Drake returns once more with his experience and expertise as we give you Part 5: The Craig era. This concluding chapter of the conversation sees our minds rattle off a bevy of intimately rela...

Hello dear padawans! This week we’re putting away the Walther PPK and dinner jackets in place of lightsabers and jedi robes. Why? Search your feelings. You know it to be true! The 5th (2nd?) Star Wars movie, The Empire Strikes Back has many connections to the world of James Bond, not least of which is a small role played by Julian Glover, who, as some listeners may recall, chatted with Matt and Ed...

Hello dear listeners, It's a new week, with new challenges, but you can still count on one podcast. The James Bond podcast. Were you expecting someone else? That's right, we're back to observe and dissect the editing of the Pierce Brosnan films, from GoldenEye through Die Another Day . With us on this journey is non other than friend of the show and resident indie filmmaker Simon Drake. These four...

Welcome back to Gotham city! Things have changed since the last time we took a trip to that fictional city. Christian Bale & Ben Affleck are no longer the Batman du jour. They've been replaced by Robert Pattinson as the caped crusader. The director chair once  under the responsability of Christopher Nolan & Zack Snyder is now under the control of Matt Reeves who even co-wrote this lat...

Hello dear listeners, For a series of episodes dedicated to editing, one would think that we’d have edited down this elongated conversation to size. Fun fact: we have, even at 5 parts. This week Mathieu, Edgar, and friend of the show Simon Drake are back at the round table. In this latest instalment, the Bond films under analysis are from the nostalgia decade du jour: the 80s. Much like with Parts...

Hello listeners, patrons of the arts, and theatre lovers, The people who have played James Bond are more than just movie stars. They're actors! They're respected thespians! One need look no further than the most recently retired 007, Daniel Craig. His first post-Bond assignment: a modern reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" on Broadway, co-starring Ruth Negga. The show is directed b...

Hello dear listeners! It’s a very, very long time since our last Connery Detour. Connery is a name that looms large over the Bond franchise’s history, as well as film history in general. We got the itch to go back to the Connery well of terrific cinema and deliver another thrilling episode. And so it is with great pride that we release our latest and possibly greatest Connery Detour about the 1967...

Hello dear listeners! Todays episode is all about awareness. Our invites guests talk to the Intrepid 007 about autism, how they perceive it, how they live with it. And of course, we talk about our favorite spy. All this in preparation for Autism Awareness day on April 2nd. Please join us by wearing your favorite blue Bond outfit and using the hashtags #bondinblue and #autismawareness. Also for an...

On the one year anniversary of his arrival in our midst, the Intrepid 007 takes the time to sit down with his wife to enjoy a movie. And that film? No Time To Die. Yes friends of the show, she’s back! Giving her opinion for the first time on the show since we forced her to watch Diamonds Are Forever, she’s here to give her take on Bond 25. Enjoy!