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 here or listen on the player below. The Oddjob Pod is also available on Apple Podcasts , Spotify and Amazon . ...
Apr 29, 2025
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 Sean Connery. Many Bond fans have looked at Connery's character, John Mason; a retired SAS officer incarcertae...
Feb 08, 2025
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 women. Which tracks shall we choose? Listen to the podcast and find out. You can also check out Gar...
Dec 25, 2024
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 podcatcher of choice . Love the OddjobPod? Please give it a 5-star rating. Like our Facebook page . Follow @oddjobpod on Twitter and on Insta...
Sep 09, 2024
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 has an emotional depth that is usually absent in earlier entries. Given the uncertainty of the futur...
Jun 30, 2024
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. The Oddjob Pod is also available on Apple Podcasts , Spotify and Amazon . Alternatively, add our feed to your podcatche...
Apr 15, 2024
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 listen on the player below. The Oddjob Pod is also available on Apple Podcasts , Spotify and Amazon . Alternative...
Mar 14, 2024
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 cloud his judgement and selected the political action thriller from 1997: The Peacemaker. Starring Nicole K...
Jan 06, 2024
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 its critics: a somewhat hokey and derivative plot and an unsatisfying albeit beautifully shot final act. But...
Nov 21, 2023
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 Jordan’s Interview With A Vampire and Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula which place the vampire as th...
Oct 17, 2023
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 , Spotify and Amazon . Alternatively, add our feed to your podcatcher of choice . Love the OddjobPod? Please give it a 5-st...
Aug 03, 2023
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 a standing ovation at the Cannes film festival and is celebrated by film buffs for its stylish presentatio...
Jul 13, 2023
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 online campaign against his casting with threats to boycott etc. But Craig proved to be a hugely popul...
Jun 12, 2023
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 to be quite a legacy, and we're not just talking about the very bad spin-off TV show. For this epis...
Apr 20, 2023
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 James Bond podcast? So take a massive bang on the scorpion venom as we get down to Die Another Day. Do...
Mar 22, 2023
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 to it on the player below. The Oddjob Pod is also available on Apple Podcasts , Spotify and Amazon . Alternatively...
Jan 20, 2023
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 and what we would have done to make it better. Download the podcast here or you can listen to it on th...
Dec 25, 2022
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 played memorable supporting roles in Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch . In The Transporter , "The Stat...
Nov 17, 2022
In a brand new series of podcasts from the Oddjob Pod, we celebrate the classic action movies of the golden age of sell-through videos. For our first episode, Gary, Terry and Graham have been off down to the Our Price store and picked up a VHS copy of Lethal Weapon . Download the podcast here or you can listen to it on the player below. The Oddjob Pod is also available on Apple Podcasts , Spotify and Amazon . Alternatively, add our feed to your podcatcher of choice . Love the OddjobPod? Please g...
Oct 04, 2022
The OddjobPod turns its eyes to new frontiers in the James Bond movie with the debut of the much loved actor, Pierce Brosnan, as 007 in Goldeneye. This film has a considerable legacy, not just in redining the movies for the 1990s but also for it's impact on the video gaming industry that is still felt today. Download the podcast here or you can listen to it on the player below. The Oddjob Pod is also available on Apple Podcasts , Spotify and Amazon . Alternatively, add our feed to your podcatche...
Sep 19, 2022
The early 90s was a fallow period for James Bond fans. With Tim Dalton confirmed as not returning to the role of 007 and Eon Productions embroiled in legal disputes it looked like JB may never return to the big screen. And James Bond was also meeting his match in the shape of a host of ambitious action and spy thrillers produced by the emboldened Hollywood studios. Be they working class heroes like John McClane and Martin Riggs to CIA agent Jack Ryan. Or the big budget Arnold Schwarzenegger bloc...
Jun 21, 2022
No sooner had the Dalton era started but it finished. The second film starring Timothy Dalton and James Bond 007 has its critics and did not perform as well as had been hoped in the box office. However, for its fans it is an authentic James Bond film with maybe a late 80s action movie twist. Terry, Graham and Gary take great pleasure diving deep into this tale of revenge in which Bond goes rogue. Uncommon for Bond films at the time but a foreshadow of the types of Bond movies to come. Download t...
Apr 13, 2022
The OddjobPod returns from its brief detour, taking in the No Time To Die and hosting the World Cup of Bond Songs , and resumes its chronological review of the James Bond movies with a thorough shake-down of The Living Daylights. Timothy Dalton's first outing as 007 exists in something of a sweet spot for Graham, Gary & Terry and we have a lot of fondness for Tim and the extremely likeable cast. Download the podcast here and listen to us discuss the living daylights out of this film. Or you ...
Feb 21, 2022
With Australia out of lockdown and Gary having finally made it to a cinema to watch it, we are delighted to offer listeners our opinions on No Time To Die. Important note: If you have yet to see No Time To Die then do not listen to this podcast. Download the podcast and find out. Or you can listen to it on the player below. The Oddjob Pod is also available on Apple Podcasts , Spotify and Amazon . Alternatively, add our feed to your podcatcher of choice . Love the OddjobPod? Please give it a 5-st...
Dec 12, 2021
Concluding our World Cup of James Bond Songs extravaganza. Terry, Graham and Gary have negotiated through the groups staged we're into the knock out rounds. Expect a contest of high notes and even higher emotions. Who will be crowned champion? Download the podcast and find out. Or you can listen to it on the player below. The Oddjob Pod is also available on Apple Podcasts , Spotify and Amazon . Alternatively, add our feed to your podcatcher of choice . Love the OddjobPod? Please give it a 5-star...
Dec 05, 2021
