Coming hot on the heels of The Spy Who Shagged Me, Mike Myers and Jay Roach teamed up for a third outing of Austin Powers (Myers). Austin Powers in Goldmember is the biggest film of the three, and arguably the least satisfying, though still incredibly funny. It has a slew of cameos; in fact, the…
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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) – Jay Roach
It’s odd that this one ends up in DK Books’ Monsters in the Movies, but it comes in under the mechanical menaces section of the book because of the dangerous fembots that menace the titular hero. Mike Myers not only stars in this send up of spy films, but he also wrote it, paying homage…
The Ipcress Files (1965) – Sidney J. Furie
The next big title in DK Canada’s The Movie Book is the classic The Third Man. Having previously reviewed it, I jumped right to the What Else to Watch list, and dove into this spy thriller from the 1960s starring Michael Caine as Harry Palmer. Based on the novel and characters by Len Deighton, this…
