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: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) – Jay Roach
For some reason, I haven’t written about the second Austin Powers before, which also means somewhere in the near-ish future I can do the third one as well. I did the first one a number of years ago, and perhaps never got around to completing the trilogy. Well, now I am. Following Austin Powers: International…
The Roses (2025) – Jay Roach
Warren Adler’s dark comedy novel gets another big screen adaptation. It has previously been adapted to film by Danny DeVito and starred his Romancing the Stone co-stars Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. This time out, Olivia Coleman and Benedict Cumberbatch take on the lead roles of the Roses, a married couple who when adversity hits,…
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…
