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Australian actor George Lazenby, who had a one-and-done moment playing James Bond in 1969’s “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” is retiring from acting. Lazenby had the shortest tenure as the world’s most well known secret agent, starring only in the one film as 007.

A Hulu docudrama from Josh Greenbaum about Lazenby’s life, “Becoming Bond,” was released in 2017. An auto mechanic turned male model, Lazenby was the second actor to play Bond on the big screen, following Sean Connery, who starred in seven Bond pics.

On July 24, Lazenby announced his decision to retire in a post on X. Although his career has “been a fun ride,” he feels “getting older is no fun,” he wrote.

“This hasn’t been an easy decision but it’s time to announce my retirement from work,” Lazenby wrote on X. “Therefore, I won’t be doing any more acting or making public appearances,...

Stars: Katherine McNamara, Anthony Michael Hall, Ian Bohen, Dascha Polanco, Rade Sherbedgia, Pavel Vladimirov | Written by Steven Paul | Directed by James Bamford

When Air Force One Down begins, Allison Miles has already made a name for herself as one of the first female Marines to qualify for special operations. That has impressed Uncle Sam, both the US government and her actual Uncle Sam, to offer her a job with the Secret Service, something she’s happy to accept.

And she’s going to get thrown in the deep end at her new job as on her first day, one of the agents on the President’s detail calls in sick. He’s one of several federal employees to suddenly come down with a bad case of lead poisoning. Sam drafts her to replace him, working with him to protect President Edwards, whom she is not a fan of, on his...

“So it begins” is a pretty optimistic line on which to end a would-be franchise-starter — and one not necessarily warranted by “Corbin Nash,” a solemnly silly mashup of ideas from “Blade,” “Batman” and “Sin City,” accomplished on a much lower budget than any of those far, far better films. Still, it’s a movie that’s resourcefully accomplished on comparatively slim means, and less choosy fantasy action fans will find things to enjoy in its foamy cocktail of vampires, kickboxing and neo-noir. Others may be drawn by the bizarro factor of top-billed Corey Feldman as a campily cross-dressing bloodsucker.

Regardless, this is the kind of not exactly good movie that a certain type of fanboy (or girl) will pronounce good fun, or at least a passable guilty pleasure. Marking the second feature for the English Jagger Brothers — Ben directs, Dean stars; both produced and had a hand in the screenplay — this U.

Though Scream Factory originally made their name by releasing comprehensive special editions of beloved horror titles and some lesser-known cult films deserving reappraisal, after five years the company is diversifying their output more and more. They struck an exclusive deal to release IFC Midnight titles, they’ve picked up a few films and put them out under the “Scream Factory” imprint, and have even developed and produced their very first original feature, Mark Pavia’s Fender Bender, in 2016. In addition to all of this, Scream Factory has begun releasing smaller and lesser-known catalogue titles, nearly bypassing the special features altogether and just giving some older cult titles their high-def debuts. Included in their latest slate of releases is everything from a John Stamos sci-fi action film (Never Too Young to Die) to an unofficial Troll sequel. Let’s take a look at four of these catalogue titles—The Screaming Skull,...

This Week in Home Video‘Toni Erdmann’ Suggests It’s Time to Get Naked With Your Co-WorkersPlus 17 more new releases to watch at home this week on Blu-ray/DVD.

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Pick of the WeekToni Erdmann

What is it? A professional woman and her oddball father dance around their complicated relationship, both in and out of costumes.

Why buy it? Family dysfunction is a longtime staple in cinema, but no film this year captured it with such humor, warmth, and wisdom as Maren Ade’s third feature. Even at 162 minutes our time with Ines and her oddball father feels far too short as their journey of discovery becomes one we don’t want to see end. There’s an honesty here — yes, even with subtitles — about the way we see ourselves through our loved ones...

The latest Junkfood Cinema comes with a confession.

It’s true, I’ll admit it. A young, overzealous film nerd named Brian studying at a small Indiana college wrote and (partially) shot a movie that, in concept and story structure, largely plagiarized the forgotten 1986 teen actioner Never Too Young to Die. It’s not an easy confession to make, as stealing content is the cardinal sin any writer can commit. If internet incarnate could administer its own justice, such violators would be hanged from the hashtags in droves.

I wrote a horrendously terrible movie called The Campus Job, in which I, at age 20, also played a mob boss. Hold on to your film cans, because it gets worse from there. The plot, applying that term with reckless relativity, revolved around a financially strapped college kid who finds out his late father was not a dry cleaner as had been reported, but...

I’m not sure if this weekend’s B-Sides should come with a warning or an apology. The theme song to Never Too Young to Die could very well be the worst song yet, and I’ve spotlighted some pretty damn ear-splitting B-Sides in the past. Do you dare take the “Stargrove” musical challenge?

Never Too Young to Die, directed by Gil Bettman , starred a pre-“Full House” John Stamos, at the time fresh off his career-making stint on the soap opera “General Hospital”. The outlandishly bad movie was conceived as his big screen star-making role, but something went horribly wrong... that "something" being the movie.

Stamos starred as a college gymnast named “Lance Stargrove”, the son of an international super spy played by former "James Bond" George Lazenby. After his father is murdered, Stargrove finds himself now the target of a Rocky Horror-esque hermaphroditic terrorist played by Kiss frontman Gene Simmons.

Welcome back to Junkfood Cinema; now get off our lawn. This is the weekly internet bad movie column that gets winded as you scroll up and down the page. Every Friday I assault your senses with whatever terrible movie I happen to being using a coaster that week. I will pummel and pistol whip the movie with its own flaws–and a pistol apparently–until it can barely stand, but then I will congratulate the movie on its acceptance into the gang and lavish it with praise. I will then buy a beer and a disgustingly awesome snack food for the film as we stand as friends at the bar singing our gang’s…theme song (?). This week’s punk: Never Too Young to Die What Makes It Bad? Never Too Young to Die existed in this very brief span of time in which Hollywood, well not Hollywood but someone with a movie studio and few hundred...

So, if you've listened to Episode #41 of the podcast, you know that I am absolutely in love with the so-bad-it's-amazing action flick Never Too Young to Die. So much so that it makes me angry that this gem of a film didn't spawn a series of sequels, an animated series, an arcade game, a breakfast cereal and a line of action figures.

So, in an effort to make that sweet dream a reality, I present Never Too Young to Die: The Home Game. All you'll need is some old action figures/dolls and a little imagination.

First, you'll need the good guys. As we know, 80's super-hunk John Stamos played our hero Lance Stargrove. Luckily, he was immortalized in doll form as "Rockin' Jesse" from Full House. Then, grab your George Lazenby James Bond action figure (we all have one of those, right?) to play the role of the senior Stargrove.

Junk Food Dinner is back and is kicking off 2011 with cave monsters, time travel and she-males!

Up first, we join John Stamos as he aims to take down the evil team of the hermaphroditic Gene Simmons and his nerdy sidekick Robert Englund in the absolutely ridiculous "Never too Young to Die" from 1986.

Then we're transported to the distant (and sandy) future with a bunch of Japanese children in 1987's "The Drifting Classroom," based on the manga of the same name.

Finally, director Neil Marshall sticks us in a deep, dark cave that may or may not be full of frightening wall-crawling monsters in 2005's "The Descent."

We've got all this, Nerd News, this week's DVD releases and we discover that Mark's roommates go ape for secret monkeys!

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