Welcome to Jake’s Joint

Jake Phillips, QRE’s Hollywood Historian, digs deep into the stacks of celluloid to find the best (and worst) movies of all time. You’ll learn things about your favorite movies that you never knew, and you’ll find yourself updating that Netflix queue constantly.


Injustice: Gods Among Us

INJUSTICE: GODS AMONG US – A QRE Review

The first thing you have to know about me is, I’m not really a gamer. I like video games, but I rarely play them and even more rarely buy them. I have an XBox 360 and I use it mostly to watch movies. And when I DO buy a game, […]
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Bond

BONDAGE: TOP 10 TUNAGE

One of the most recognizable pieces of theme music is the James Bond theme. While, say, Batman gets new theme music every few years, James Bond always has the same theme music. Only Doctor Who can really say the same thing. But besides the iconic sound of that theme, each […]
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James Bond - Gun Barrel

BONDAGE: JAMES BLONDE?

The first James Bond novel Ian Fleming ever wrote was ‘Casino Royale’. The first of the “official” Bond movies was an adaptation of ‘Dr. No’. And the subsequent films adapted the novels in random order, destroying the continuity that Fleming established in the books while creating the 007 most are […]
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Pierce Brosnan

BONDAGE: BROSNAN, PIERCE BROSNAN

After six years of downtime, Bond was back! You can’t keep a good man down, apparently. When Timothy Dalton got the role, he was not, in fact, the first choice. That would have been Pierce Brosnan, a handsome Irishman best known for playing Remington Steele. However, due to that TV […]
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BONDAGE: NO STOCK IN BOND

Now, in my other James Bond articles, I’ve probably stepped on some toes. I’ve said nothing but good things about George Lazenby while trashing Roger Moore (to be fair, I don’t think Moore was bad, just that his Bond films mostly were). Now I’m going to descend into what some […]
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Man Of Steel

WHY THE WORLD NEEDS SUPERMAN

With ‘Man Of Steel‘ set to hit theaters June 14th, there has been a lot of talk about Superman lately. Comic book movies are big deals lately, and this is a big-budget epic that Warner Brothers is hoping will give them a chance to catch up with Marvel. While the […]
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Roger Moore

BONDAGE: LESS IS MOORE

After ‘Diamonds Are Forever’, Sean Connery had had enough and vowed never to play James Bond again. He did, of course, many years later in ‘Never Say Never Again’, but at the time, it seemed like the 007 series was in big trouble. Audiences had already made it clear after […]
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With a fan; Taken at a book signing for Day Soldiers

BIRTHDAY!

EDITOR’S NOTE: The opinions and views expressed by Jake in no way reflect the opinions held by QRE, its staff, management or stockholders. Or anyone sane. Bestselling Author Brandon Hale’s birthday is today. I was asked to write a brief laudation. Wait, laudation? Whatever. I have no idea why. I […]
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George Lazenby

BONDAGE: JAMES BOND, BY GEORGE!

Sean Connery had been playing James Bond since the series began and, frankly, he was getting tired of it. The movies were getting less and less realistic and becoming almost self-parody, plus the actor wanted to do other things and not be typecast. Frankly, I think being typecast as James […]
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