Cereal At Midnight

It's difficult to talk about  The Ipcress File without making comparisons to James Bond. After all, the film was produced by Harry Saltzman, who co-produced the first nine Bond outings. The music was created by John Barry, the man behind eleven Bond scores and who was also the arranger the iconic "James Bond Theme," with its twangy guitars and bombastic brass horns, for the very first Bond film, Dr. No . But if Bond's world is one of excitement, adventure, globe-trekking travel, and rendezvous with the world's most beautiful women, Harry Palmer is the other side of the coin.   Created by novelist Len Deighton and never named in the novel that inspired this film adaptation, Harry Palmer comes to life as a cockney everyman, a secret agent who spends just as much time filling out paperwork at an office desk as he does on stakeouts and surveillance. It's a deliberate choice, and one that lends far more realism to the world of espionage than the high-speed thrills...

It's our largest KINO LORBER collection update ever! Join Heath as he shares almost FOUR DOZEN new titles from all genres and eras of film! See every Kino Lorber spotlight episode in Cereal At Midnight history with this playlist !

The title of this video is not an exaggeration: I bought 33 pounds of pulp fiction on Ebay! More specifically, I purchased over 120 Mack Bolan: The Executioner novels in one fell swoop. Here's the story!

Counter-agent Matt Helm is back, and this time, the mission is clear: ASSASSINATION!

As discussed in a recent video , I've decided to start reading and collecting Donald Hamilton's "Matt Helm" book series. Hamilton wrote 27 novels in the series (plus one more that was never published) between 1960 and 1993, all focused on the exploits of an American counter-espionage agent. The novels are written from first-person perspective, and allow us to get inside the head of our hardened hero...or anti-hero, as it may be. They were originally published by Fawcett Publications under the Gold Medal label. In this inaugural entry, we're digging into the very first Matt Helm novel, 1960's Death of a Citizen.

It's time for another unboxing video! IThis package comes to the channel courtesy of Lee! This one's for fans of spies, British television, and out of print DVDs!

Is Matt Helm the manliest fictional character ever created? First published between 1960 and 1993, author Donald Hamilton's protagonist is a secret agent who makes other tough guys look weak by comparison! In this video, we dig into the books themselves, the Dean Martin spin-off movies, and even compare Helm to James Bond! There's also the small matter of a yacht captain's hat.