By Chris Snellgrove
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In 1989, something stunning happened: License to Kill earned the lowest box office of any James Bond film ever made. While the movie had some very stiff competition (including Tim Burton’s Batman, Ghostbusters II, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade), this failure gave the creative team behind 007 pause. They decided to shelve this iconic spy series until they knew how to remake Bond for a modern audience.

That remake came in 1995 in the form of GoldenEye, a movie which featured Pierce Brosnan as the most famous spy in Hollywood history. The film was a critical and commercial smash, ensuring that we got additional decades of world-spanning action and adventure from the man who prefers his martinis shaken, not stirred. If you’re ready to dive into a genuine ‘90s masterpiece and experience one of the best Bond films ever made, you don’t have to contact Q Branch: all you have to do is grab your remote and stream this film for free on Tubi!

The Ties That Bond

The premise of GoldenEye is that nine years after his partner apparently died on a mission gone wrong, James Bond must investigate the criminal mastermind wielding a satellite-powered weapon that can cripple the world with its electromagnetic pulses. The mastermind ends up being his former partner, someone who is now hellbent on rewriting the world in his own twisted image. Now, Bond must team up with a buxom hacker and race against time before he reverts the United Kingdom and other targets back to the technological Stone Age.

The cast of GoldenEye has some of the most beloved actors in Hollywood, including Sean Bean (best known for The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring) as 007’s former partner turned supervillain. Speaking of villains, Famke Janssen (best known for X-Men) is campy perfection as an assassin with killer thighs (literally), and her fellow X-Man Alan Cumming (best known to Marvel fans for X2: X-Men United) is hilarious as a hacker with delusions of grandeur. As for Dame Judi Dench, this is the film she is best known for, and she’s so good in the role of Bond’s boss that she continued to play the part into the Daniel Craig era of Bond films.

Needless to say, the best performance in GoldenEye comes from Pierce Brosnan, whose James Bond is the perfect mixture of previous performers. He has the suave swagger of Sean Connery, the smoldering intensity of Timothy Dalton, and a couple of healthy pinches of Roger Moore’s humor. His 007 captivated the public, and Brosnan helped transform this flailing franchise into an unstoppable box office juggernaut.

A Revival That Impressed Fans and Critics Alike

GoldenEye brought James Bond back in a big way, earning $356.4 million against a budget of only $60 million. This successfully revived 007 after the disappointing box office of 1989’s Licence to Kill, and Brosnan went on to star in three more Bond movies. Afterward, the franchise was reenvisioned into something much more serious, and Daniel Craig played a Bond who was notably cooler and crueler than his martini-swilling predecessors.

When GoldenEye hit theaters, it left professional reviewers both shaken and stirred with its effortlessly cool revival of this ‘60s spy franchise. On Rotten Tomatoes, the movie has an 80 percent, with critics praising the movie for modernizing the 007 formula without sacrificing any of the sexy violence and stylish action these movies are known for. They singled out Pierce Brosnan for his singularly impressive performance as James Bond, one that would come to define ‘90s action cinema and, in many ways, the actor’s career.

Falling In Love With The World’s Sexiest Franchise

As an ‘80s kid who was more into sci-fi than spycraft, I didn’t watch much James Bond growing up. Seeing GoldenEye in the local theater was my first exposure to the world of 007, and I was instantly hooked. I began renting every Bond movie I could find at the local video stores, and the iconic Nintendo 64 adaptation of the film quickly became my new favorite game.

Speaking for myself, GoldenEye was the perfect entry point for the franchise: it offers all the action and set pieces you’d expect from the best spy films, and the characters (from Sean Bean’s 006 to Izabella Scorupco Natalya) are fully formed and immediately relatable. As for Brosnan, his character is the opposite of relatable as aspirational perfection. He’s the man every man wants to be, and Brosnan’s secret agent is the archetypal embodiment of unrestrained masculinity.

You May Need A Cigarette After Watching

You can enjoy GoldenEye as a joyous love letter to the James Bond franchise, and the passion the filmmakers had for 007 is evident in every frame. Notably, though, the film stands on its own as a breakout ‘90s action blockbuster that has easily withstood the test of time. It remains one of the sleekest and sexiest action masterpieces of the last few decades, and it’s one you’ll want to revisit whenever you need the adrenaline rush that only Brosnan can provide.

You don’t have to break a sweat to obtain that rush, though; all you have to do is stream GoldenEye on Netflix. More than a nostalgic thrill, this movie is perfect for those who appreciate other ‘90s action masterpieces like The Rock and Face/Off. Whether you’re looking for vintage thrills, unforgettable characters, or a bit of both, this is one sexy celluloid adventure you’ll never forget!

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Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers for Will Trent Season 4, Episode 7.After its intense two-parter that saw the GBI and APD uncover a massive pharmaceutical conspiracy together, Will Trent returns to normalcy this week. The GBI investigates a murder case that takes them on the path of looking into a serial killer team, while the APD’s weekly case is a hilarious one involving a skunk. The episode also sees the return of one of my favorite side characters: Paul Campano (Mark-Paul Gosselaar), a former foster kid who grew up with Will (Ramón Rodríguez) and Angie (Erika Christensen).

In Season 4, Episode 7, “Call Paul,” Paul returns for the first time since Season 1 when his neighbor, Joelle Hornbaker – with whom he was having an affair – is murdered with a nail gun. Paul helps Will and Faith (Iantha Richardson) investigate in what is one of the season’s funniest episodes, as well as one of the darkest. After keeping himself distracted for the last handful of episodes, working on a serial case brings up memories of James Ulster (Greg Germann) for Will, causing him to have dissociative episodes.

In ‘Will Trent’ Season 4, Episode 7, A Difficult Serial Killer Case Brings Back Paul Campano – and Memories of James Ulster

While investigating Joelle’s murder, Will finds himself going too deep into the scenarios he usually envisions to solve a murder. He can’t stop picturing himself as the killer in visions where he enjoys it, and where Ulster encourages him to embrace his “true nature” as a killer. Paul was Joelle’s neighbor, and he saw a man leaving her home around the time she was killed, which he shows Will with a hilarious drawing. Paul looks very guilty because he was having an affair with Joelle, and he broke up with her the night before she was killed, but Will knows that he’s innocent. Will and Paul have such a fun and silly dynamic, and it fits perfectly into this episode, especially in contrast to Will’s much darker internal struggle.

The GBI figures out that the nailgun that killed Joelle belonged to a man who was previously brutally murdered with a baseball bat, and clearly by someone he knew. Will goes deep into a vision to investigate these two murders, but it takes a major toll on him, as he starts to feel too closely aligned to the killers. Will is able to figure out that both victims were killed by a team of two killers. A well-meaning but misguided Paul makes an advertisement through his business to search for the killer, but this just makes him a target, and the killer tries to shoot him. To keep Paul safe, Will is tasked with letting him stay at his house. Angie comes over to visit, and the three of them have dinner together, and they look back on their childhoods. During this conversation, Will calls out Paul for bullying him as a kid, but Paul insists Will started it by beating him up first.

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Will is called in for another case in the middle of the night while he’s having more intrusive, violent visions. Will realizes that this case is the first victim of these killers, who was murdered with his own hedge clippers. Will gets stuck in a violent dissociative episode where he almost attacks Paul with the hedge clippers, thinking he’s Ulster. Paul handles this really well and is able to calm Will down with help from Betty (Bluebell). Will’s next clue makes him realize that all of the victims were using jugs of water from the same company. The next morning, Will and Paul go to investigate at the water facility. There, Will meets the manager and one of the killers, Blair Anson. The other killer is a GBI crime scene specialist, Travis Nash. Will and Paul wind up in an intense confrontation with the killers, where Will almost kills Travis, but Paul steps in to hit Travis with a water jug, and Will arrests Travis.

Paul Campano is such a great character anyways, but his reappearance this episode is more than just a fun cameo. Because of his history with Will, he’s able to connect with Will and get him to open up in a way that nobody else can. Paul tells Will that Will beat him up as kids after he pointed a toy gun at Will, and Will realizes that this had triggered his PTSD from his former foster home, where he had to shoot his abusive foster father. This was a dissociative episode that Will had forgotten, just like he’d had earlier that day. In a vulnerable moment, Will admits how hard it is for him to “stay on the right path” in spite of his past trauma and dissociations. He tells Paul that he understands the killers, feels a lot of the same rage, and even wanted to kill Travis. Paul tells Will that everyone with their background has the same struggle, and that Will is choosing to use his pain for good. Paul encourages Will to keep fighting it and doing the work anyway, even though he acknowledges how much of a toll this takes on Will.

In ‘Will Trent’ Season 4, Episode 7, The APD Investigates a Murder Involving a Skunk

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Angie, Ormewood (Jake McLaughlin), and Franklin (Kevin Daniels) investigate the suspicious death of a driver who got into an accident, left his car, and then had an allergic reaction after being pepper-sprayed. All the while, Ormewood and Franklin are stressing about the upcoming department softball game, because they’ll have to replace Angie this year because she’s pregnant. They soon figure out that the driver, Ben, was on Facetime with his girlfriend, Luna, while driving. Because Ben wasn’t paying attention, he hit a skunk with his car – and it was a pet skunk belonging to a woman who calls herself the Skunk Mother online.

The APD brings the Skunk Mother in for an interrogation, and she admits that she broke Ben’s windshield with a rock after he hit her skunk with his car, and then he started angrily coming at her, so she pepper-sprayed him. Angie and Franklin realize that the Skunk Mother didn’t kill Ben and that Luna’s story doesn’t add up. Angie and Franklin bring Luna in, where she admits that she came to the scene of Ben’s death and saw him having an allergic reaction. Instead of helping him, she killed him while he was having a reaction, because he was planning to leave her for someone else. The storyline ends well for everyone: with Luna getting arrested, the Skunk Mother bringing her healing skunk to the APD with thank you cookies, and Ormewood and Franklin finding Angie’s softball replacement in a new rookie named Sam Atkins.

Will Trent airs Tuesdays at 8:00 P.M. EST on ABC.

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Will Trent

The best episode so far in an already strong season, with both comedy and a serious character study.

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January 3, 2023

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Howard Deutch, Eric Dean Seaton, Holly Dale, Lea Thompson, Patricia Cardoso, Sheree Folkson, Bille Woodruff, Erika Christensen, Gail Mancuso, Geary McLeod, Jason Ensler, Mark Tonderai, Paul McGuigan

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  Ramón Rodríguez

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  Erika Christensen

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Pros & Cons

• This episode brings back Mark-Paul Gosselaar’s Paul Campano for a hilarious storyline that leads to some important conversations between him and Will.
• This episode continues with the deeper character study of Will’s character in the wake of his disturbing conversations with Ulster earlier this season.
• This episode is very funny, with sharp and clever dialogue throughout.

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General Hospital reveals Lucas Jones (Van Hansis) pretty much scared of who his boyfriend really is. Now that he overheard threats to Britt Westbourne (Kelly Thiebaud) life, I suspect that Lucas is not going to believe anything Marco Rios (Adrian Anchondo) says, and he knows it’s just going to be more lies.

Lucas might turn on Marco, go against him, go behind his back, and actually help Britt. And it could prove very dangerous for Lucas.

Lucas Jones Overhears the Truth About Marco Rios and Jenz Sidwell on General Hospital

So, recently Marco was on the phone with Ross Cullum (Andrew Hawkes) discussing taking Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard) out. He was standing out on the parapet and that’s when Lucas came out and heard him.

He had already overheard Marco telling Jenz Sidwell (Carlo Rota) that if Carly Corinthos Spencer (Laura Wright) hanging around, she might see Britt in the catacombs and she might be a problem, which sounded quasi-threatening to me. But then Lucas also overheard Sidwell saying he and Cullum found a way to make Britt cooperate.

Sidwell said they’re keeping Britt’s life-saving Huntington’s meds away from her and they’re giving her just one dose at a time until she completes the project. Of course, Lucas was absolutely horrified by what he overheard in the living room.

Red Flags and Confrontations at Wyndemere on GH

To make matters worse, Pascal (Marc Forget) was lurking and he saw Lucas before he rushed out the door. You know, he was distraught. He left. He went to General Hospital and he opened up to Elizabeth Webber (Rebecca Herbst) and she told Lucas, “Go back, pack your bags, get out of Wyndemere ASAP.”

So he realized Liz was right. And Lucas went back to get his things. That’s when he overheard Marco saying another horrible thing. Lucas was ready to walk out. And then Marco got rough with him. That was a red flag. And then he tried to twist it around and brought up his mom’s suicide and was begging Lucas to stay with him.

Britt warned Marco that things weren’t going to go well. Yeah. He was annoyed when Britt told him that, but she’s like, “Look, Marco, believe me.” And she told him Lucas would find out what he’s up to and that Marco was going to lose Lucas.

The High Stakes of Britt Westbourne’s Huntington’s Disease on General Hospital

And what, like an episode or two later? You know, Marco’s worst fears are coming true since Lucas now knows Marco is neck-deep with Sidwell’s criminal activities when he had assured Lucas he was completely innocent, wasn’t involved with what Sidwell was doing.

And Lucas also now knows that Britt’s life is in danger if she doesn’t finish Cesar Faison (Anders Hove) final project. I mean, second, even if they have her do the work, if they continue to withhold Britt’s medicine or cut her off after the project is done. Then her Huntington’s disease will come back and she’ll suffer dire ending consequences. And I feel like they would probably let Britt die or kill her just to tie off loose ends.

So Marco insisted to Lucas that he wasn’t the one that threatened Britt. That’s his father, Sidwell, that did it. And of course, the difference between those two things is meaningless to Lucas.

Lucas Feels Guilt Over Carly and Defending Marco on GH

He thinks that Marco is just as guilty because he’s standing by and doing nothing while Sidwell is threatening to kill Britt if she doesn’t get Faison’s work done for them. And of course, Lucas feels like a complete fool because he defended Marco to everybody, especially Carly.

She was right about Marco and he got upset and Lucas turned his back on his sister. And now he feels guilty about the way he behaved towards Carly and of course really, really angry at his boyfriend.

Marco begged Lucas to not give up on him and swears that he’ll be better. And Marco said he has to get through this project. And then he swore to Lucas he’ll have nothing more to do with any of his father’s dealings.

A Fake Reconciliation and a Plan to Save Britt

But Lucas wanted to know about Britt. You know, he had questions about her, too. So, it’s obvious that Lucas is worried about her. And Marco swore that Britt would be done with Sidwell once the project is over. I don’t buy it though.

And of course, Lucas and Britt have never really gotten along. Recently though, Lucas suggested to Britt they call a ceasefire and play nice. And they’ve both been really trying. They’ve been professional at work. They’ve been pleasant.

And now what’s becoming clear is that Lucas really feels bad for Britt. She is trapped and her life is literally on the line and Lucas feels terrible for believing all the lies that Marco told him. Lucas seems done, but Marco was begging him, you know, “please believe me, please don’t leave.”

And Lucas agreed. He said he’ll give Marco another chance. And then Lucas even hugged Marco. But the look on Lucas’s face suggests he doesn’t mean it. Not one bit. And then this week, we’ve got Carly talking to Lucas, and I think he’s going to tell Carly she was absolutely right about Marco.

General Hospital: Lucas The Unlikely Hero in the Catacombs

So, what I think Lucas might do next is pretend he’s giving Marco another chance and he will stay at Wyndemere, but I think that’s so he can find a way to get Britt’s meds for her and watch out for her safety. That way Lucas can help get Britt out from under Sidwell and Cullum and honestly also Marco.

I think Lucas wants to help Britt because he feels bad for her because she has this debilitating disease. And I think Lucas may also feel guilty that he didn’t realize the danger Britt was in.

He questioned why she was out at Spoon Island and thinks she’s just, you know, like other people because she’s led them to believe it—that she’s taking money by doing a private practice thing for Sidwell so that there’s an explanation for her to be out there.

But the bottom line was it was all happening right under Lucas’s nose. And of course, he’s got nothing to actually feel guilty about, but I can see him betraying Marco and helping Britt.

Reverse Engineering the Huntington’s Medicine with Brad Cooper

So Lucas might let Marco think he’ll stay and just they can be together. They’ll ride it out till the project is done and then put this behind them. But I think at the same time, Lucas is going to get down into those catacombs and try his best to get his hands on Britt’s meds.

So in a surprising twist, Lucas might be the one who saves Britt and gets those meds so they can be reverse-engineered for Britt. Even if Lucas isn’t able to get the whole supply, you know, all that’s needed really is one vial.

And I’m pretty sure Lucas is going to tell Britt he knows everything. He knows what’s going on with Sidwell. And Lucas may say he knows she’s being forced to work at Wyndemere to stay alive. And from there, Britt might come clean.

She and Lucas might swap info and she may tell him that Jason Morgan (Steve Burton) was going to reverse-engineer her meds. And then Lucas may jump on board and pick up with that and take over. I mean, Britt and Lucas could actually wind up being genuine friends in the end, despite the messy past with Brad Cooper (Parry Shen), that’s kind of a residual issue for them.

The End of Marco and Lucas and the Return of Brad

As for Marco, whether Lucas can help Britt or not, I am pretty sure that Lucas is going to dump Marco in the end. It’s hard to imagine there’s any way Lucas would forgive him and stay with him. I mean, Brad did bad stuff, but Marco is in a whole other league of bad.

Also, Jason’s leaving in just a few weeks because Steve Burton is taking a lengthy hiatus, and that may have forced a rewrite to this story rather than Jason doing the reverse engineering and all that. It could be Lucas.

You know, maybe Brad comes in and he works with Lucas and Britt to reverse-engineer the meds. We have heard that Brad is supposed to be back in March around the time that Jason exits.

So, we’ll see. But Lucas is the last person that Britt expects would help her. But it would be a really soapy twist. I think the writing’s on the wall for Marco and Lucas and they’re going to split soon.

But also, since Pascal saw Lucas eavesdropping, I think that he will go tell Sidwell that Lucas is a problem. And since Pascal is creepily fixated on Marco, you know, Sidwell might tell Pascal to kill Lucas.

You know, tell him that Marco’s boyfriend needs to have an unfortunate accident. But hopefully Britt and Lucas both survive this and he can help find her meds and save her life.

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