S4E21.5 Hail, Caesar!

Kill James Bond!

November, Abigail, and Devon

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv & Film:film Reviews

4.7 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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This is a preview of a bonus episode! Check it out in full on our reasonably-priced patreon! This week November brings us a little Podcast Dessert. Hail, Caesar! is a Coen Brothers movie about a day in the life of a fixer for a booming film studio in the 1950s that all three of us enjoyed watching, but understood on vastly different levels. TSHIRT ALERT: ADVERSE CONDITIONS MOVIE CLUB PREORDERS NOW OPENThats right, the long-awaited Adverse Conditions Movie Club shirt is finally available for preorder on our website. Featuring art from the incredibly talented Mika Kurzmann-Abrams! Preorders close MIDNIGHT AUGUST 31ST ----- We've been nominated for Podcast of the Year at the ITV bCreator Awards! It’s public vote, so vote for us here under “creator shortlist”.should take about a minute, you don’t have to live in Britain to vote! www.bcreator.co.uk/awards/----- Friend of the show Bella, a refugee evacuated from Afghanistan in 2021, is raising money for her gender confirmation surgery! Anything you can give would be hugely appreciated! https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/team-bella ----- Check out friend of the show Mattie's new book Simplicity here, or wherever fine graphic novels are sold! ----- FREE PALESTINE Hey, Devon here. In our home, we talk a lot about how insane everything feels, and agonise constantly over what can be done to best help the Palestinians trapped in Gaza facing the full brunt of genocidal violence. My partner Rebecca has put together a list of four fundraisers you can contribute to- all of them are at work on the ground doing what they can. -Palestinian Communist Youth Union, which is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestinehttps://www.gofundme.com/f/to-preserve-whats-left-of-humanity-global-solidarity -Water is Life, a water distribution project in North Gaza affiliated with an Indigenous American organization and the Freedom Flotillahttps://www.waterislifegaza.org/ -Vegetable Distribution Fund, which secured and delivers fresh veg, affiliated with Freedom Flotilla alsohttps://www.instagram.com/linking/fundraiser?fundraiser_id=1102739514947848 -Thamra, which distributes herb and veg seedlings, repairs and maintains water infrastructure, and distributes food made with replanted veg patcheshttps://www.gofundme.com/f/support-thamra-cultivating-resilience-in-gaza ----- WEB DESIGN ALERT Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/ Kill James Bond is hosted by November Kelly, Abigail Thorn, and Devon. You can find us at https://killjamesbond.com , as well as on our Bluesky and X.com the every app account

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0:00.0	This is the essence of the dialectic.
0:03.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Kill James Bond.
0:21.2	Another bonus episode, in fact.
0:23.2	I am November Kelly.
0:24.3	I am joined as always by my friends Abigail Thorne Devon.
0:27.6	Salwayte listeners.
0:29.5	What's up?
0:30.9	No key mocks podcast.
0:32.0	I'm vacumus to sell you Thomas.
0:34.2	Yep.
0:35.1	We're still doing religion season.
0:36.7	And I originally, after we did end of days, I was like, I'm gonna do something really,
0:43.8	really like hard, something really like difficult going, like winter light or like first
0:49.5	reformed or something.
0:51.6	And then due to possibly divine intercession, I got COVID for a week. And I took
0:56.8	that as a sign that I didn't actually want to watch a really kind of searing kind of examination
1:02.0	of faith. What I wanted to watch was one of my favorite films as kind of like podcast dessert.
1:07.1	Fair enough. And I thought, hey, what fulfills both of those categories? And the answer is, hail Caesar. Yeah. Is the movie with some Romans in it listeners, which is why I opened in Latin? If this is your first time listening to the podcast, I don't just habitually do that, like some sort of prick. Well, I mean, not. Not that all the time. It's not the first time I've opened in Latin on the the podcast, but yeah. No. I don't always. Not the first time this year. But yeah, this is one of my favorite films. It's one of my favorite Coen Brothers films. And I think really at this point, like enough of the like trivial shit, like a serious man, it's time for something, you know, really, you know, really getting to grips with the, the difficult questions. Yeah, I mean, I'm excited to hear a take on this November because I saw this in cinemas. I really like it. It's a funny film. I really enjoy it. It's really charming. I know that the movie is trying to say something about religion, but I have no idea what it's trying to say. I'm just like, I love the movies. I love movies. I'm eating popcorn. I'm clapping. I'm like, I don't know what it's trying to say. I'm just like, I love the movies. I'm eating popcorn. I'm clapping. I don't know what it's trying to tell me about God. It's trying to tell me something. They got some takes, I think. To be clear, this thing about like, oh, well, you know, a serious man is the kind of joke one, and this one's the serious one, is a joke that Cohen brothers have themselves done about
2:17.9	this movie.
2:19.3	Because a serious man is like, it's a downer, right?
2:21.9	We've spoken about it.
2:22.9	It's got funny bits in it, but like this one is a much funnier movie.
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