S4E37.5: Big Trouble in Little China

Kill James Bond!

November, Abigail, and Devon

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

4.7 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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This is a preview of a bonus episode! Check it, as well as our five-year archive of bonus episodes, at our reasonably-priced patreon! In our exploration of the Trucker as an American hero, we alight upon Jack Burton and the Porkchop Express. Good natured, good humoured, and always willing to help a friend out, Jack finds himself rapidly drawn into a 2000-year old fight between an ancient Chinese sorceror and an ancient Chinese Van Helsing. The platonic ideal of a Devon movie, this straightforwardly fun John Carpenter / Kurt Russell action-comedy was a huge box office flop. But as we always say: The Box office doesn't matter. The movie got made and you get to watch it ----- FREE PALESTINE - With the ceasefire in full effect, the media has returned to ignoring the daily atrocities in Gaza. My friend Ahmed still needs to feed his family and afford medicine. Anything you can kick in would be hugely appreciated.https://chuffed.org/project/150817-please-help-ahmed-and-his-family-get-food-drink-and-medicine And these are some more general links you can support collective efforts with! -The Palestinian Communist Youth Union 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 ----- 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 everything app account

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another bonus episode of Kill James Bond.
0:21.0	I am November Kelly.
0:22.0	I am joined as always by my friend Abigail Thorne and Devon.
0:25.3	Hello.
0:26.2	Cowabunga, friends.
0:28.7	Yes.
0:29.9	Yes.
0:31.1	It's absolutely.
0:32.0	You use the ashtick cowabunger.
0:34.6	It's a vintage Devon pick.
0:36.8	Big trouble in little China baby. This... Now that's truck season. I had heard of this, but I'd never seen it before now. I also didn't know it was a John Carpeter movie, who I love. So, fuck yeah. Yeah. John Carpeter with his muse, Kurt Russell in the mid-80s. When I saw the typeface, I know... That's the John Carpenter with his muse Kurt Russell in the mid-80s.
0:58.0	When I saw the typeface, I know, that's the John Carpenter fucking font.
1:03.4	Yeah, that's the John Carpenter soundtrack, and it's one of his best, I think.
1:05.1	Oh, God, it slabs.
1:06.2	It rocks.
1:07.5	Straightforwardly, a great movie.
1:14.1	I had seen this a few years ago, and my letterboxed review of it was, this happened to my buddy Devon once.
1:15.9	It did.
1:16.9	I enjoyed that greatly.
1:17.9	I love Jack Burton as a protagonist.
1:21.1	I love him as an avatar of the truckman, which is a guy that we've been trying to examine.
1:27.4	When you were traveling around China, did you imagine yourself as Jackburn? Did you wear a little hat? Did you wear the tank top? No, I didn't. I would fucking kill to have this tank top, though. Honestly, it's so good. The, like, knee-high boots. I bet everyone China's sick of people rock it up dressed like this. I mean, this really does happen. Everyone and their mom fucking looks at you when you're a white fellow walking around China because, like, yeah, you would. You'd be like, oh, look at that fucking guy. That's crazy. Yeah, yeah. But it really started hitting in Xi'an, and I was wearing a tank top the whole time I was walking around because it was hot as fuck and I had a mullet. So potentially. You'll think of a time. I'm about to have a little trouble in Big China.
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