After reviewing 2004's My Name is Modesty and listening to two Modesty Blaise radio adventures, I decided to take a look at the 1966 film, in spite of its bad reputation. The premise and core plot ...

The announcement follows the publication of a new 50th anniversary edition of the first Modesty Blaise novel (AmazonUK ...

In the 1960s, Modesty Blaise was a mod adventuress in the vein of James Bond and the Avengers who fought evil in the comics pages of British newspapers. This oversized volume collects strips from 1966 ...

Everybody raise the roof — Gal Gadot and “Wonder Woman” proved that a comic book blockbuster can feature a female superhero as its central character. Except that had already been proved in the late ...

For a vidpic filmed in 18 days by a helmer hired scarcely a week before the start of principal photography, "My Name Is Modesty" isn't half-bad. This mildly diverting time-killer focuses on the early ...

Released in 1966, the adaptation of the Peter O'Donnell comic strip, Modesty Blaise, took the satire route to the existing template of mainstream cinema. Since the spy genre had become so ubiquitous ...

She's glamorous, intelligent, rich and very, very cool. Modesty Blaise has been called the female James Bond but she's much more interesting than that. With her expertise in martial arts and unusual ...

Modesty Blaise was a 1982 American-produced one-hour television pilot produced for the ABC Network and based upon the 1963-2001 comic strip Modesty Blaise, created by Peter O'Donnell. This was the ...