Welcome to SPECTRE etc. This is the James Bond podcast where we discuss the ins and the outs of each film. With James on his 20th official adventure, this film is JW Peppered with callbacks to previous adventures. This launches our own retro-SPECTRE-ive as we wish the car wasn’t the only thing invisible in “Die Another Day”.

* The pre-titles sequence starts with Bond shooting us right in our gun, then surfing into North Korea. In the DMZ, James is joined by Zao and Moon - who want to buy his diamonds. After hovercrafting through the landmines, Bond finds an ap-peal-ing way to survive before being captured.* The narrative continues through the titles, as Bond is waterboarded and tortured by the North Koreans. Madonna cleverly combines awful lyrics with a jarring dance beat to have the viewer wishing they could trade places with James. * Bond is traded back to MI6 in exchange for a diamond-studded Zao. Bond is under guard, but holds his breath until MI6 let him go. A free man, Bond saunters into his favourite hotel and meets up with Chinese Intelligence.* In Havana, Jinx joins James. They immediately start some slowly-smouldering seduction, subtly studded with single-entendres. After a delicious dalliance, Bond and Jinx end up at a remote island clinic - where DNA therapy is changing Zao’s appearance. Jinx kills a mad scientist, while James finds Zao and squeezes his sack. * Diamond magnate Gustav Graves parachutes into London and immediately takes of-fence to Bond’s arrival. After a spectacular swordfight, Bond uses a secret door to meet M underground. She invites Bond to re-join MI6, so he heads straight for the gadget lab. After some light shoe-sniffing, Bond is shown a car that is out of sight!* Gustav is planning a big event in Iceland, so M sends Bond and Miranda to catch the show. Gustav zooms his rocket car around his ice castle before his many guests mingle in the ice-bar. Miranda gives James a frosty stare, so James sticks with Jinx. * Gustav shows everyone the power of Icarus - a giant magnifying mirror in space harnessing the power of the sun. After a short show, Gustav catches Jinx while Miranda honeypots James. Bond then saves Jinx from being lasered by Mr Kil. Bond is caught and learns that not only is Miranda a double-agent, but Gustav is actually a re-marrowed Moon! * Bond races away in the rocket car, while Gustav uses Icarus to chase him. Bond falls off a cliff with some awful kite-surfing, then returns to his invisible car just in time to lead Zao on a car-chase through the melting ice castle. Bond doubles-down on diamonds by dropping them on Zao’s face, then heads off to save Jinx by dunking her in the hot-spring the ice castle is built on.* James and Jinx join M in the Korean DMZ and head for Moon’s airfield. Bond is unable to shoot Moon, so he and Jinx run - like hobos chasing a freight train - after his taxiing plane. Jinx hijacks the cockpit while Moon’s father is wishing his son had achieved crater things.* While Bond battles Moon, Jinx aims the plane at Icarus then teaches Miranda about the art of war. Moon takes the only parachute through the jet engine, so James and Jinx jumpstart a helicopter just in time, before ending the film shagging in a seaside shack with sheets made from diamonds.

And of course, keep checking back for a link to our petition to forbid ice-castle construction atop hot-springs!