The Avengers (1998)

Published: Dec. 12, 2020, midnight

b'This month, we commemorate the death of Sean Connery by revisiting the first nail in the coffin of his movie career, the 1998 film The Avengers, starring Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman as crude robot replicas of John Steed and Mrs Peel, who go up against the wet sporran of Connery\\u2019s single most villainous role, Sir August de Wynter \\u2014 a man who selflessly tries to provide the population of Great Britain with something interesting to make small talk about.'