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Desmond Llewelyn

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Sean Bean and Pierce Brosnan star in GoldenEye

Bond at 50: GoldenEye

We continue our mission to review every James Bond film ever released as we make our way towards the release of Skyfall in October… Licence To Kill marked the end of an era for the James Bond movies. The world changed, both politically and within the world of film. Perhaps worst of all, an entire [...]

Timothy Dalton and Carey Lowell in Licence to Kill

Bond at 50: Licence to Kill

We continue our mission to review every James Bond film ever released as we make our way towards the release of Skyfall in October… I’m going to be upfront and honest right here. I’m a Timothy Dalton fan. Not one of those Johnny-Come-Lately Dalton fans who have rediscovered him on the back of Daniel Craig’s [...]

Timothy Dalton debuted as James Bond in The Living Daylights

Bond at 50: The Living Daylights

We continue our mission to review every James Bond film ever released as we make our way towards the release of Skyfall in October… Originally Michael G. Wilson conceived The Living Daylights as an origin story, telling the tale of a younger, possibly pre-00 Bond, but Cubby Broccoli had no interest in telling the tale [...]

Roger Moore and Maud Adams in Octopussy

Bond at 50: Octopussy

We continue our mission to review every James Bond film ever released as we make our way towards the release of Skyfall in October… And so we come to Roger Moore’s penultimate Bond adventure and it’s probably fair to say that this is the second worst film in the series. After trying to give Bond [...]

Christopher Lee as Francisco Scaramanga

Bond at 50: The Man With The Golden Gun

We continue our mission to review every James Bond film ever released as we make our way towards the release of Skyfall in October… There are many questions that spring to mind as you watch The Man With The Golden Gun. If Goodnight can become an agent, just how easy is it to walk into [...]

Bond At 50: From Russia With Love

Our review of every James Bond film ever made continues with the second Bond film, From Russia With Love: From the opening of From Russia With Love, we know this is going to be a great movie. We get our first feeling that the hero could actually die by introducing a perfect double who gets [...]

Ben Whishaw is the new Q, James Bond's gadget man.

A New Q for Bond

He might have been succeeded by John Cleese in Die Another Day, but Desmond Llewelyn’s Q is an iconic cinematic performance, calmly delivered despite the late actor’s aversion to tecnobabble – but now there is a new man set to play the role of 007′s armourer, British actor Ben Whishaw who was recently seen in [...]