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A bearded James Bond is traded in Die Another Day.

Bond at 50: Die Another Day

By ⋅ October 25, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

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’s a line uttered, in extreme exasperation, by Steve Coogan as his most famous creation Alan Partridge, when the character spends an entire episode of I’m Alan Partridge trying to watch [...]

Sean Bean and Pierce Brosnan star in GoldenEye

Bond at 50: GoldenEye

By ⋅ October 15, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

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

By ⋅ October 14, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

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

By ⋅ October 12, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

Christopher Walken and Grace Jones star in A View to a Kill

Bond at 50: A View To A Kill

By ⋅ September 26, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

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 was 12 when A View To A Kill premiered at the cinema. It was one of the first movies I actively recall being taken to see and, as such, it’s [...]

Sean Connery returns to 007 in Never Say Never Again

Bond at 50: Never Say Never Again

By ⋅ September 25, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

We continue our mission to review every James Bond film ever released as we make our way towards the release of Skyfall in October… Well, here it is. The ‘unofficial’ James Bond film. The competition for Octopussy. The return of Sean Connery. The remake of Thunderball. Is it a case of Never Say Never Again [...]

Roger Moore and Maud Adams in Octopussy

Bond at 50: Octopussy

By ⋅ September 23, 2012 ⋅ One comment

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

By ⋅ August 30, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

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

A New Q for Bond

By ⋅ November 25, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

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