Disenchanted with the role and his salary, Sean Connery stepped away from Bond in 1967 following the bombastic You Only Live Twice. This presented makers Eon with their first real challenge as they had to find a replacement which eventually came in the shape of George Lazenby and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service followed. However, …
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Casino Royale – deconstructing, reconstructing & demolishing Bond
Shortly after earning his double-0 status by registering two kills, Bond (Daniel Craig) is engaged in a surveillance mission in Madagascar, the subject of which is a bomb maker Mollaka. This leads to a chase across a building site with both men leaping off cranes and free running around scaffolding and half finished structures. In …
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Dr No – The founding member of SPECTRE?
Although the governance and hierarchy of James Bond’s primary arch nemesis SPECTRE is made abundantly clear in the novels with them and their leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld making their debut in Thunderball before the latter appears in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and You Only Live Twice, the films have muddied the waters somewhat. By …
Never Should Have Said “Again”
The history behind 1983’s unofficial Bond film Never Say Never Again could form the basis of a university dissertation. It marked the return of the original Eon actor Sean Connery to play Bond for a seventh time, financed and produced by a rival studio and Kevin McClory who retained the rights to SPECTRE and Ernst …
Never Should Have Said “Again”
The history behind 1983’s unofficial Bond film Never Say Never Again could form the basis of a university dissertation. It marked the return of the original Eon actor Sean Connery to play Bond for a seventh time, financed and produced by a rival studio and Kevin McClory who retained the rights to SPECTRE and Ernst …
Dr No – The founding member of SPECTRE?
Although the governance and hierarchy of James Bond’s primary arch nemesis SPECTRE is made abundantly clear in the novels with them and their leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld making their debut in Thunderball before the latter appears in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and You Only Live Twice, the films have muddied the waters somewhat. By …
Nobody knew what Quantum or Solace meant
Director Marc Forster said of his film that he wanted it to be “fast, like a bullet”. So fast that it is the shortest of Daniel Craig’s Bond movies, so brief that it rushes through exposition at a rate of knots and ponderous silences are mercifully cut short. The plot is rushed, erratic and confusing. …
Casino Royale – deconstructing, reconstructing & demolishing Bond
Shortly after earning his double-0 status by registering two kills, Bond (Daniel Craig) is engaged in a surveillance mission in Madagascar, the subject of which is a bomb maker Mollaka. This leads to a chase across a building site with both men leaping off cranes and free running around scaffolding and half finished structures. In …
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No Time To Die – Review (spoilers)
Immediately after the title tune, No Time To Die continues with a heist scene. It opens up brilliantly with figures abseiling down a skyscraper. They are reflected against the glass of the artifice which creates the illusion there are more than there actually are. It’s an eyecatching sequence, beautifully shot and a wonderful way to …
One racist in our society is one too many
There was a gruesome inevitability about the abhorrent racist abuse that three English footballers received following the penalty shoot out in the Euro 2020 final on Sunday evening. One could trawl over the ignorance, the hate and the wickedness for several pages yet it might be more insightful to think about this issue from a …
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