Day: December 22, 2025
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It’s merely waiting to be reupholstered
This is an almost throwaway line from the throwaway Casino Royale (1967) but it’s content is hard to ignore when contrasted with the 2006 Casino Royale. In the new movie, Mads Mikkelsen’s Le Chiffre dispenses with wit entirely and introduces… Read More →
Filed Under: Casino Royale (1967) -
Send them to the funeral, will you?
Here’s another in a long list of Roger Moore’s most perfectly timed Bond quips and it lands precisely because of the absurdly civil context in which it’s delivered. In For Your Eyes Only, Bond slips into a flower shop under… Read More →
Filed Under: For Your Eyes Only