Month: January 2026
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Mr. Bond? You missed, Mr. Bond.
This Casino Royale (1967) scene plays like a clear precursor to Austin Powers, and it’s all the better for it. Startled in his hotel room, Tremble reflexively fires, narrowly missing the scantily clad Miss Goodthighs who calmly critiques his aim… Read More →
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Yes. She’s had her kicks.
Bond’s exasperated closing remark in From Russia With Love represents one of the character’s earliest and most effective forays into a dry, situational quip. It’s a simple line, but a clever one that works simultaneously as a dismissive play on… Read More →
Filed Under: From Russia With Love -
For King and Country: 1940s Bond 26
Setting a James Bond film in the 1940s would be ambitious, but it’s likely the earliest period in which the character could plausibly exist on screen. World War II provides a natural and historically grounded antagonist in Nazi Germany, aligning… Read More →
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Character Spotlight: Michael Madsen as Damian Falco
Michael Madsen’s casting as NSA chief Damian Falco in Die Another Day promised far more than the role ultimately delivered. Rather than serving as a compelling ally or foil to Bond, Falco functions largely as a bureaucratic mouthpiece that asserts… Read More →
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Rubbish. Bond is alive.
This is one of Blofeld’s most revealing lines in You Only Live Twice, precisely because of how irritated he sounds. He becomes visibly fed up with incompetence and, more pointedly, with James Bond’s relentless refusal to die. That irritation curdles… Read More →
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Elordi is too tall and too famous
Jacob Elordi has re-entered the Bond conversation with reports of a significant rumor that he has met directly with Bond 26 director Denis Villeneuve. A meeting at that level strongly suggests he’s beyond the speculative phase and into serious contention.… Read More →
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A kite dancing in a hurricane
I’ve never been especially taken with the Mr. White subplot in the Craig era, and I go back and forth in liking his infamous metaphor for Bond in Spectre. “A kite dancing in a hurricane” is clearly intended as an… Read More →
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My poor little cuckoo
Bond’s interrogation of Blofeld in No Time to Die is an odd sequence that encapsulates many of the movie’s broader problems. Swann’s abrupt fear and retreat feel overdramatic and the contrived “delivery” of Blofeld to Bond resembles a claw machine… Read More →
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I’m guessing this isn’t strictly official
Bond’s decision to kidnap M in Skyfall stands out as one of the film’s weaker moments, largely due to its implausibility. The sequence is further undercut by Bond’s exchange with Q, where the talk of complex “breadcrumbs” and cyber-tracking is… Read More →
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What are you serving, Whiskas?
Few throwaway Bond lines are as oddly specific or as emblematic of A View to a Kill‘s quirks as this one. The remark comes during Bond’s visit to Stacey Sutton’s home, immediately after he dispatches a pair of intruders. Throughout… Read More →
Filed Under: A View To A Kill