Month: April 2026
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More to this than your personal vendetta
Pam Bouvier’s above warning cuts through Bond’s tunnel vision in his mission to avenge Della Leiter’s death. Colonel Heller’s arrangement is a hard pill to swallow, but it’s pragmatic. Trading immunity for the return of the Stinger missiles Sanchez stole… Read More →
Filed Under: Licence To Kill -
Bond 26 news on old release dates
Why not drop Bond 26 news on previous Bond movie UK release dates? I think it’s a simple marketing tactic that gives fans the Bond 26 news they want and pay homage to Bond movies of old. There are 25… Read More →
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Soderbergh’s Bond multiverse pitch an unappealing gimmick
A recent interview with filmmaker Steven Soderbergh revealed that he pitched the idea of an almost “Bond multiverse” to producers where two actors would play James Bond in successive movies, set in different time periods with alternate history plotlines. Although… Read More →
Filed Under: General -
How Young *should* Amazon Make James Bond?
A recently similarly-titled article by Variety poses a great question as to the next James Bond actor rather than who it will actually be. Obviously, Amazon has to consider a myriad of factors when choosing the next actor, namely their… Read More →
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Well, can’t win them all
In Thunderball, Bond concedes to Fiona Volpe’s premise that his vanity and ego normally send women swooning, but not in her case. Fiona Volpe treats the encounter as a calculated move rather than a romantic encounter. Even after their night… Read More →
Filed Under: Thunderball -
The Octopussy Tarzan yell
This is one of those baffling editorial choices that refuses to justify itself. In Octopussy, as Roger Moore’s Bond swings on vines through the jungle evading Khan’s men, the added Tarzan yell turns what should be a tense escape into… Read More →
Filed Under: Octopussy -
Bond 26 with Dr. No’s pacing, please!
I know it’s unlikely to happen with the current over-the-top modern Bond with gadgets and action sequences galore, but part of me would love the next entry to have the pacing of the very first James Bond movie, Dr. No.… Read More →
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YES! I am invincible!
GoldenEye got a lot of things right, and it didn’t end with its iconic opening, sharp pacing, and strong characters. And it also didn’t end with the henchman of the movie, Boris Grishenko, who is a curiously underrated henchman. As… Read More →
Filed Under: GoldenEye -
My goodness, this is strong shampoo
Here’s another gem of a quote from the odd unofficial James Bond movie Casino Royale from 1967. It’s pretty random, but Evelyn Tremble delivers it perfectly after he drinks his drugged champagne. So no, it’s not strong shampoo, but strong… Read More →
Filed Under: Casino Royale (1967) -
You did want me to drop in
This awesome quip from Bond to Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me is a perfect mic drop moment for 007, only outdone by his actions in the subsequent scene. Anticipating Stromberg’s elevator drop door to the shark tank, Bond… Read More →
Filed Under: The Spy Who Loved Me