Month: August 2026
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Character Spotlight: Ivana Miličević as Valenka
In the spirit of spotlighting some of the lesser-known characters in the Bond movies, I’m turning my attention to Valenka, Le Chiffre’s short-haired blonde girlfriend in Casino Royale, played by Ivana Miličević. She isn’t exactly a major player, with limited… Read More →
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Renny Harlin’s disastrous demand to dump Dalton
It was recently revealed that director Renny Harlin, known for Die Hard 2 and Cutthroat Island, was offered the chance to direct Timothy Dalton’s second Bond movie, but had the gall to demand that Dalton be replaced. Given that The… Read More →
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James Bond. Charming, sophisticated secret agent.
Valentin Zukovsky always seems to have a quick-witted comment or some way of measuring himself against 007. As their relationship developed across GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough, Zukovsky enjoyed revisiting their history, occasionally with a pointed reminder that… Read More →
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Saoirse Ronan’s “dark…young female villain” interesting
Actress Saoirse Ronan, coincidentally the wife of rumored James Bond actor finalist Jack Lowden, recently revealed that she is “dead serious” about playing a villain and wants “to go dark.” I appreciate the candor, particularly because she isn’t coyly pretending… Read More →
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Character Witness: Moonraker’s double-take pigeon
COO! DID I JUST SEE WHAT I THINK I SAW?! COO! WAS THAT 007 IN A HOVERCRAFT GONDOLA IN ST. MARK’S SQUARE?! COO! I’D CALL IT IMPOSSIBLE, BUT I’M A PIGEON WHO JUST GOT A CAMEO IN A JAMES BOND… Read More →
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Theo James grabs headline with Bond dropout
As is customary, another potential James Bond actor has stepped away from the running and grabbed a quick headline in the process. 41 year old actor Theo James, the Divergent, The White Lotus and The Gentlemen star, recently revealed in… Read More →
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Blofeld’s bizarre “waxwork show for morbid tourists”
Alongside some of James Bond/Sir Hilary Bray’s stranger lines in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, Ernst Stavro Blofeld has a few odd sayings of his own. Here, he’s referring to the unfortunate Shaun Campbell, another British agent investigating Piz Gloria,… Read More →
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Won’t that be frightfully energetic?
In On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, did you ever notice that we never hear George Lazenby’s James Bond recite the sacred “shaken, not stirred” martini line? No, instead, we get these pompous lines from James Bond as genealogist Sir Hilary… Read More →
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What Bond movies I consider “unofficial”
Over the years, I’ve noticed that some websites listing the James Bond movies tend to gloss over the unofficial entries, either mentioning only a few or ignoring them entirely. In my mind, I’ve always considered the unofficial James Bond movies… Read More →
Filed Under: Casino Royale (1954), Casino Royale (1967), General, Never Say Never Again, Thunderball -
I unapologetically capitalize all Bond title words
It’s such a force of habit at this point that I’ve been doing it for so long. Ever since I watched my first Bond movie, GoldenEye, and fell down the 007 rabbit hole, I’ve developed certain capitalization habits that I… Read More →