Month: August 2026
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Madeleine or Mathilde Swann should have died
Pardon me while I continue to harp on the ending of No Time To Die, because I still haven’t fully recovered from that godawful ending. To recap my thoughts, James Bond never should’ve had a child, and Mathilde should not… Read More →
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For Your Hockey Eyes Only
Sometimes I wake up in a cold sweat wondering about the logistics of the infamous hockey “action” sequence in For Your Eyes Only. Was disguising the assassins as hockey players really necessary, or did someone genuinely decide that attacking Bond… Read More →
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I got a brother. Small world.
In Diamonds Are Forever, this throwaway exchange between Bond, posing as Peter Franks, and one of the goons transporting his “brother’s” corpse to a funeral home neatly captures one of the movie’s biggest character dynamics. Here’s Bond, an elite international… Read More →
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Call me Hilly
Although On Her Majesty’s Secret Service remains one of my favorite Bond movies, I can’t ignore that George Lazenby’s portrayal of James Bond is somewhat uneven. He has undeniable charm and conviction, but his impersonation of Sir Hilary Bray occasionally… Read More →
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Licence To Kill’s gas tanker monster truck
A pet peeve of mine is when James Bond finds himself in a chase involving an unconventional vehicle that is slow and cumbersome but is somehow transformed into a precision stunt machine simply because Bond is behind the wheel. Quantum… Read More →
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Who will be the next James Bond?
Those seven words have been rattling around in my head ever since No Time To Die brought Daniel Craig’s tenure to a close, just as they did after Pierce Brosnan signed off with Die Another Day. I’m not going to… Read More →
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The handbrake slipped!
A View To A Kill‘s climax involving Bond, May Day and the bomb felt like a strangely misguided choice, particularly because of how much focus was placed on Roger Moore’s physical ability at 58 years of age. You’d think Moore… Read More →
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If it’s Cavill, would you be disappointed?
To be honest, I could see Amazon MGM zigging when we all expected them to zag and ultimately choosing an older actor as the next James Bond. Henry Cavill would certainly check plenty of the commercial boxes, with the looks,… Read More →
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Observe, Mr. Bond, the instruments of Armageddon.
In The Spy Who Loved Me, Karl Stromberg is almost giddy as he shows Bond his plans for thermonuclear genocide and his grand scheme to replace humanity with a civilization built in his own image. There’s something especially disturbing about… Read More →
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“Avoid Giving Bond an American-Shaped Head”
A recent article in The Hollywood Reporter details newly uncovered correspondence about James Bond’s likeness between Ian Fleming and an illustrator in the 1950s, although I’m skeptical of the suggestion that the accompanying image in the article represents some newly… Read More →
Filed Under: General