The issue with a documentary about a well-known individual or series is that there is sure to be people watching that want to know more about specific aspects that may not be covered or even referenced. This becomes even more of … Continue reading Month of Bond: Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 (2012) Review
Sean Connery will always be one of the most iconic Bonds. It is a toss-up between him and Moore because of the amount of films they both managed to complete. It also makes it very easy to then place those Bond … Continue reading Month of Bond: Ranking the Connery movies
After the mistake that was George Lazenby, replacing Sean Connery again was always going to feel risky. It was necessary, Connery was looking far too old to be playing Bond seriously in Diamonds are Forever but anyone stepping into those iconic … Continue reading Month of Bond: Live and Let Die (1973) Review
Diamonds are Forever seems to confirm Connery as James Bond. After the less than successful outing for George Lazenby, Bond feels back in safe, certain and comfortable hands with the man who brought him to screen originally – even if those … Continue reading Month of Bond: Diamonds are Forever (1971) Review
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service doesn’t really fit with the rest of the Bond films. It feels like someone created a fake Bond film or even in some cases a spoof. Some of the key ingredients are there but everything feels … Continue reading Month of Bond: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) Review
I’m not sure you could get away with the central premise of You Only Live Twice today. It isn’t the death of Bond so he can go undercover or even the heavily stereotyped Japanese characters which I will get to in … Continue reading Month of Bond: You Only Live Twice (1967) Review
Before everyone was connected by a broadband, super-fast internet connection, if you wanted to play multiplayer you had to have two controllers and a friend, physically in the room with you. The N64 then went one better, adding three extra ports … Continue reading Month of Bond: A look at Goldeneye: The Videogame! (Part 2)
There is nothing exciting about watching an underwater scuffle between divers. Maybe when technology was only just advanced enough for this to happen or when this was something that hadn’t been on the screen before but not today. It is a … Continue reading Month of Bond: Thunderball (1965) Review
The best of the recent videogame first person shooters all owe a debt to one particular game from 1997. Aspects of Call of Duty, Halo, and others all first appeared in the Bond movie tie-in Goldeneye for the N64. Usually videogame … Continue reading Month of Bond: A look at Goldeneye: The Videogame! (Part 1)
There is a reason that Goldfinger is so fondly remembered; it is the epitome of a Bond movie. Goldfinger is the blueprint that many other Bond movie will follow and rightly so. It has all the key ingredients that From Russia … Continue reading Month of Bond: Goldfinger (1964) Review
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