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
Considering how much of the classic Bond formula is established in Dr No, From Russia with Love feels incomplete. It misses some of the classic Bond material that has made it such a long-lasting force and because of that, I couldn’t … Continue reading Month of Bond: From Russia with Love (1963) Review
What surprises me about Dr No is how many of the classic Bond staples were already in place by the end of the first movie in the franchise. The gun-barrel opening, the excellent, timeless theme and those famous words “Bond, James Bond.” An excellent … Continue reading Month of Bond: Dr No (1962) Review
October 26th sees the release of Spectre in cinemas across the UK. In preparation for that momentous occasion, I have been watching ever James Bond film before Spectre’s release. I have also decided to dedicate a month of the blog to … Continue reading Month of Bond: The Launch
Today is my 30th birthday. I’m not usually one to make a huge fuss of these things but a milestone birthday kind of makes you take stock, at least for a moment. This is a film blog though so as a … Continue reading 1985! – A great year for movies!
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 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) Review
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