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 You Only Live Twice (1967)
In the UK we have two music channels that dedicate an hour or so a day to “non-stop Movie Classics” (or something similar.) I catch this occasionally when I’m channel hopping and the same selection of songs are being played. … Continue reading What happened to proper Movie Songs
The second movie in the Mission: Impossible franchise couldn’t feel more different to it’s predecessor. The first was a focused, intelligent spy thriller with a plot that kept you guessing and action scenes that worked for the story and … Continue reading Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) Review
It is amazing how different the original Mission: Impossible movie is to the summer blockbuster movies that the franchise offers today. Mission: Impossible is actually a taut, slightly complicated and quite low-key spy thriller and about as far-removed from the outlandish, … Continue reading Mission: Impossible (1996) Review
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 Thunderball (1965) Review
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 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 From Russia with Love (1963) Review
When I wrote a preview post of all the new spy movies currently being developed and due for release this year, I completely forgot about British spy thriller Spooks. This is even more surprising considering I’m a huge fan of the … Continue reading Spooks: The Greater Good (2015) 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 Dr No (1962) Review
With The Avengers: Age of Ultron proving expanded cinema franchises are a success, a lot of other movies are following suit. Star Wars is set to use the same model to bring at least one new movie a year, Ghostbusters will … Continue reading My ideas for new Expanded Cinema Franchises
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