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
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
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
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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