Bond Blog: Spectre – A James Bond Retrospective
First published in March 2020. Following the triumph of Skyfall, the fourth Daniel Craig Bond was always going to have a hard time living...
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It was the bad luck of the James Bond series to always be in some kind of limbo. There were court cases, studio disputes, writers’...
Read MoreBond Blog: Quantum of Solace – A James Bond Retrospective
Quantum of Solace is one of my favourite Bond films. And I know that isn’t a popular opinion. On first watching it, I – along...
Read MoreBond Blog: Casino Royale – A James Bond Retrospective
With the new James Bond film in 2006, it was necessary for the franchise not just to recast Bond but to some extent to reinvent him....
Read MoreBond Blog: Die Another Day – A James Bond Retrospective
One aspect of Pierce Brosnan’s tenure as James Bond is the variety behind the camera. Each of his four films had a different...
Read MoreBond Blog: The World Is Not Enough – A James Bond Retrospective
Writing Bond Blog has given me some genuine revelations. Watching the films in sequence, you can see the developments and the repetitions,...
Read MoreBond Blog: Tomorrow Never Dies – A James Bond Retrospective
On leaving the cinema after GoldenEye, I was very ready to see another Bronson Bond and so too were the studio and undoubtedly Brosnan...
Read MoreBond Blog: GoldenEye – A James Bond Retrospective
When GoldenEye came out six years after License to Kill, it felt as if the Bond franchise needed fresh blood. There was the U2-penned Bond...
Read MoreBond Blog: Licence To Kill – A James Bond Retrospective
One of the happier results of this Bond Blog is that I’ve had the opportunity to totally reassess the Timothy Dalton Bonds. I saw...
Read MoreBond Blog: The Living Daylights – A James Bond Retrospective
At this stage of the franchise, a reinvention was needed. Roger Moore had taken 007 into a tried and tested template of comedy action...
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