james bond

  • Ranking the James Bond films

    15/01/2019
    Over the past few months I’ve been watching all of the James Bond films in order – many for the first time in years – and writing about their individual merits as well as how they impact the legacy of the James Bond franchise. Now my Bond Retrospective series...

  • A Bond Retrospective: Never Say Never Again

    18/12/2018
    As a kid, Never Say Never Again was just another Bond film. While I had some official VHS copies of a few of the films, most in my collection were recorded off the TV, adverts included. The order of the films and the actors playing the famous super spy...

  • A Bond Retrospective: Daniel Craig

    04/12/2018
    I’ve been using the word “era” to describe the different spans of time that actors have played the character of James Bond, like “the Moore era” or “the Dalton era”, but rarely do they feel completely and totally different from one another. There’s a subtle progression from one phase...

  • A Bond Retrospective: Pierce Brosnan

    20/11/2018
    I’ve always thought of Pierce Brosnan as a better Bond than his films. He joined the franchise at an interesting time; the world had changed and Bond had to change with it. James is called out as a “misogynistic dinosaur” in Goldeneye, a character out of his time and...

  • A Bond Retrospective: Timothy Dalton

    06/11/2018
    Over the past few weeks I’ve been rewatching the James Bond franchise for the first time in years to see how the films hold up to both my childhood memories and their enduring cinematic legacy. After wading through the highs and lows of Roger Moore’s seven films, the lighter...

  • A Bond Retrospective: Roger Moore

    23/10/2018
    When I was growing up, Roger Moore was my James Bond. Even though Brosnan was still Bond when I became a fan, I was enamoured with the light-hearted romps of Moore’s Bond; a more jovial character than the other incarnations while being no less a spy. But times change....

  • A Bond Retrospective: George Lazenby

    09/10/2018
    George Lazenby is the odd Bond out. An Australian car salesman who became a model. A model who became an actor in TV adverts. A TV actor who became the world’s most iconic film character. And then gave it all up after just one appearance as James Bond, refusing...

  • A Bond Retrospective: Sean Connery

    18/09/2018
    “Bond. James Bond.” With those famed words, the greatest single British contribution to cinema was born. A secret agent that has spawned a film series like no other. A character that is still as engaging today, after 24 films, as he was back when he dominated the global box...

  • Tom Hiddleston Meets With Bond Director

    23/05/2016
    Tom Hiddleston could be one step closer to James Bond after he was spotted at the at London’s Soho House on Wednesday, with 007 director Sam Mendes. Mendes has directed the last two Bond movies Skyfall and Spectre and will likely be directing the next and although the current Bond, Daniel Craig, hasn’t...