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  • The Daniel Craig Era of James Bond Never Got The Gunbarrel Right

    20/08/2024
    The 21st century has yet to see a great gunbarrel sequence...

  • Does No Time To Die Make Spectre Better or Worse?

    09/11/2021
    Daniel Craig’s James Bond films may form a single connected story arc but the transitions between films are rarely smooth. In a way, No Time to Die is a direct sequel to Spectre, but the two films ultimately offer vastly different approaches to the style, storytelling, and tone of...

  • Why (and How) James Bond Should Die in No Time To Die

    27/08/2019
    Just last week, a couple of months into production, the title of the latest entry in the long-running James Bond franchise was revealed. No longer do we have to refer to it as ‘Bond 25’ or the rumoured title ‘Shatterhand’, but instead we now know that it is officially...

  • My Hopes For The Next James Bond Film

    26/02/2019
    It’s crazy to think that when the 25th James Bond film premieres early next year, it’ll have been almost 5 years since the previous entry Spectre hit cinemas. That’s a year longer than the break between Die Another Day and the modern reboot Casino Royale. Looking back, it’s hard...

  • 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...

  • 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...