09 June 2018
21 August 2018
GOODBYE, MR BOYLE! BOND 25 Director leaves the project. Creative Differences Cited. Where now for 007? BREAKING NEWS.
DANNY BOYLE IS OUT OF BOND 25. ‘SHOCKING, POSITIVELY SHOCKING’ ‘We’re not a COUNTRY CLUB, 007’. ‘No-one ever leaves the KGB‘ How does 007 get out of THIS one? What it might mean, moving forward..AGENT JAMES MURPHY CONSIDERS ALL OPTIONS.. I thought it was a spoof. A Russian...
13 August 2018
Boris Johnson set to play the baddie in Bond 25?
DR BO-JO? Is Britain’s former foreign secretary ready to do battle with 007? James Murphy investigates, undercover. Bond 25 gossip is starting to pour in. Yesterday it was that old chestnut about Idris playing 007. Tomorrow? Never Dies. But Today: it Looks like we have our new Bond baddie?...
12 August 2018
Racism a no no. But Ageism alive and well it seems in the Film Commentary Universe? The sickening Double (0) standard at the heart of the Idris Elba as Bond Debate
‘I’M NOT AGEIST BUT’: STOP HIDING BEHIND THE AGE ARGUMENT WHEN DISCUSSING THE IDRIS AS 007 PROSPECT! JAMES MURPHY IS ON THE CASE..’EYES ONLY’. Idris Elba is NOT James Bond. At least, not yet. But whyever not? Well, really, idiots, it’s because Daniel Craig IS James Bond. He will...
09 August 2018
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TBT: SKYFALL AND THE DARK KNIGHT RISES. REMEMBERING THE SUMMER SPIRIT OF THE OLYMPICS AND ITS LASTING GLOW OF 2012 OPTIMISM
Throwback Thursday. SKYFALL /DARK KNIGHT RISES: HEROES’ JOURNEYS OF POLITICAL/SOCIAL/MORAL IMPORTANCE, VIA SOME 2012 OLYMPIC SPIRIT Looking Back. Moving Forward. With James Murphy In a recent post on Twitter/Facebook, the comedian and actor, David Schneider, noted the spirit of joy that ignited in Britain during the Olympic summer...
08 August 2018
DEBRIEF on MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE -FALLOUT.
FIELD REPORT: MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT AGENT JAMES MURPHY, Reporting for Duty.. There was little point in ‘reviewing’ Mission:Impossible-FALLOUT. When one reads a consensus of reviews that sing a movie’s praises in all the same ways? Chances are..they have a point. More fun to just sit back and enjoy the...
