06 April 2021
18 June 2021
Fleming Friday: What if you swapped a few Bond actors between their movies?
Imagine you can take individual Bond movies and actors from their time streams and mix it up a bit? Here’s what I would do.. SEAN CONNERY: Let’s stick him in Casino Royale. Have him genuinely fall for Vesper and thereby lose all his abilities to be hard and tough...
04 June 2021
#FLEMINGFRIDAY: Who is the ‘Bond of the Books’, onscreen? Roger and Pierce, of course!
I know, I know. EVERYONE has a favourite 007. We all spout theories on which actor is the ‘best James Bond’. Fact is, none gave a perfect performance. And the ones you THINK are the ‘Fleming’ Bond..are in fact, not. Brace yourselves, readers!..I will get controversial here, naturally 😉...
31 May 2021
John Logan speaks out on the Amazon MGM deal. Put a so007ck in it, Logan!
He ‘wrote’ SKYFALL and SPECTRE. He has stuff to say about James Bond and the series’ possible future in the hands of Amazon.. So. JOHN LOGAN has written an op-ed on why the AMAZON deal with MGM might be problematic. He talks in depth about how nice the...
14 May 2021
Fleming Friday: Can James Bond do shared and expanded universe content?
Answer: Yes! Course he can. It’s JAMES BOND! So, if one looks at things, prima facie, shared universes are dead. The monster-verse at Universal died with The Mummy. BBC just exiled John Barrowman, sadly, from its Doctor Who promotional materials, it seems, thereby removing the notion of more TORCHWOOD ...
07 May 2021
SSSF: SPECTRE! Fixing James Bond’s 2015 adventure
SSSF = Saving (supposedly) sh#t films. This week: SPECTRE.. Some movies are a paradox in that one cannot dismiss them as just ‘bad’ yet they nonetheless exist as disappointments. There are moments of good, verging on great and those, in turn, even give the piece re-watch value. Launching this...
