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Bond Blog: Casino Royale – A James Bond Retrospective

Bond Blog: Casino Royale – A James Bond Retrospective

Posted by on Sep 1, 2022 in action, All, Books, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 2 comments

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....

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Bond Blog: Die Another Day – A James Bond Retrospective

Bond Blog: Die Another Day – A James Bond Retrospective

Posted by on Aug 25, 2022 in action, All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

One aspect of Pierce Brosnan’s tenure as James Bond is the variety behind the camera. Each of his four films had a different...

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Bond Blog: The World Is Not Enough – A James Bond Retrospective

Bond Blog: The World Is Not Enough – A James Bond Retrospective

Posted by on Aug 18, 2022 in action, All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 1 comment

Writing Bond Blog has given me some genuine revelations. Watching the films in sequence, you can see the developments and the repetitions,...

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Bond Blog: Tomorrow Never Dies – A James Bond Retrospective

Bond Blog: Tomorrow Never Dies – A James Bond Retrospective

Posted by on Aug 11, 2022 in action, All, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

On leaving the cinema after GoldenEye, I was very ready to see another Bronson Bond and so too were the studio and undoubtedly Brosnan...

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Bond Blog: GoldenEye – A James Bond Retrospective

Bond Blog: GoldenEye – A James Bond Retrospective

Posted by on Aug 4, 2022 in action, All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, sci-fi, thriller | 0 comments

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...

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Bond Blog: Licence To Kill – A James Bond Retrospective

Bond Blog: Licence To Kill – A James Bond Retrospective

Posted by on Jul 28, 2022 in action, All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

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...

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Bond Blog: The Living Daylights – A James Bond Retrospective

Bond Blog: The Living Daylights – A James Bond Retrospective

Posted by on Jul 21, 2022 in action, All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 3 comments

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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Bond Blog: A View To A Kill – A James Bond Retrospective

Bond Blog: A View To A Kill – A James Bond Retrospective

Posted by on Jul 14, 2022 in action, All, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 2 comments

Has James Bond finally met his match? asked the poster to Roger Moore’s seventh and final outing as the British secret service...

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Bond Blog: Octopussy – A James Bond Retrospective

Bond Blog: Octopussy – A James Bond Retrospective

Posted by on Jul 7, 2022 in action, All, comedy, drama, Film, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

How can I put this? Octopussy is shit. There’s really very little to redeem it. It’s boring, poorly plotted, badly acted and...

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Bond Blog: For Your Eyes Only – A James Bond Retrospective

Bond Blog: For Your Eyes Only – A James Bond Retrospective

Posted by on Jun 30, 2022 in action, All, comedy, drama, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller | 1 comment

For Your Eyes Only was the first James Bond movie I saw at the cinema. I was probably nine. It was the Astra Cinema in Barrow-in-Furness,...

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