James Bond
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Sean Connery was a complicated man off-screen, but onscreen, he was a star that made coolness seem effortless.
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If James Bond was at the forefront of the Swinging Sixties, then perhaps it's fitting that 1967's "Casino Royale" heralds the era's crash landing.
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SPECTRE (2015, Dir. Sam Mendes): The twenty men who looked up the long table at this man and waited patiently for him to speak were a curious mixture of national…
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Die Another Day (2002, Dir. Lee Tamahori): For this review, we’re changing things up: I invited my colleague Urian Brown, the man behind the profane and funny Brown That Banana blog, to co-critique…
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The World Is Not Enough (1999, Dir. Michael Apted): ‘My father came from the Highlands, from near Glencoe. But look here…’ ‘What’s that?’ Griffon Or looked at him in astonishment.…
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"Tomorrow Never Dies," Pierce Brosnan's second outing as 007, is a perpetual action machine that occasionally remembers it's a Bond movie.
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GoldenEye (1995, Dir. Martin Campbell): When I started to write these books in 1952, I wanted to find a name that didn’t have any sort of romantic overtones… I wanted…
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Licence to Kill (1989, Dir. John Glen): There was the shape of a body on Leiter’s bed. It was covered with a sheet. Over the face, the sheet seemed to…
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The Living Daylights (1987, Dir. John Glen): ‘She was a blonde. She was the girl who carried the cello in that orchestra. Probably had her gun in the cello case.…
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A View to a Kill (1985, Dir. John Glen): Suddenly Bond caught a trace of movement behind the men. An extra leg showed — a woman’s leg. Bond laughed out…