james bond

  • 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...

  • What’s Next For James Bond After No Time To Die?

    19/10/2021
    No Time to Die does what no James Bond film has dared do before it. After almost three hours of lovingly playing into the outlandish tropes that defined the series’ past, the film ends posing an almighty question regarding its future. James Bond is dead. Not in a fake-out...

  • Does No Time To Die Successfully Balance the Serious With the Ludicrous?

    12/10/2021
    Seeing No Time to Die after such a long wait, the gargantuan Bond movie can be an overwhelming, and even emotional, experience. But take a step back from the film and its bold choices and you’ll see that it’s a silly movie, from cheesy lines to preposterous storylines. It’s...

  • My Thoughts on the No Time To Die Trailer

    10/12/2019
    A little over four years after Spectre was released in cinemas, the trailer for Daniel Craig’s fifth and final James Bond film – No Time to Die – has been released. It’s not been the smoothest of productions for the now 25-film franchise, with Craig’s presence initially uncertain and...

  • The King’s Man: Is a WW1 Prequel the Right Move for the Kingsman Series?

    10/09/2019
    When it was released in 2014, the first Kingsman film was a breath of fresh air. I grew up on the Bond films of old, where Roger Moore would utter some contrived quip before saving the world, using a gadget to dispatch the megalomaniacal villain, and so I embraced...

  • 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...

  • Why Pierce Brosnan Should Return as James Bond for One More Film

    12/03/2019
    I desperately want to see an old James Bond. Not Roger Moore in A View to a Kill or Sean Connery in Never Say Never Again, where they ignored the fact that these men were far too old for what the film required of them, but rather a Bond...

  • 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...

  • Ranking the James Bond films

    15/01/2019
    Over the past few months I’ve been watching all of the James Bond films in order – many for the first time in years – and writing about their individual merits as well as how they impact the legacy of the James Bond franchise. Now my Bond Retrospective series...