Casino Royale

  • A Bond Movie Fan’s First Time Reading Casino Royale

    The narrative may be shockingly small-scale considering the franchise it would spawn, but Casino Royale remains a strong introduction to Fleming’s original vision of James Bond...
  • Why (and How) James Bond Should Die in No Time To Die

    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...
  • A Bond Retrospective: Daniel Craig

    I’ve been using the word “era” to describe the different spans of time that actors have played the character of James Bond, like “the Moore era” or “the Dalton era”, but rarely do they feel completely and totally different from one another. There’s a subtle progression from one phase...