A guide to all things Bond at Alternate Ending. Directed by Guy Hamilton Written by Richard Maibaum and Paul Dehn Premiered 17 September, 1964 PRE-TITLE SEQUENCE British secret agent 007 James Bond (Sean Connery) swims to a drug lab and blows it all to hell, and returns to the woman he has been sexing in […]

A guide to this blog’s James Bond marathon can be found right here. FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVEDirected by Terence YoungWritten by Richard Maibaum and Johanna HarwoodPremiered 10 October, 1963 PRE-TITLE SEQUENCEWe see our beloved Agent 007 (Sean Connery) sneaking around the grounds of a house. Is he hunting, or being hunted by the shadowy man […]

A guide to this blog’s James Bond marathon can be found right here. DR. NODirected by Terence YoungWritten by Richard Maibaum & Johanna Harwood & Berkely MatherPremiered 5 October, 1962 PRE-TITLE SEQUENCENA – the only Eon Productions Bond film without a pre-title sequence. TITLE SONGThis being the first-ever James Bond film and all, some of […]

The literary career of James Bond, Agent 007 on Her Majesty’s secret service, began in 1953 when 44-year-old Ian Fleming, late of British Naval Intelligence, completed his dream of writing a spy novel that reflected his own awareness of the live of an espionage agent, with the publication of Casino Royale. Later fans of the […]

It’s a wonderful thing to have ludicrously heightened expectations, and then to see them surpassed. I give you Casino Royale, the best James Bond film since the ’60s, starring Daniel Craig as the best James Bond since Sean Connery. British spy thrillers aren’t for everyone, and if the notion of a really top-drawer Bond film […]