The tensions between North Korea and the US over its long range ballistic missile programme echo a well-known James Bond plot.
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Few actors have combined real charm, self-deprecation and dash in the way Moore always did.
Why are we so desperate to cling on to the heterosexist, misogynistic, and racist character?
Do these tumultuous times also mean the end of Bond as we know it?
The Olympic Games are a theatre — sometimes farce, sometimes tragedy, reality TV, morality play or soap opera — where geopolitical, social and technological dramas are played out.
It’s time for a new Bond – what about a woman? Two academics debate the cultural implications of changing the spy’s gender.
Spectre is a return to form for the series, and the best of the Daniel Craig films, tying together the legend with a narrative that incorporates and develops the past 50-plus years of Bond.
Sam Smith’s Writing’s on the Wall confronts the last taboo of the canon: Bond’s hypermasculinity.
James Bond and his ilk are out-dated. Better understanding and sharing of data will save more lives than spies.
Every Bond film since the 1970s has promised to revolutionise the Bond girl and bring something new to the table. They haven’t yet.
In a world where the gadgets have taken over, Bond feels somewhat antiquated but he is inevitably privileged by the demands of cinema.
Bond’s nemeses usually want to destroy the planet but this one might help save it.
Anthony Horowitz’s comments about the actor recall many euphemisms used to put Black people down.
The 21st century spy movie is typically a pretty serious affair, but Ritchie’s film shows that there are still bountiful satirical possibilities.
For what other film can you imagine the choice of musician sparking such intrigue?
It’s the size of a fingernail but could do you some serious damage – numbness, incontinence, and muscular paralysis.
Bond has been subject to many further adventures under different authors, and they’re a mixed bag, to say the least.
The latest spy film has all the familiar accoutrements. Well-cut suits, a dastardly villain, some intricate gadgets. But this is a film that harks back to the classics: Kingsman: The Secret Service is…
Whether Bond can be black or not is a debate that has rumbled on past the pre-Christmas Sony hack revelations that Idris Elba was proposed as the next Bond. Kanye West waded in just before the new year…
The next James Bond film – the 24th in the series that began with Dr No in 1962 – is to be called Spectre. Although the plot remains a closely-guarded secret, the name reveals more than it lets on. Spectre…
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