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In his autobiography When the Snow Melts (published in 1998), the late Bond producer Cubby Broccoli aptly referred to 'the brilliant John Barry' and said his soundtracks were 'some of the best in cinema music'. More recently, former Bond music [...]

Now pay attention, 007. In surveys of the most famous baddies in the James Bond movies, Kamal Khan, the main villain in Octopussy (1983), tends to be pushed aside by the likes of Goldfinger, Blofeld, Stromberg, and Le Chiffre. Yet, [...]

As James Bond fans around the globe wait patiently for news about the next 007 movie, 'Bond 26', now under the creative control of Amazon, it reminds the JBIFC of the watershed period that came between Moonraker (1979) and For [...]

Now pay attention, 007. The recent sad passing of director Lee Tamahori deserves to be marked with a look back on Pierce Brosnan's final movie as James Bond. On 18th November, 2002, Brosnan's fourth Bond adventure Die Another Day had [...]

The JBIFC is very sad to report that the Kiwi film director Lee Tamahori, who gave us Die Another Day (2002), Pierce Brosnan's fourth and final James Bond movie, has passed away. He died on November 7th, 2025, after a [...]

  After the spectacular success of Skyfall (2012), many observers and Bond aficionados wondered how the next Bond film could match Daniel Craig's third 007 adventure. There was also intense interest in whether director Sam Mendes could be tempted to [...]

As 007 fans wait patiently for more details on the next James Bond film, after Amazon took over from EON, there have been a number of reappraisals of past 'alternative' interpretations of our favourite secret agent. This includes the unofficial [...]

Now pay attention, 007. The fourth Daniel Craig James Bond movie SPECTRE, released to huge box-office success back in 2015, was notable for its superb pre-credits sequence, where 007 was first seen looking rather like a black-clad version of Baron [...]

Golden high! As Goldeneye is given a very welcome and special 30th anniversary release in UK cinemas, the JBIFC takes the opportunity to look back at an interview Pierce Brosnan gave in 2017, which dealt partly with his debut as [...]

Fifty years ago, in October, 1975, James Bond made his debut on television in the UK, with a screening of Dr. No on the ITV network, in what was then billed as a radical departure for 007: for the first [...]

It has been really great during 2025 to see Goldeneye back in cinemas for special screenings to help celebrate 30 years of the movie, and all the evidence clearly indicates Pierce Brosnan's debut 007 movie has built up a very [...]

Loosely based upon Ian Fleming's third best-selling novel, the James Bond film Moonraker (1979), the eleventh EON 007 production, was a spectacular movie in every meaning of the word. While the late Sir Roger Moore often named The Spy Who [...]

Amazingly, it has been ten years since Daniel Craig's fourth James Bond mission SPECTRE hit the big screen and sent box-office ticket sales soaring across the world's cinema circuits. As with all previous 007 adventures in the smash-hit EON franchise, [...]

Now pay attention, 007. 'M' has a question for you: What is the relationship between the realm of spy fiction and the real world of spies? Quite often it is difficult to know what is fiction and what is fact. [...]

There has been much speculation over the years about what shape a third Timothy Dalton Bond film may have taken had he fulfilled his three-Bonds contract. The latest issue of the UK's popular and glossy sci-fi, fantasy and cult film [...]

Bond is Back and shaping up nicely. In some really exciting and fresh news for James Bond fans, Amazon MGM Studios revealed on Thursday, July 31st, that veteran screen-writer and three-times film director Steven Knight, probably best known for penning [...]

It is now over 50 years since the release of Live and Let Die, which had its UK opening at the Odeon Leicester Square on 5th July, 1973. It was the film, of course, that introduced the world to a [...]

Now do pay attention, 007. Gadgets and secret pieces of hi-tech have always been a beloved part of the James Bond universe, in both the books and in the 25 EON films, and the crossover between fact and fiction is [...]

Now pay close attention, 007. There have been numerous 'alternative' scripts and screen treatments for the James Bond films over the years, and one such was a version of Moonraker that was put together by none other than Gerry Anderson, [...]

One of the highlights of the late Roger Moore's fifth smash-hit James Bond movie, For Your Eyes Only (1981), was the close attention given to the motivations and behaviour of the two main villains, Aristotle Christasos (played by the excellent [...]

It is the news that Bond fans and film commentators alike have been waiting months for: who will shape the new 007 movie? Now we know. Denis Villeneuve, the Oscar-nominated French-Canadian filmmaker, will direct the next James Bond film, Amazon [...]

What makes a great Bond woman? Many Bond aficionados will have their own unique views. According to one writer, Robert Caplen, Bond women are considered to be 'ubiquitous symbols of glamour and sophistication'. Bond women are confident, liberated, beguiling, sexy [...]

The announcement that the real-life MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service) has appointed its first female head (known as 'C') brought some wry smiles from regular Bond aficionadoes, as it came some 30 years after Dame Judi Dench became the new MI6 [...]

Now pay close attention, 007. The resurrection, or reinvention, of Ian Fleming's sinister Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld by Christoph Waltz in Spectre and No Time To Die created enormous interest on the part of commentators, and in some ways [...]

Urgent from 'M': Eyes only. There is no doubt that one of the big attractions of Skyfall (2012) was the return of a very 'rounded' antagonist for Bond, but what was the villainous nature of the main baddie in the [...]

Now pay attention, 007. Eyes only. The latest issue of the popular and glossy British sci-fi and fantasy magazine Infinity explores how the James Bond continuation novel Colonel Sun filtered into the EON Bond movies. In an article penned by [...]

Memo from 'M': Eyes Only: in many ways EON's Quantum of Solace (2008) still remains controversial among Bond aficionados even today, but if there is one aspect that does seem to unite most fans, it is agreement that the film [...]

  Now pay attention, 007. Two-times James Bond director Sir Sam Mendes, as he now titled, has been very much in the UK media and film news in recent weeks. First of all, details were announced of his ambitious four-film [...]

Thirty years ago this month, in April, 1995, the Main Unit of the EON James Bond franchise spent two busy days shooting at the Nene Valley Railway, near Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, for Pierce Brosnan's debut 007 adventure Goldeneye. The production's [...]

Now pay attention, 007. In the first EON James Bond film, it was not Sean Connery who appeared in the famous gunbarrel that opened the movie: that honour fell to stuntman Bob Simmons, who could also claim to be the [...]

Now pay attention, 007. Why do some of James Bond's enemies seek to be 'friends' with the MI6 agent? The word 'frenemy' was not invented for the Bond films, but there are some key moments over the course of the [...]

It's the news that had been doing the rumour circuits for a few weeks but has now been officially confirmed. Amazon MGM Studios, which have taken 'creative control' of James Bond on screen after a deal with EON, have announced [...]

Now pay attention, 007. Urgent 'Eyes Only' from 'M'. Code red. Since the announcement of the Amazon deal with EON to take over 'creative control' of James Bond on screen, there has been a wave of speculation about 007's future [...]

Now pay attention, 007. The latest issue of the UK's popular magazine Infinity, the nostalgia sci-fi and cult fantasy film and TV mag, carries an article on A View To A Kill to help celebrate the film's 40th anniversary. Although [...]

He retains a legion of devoted fans, who remain eager to hear his views. And he did not disappoint them. Former four-times 007 actor Pierce Brosnan told the UK's Sunday Telegraph newspaper (9 March) that the next James Bond actor [...]

Unsurprisingly, since the dramatic news broke, there has been a wave of coverage of the EON-Amazon deal in the UK's media. Not only has there been extensive coverage on all the major British TV news channels, but the stunning development [...]