• Bond has been Back on the Box in March. With the UK's TV channels ITV4 and ITVX currently engaged in a special Bond film season (the latest being Skyfall, screened on Friday 15th March, followed by an 'edited for violence' [...]

    By Published On: March 17th, 2024
  •     Now pay attention, 007. The latest issue of the popular and glossy UK sci-fi and cult nostalgia magazine Infinity, which has just been published, will be a must-buy for James Bond fans as it celebrates 60 years of [...]

    By Published On: March 10th, 2024
  • Now pay attention, 007. The UK's ITV and ITVX television channels are holding a James Bond movie bonanza during March. All 25 official 007 films are being screened on ITV during this month, starting on Monday, 4th March, with Goldfinger [...]

    By Published On: March 3rd, 2024
  •   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 [...]

    By Published On: February 26th, 2024
  • The 'alternative' versions of Bond history have always proved beguiling to 007 fans. In a fascinating article for a British newspaper, best-selling author and James Bond expert Jeremy Duns has described the events that led to him gaining access to [...]

    By Published On: February 5th, 2024
  • What makes a good Bond villain? Award-winning actor Javier Bardem, who played the sinister Raoul Silva in Skyfall, was arguably one of the best baddies in the Daniel Craig series of 007 movies. Critics certainly praised Bardem's memorable performance as [...]

    By Published On: January 28th, 2024
  • London's famous British Film Institute (BFI), which runs the National Film Theatre located on the South Bank next to the River Thames, has announced exciting details about its upcoming John Barry season, John Barry: Soundtracking Bond and Beyond. The season [...]

    By Published On: January 21st, 2024
  • When Sir Ken Adam (1921-2016) passed away a few years ago, he was seen by many film experts and cultural commentators as a 'designer extraordinaire'. His influence on the James Bond movies of the 1960s and 1970s was instrumental in [...]

    By Published On: January 8th, 2024
  • The year 2024 marks an astonishing 60 years since the third smash-hit James Bond movie, Goldfinger, was premiered in 1964. Still regarded by many critics as one of the best entries in the 007 series, the film embodied a hugely [...]

    By Published On: January 4th, 2024
  • The year 2023 has certainly witnessed plenty of coverage of famous Bond villains or their henchmen. Part of the 50th anniversary celebrations for Live and Let Die (1973), for example, has included numerous clips of the actor and acclaimed dancer [...]

    By Published On: December 11th, 2023
  • It was a key moment in the big-screen movie version of Ian Fleming's famous novel. Auric Goldfinger, explaining his villainous career to James Bond, told 007: 'This is gold, Mr. Bond. All my life I've been in love with its [...]

    By Published On: November 26th, 2023
  • In many ways the year 1995 was a watershed moment for the James Bond franchise. The last Bond film had appeared in 1989 and it seemed the long gap would drag on due to legal disputes in the main studios [...]

    By Published On: November 16th, 2023
  • From London with love. The James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli was present at a special media event staged in an impressive and spacious interior at Battersea Power Station, London, on Thursday 2nd November. The event was for the premiere of [...]

    By Published On: November 3rd, 2023
  • What makes a great Bond villain? In surveys of the most famous baddies in the 007 movies, Kamal Khan, the main villain in Octopussy (1983), tends to be naturally pushed aside by the likes of Goldfinger, Blofeld, Stromberg, and Le [...]

    By Published On: October 30th, 2023
  • The major new biography of Ian Fleming by Nicholas Shakespeare contains plenty of new and exciting information about the early career of the 007 creator, and argues that the future Bond author was much more than a mere desk-bound pen-pusher [...]

    By Published On: October 25th, 2023
  • Now pay attention, 007. When James Bond author Ian Fleming first introduced the criminal network SPECTRE to his many readers in the novel Thunderball in 1961, he inadvertently created an organisation which has arguably become one of the most famous [...]

    By Published On: October 22nd, 2023
  • After the evident success of the first James Bond movie Dr. No and rising star Sean Connery, United Artists quickly greenlit the return of 007. The EON producers, Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, soon swung into action. They had [...]

    By Published On: October 10th, 2023
  • It was surely a case of Double-O Heaven on 4th October when Sir Roger Moore: The Personal Collection saw a large number of items from the late 007 actor's personal collection go before the auction hammer at Bonhams in central [...]

    By Published On: October 8th, 2023
  • The exciting new biography of James Bond creator Ian Fleming, Ian Fleming: The Complete Man, by Nicholas Shakespeare (Harvill Secker publishers), has won plenty of praise from critics in the UK. Very positive reviews have appeared in The Spectator magazine, [...]

    By Published On: October 1st, 2023
  • Now pay attention, 007. When it was released, there were a number of comments from critics and Bond fans alike that the ending to Daniel Craig's final James Bond movie, No Time To Die, was somehow not in the 'Fleming [...]

    By Published On: September 24th, 2023
  • It was the glossy spy movie that created another box-office triumph for EON and United Artists (UA), firmly established actor Sean Connery as a major star, and created the classic James Bond film formula, a template that many of the subsequent 007 movies would successfully follow. Its director, [...]

    By Published On: September 17th, 2023
  • What makes a memorable Bond henchman? Screen presence? A sense of threat? Distinctive physical characteristics? Popularity with audiences? In many ways, the late actor Richard Kiel, who died aged 74 on September 10, 2014, in California, embodied all those features [...]

    By Published On: September 10th, 2023
  • By the time Moonraker (1979), Roger Moore's fourth smash-hit James Bond Movie, hit the big screen, producer Cubby Broccoli had decided that the sheer size and fantastical feel to the latest entry in the EON series had been pushed to [...]

    By Published On: September 3rd, 2023
  • Now pay attention, 007. It seems astonishing to think that the 18th EON James Bond movie, Tomorrow Never Dies, which starred Pierce Brosnan in his second smash-hit 007 adventure, received its World Premiere at the famous Odeon Leicester Square, in [...]

    By Published On: August 30th, 2023
  • The year 2023 has been a year of Bond film anniversaries. This includes the unofficial rogue 007 movie Never Say Never Again (NSNA), which celebrates its 40th birthday. It was released in 1983, the same year that the official EON [...]

    By Published On: August 18th, 2023
  • The British director Christopher Nolan has been regularly linked to media rumours about him possibly helming a Bond movie, and his latest comments have inevitably reignited such speculation. Speaking while on a promotional tour of his latest film Oppenheimer, made [...]

    By Published On: July 23rd, 2023
  • What did Bond 1 really think about Bond 3's interpretation of 007? After he had completed Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and stepped aside from the role that turned him into a global star, Sean Connery remained notably reluctant to comment [...]

    By Published On: July 16th, 2023
  • 007 and counting. The weeks will be ticking down to October 4th, which is the date for a very special auction that will take place at Bonhams in central London. James Bond actor Sir Roger Moore's personal collection of memorabilia [...]

    By Published On: July 11th, 2023
  • Now 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 EON films, and the blur between fact and fiction is often commented [...]

    By Published On: July 9th, 2023
  • Happy Birthday, Mr. Bond. The year 2023 has now marked an incredible 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, [...]

    By Published On: July 5th, 2023
  • The latest issue of the popular British sci-fi, cult and nostalgia magazine Infinity includes a profile of one-off James Bond actor George Lazenby. The Australian actor starred, of course, in James Bond movie no. six, On Her Majesty's Secret Service [...]

    By Published On: July 2nd, 2023
  • It is an astonishing 40 years since the release of Roger Moore's sixth James Bond adventure, Octopussy, and - as part of the birthday celebrations - the JBIFC thought it would be appropriate to look back at the incredible work [...]

    By Published On: May 30th, 2023
  • The JBIFC were very sad to learn of the death of singer Tina Turner, who passed away at her home near Zurich in Switzerland at the age of 83 after a long period of illness. Tina's many hit songs included [...]

    By Published On: May 26th, 2023
  • Miss Taro, Rosa Klebb, Fiona Volpe, Helga Brandt, Irma Bunt, Bambi and Thumper, Rosie Carver, Xenia Onatopp, Elektra King, Miranda Frost... The EON James Bond franchise has certainly had its fair share of strong and dastardly female characters over the [...]

    By Published On: May 13th, 2023
  • Live and let bite? As part of the celebrations this year of an astonishing 50 years of Live and Let Die (1973), the JBIFC revisits the crocodile sequence from Roger's debut 007 film. Interestingly, one of the most popular images [...]

    By Published On: May 11th, 2023
  •   Now pay close attention, 007. Saturday, 6th May, 2023 (Coronation Day), was a very special occasion in the life of the British Isles. As one age ends, another one begins. With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II and the [...]

    By Published On: May 6th, 2023