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 [...]
Whichever way one looks at it, it is undoubtedly the most dramatic development in the Bond 'universe' for ages, and the news took many 007 fans by surprise. On 20th February, 2025, at 14:21 GMT, the news broke that the [...]
Now pay attention, 007. Back in 2022, when the re-release of all the James Bond movies took place as part of the 60th Anniversary of the 007 movie franchise, Bond fans both old and new were provided with the fantastic [...]
Eyes Only, 007: Priority Red: Both critics and Bond fans alike have regularly pointed to From Russia With Love, the second 007 adventure in the EON franchise, as one of the best in the series, combining a brooding Hitchcockian atmosphere [...]
Eyes Only, 007: A message from 'M': The recent announcement from Ian Fleming Publications (IFP) that it is publishing an exciting compilation of writings, reviews and articles by Ian Fleming, Talk of the Devil: The Collected Writings of Ian Fleming, [...]
Now pay close attention, 007. Look up, look down, look out! Sixty years ago, shortly before the latest EON James Bond movie Thunderball was released starring Sean Connery again as Ian Fleming's secret agent, there was already a huge thirst [...]
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 [...]
As the world waited for the dawn of a new Century back in December, 1999, Bond was back - with a Bang! The World Is Not Enough (1999), Pierce Brosnan's third adventure as Ian Fleming's secret agent, hit cinemas [...]
In a recent interview former James Bond Daniel Craig recalled being highly frustrated over Quantum of Solace, a movie that started filming while there was no firm script yet in place, but he looked back more fondly on Skyfall. As [...]
Now, pay attention 007. If you believe some of the critics, James Bond is now a character of the past and will never return. Don't believe a word of this. If there is one thing that will always remain 'forever' [...]
Now pay attention, 007. The latest edition of Infinity, the UK's popular nostalgia, sci-fi and cult films and TV magazine, has a great article on the various interpretations on the big screen of James Bond's close CIA ally, Felix Leiter. [...]
Now pay attention, 007. Apart from it being an excellent James Bond movie, and possibly one of the most 'Flemingesque' of the EON series, one of the pleasures of watching On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) is also the sheer [...]
The JBIFC is very sad to report that the hugely talented guitar player Vic Flick has died, aged 87. With his exciting guitar riff, Vic helped to make the 'James Bond theme' one of the most famous and memorable short [...]
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Now pay attention, 007. On Wednesday, 13th November, the UK’s press carried detailed reports from The Associated Press (AP) of an interview AP had conducted with the James Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson on the eve of [...]
(A special guest article for the JBIFC by Michael Preston) “Point the gun at my groin.” The fourth actor to play James Bond for EON only needed to be told once. He lowered his Walther PPK pistol and took careful [...]
It contained some of the most memorable 007 movie moments of the 1960s, including one of the biggest sets yet seen in the James Bond franchise, thanks to the late, great Ken Adam. Moreover, audiences were finally given their first [...]
In many ways, he was the man with the golden touch. A new two-hour documentary from the UK's Sky Arts channel on Sir Christopher Lee, broadcast on 24th October, helps to remind us that The Man With The Golden Gun [...]
How do you like your Bond viewings - on the big or small screen? The James Bond franchise has epitomized all the larger-than-life thrills and visual glamour we often associate with big-screen cinema, but it is important to remember that [...]
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What does 007 represent to most fans? Entertainment, excitement, thrills, escapism, glamour, exotic locations, fantastic stunts, wonderful music... we could go on. It is no exaggeration to say that Ian Fleming's fictional creation James Bond has become one of [...]
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 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 [...]
Now do pay attention 007. When a new face takes the role of James Bond on the big screen, there is always a scramble by film journalists and other media to obtain the first interviews on location or in the [...]
Recent Bond villains have come in all shapes and sizes, ranging from the bleeding-eye ruthlessness of Le Chiffre to the state-building schemes of Dominic Greene or the technological hacking skills of Raoul Silva. More generally, who can forget the robotic [...]
Now pay close attention, 007. The posters and bill-boards said it all: 'Look up! Look down! Look out! Here comes the biggest Bond of all!' Nearly sixty years ago, in December 1965, the James Bond movie Thunderball (1965), starring Sean [...]
Bond is Back! An exciting new exhibition of the work of the late illustrator and 007 strip-cartoon artist John McLusky, who did so much to present Ian Fleming's James Bond to the general public in an early and striking visual [...]
The second actor to play James Bond in the official EON series, George Lazenby, has announced his retirement. George, 84, made the announcement on 'X' (formerly Twitter), where he explained: 'It's been a fun ride but getting older is no [...]
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It is an incredible 51 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 [...]
During the 1960s, the James Bond film franchise made the Aston Martin DB5 probably one of the most famous cars in the world, and the car-makers Aston Martin gained huge commercial and other benefits from their association with James Bond. [...]
It is now an astonishing 35 years since Timothy Dalton's second, and final, James Bond movie, Licence to Kill, hit the big screens. It was premiered on 13th June, 1989, at the Odeon in Leicester Square, London, and 007 fans [...]
In the pre-credits to Sean Connery's final EON James Bond movie, Diamonds Are Forever (1971), 007 thinks he has disposed of SPECTRE head Ernst Stavro Blofeld by pushing him headfirst into a large pool of boiling mud: 'Welcome to hell, Blofeld'. It was [...]
What makes a good Bond villain? This is a question the JBIFC has posed on a number of occasions before and there are numerous candidates. The early 007 films were adept at putting Ian Fleming's villainous and highly memorable creations [...]
One of the pleasures of watching the James Bond films is finding out what devious plans the latest arch-villain has, and how 007 will find resourceful ways to thwart those evil ambitions before it is too late. In Roger Moore's [...]
No pay attention, 007. It was a Bond movie that tended to divide critics at the time, and some accused the franchise of having lost its way. Bond aficionados also took quite strong positions on the film, with some loving [...]
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The announcement that Sam Mendes had been selected as the director for Skyfall took many by surprise at the time but, given his award-winning reputation for both stage and screen productions, EON had clearly signalled that the franchise was determined [...]
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