• Although former James Bond Daniel Craig held his licence to kill for a longer period than any other Bond actor, and made five smash-hit 007 films, it is easy to overlook the fact that the late Sir Roger Moore starred [...]

    By Published On: March 25th, 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
  •   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
  • After Roger Moore's successful debut in Live and Let Die (1973), his second 007 adventure was quickly put into production. And, fifty years ago, on 18 December 1974, Roger's James Bond movie The Man With The Golden Gun (1974) was [...]

    By Published On: February 18th, 2024
  • As Bond fans across the globe continue to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the EON James Bond movie Goldfinger (1964), many critics still point to the third smash-hit 007 movie as the film that embodied everything audiences came to love [...]

    By Published On: February 11th, 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For numerous Bond fans, Timothy Dalton was very 'Flemingesque' in his brief interpretation of James Bond. Back in 2014 the former two-times 007 star, who at the time had a role in a new gothic horror TV series Penny Dreadful, [...]

    By Published On: August 21st, 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • With speculation mounting in various quarters about the nature of the next James Bond movie (Bond 26), and who the new 007 will possibly be, it is worth remembering that new actors in the role have often benefited from continuity [...]

    By Published On: April 12th, 2023
  • After Roger Moore's successful debut in Live and Let Die (1973), his second 007 adventure was quickly put into production. And on 18 December 1974, Roger's James Bond movie The Man With The Golden Gun (1974) was given a Royal [...]

    By Published On: March 27th, 2023
  • Now pay attention, 007. One morning Ken Adam, a former pilot himself, was listening to the radio and he heard the inventor and ex-RAF pilot Wing Commander Ken Wallis talking about his autogyro helicopter. Adam suggested to EON that this [...]

    By Published On: March 18th, 2023
  • The JBIFC are very sad to report that the actor Chaim Topol, who played Milos Columbo in Roger Moore's fifth 007 adventure For Your Eyes Only (1981), has died, aged 87. Topol (who was happy to be known just by [...]

    By Published On: March 10th, 2023
  • The year 2023 will mark 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, of course, that introduced the [...]

    By Published On: February 25th, 2023
  • It is fifty-four years since James Bond movie no. six, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (OHMSS), hit the big screen and gave us, albeit briefly, a new face to 007 and possibly one of the most faithful film versions of [...]

    By Published On: February 17th, 2023
  • After the 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 already [...]

    By Published On: January 14th, 2023
  • Now pay attention, 007. It's an amazing twenty years since Pierce Brosnan's final movie as James Bond hit our cinema screens. On 18th November, 2002, Brosnan's fourth Bond adventure Die Another Day had its Royal Premiere at the Royal Albert [...]

    By Published On: November 19th, 2022
  • In 2014 the JBIFC was very sad to report the death of actor Richard Kiel, aged 74, on September 10 in California. Richard, of course, had played the very tall and steel-toothed henchman 'Jaws' in two hugely successful James Bond [...]

    By Published On: November 12th, 2022