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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
-
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, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
-
Happy Birthday, Mr. Bond! Ian Fleming's iconic fictional spy, James Bond, 007, is celebrating an astonishing 0070 years as one of Britain's greatest cultural creations of the post-1945 period. The very first James Bond thriller, Casino Royale, was published by [...]
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 [...]
Now pay attention, 007. Many of us are very familiar with the diamond smuggling theme that was a crucial part of the storyline to Sean Connery's sixth smash-hit James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever (1971). In many ways, though, the [...]
Bond is back - and this time he is working on behalf of His Majesty's Secret Service. In a press release issued on Friday, 31st March, 2023, Ian Fleming Publications revealed the exciting news that Young Bond author Charlie Higson [...]
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 [...]
It is one of the best-known James Bond novels. But where did 007 author Ian Fleming gain his inspiration for the raid on Fort Knox in his best-selling novel Goldfinger? The year 2024 will enable us to celebrate the 60th [...]
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 [...]
Experience suggests that it is often fun to speculate on 'alternative' versions of the Bond universe and explore how the films may have gone in another direction had circumstances been different. Back in 2012, a new book came on to [...]
-
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 [...]
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 [...]
-
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 [...]
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 [...]
As Bond fans across the globe continue to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the EON James Bond movie franchise, many critics still point to the third smash-hit 007 movie Goldfinger (1964), as the film that embodied everything audiences came to [...]
-
Bond author Ian Fleming was a big fan of hi-tech inventions and new gadgets, and some of his close associates shared his enthusiasm. In 2013, the year after Skyfall was released, a movie which sought to break away from 'gadgets' [...]
It was a case of Castle Royale. Former James Bond star Daniel Craig attended a special investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle in England to receive his '007 Honour' from Princess Anne. The actor was made a 'Companion of the Order [...]
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 25-film franchise when such [...]
Sixty years ago this month, in October, 1962, a new kind of action movie, and a new kind of hero, took cinema box offices by storm, to the evident relief and delight of Bond producers Albert R. Broccoli and [...]
-
Now pay attention, 007. As one age ends, another one begins. With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II and the accession of King Charles III to the throne, both the United Kingdom and Ian Fleming's fictional creation James Bond [...]
As the 60th Anniversary cinema re-release of the 007 films reaches The World Is Not Enough (1999), Pierce Brosnan's third adventure as Ian Fleming's secret agent, and Garbage is also lined up as one of the performers for the [...]
-
Fans of the Hammer Horror and Bond film actor Christopher Lee were given a very golden treat by BBC-4 in the UK on Sunday 22nd May when the channel devoted an evening to commemorate the later actor's birth a century [...]
-
Roger Moore's fourth James Bond movie Moonraker (1979), the eleventh in the smash-hit EON series, generated huge financial returns at the global box office, but it was very different to Ian Fleming's original third novel (1955). In fact, apart from [...]
