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 [...]
Now pay close attention, 007. Roger Moore's fifth James Bond movie For Your Eyes Only received its World Premiere on 24th June, 1981, at the Odeon Leicester Square, in central London, and was immediately seen by critics as taking the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. 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. 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 [...]
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 [...]
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. 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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
 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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Whoever becomes the new EON James Bond will rapidly find that their success will be very dependent on, and ultimately shaped by, the nature of the Bond 26 storyline. It has always been a huge challenge for the various screenwriters [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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' [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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