Now pay attention, 007. Two-times James Bond director Sir Sam Mendes, as he now titled, has been very much in the UK media and film news in recent weeks. First of all, details were announced of his ambitious four-film [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sir Sam Mendes, the director of two smash-hit 007 films, Skyfall and Spectre, gave an interview to the UK's Observer newspaper and included some interesting reflections on his Bond years. Sir Sam has been publicising his latest movie Empire of [...]
The new edition of the BBC's weekly listings magazine Radio Times (for 25 Sept - 1 October, 2021), just published in the UK, has a great Bond and Moneypenny front cover and devotes six pages to James Bond and No [...]
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The UK's main ITV channel has been continuing with its short summer season of Daniel Craig Bond films and, as Spectre is rolled out as part of this, the JBIFC takes the opportunity to look back on Craig's fourth [...]
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The UK's main ITV channel has been continuing with its summer season of Daniel Craig Bond films and, as Skyfall is rolled out as part of this, the JBIFC takes the opportunity to look back on Craig's third 007 adventure [...]
The JBIFC is very sad to report the death of the acclaimed stage and screen actor Albert Finney, who has passed away aged 82. Finney, who rose to acting fame as one of the 'New Wave' of British actors of [...]
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Remember, remember, the month of November - gunpowder, treason and plot. Five years ago this November, just as many people in Britain were celebrating the defeat of the Guy Fawkes plot with traditional displays of fireworks, the big success [...]
The recent screening of the third Sean Connery James Bond movie Goldfinger by the UK's ITV-4 channel (on 21st July) drew appreciative comments by reviewers in the weekly TV listings in British newspapers, and one critic was full of praise [...]
Live and Let High! Current James Bond actor Daniel Craig, along with Naomie (Miss Moneypenny) Harris and two-times Bond director Sam Mendes, have all appeared in high positions in the Film 50 Power List 2017, which appeared in the UK's newspaper [...]
A new documentary about Judi Dench, to be screened on the UK's BBC-2 TV channel on December 30th, will have contributions from 007s past and present, together with comments from Sam Mendes. The new programme, entitled All the World's Her [...]
The latest James Bond movie SPECTRE, released to huge box office success in 2015, has evidently left a special and lasting legacy in Mexico City. As many 007 fans will recall, director Sam Mendes and his hard-working crew created a [...]
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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 fictional crime syndicates in popular literature. [...]
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Sam Mendes, the director of two highly successful 007 movies with Daniel Craig, has said the next Bond director should come from 'a slightly unexpected direction' when it comes to the main storyline for the next James Bond movie. He also repeated [...]
Now pay attention, 007. A new issue of the glossy Bond magazine MI6 Confidential has just been published, and contains some great coverage of the visual effects that go into a James Bond movie. In fact, issue no. 35 of [...]
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Sam Mendes, the director of two highly successful 007 movies with Daniel Craig, has been lined up to speak at the forthcoming Hay Literary Festival in May-June, 2016. He will discuss the craft of film-making. The Hay Festival is an annual event held [...]
Former 007 star Timothy Dalton can be seen in a haunting new trailer for the latest series of the gothic horror TV series Penny Dreadful, the third season of which will hit U.S. TV screens on Sunday, May 1st, 2016. [...]
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The latest issue of the American magazine Cinefex (no. 145, February, 2016), which celebrates the world of special and visual effects in movie-making, contains a detailed article on the production of Spectre. The magazine, which is available in retail [...]
It was a double triumph for the latest 007 movie Spectre at the 2016 Jameson Empire Awards in London, with the latest Sam Mendes-directed James Bond adventure winning the Awards for 'Best Thriller' and 'Best British Film' in 2015. The Awards [...]
