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What The Public Thinks Is The Best Bond Girl, Villain, Film And Actor

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With the release of Spectre fast approaching, this week Neil Calloway looks at what the public consider the best in James Bond films… So we’re all gearing up to the new Bond film – in Halloween week, appropriately enough, given its title. Ricky Church is doing his reviews of previous outings for the franchise for […]

Countdown to Spectre – GoldenEye Review

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Ricky Church continues his countdown to Spectre with a review of GoldenEye… Between 1989 and 1995 the Bond franchise was in limbo due to a changed world. The Soviet Union had collapsed and the Berlin Wall came down, effectively ending the Cold War. Between those were legal troubles with MGM, owner of Bond distributor United […]

How Spectre references all 23 previous James Bond films

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Simon Columb on Spectre’s nods to the previous James Bond movies… First and foremost, this article spoils Spectre in its entirety. Crucially, one of the main draws to the new film is the amount of references to the previous films in the James Bond series. Personally, as an enormous fan, I got a little worn out by […]

Daniel Craig, it’s okay if you let Bond go

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Tony Black on Daniel Craig’s future as Bond… We all knew this was coming. By we, I mean the legion of James Bond fans and aficionados who have followed the bizarre media whirlwind that seems to forever cascade around 007 himself, Daniel Craig. The Daily Fail (sorry, Mail!) apparently claimed Craig is done – that […]

And the winners of the 73rd Golden Globes are…

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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association never ceases to surprise and go against the grain. Only a select few categories in film lined up with the predictions of professional analysts, while all of television was completely out of left field. That’s not to say anything here isn’t well deserved. Except for The Martian anyway, which was […]

The Week in Disappointment – Star Wars, The Hobbit, Merlin, Spectre and Gambit

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Anghus Houvouras with this week’s disappointments from the entertainment world… “Peter Jackson admits ‘I didn’t know what the hell I was doing’ on the Hobbit” You know, I have to give Peter Jackson some props. Last year when I included The Hobbit films amongst ‘the most disappointing films of all time’, I got so much […]

Is Spectre the worst James Bond movie?

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Anghus Houvouras on Spectre… Sweet, sweet hyperbole. Where would we be without you? Let’s just put it out there: Spectre was terrible. A lazy, lifeless, sloppily put together excuse for a 007 outing. It had all the elements of a 007 outing: action, espionage, scenic locations, beautiful women. However, none of it seemed to click. […]

Christoph Waltz will reportedly return for two Bond movies, if Daniel Craig does

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In the build up to the release of Spectre, there was a lot of speculation over the future of Daniel Craig as James Bond, with Craig himself indicating that he could be ready to retire his licence to kill, and other reports suggesting that he’d be back for one more outing. Well, according to “sources” […]

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 dethrones Spectre at the UK box office

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UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 20th November to Sunday 22nd November 2015… As expected, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 opened atop the UK box office chart this past weekend, pulling in £11,255,566, including almost £2 million of preview screenings. While it’s certainly an impressive bow, Mockingjay – Part 2 […]