Category: Film

Sunday 26th AprilWe start in a rather chilly terrorist base neat the Russian border being watched by agents equipped with the latest periscope recording equipment (surely with inbuilt VCR) which is streaming to an intelligence base giving M and the British army a who’s who of the terrorists in the overly detailed style of a… Continue reading Tomorrow Never Dies

Viewed: Somepoint towards the end of 2014Finally posted: Sunday 26th April 2015New Bond film with a shiny new Bond; Pierce Brosnan skydives his way into the role and into a USSR base he’s trying to blow up with Sean Bean. Obviously it’s not long before Sean Bean appears to snuff it and James is left… Continue reading Goldeneye

Sunday 27th JulyStarting very non-traditionally at a wedding Bond’s playing the part of best man at Della and Felix’s wedding. The actually wedding goes quite smoothly if you ignore the quick detour to capture some drug dealer guy called Sanchez before parachuting back in for the vows. Unfortunately it wouldn’t be a wedding in a… Continue reading License to Kill

Sunday 6th JulyWe start with the proof that you can take paintball way too seriously… and that’s normally the point that someone swaps to using a real gun.  Although I’m not sure how professional using the Rock of Gibraltar for paintball really is, particularly considering how temperamental those monkeys can get!The cheese is there from… Continue reading The Living Daylights

Wednesday 4th JuneFinally I’m onto the last Roger Moore film, like Connery in his last film the Bond in this film is defiantly showing his age though it has been twelve years since Live and Let Die.This film’s generic bad guy is Zorin; which according to the disclaimer at the start of the film is… Continue reading A View To A Kill

Tuesday 20th MayOnto the penultimate Roger Moore film; problem is from the title and previous Moore experience I’ve decided I hate it before I even put it on.   So we start in East Berlin with a clown; who is actually agent 009 (why doesn’t he get his own films!) being chased and killed by knife-throwing… Continue reading Octopussy

Sunday 11th MayBlofeld is back, and so is the cat. Now I have to say that although I welcomed the absence of SPECTRE’s number one but with the recent tedious inevitability of the last few films I’ll admit I did smile when that fluffy little feline came on the screen.  The nostalgia is short-lived as… Continue reading For Your Eyes Only

Sunday 30th MarchSo the last film was a misplaced submarine, well the clumsy theme continues as Moonraker explores the fate of a lost rocket, stolen whilst attached to the back of a British aircraft.Starting off as we so often do James is one moment in the arms of a yound stewardess, the next she has… Continue reading Moonraker

Sunday 9th MarchSimple start to this film, the world has lost a nuclear submarine, how exactly you lose a submarine I’m not sure but secret services around the world instantly get their best agents on the job, among them 007 and XXX.Bond starts off in Austria on a different mission, once again getting betrayed by… Continue reading The Spy Who Loved Me