The launch of a new James Bond film is always exciting and a proper “event”. I can still remember the excitement of going to see Goldeneye when it was released twenty years ago (clearly I sneaked into the cinema at the age of five). The last film, Skyfall, has a strong claim to being the best Bond film…
Top Ten: Book to Film Adaptations
27 March 2015 by Leave a Comment
You know I love films and I love books, so it kind of follows that I love films based on books. Sometimes the adaptations are quite poor and disappointing (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), much less often they improve on the source material (anything based on a Tom Clancy book) but just sometimes a great book leads to a great film…
Skyfall
26 October 2012 by Leave a Comment
As anyone who follows me on Twitter knows I have been counting down to the release of the 23rd Bond film Skyfall. Literally I’ve been counting down in hours and minutes. I love James Bond, have done since childhood and can’t ever see a time when the release of a new Bond film doesn’t fill me with sheer joy…
Top Ten: London 2012 Moments
13 August 2012 by Leave a Comment
Regular readers will have noticed that I’ve been a bit quiet lately, no posts for a couple of weeks and hardly any tweets at all. For a fortnight it seems like I fell off the edge of the world. Except of course I didn’t, I simply joined most of the UK in being utterly transfixed by the Olympics…
Skyfall Poster Released
17 May 2012 by Leave a Comment
I’m a big fan of all things Bond and Daniel Craig is rivalling Sean Connery as my favourite actor in the role. I’m very excited about the forthcoming film Skyfall which is also starring Javier Barden, Ralph Fiennes and the wonderful Dame Judi Dench…
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
8 May 2012 by Leave a Comment
In my top-ten crime writers list published last year I included Stieg Larsson. His Millennium trilogy was a tour de force and Lisbeth Salander was a new kind of heroine – spiky, unique, damaged and at times a little unlikeable…
Bond 23 Starts Filming Today
3 November 2011 by Leave a Comment
At a press conference this morning a number of details of the forthcoming James Bond film were revealed. Known until now only as Bond 23 the title has been confirmed as Skyfall – not sure yet what I think of the title, but then I liked Quantum of Solace and no-one else in the world seemed to so perhaps I’m not the best judge of Bond titles. Daniel Craig is returning as Bond….
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Images Released
17 August 2011 by 2 Comments
One of the films I’m most looking forward to seeing this year is David Fincher’s adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s novel The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo starring Daniel Craig. Images and potted biographies of the main characters have now been released and I particularly like the look of Robin Wright as Erika Berger and Embeth Davidtz as Annika Blomkvist.