Tag: jamesbond
Sir Roger Moore Has Passed Away
Sir Roger Moore, best known for portraying James Bond in seven installments of the spy series, has died, according to his official Twitter account. He was 89. Moore's screen career dated back to the 1940s and gained momentum through the...
Adventures in the Japanese Film Industry #1: Welcome / The Island that James Bond Forgot
Welcome to the first post of "Adventures in the Japanese Film Industry." "Adventures..." is a series of snippets from Tokyo, where I run a small film company (Loaded Films Ltd.) with my wife and have been involved in the industry...
Listen To Radiohead's Rejected Bond Theme SPECTRE
Thom Yorke, frontman of British rock outfit Radiohead, shared a Christmas treat via Twitter yesterday. Confirming rumours that the Oxford-based band had indeed been working on their own theme song to Sam Mendes' latest James Bond film, Spectre, Yorke shared...
Screen Anarchists On: SPECTRE
(Bond may be back, but so is the nefarious organization known as Team ScreenAnarchy!) Last week, Sam Mendes' second Bond film Spectre got its wide release in the United States, and loads of other places as well. By sheer...
Destroy All Monsters: The James Bond Continuity Vortex Is Why You're Wrong About SPECTRE
"I've been here before" is the first line in Sam Smith's execrable title track for the latest James Bond movie, Spectre. (Read the ScreenAnarchy review by Ard Vijn right here.) To a widely observed extent, that line could be the...
Review: SPECTRE Does Not Rid The Bond Series Of Its Demons
Any review of a James Bond film should probably start with a short overview of the reviewer's opinions with regards to the whole franchise. What kind of Bond does he or she prefer? Which tropes are considered delightful, harmful, funny...
Destroy All Monsters: Fear Of A Black Bond
The Idris Elba / Anthony Horowitz mess last week was an incredible display of context eaten down to the molecular level by the whiz-bang memeification of the internet. Horowitz claims he was mortified by the response to his quote, and...
SPECTRE: New Trailer Pits 007 Against The Shadows Of His Past
Seems as if this Daniel Craig era of James Bond flicks has been about origins and shared histories and secret-secrets tucked nice and deep underneath even more secrets, which for a spy series makes some sense, especially when it seems...
SPECTRE: Bond Gets Some Action In New Extended TV Spot
Daniel Craig's fourth outing as gentleman super spy James Bond is only a few months away, and a new extended TV spot for Spectre has just dropped, featuring plenty of new footage. Not least, the new spot shows Bond getting...
Review: SPY, McCarthy Shines In Uproarious Espionage Send Up
Melissa McCarthy and Paul Feig team up once again for a wickedly funny send-up of the James Bond series with charm and wit in ample supply. Jude Law and Jason Statham add to the fun as, respectively, a suave, painfully...
SPECTRE: Meet The Latest Bond Girl, Stephanie Sigman
007 is going to get his first taste of Latin spice with the addition of Mexican actress Stephanie Sigman to the cast of Spectre. She will be the first Mexican Bond girl in the franchises 50 year history. She joins the...
SPECTRE: Our First Look At Bond And A Behind The Scenes Featurette
Here is our first look at 007 (Daniel Craig) in action on the set of Spectre. The official site also released the first behind the scenes featurette with Léa Seydoux and Dave Bautista commenting on the production during an action...
The Many Faces Of Monica Bellucci
It was quite the week for movie news: new Star Wars, new Terminator, new Jurassic Park... and since last Thursday finally some news about the next Bond, which will be called Spectre. And news outlets were falling over each other...
SPECTRE: New James Bond Film Title & Cast Announced
Daniel Craig is back in his penultimate iconic performance of James Bond in the new film, Spectre, which will be released in November 2015. And it looks like the rumors are true: Christoph Waltz will be playing the villain, though...
HEADHUNTERS Director In The Mix For Bond 24, The Script Already Complete?
The search for Sam Mendes' successor at the helm of the James Bond franchise continues in some interesting directions with Norwegian website Comoyo reporting that Headhunters director Morten Tyldum has been approached by producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson. Says...
Sam Mendes Not Returning For Bond 24
After successfully guiding Skyfall to critical acclaim and huge box office returns around the globe, director Sam Mendes has decided not to return for the next installment of the James Bond franchise. "I have theatre and other commitments, including productions...
Win SKYFALL On Blu-ray!
The latest James Bond adventure, Skyfall, has cleaned up at the box office worldwide and has also scored with (most) critics, including our own Brian Clark. It's even won a few awards along the way, including the prize for Best...
Jason Gorber's Cineruminations: SKYFALL And The Bonds Of Nostalgia
We've gone a little Bond crazy here at ScreenAnarchy, with a whole slew of Bond-themed articles dissecting the casting, the cars, the tunes, and so on, leading up to the North American release of Skyfall. Collectively the Bond flicks...
