It is heart-wrenchingly cool. I love how it refers back to Casino Royale, how it develops real plot; it’s action-oriented and exciting, but we do know what the movie’s about. The scenes with Mr. White thrill me.

continue reading.....

The Telegraph interviews Pierce Brosnan in anticipation of the release of Mama Mia! It’s a complex interview, meandering in and out of Brosnan’s personality and insecurities, Bond, musicals, the death of his first wife, and more. As an adult he has been compared to an expensively elegant yet tightly furled umbrella, and that’s about right. [...]

continue reading.....

The only Bond movie filmed in New York (among other places) is Live and Let Die. This is sad for me, because my beloved home city hosts one of my least favorite Bond films. LALD doesn’t use New York to its true advantage. The city can be so many things; mysterious, exotic, beautiful, dark, terrifying, [...]

continue reading.....

Oh, man. Don’t you want Daniel Craig’s trunks?

continue reading.....

Phew.

continue reading.....

The COSH Gallery asked artists to create new interpretations of movie posters. If you’re a film fan, you’ll enjoy looking at them all. For now, take a look at two gorgeous Bond posters created by artist Michael Gillette:

continue reading.....

Robert Davi, the magnificent Sanchez from Licence to Kill, turns 57 today. Today is also the birthday of the late Peter Lorre, who was the very first Bond villain. He played LeChiffre in the 1954 Climax! teleplay of Casino Royale.

continue reading.....

I don’t know if this news is out anywhere. MSN and AOL will premiere the new QOS trailer on Monday, June 30, 2008. It will be available for viewing from noon to 2pm Eastern time only. Psyche!

continue reading.....

Howard Hughes invented the tricon bit drill head, the fearsome looking three-section rotary drill that in magnified form, spearheaded Elliot Carver’s efforts to core out British ships in Tomorrow Never Dies.

Since Hughes, personal friend of Bond producer Cubby Broccoli, was the inspiration for Diamonds Are Forever’s uber-baron Willard Whyte, we thus have a fascinating link between the two films… and so it goes.

continue reading.....

Orien just sent me a picture of Orien Rose. (Below the fold—with parental permission.) She looks damn good. Sitting up, eating breakfast, signing “I love you” to the camera (Orien is a Sign Language Interpreter, and Orien Rose knows a little Sign as well). To read about how today went, and to see pictures of [...]

continue reading.....