I thought this article is pretty spot on about what’s good and bad in recent Bonds including the two Craig films. Enjoy.

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Gizmodo on a cool 1966 article about Bond gadgets. The architecture of James Bond. Rotten Tomatoes ranks the Bond films. House of Mirth and Movies chooses ten suave characters. These are the coolest of the cool, and include Bond in From Russia With Love. The Aston Martin DB9 is tops on a poll of “what [...]

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Without too many spoilers, the famous scene in Quantum of Solace, besides being lifted from early GoldenEye storyboards, is actually highly realistic, as opposed to the CGI-misbegotten stuff of Die Another Day.

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There have been only two Bond films in the past twenty years that have been hands-down, unarguable masterpieces, and both were directed by Martin Campbell. Not that no one has liked any of the other movies, or that they haven’t been successful, but when you talk about a real consensus of fans, that’s the fact. [...]

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A favorite topic of articles is best & worst Bond girls: The Houston Chronicle weighs in. Here are some arguments over an unusual Best/Worst list. 411 Mania does a top ten henchmen list. The Weekly Driver does Bond cars. Meanwhiile, the DBS has been voted Car of the Year for 2008. From Adelaide Now comes [...]

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The Jamaica Gleaner, which had an evil freelance photographer on-staff in Dr. No, prints a sweet interview with Caterina Murino of Casino Royale. Time Magazine‘s headline says it all: “Quantum of Solace: Bourne-Again Bond.” The LA Times discusses the fashion sense of each man who played Bond. Speaking of fashion, the Boston Globe suggests: The [...]

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Another Way To Die, the Quantum of Solace theme track, is rather fascinating in its construction. Or is it quite the opposite, actually, a deconstruction, to quote The World Is Not Enough?

The song basically fuses classic elements of all the Bond trax from Goldfinger on up, changing the drawn out “Goooooooooold” or “Thunder-baaaaaaaawl” to a more peppy staccato “oh-oh-oh-oh” and refining all Bond sound down to a bit of drummin’ here, a bit of guitar thrum there. The lyrics are likewise minimal. Pretty intriguing.

Like deconstructed brownie where chocolate, burnt flour and syrup are laid out as separate elements on a diner’s plate as offerings from revisionist (and probably lazy) chefs, AWTD is a deconstructed and yet magically appealing Bond tune. Never thought Keys and White could pull it off…

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I don’t normally write about box office, because I’m just not a numbers person. But last week I was interviewed by E! Online about the whole Bond versus Bourne thing, and the article, titled Why Can’t James Bond Catch Jason Bourne?, ended like this: “Everything changes the James Bond series. They’re very in touch with [...]

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This list of faves and least faves, the staple of any Bond conversation, is described as a “Bluffer’s Guide to Bond.” Well, I suppose if you’re bluffing, it’s as good as any other. Writer Susan Hazlett is eloquent about the anticipation and excitement she feels just before a new Bond film opens. We feel you. [...]

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Quantum of Solace (2008) 6/10 James Bond (Daniel Craig), having shot Mr. White (Jesper Christensen) at the end of Casino Royale, interrogates him and learns of a secret organization known as Quantum. Following sparse leads, Bond finds Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric) and pursues him to the Bolivian desert. Directed by Marc Forster. The other day [...]

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