Sean Connery

Apparently Daniel Craig did due to his own ego — This is my reaction to James Bond dying in a movie. I found this out late in the game, from some YouTube vid commenting on it, and not seeing for myself because I never finished the movie un-aptly named, No Time to Die. I shut it off in the middle…

Part 1: Why I Didn’t Like The Films For Twenty-Five Years -And Not Just Because of Pierce Brosnan Author’s Note: I am about to begin what will become a recurring series about movies from 2012, a year that, for many reasons, I consider one of the last great years when…

Sidney Lumet’s The Anderson Tapes The late 1960s and early '70s were a golden age of heist films. Well, for every kind of film, really, but we're talking about heist films here. The Thomas Crown Affair, The Getaway, The Hot Rock, there was one called $ starring Goldie Hawn, and…

He was Bond, James Bond and so much more. Sean Connery left us in 2020 making an already jacked up year even more jacked up. But the good news is that the 90 year old OG left us with decades worth of amazing and memorable work. Here I’m just gonna…

Revisiting my 2020 review versus 2022. All I can think is that I really wanted to watch much delayed Craig Bond 25!!! in the era of UK Lockdowns. Having watched Dr No again, whilst I stand by some of my comments, my views have also changed. 2022 Compared to other…

Last year, Amazon purchased the James Bond franchise. That means, for the first time, it was now possible to watch all the James Bond movies on a streaming service. So, I decided to start a marathon ‘watch and blog’ activity. It started on January 10th, 2022 with Dr. No. …

One from the blog archives… In the depths of the UK Lockdowns, unLockdowns and Tiers of December 2020…. there was Bond, James Bond… When Tiers cause you tears at Christmas, watch old Bond movies! Less of a fan of this one because we’re back to old school sexist Bond ala…

They have been a total of 6 actors which have played everyone's favourite MI6 agent. Based on the novels of Ian Fleming. The role has been an iconic figure in film from Sean Connery to the recently departed Daniel Craig. …

What might have been… — Tales of actors who turned down major film roles are a staple of Hollywood lore. The claim that Ronald Reagan was the first choice for the role of Rick in Casablanca before it eventually went to Humphrey Bogart has persisted for decades; unfortunately for those who love the “what if?”…