james bond
Matt Damon’s Turn-Offs Include Republicans, Spies Who SAY They’ll Call But Don’t
8:33AM Kyle Buchanan | Fresh from his victory over dinosaur-hating Sarah Palin, Matt Damon has issued two new challenges: one to be settled with words, the other with close-quarters combat. More »
Second Bond Girl Reveals Superfluous Body Parts, Childhood Spent in Fridge
6:32AM Kyle Buchanan | Now that the Communist Party has gone after Bond girl Olga Kurylenko for becoming “movie kept girl of capitalist super stud,” the actress has been freed to divulge all about her humble, Socialist upbringing. Just how humble was it? Well, as Kurylenko tells Jimmy Kimmel, she was kept locked in a fridge until she reached maturity (in Soviet Russia, you see, fridge owns you). More »
5:29AM STV | License to Kill? Yet another delicious dish to add to the all-you-can-eat James Bond Minutiae Buffet: 5 Bond Girls Who Died After Wearing A Bikini. “[O]ut of 11 Bond girls who had ‘bikini moments,’” we’ve learned, “five died before the end of the film. That’s 45 percent, making the wearing of a two-piece bathing suit in the company of James Bond just about the most dangerous activity a woman could engage in anywhere on the planet at any time in history.” Not so fast! They could always work with Alan Ball. [Spout Blog] More »
A Cavalcade Of ‘Bond’ Sexual Double-Entendres
2:28AM Seth | Quantum of Solace opens in the US tomorrow, and will likely draw out every stripe of James Bond fan. (Except the George Lazenby contingent, who all these years later still feel the On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and The Kentucky Fried Movie star was wrongly stripped of his double-o status.) But as audiences thrill to the secret agent’s adventures battling the nefarious Dr. Heinrick Discord and his plans to detonate the planet using a sympathy-powered nuclear device, some of the touchstones of the Bond brand—the gadgets, the martinis, and, most of all, the cringe-worthy double-entendres—will be nowhere on display. More »
Ex-Bond Wishes Daniel Craig Was More of a ‘Lover and a Giggler’
3:00AM Kyle Buchanan | Now that Daniel Craig’s second turn as James Bond has been threatened by critics, the Communist party, and a diaper-craving Paul Haggis, it almost seems unfair to keep piling on. However, nobody’s told 81-year-old Roger Moore to hold his tongue, and the former 007 (perhaps peeved that his general standing as “second-best Bond” is in danger of being usurped by Craig) has weighed in with his thoughts on the franchise’s direction to Britain’s Daily Mail: More »
Is An Obama World Ready For A Black 007 Or A Bootylicious Wonder Woman?
7:44AM STV | As exit strategies go, Daniel Craig’s long view on stepping away from James Bond is the most progressive we’ve encountered in some time: At a Quantum of Solace press conference last week in Rome, Craig suggested that Barack Obama’s election win had perhaps laid the groundwork for a black 007. Admittedly, we hadn’t yet considered the “action-movie franchise” component of Obama’s social influence, but at least one critic opened the discussion online — and this only days after Beyoncé Knowles made a public appeal for the role of Wonder Woman in the long-delayed (and presumed dead) comic-book adaptation. And so begins America’s next essential civil rights debate: Have our blockbuster heroes moved beyond race? More »
How 007 Barely Avoided a Paul Haggis-Sired ‘Bond Baby’
8:50AM Kyle Buchanan | Though Casino Royale provided the James Bond franchise with a rebooted reservoir of goodwill, director Marc Forster says that the follow-up, Quantum of Solace, almost took things in a perilous, Mutt Williams-ish direction. Speaking to New York, Forster detailed how Bond producers clashed with screenwriter Paul Haggis when the Crash scripter wanted to add one considerably more kindergarten-friendly element to the film: More »
Daniel Craig Just Can’t Catch a Break With The New Bond Girls
7:06AM Kyle Buchanan | The typical formula of two pliant Bond girls per movie tends to serve the 007 franchise well, as in Casino Royale, where Daniel Craig’s first at-bat was supported by striking work from Eva Green and that other one. For the new Quantum of Solace, though, things seem to have gone haywire — almost as though it were planned by some shadowy, nefarious league pulling the strings of Her Majesty’s empire! First, Bond girl Gemma Arterton unnerved fans with the bizarre revelation that she was born with six fingers, and now female lead Olga Kurylenko is… well, we’ll let the Communist Party give you the details: More »
James Bond Curse Extends to Early ‘Quantum of Solace’ Reviews
8:00AM Seth | The first reviews of Quantum of Solace are in, a mixed lot providing a mostly underwhelmed response to a shorter (in running time, not baby-blue-mankini hemlines) Bond film. Bottom line: Solace is packed with brooding, Bournesian action, but lacking in all those touches that—you know—leave an audience more stirred than shaken. What all manage to agree upon is the effectiveness of Daniel Craig in the lead, as well as the excellent performance delivered by Gemma Arterton, an actress who sinks all dozen of her claws into a small but pivotal role. Here’s a sampling of what critics are saying: More »
