No Time to Die. It will be the 25th official James Bond movie and the 27th if you include the independent movie Never Say Never Again and the first version of Casino Royale, all part of the longest running blockbuster franchise that began in 1962 with Dr. No. The first full movie trailer for No […]
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Review by C.J. Bunce Twenty years ago this weekend, the sovereignty of Hong Kong was handed back to China by the United Kingdom as the last act of the old British Empire, without incident. The anniversary of this transfer of power coincides with the release by Hard Case Crime of one of crime fiction readers’ […]
Sixty-six years since readers first met Ian Fleming’s James Bond, there is no sign of the franchise waning. The next film, No Time to Die, brings back Daniel Craig as the world’s most famous spy, arriving in theaters next April. But if you want to get caught up on four decades of James Bond […]
Review by C.J. Bunce First published in March 1956, Diamonds Are Forever is Ian Fleming’s fourth James Bond novel. This time Bond is tasked by M to follow the route of diamond smugglers transporting stones into England from Africa and on to the United States. He replaces a small-time transporter and is partnered with the […]
Review by C.J. Bunce First of all it’s not really Bruce Lee. The character’s name is John Lee, and he’s an agent after the same target but backed by a different government–the South Korean intelligence agency–and with different objectives than our title character, Mr. Bond. Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007 is smartly written by […]
The world first met Ian Fleming’s James Bond with the release of the novel Casino Royale in 1953. That first Bond story would be adapted into a newspaper comic strip in the UK in 1958, followed by a film–a satirical comedy version–in 1967 starring David Niven, followed by a dramatic film version in 2006 starring […]
With 3D imaging and new technologies arriving each year, one of the attractions that just seems to get overlooked is the statue market. Sure, Sideshow, Gentle Giant, Weta, and several other companies offered up some incredible figurines at San Diego Comic-Con last weekend, and this year the Sideshow booth had so many new creations it […]
