Fresh from Lord of the Rings, Peter Jackson had the chance to pay homage to the 1933 King Kong classic monster movie that he had adored all his life, and gleefully grabbed it with this loving […]
There’s a huge monster, high adventure, tongue-in-cheek humour and even a dash of sex in director John Guillermin’s busy and conscientious but patchy and rather uninspired 1976 remake of the 1933 all-time great fantasy adventure […]
Eon Productions’ 1965 fourth James Bond movie Thunderball is excellent vintage escapist adventure entertainment, smoothly and excitingly done, though arguably not quite as brilliant as Goldfinger and From Russia with Love. It is hugely enlivened […]
Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays the lead in debut writer-director Rian (Looper) Johnson’s clever 2005 cult classic favourite neo film noir-style high school detective tale. It won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the […]
Forty years on from Dr No, in 2002, James Bond finds that diamonds are forever as he investigates a Korean terrorist and a diamond broker. All the usual 007 elements are shaken and pretty well […]
Ice cold secret agent Pierce Brosnan returns in 1999 for his third 007 film in The World Is Not Enough, another flashy, fast-moving if predictable entry, directed by Michael Apted. In it James Bond tries to […]
Cool-as-a-cucumber Pierce Brosnan returns in 1997 for his second 007 film in this flashy, fast-moving if predictable series entry, Tomorrow Never Dies. It is greatly enlivened by a gutsy turn from Michelle Yeoh as Bond […]
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