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Updates
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- 12/21/22: The Movie Of Laughter And Forgetting
- 11/07/21: No Time To Die: Movie Review
- 10/18/20: Onwards with Burnout
- 04/19/20: The Coronavirus Affair
- 02/16/20: Loony Tune for a Spy
- 02/02/20: Dreadful Pictures at an Exhibition
Essays
-
The Short Stories
- Casino Royale
Analysis of the novel is included in the film review.
- Live
and Let Die: Terrors from the Caribbean Gothic
-
The Dialectic of
Doctor No
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service
-
Benson and the Spirit of Pulp
- On the Centenary
- May 27, 2008 - License To Last: One Hundred Years of Fleming
- June 1, 2008 - Devil May Care: Capsule Review
- June 8, 2008 - Devil May Care: One Tribute, One Centenary, One Book
-
Carte Blanche: Autumn
Notes on a Winter Reading from Last Year
-
Goldeneye Pinot Noir - Wine
Notes
-
Solo: Book review
-
John Barry on the Moon
-
Happenstance with James Bond and Hemingway
Film Commentary
-
On the Three
Best Bond Films
-
Licence To Kill: Dalton's End
- Casino Royale (2006)
- Quantum Of Solace (2008)
- Notes on the 22nd Bond film
- Analysis of the Ian Fleming short story
- On Marc Forster
- Thoughts on the Trailer
- The Song Remains Horrendous: "Another Way To Die"
- Quantum Of Solace: First Look
- Consider the Chaos
Reflections on the troubled script for Quantum Of Solace - A Travesty of Bond
007 races across continents, traveling from absurdity to kitsch - Quantum Of Solace: Blu-ray Review
- Skyfall (2012)
- On Peter Morgan
- Droning On
Thoughts on the announcement of director Sam Mendes and other recent news - An Attempt at a Panegyric to the Mendes Filmography
- L'affaire MGM
- Lights Out: Meditations on the afterglow of 007
- If it's Tuesday, it must be John Logan
- What will be left of you, James?
- How
do you like it?
- The
End of Something or Other
With the blandness of the Skyfall teaser poster and trailer, the road to ruin gets shorter - Shakespeare and the Quartermaster
- Some Remarks on the Trailer, the Title Song, and other Untimely Observations
More Untimely Meditations: - Spectre (2015)
- No Time To Die (2021)
- Bond-related Films