Top 5 influences of James Bond on Christopher Nolan
From the set pieces of Inception and The Dark Knight Trilogy, you don’t have to look very far to see Christopher Nolan’s various nods and homages to the classic spy series.
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From the set pieces of Inception and The Dark Knight Trilogy, you don’t have to look very far to see Christopher Nolan’s various nods and homages to the classic spy series.
001. The story Investigating the murder of 009, Bond discovers that an Afghan prince and a rogue Soviet General plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on an American base in Germany, by smuggling it in with the circus. Unfortunately 007’s forgotten his Q-branch issued clown costume… 002. The villains Steven Berkoff dials the crazy … >
With the upcoming 23rd James Bond movie Skyfall partnering 007 with the disappointingly-monikered Eve and Severine, we look back at some classic Bond girl names… #10: Honey Ryder (Dr. No) Played by Ursula Andress Honey Ryder: ‘Are you looking for shells too?’ James Bond: ‘No, I’m just looking.’ #9: Dr. Molly Warmflash (The … >
Although the concept of having an actor from outside England play the quintessentially English James Bond has been pretty much de rigueur since the beginning of the film series (there have been Scottish, Australian and Irish Bonds, although not really a Welsh one, as Alan Partridge once claimed; Timothy Dalton might have been born in … >
This first series only has three episodes but what Vexed lacks in quantity, it most assuredly makes up for tenfold in quality.
Perhaps not the most fun of the Roger Moore Bonds, but it’s certainly the one that brings out Moore’s strongest performance as Bond.
Unsurprisingly, the BBC’s Olympic coverage has been running (and cycling and rowing and dressage-ing) away with the viewing figures this week.
That 1979’s Moonraker to this day remains the most sci-fi Bond film is testament to just how wildly ambitious it was.
The BBC has released a clip from the next episode of BBC Two’s detective comedy drama Vexed.