James Bond rewatch: ‘Live and Let Die’

001. The story Armed with a novelty watch, some flyaway flares and a volatile eyebrow, Roger Moore finds himself in a 1973 blaxploitation pastiche, trying to stop a corrupt Caribbean dictator called Dr Kananga and a Harlem gangster named Mr Big flooding the USA with cheap heroin. After sneakily seducing soothsayer Solitaire via some sleight-of-hand … >

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Top 10 James Bond soundtracks

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the James Bond franchise, we conducted a poll to discover the most popular James Bond soundtrack of all time.

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Casino Royale

Top 5 James Bond novels

Some author or other once wrote, “History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.” But if there’s one man you can rely on; one man to go toe to toe with the worst and come out the best, it’s chain-smoker, borderline dipsomaniac, serial womaniser and murderer, Commander … >

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BBC America’s Baddest Bond Villains

As part of BBC America’s 20 Baddest Brit List, John Barrowman and a load of random people we’ve never heard of “the UK’s hottest comedians” rant about their favourite Bond villains…

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The Britalian Job

If you live in Britain, ignoring the 2012 Olympics is like scaling the Shard in an invisibility suit: it’s pretty much impossible and even if you do manage it, hardly anyone will notice. So, in the spirit of the London Games, here’s a video produced by Mini – one of the competition’s official sponsors, of … >

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Live action ‘Goldeneye’ N64 enactment (slight return)

A while back, this blog featured a clip of some Americans amusingly recreating Nintendo 64’s classic Goldeneye video game in a live action spoof. This is clearly a thing, as it wasn’t the only one by a long stretch, so here’s some more of the same… almost. Armed only with some medium-quality editing software, access … >

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