James Bond 50th anniversary tie-in books gift guide
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the James Bond movies, this year sees a huge range of new tie-in books published.
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the James Bond movies, this year sees a huge range of new tie-in books published.
Throughout his long and multi-countenanced career at MI6, James Bond has worked for several different Ms and flirted with a variety of different Miss Moneypennys. Yet despite the best pleas to the contrary from quartermasters Peter Burton, Alec McGowen and John Cleese, there has only ever been one true Q – and that’s the irascible, … >
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of James Bond with Cartamundi’s official casino-quality 007 poker set (available now from all good retailers, priced £34.99) – the perfect gift for Father’s Day. We’ve got a 007 poker set to give away to one of our Twitter followers, with a pack of 007 playing cards each for two runners-up! … >
If you thought jetpacks were the stuff of a madman’s dream – or the preserve of James Bond’s Q branch– think again. In a video that any vertigo sufferers should probably avoid at all costs, Yves ‘Jetman’ Rossi is dropped from a helicopter and successfully completes a solo flight over Rio de Janeiro. The scenery … >
Sci-fi drama Clone, starring Doctor Who‘s Matt Smith and Casino Royale‘s Eva Green will be released in UK cinemas next month ahead of its DVD and Blu-ray release on Monday 7th May.
This video’s premise is as simple as the execution is elegant; what if Avengers Assemble was made before the actual comic book series? The answer is: it would probably have looked something like this blend of black-and-white horror movies, camp adventure serials and animation classics, and while it would have been gloriously rubbish as an … >
Despite the recent trend for shoving it somewhere unexpected, such as at the end of the movie (Quantum of Solace) or after the pre-credit sequence in a tatty bathroom (Casino Royale), the opening gun-barrel sequence is one thing that almost everyone in the known universe agrees should be restored to its rightful place in the … >
Another fine example of Hollywood royalty raking in the filthy lucre of advertising demonstrated here, as Pierce Brosnan gets all Bondian on behalf of Visa. Stuck in a traffic jam, the suave one ditches his limo for a motorised rickshaw and gets – as he might quip in other, more coital scenarios – the ride … >
Following his mind-spangling reworking of The Five Doctors, Farmergeddon71’s subsequent slice of inspired Doctor Who remix lunacy involves Leslie Nielsen, Sarah Jane Smith, Darth Vader, two incarnations of the Master and Kylie Minogue. Oh, and Peter Davison looking medically relaxed throughout. If that’s not enough, Flight of the Darned also includes an animated Alpha Centauri … >
*Sound of jaw hitting floor*
YouTube is full of incredible clips, of course – if it was all people getting angry at the haters, showing off their booties and being hit on the head by pictures of themselves falling over, it’d be hellish – but it’s not every day that you happen upon a video that’s so amazing it makes your brain hurt trying to imagine how (or indeed why) anyone came up with it. This is something so genuinely awesome in every sense of this overused word that we’re happy beyond measure that it fits into CultBoxed’s remit. And even if it wasn’t, we’d have shared it anyway, simply because it’s so bloody marvellous.
You want to see miniature remote-control helicopters playing the James Bond theme? Prepare to have your synapses destroyed by wonder…
‘F*** me, the TARDIS!’
Following the success of a similar dodge used to turn a montage of clips from Doctor Who’s tenth anniversary story The Three Doctors into something filthily hilarious, another intrepid manipulator of bleeping noises has compiled a supposedly-sanitised version of twentieth birthday epic, The Five Doctors. Even the law of diminishing returns doesn’t prevent this video containing plenty of choice LOLs…
‘It’s no good… this isn’t going to work…’
Proving that there are no lengths to which fans won’t go in order to do what the real world will never do and combine their favourite franchises, this is a frequently-inspired, sometimes iffy collision of Star Wars and Doctor Who, glued together by clever video editing and – in some places – a suspension of disbelief so enormous you could hang it over the Firth of Forth and use it as a bridge…
‘We should go to the main control room.’
Anyone who has ever played a video game knows the frustrations of it. You can be as accurate in your shooting, as wary in your sneaking and as bloodthirsty in your over-indulgent pummelling of corpses as you like, but something still goes wrong – not because of you, but because of the limitations of the game itself.
If you’ve ever felt the first-person-shooter pain of inadvertently blowing the head off the character you’re supposed to be saving because THE STUPID TOSSER HAS WALKED IN FRONT OF YOUR GUN AGAIN or screeched profanities at the screen because a tiny glitch in the graphics has left the level impossible to complete, this brilliant recreation of GoldenEye is for you…
‘I’ve never met anyone as clumsy as you…’
Blue Peter in 2012 is as slickly-produced and smoothly-run piece of television as kids could ever hope to watch, but it wasn’t always so. As recently as 1989, it was still entirely possible for things to go hideously pear-shaped, mid-show – particularly if one of the presenters wasn’t entirely au fait with making things, leaning on things, sitting down or driving miniature steam-powered traction engines across the studio floor.
Mark Curry managed to mess all these things up and more during his time on the programme, but he made up for his tendency towards calamity with great charm and innate likeability. However, this didn’t stop his fellow presenters compiling a blooper reel of supreme hilarity to commemorate his departure and have a giggle at his expense. If you don’t laugh at the sequence with the man made from Lego, you have no soul.