The Girl won’t be playing with fire until 2014. Maybe.
The Girl Who Played with Fire, the sequel to last year’s hit American remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, won’t be seen in late 2013 as was previously planned. Screenwriter Steven Zaillian is...
View ArticleThe James Bond film series turns 50 today – Shaken, stirred and firmly...
Dr. No opened 50 years ago today – Oct. 5, 1962 – and with that, the James Bond film series was born, the biggest, second-most successful (behind Harry Potter) and longest-running franchise in movie...
View ArticleGiveaway: A book, a James Bond book
With the 23rd (officially sanctioned) film in the James Bond series, Skyfall, opening a week from today on Friday, Nov. 9, on this, the Ian Fleming-created super spy’s 50th year on the big screen –...
View ArticleBlotto, James Blotto?
Reader Bill C. reminded us in this week of historical importance – no, not the election …. the release of the latest James Bond film in this 50th anniversary year of the superspy at the movies – that...
View ArticleHigh praise for ‘Skyfall’
This morning on the Today show, someone very important had this to say about Skyfall, the 23rd official film in the James Bond series opening tomorrow (or today if you want to catch it in IMAX): “I...
View ArticleJames Bond looking good at 50 years, and at 5 weeks; ‘Skyfall’ breaking...
This past weekend, Skyfall jumped back into the top spot with nearly $11 million in its fifth week in release. That might seem like a big comedown from the last time it held number one – its debut...
View ArticleSPECTRE trailer: ‘You’re a kite dancing in a hurricane, Mr. Bond’
It’s still filming, but the first trailer for SPECTRE (AKA Bond 24) is already out. It contains a lot of footage, but isn’t too action packed – probably some combination of factors: those scenes are...
View ArticleCan they please make this movie yesterday?!
Two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank is the latest to board the next movie from director Steven “I thought he was retiring” Soderbergh, Logan Lucky. What’s that, you ask. It’s a still unscheduled action...
View ArticleThe film legacy of Cornell, Chris Cornell
Chris Cornell, lead singer of seminal grunge band Soundgarden, as well as Audioslave, a rock singer-songwriter and one of the greatest voices in the history of rock, died Wednesday night in a Detroit...
View ArticleRachel Weisz, Rachel Weisz, bless our homeland forever
There is still time to see a bonafide Oscar winner, the star of the current film Disobedience and the woman who made an honest man out of James Bond — all in one package — in the flesh this weekend....
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