Earlier this month, we had the distinct pleasure of speaking at length with author Max Allan Collins, crime fiction writer extraordinaire and hand-picked successor of the late, great Mickey Spillane.  Within the scope of that interview, I mentioned that Spillane’s Mike Hammer...
007 Review: Skyfall
posted by VaderFan
Old dogs, new tricks.  That’s the message we’re told to receive when viewing Skyfall, the latest in the line of the ever-popular 007 franchise.  But before we can say whether or not the dog truly learned or simply scratched its fleas, I’ll first offer up the...
7 Days of 007 –...
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“I’ve been trying to give 110% since the beginning, but after all the fuss, maybe I started giving 115%,†Daniel Craig said regarding the fan backlash he’s received as the world’s most famous superspy, even before Casino...
7 Days of 007 –...
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As we previously noted, Timothy Dalton was the man originally slated to replace Sean Connery, but he turned it down, citing at the time that he was too young, and Connery was too good to follow. As when Connery stepped down, the world and the studio played the guessing game of who...
7 Days of 007 –...
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Happy International James Bond Day, one and all! On this date 50 years ago, Dr. No, the first James bond film, made its theatrical debut. Some of the things the general public would come to know about 007 originated here: the gun barrel intro sequence, the tux, the Vesper...
7 Days of 007 –...
posted by VaderFan
Tomorrow is International Bond Day, marking the 50th anniversary of the theatrical release of Dr. No, the first James Bond film. We here at SciFiFX felt it only necessary to celebrate with a week-long retrospective on how Bond came to be, and how he got to where he is now. Ian Fleming...