Same Song, Different Movie: London Calling by The Clash
This is the next entry in a series from early 2012 that looks at the use of “needle dropped” songs, many of them popular tunes, in movies. Specifically,…
Reblogged » Bond Directors: Licence to List – #Bond_age_
Been a while since the blog has done a post dedicated to the longest running movie series in history. Since I’m attending the re-screening of the…
Friday Song – “Skyfall” by Adele
Well, with a certain film…ahem…opening today, thought this a good time to look back at one of those recent Bond songs. Only helps that the singer…
eBm: “I thought I’d find you in good hands.”
Having just finished Carte Blanche, the 2011 commissioned novel written by Jeffery Deaver that updates James Bond for “OO” British Secret Service readers, I couldn’t help but…
eBm: Best in Bond Villainy by Era Part 3
I’m like most longtime admirers of Bond, James Bond. I’ve my favorites. The venerable series has held a unique fascination of the movie buying public for over…
eBm: Best in Bond Villainy by Era Part 2
I’m like most longtime admirers of Bond, James Bond. I’ve my favorites. The venerable series has held a unique fascination of the movie buying public for…
eBm: Best in Bond Villainy by Era Part 1
I’m like most longtime admirers of Bond, James Bond. I’ve my favorites. The venerable series has held a unique fascination of the movie buying public for…
Purely Because of a Movie – Songs on My iPod Part 6
Continuing my summer of 2014 series, which was begun right here and chronicled my history with said device, examining the music that ended up on my iPod byway of…
eBm: My Top 13 List of OO7 Posters
Richard, who runs the delightful Kirkham A Movie A Day blog, came up with a fantastic idea regarding movie posters for what is arguably the greatest film…
Reblogged: Oscars 2013 – James Bond’s not-so-secret life on the charts
Randy Lewis, writing for the L.A. Times, in prep for “… the motion picture academy’s salute to James Bond coming up at the Oscars on Sunday“,…
eBm: Favorite “Bond, James Bond.” Introductions
Okay, it’s now 2013 and there’s no Bond film on the immediate horizon. Argh! Perhaps, I’m merely venting my hangover from last year’s 50th anniversary celebration…
One Place for All the Assorted Thoughts on Bond
Through 2012, there have been some wonderful articles by my colleagues on all sorts of things Bond. Just for posterity, and to place the responses I’ve made…
Rolling Stone’s Top 10 James Bond Theme Songs
I promise just because Peter Travers went and ranked every Bond film, which I reacted to it, I’m not planning on making a Versus Rolling Stone article a…
Ranking the Family of Bond
“Shocking! Positively shocking!” Sit in enough waiting rooms and eventually you’ll find something good, or at least half-way interesting, to read among the periodicals left for…
Reprise – Friday Forgotten Song: You Only Live Twice
With today’s opening of Skyfall, the 23rd in the famed and long-running James Bond series, and last year’s passing of one of the all-time great film composers, John…
In Praise of Her Bond Groove: Shirley Bassey
It’s clear to me, with the release of Bond 23 (AKA the next James Bond film), Skyfall, later this year, and its recently unleashed teaser trailer, I…
TMT: My First Bond
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. My good blogging colleague Ruth over at Flixchatter was…
It Rains... You Get Wet 