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…
Forever Autumn: Year of Bests – 2014
A couple of years back, I did not publish a year-end piece on those articles I most enjoyed reading for the period. Routinely, my online browsing turns…
The Name of the Rose Film Review
The blogger otherwise known as the Scientist Gone Wordy and I rejoin for another movie title that began its life between a book cover for our parallel post series.…
TMT: Cock’d Hitch
This is the next entry in a Theatre… a Movie… and a Time, a series that was begun here. At last Spring’s TCM Film Festival, a number 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…
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…
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…
Versus AFI: 10 Top 10 – Gangster
Previous: Courtroom Drama This is the continuation of a series I began in January of this year that examines and remarks on The American Film Institute and its recent propensity to create…
The Hunt for Red October Film Review
I once wrote the following, and it still applies: “Here we go, again. It is another September 30th. It seems that ever since I became a parent,…
Our Man Goldsmith
Having been introduced to the James Bond series at the tender age of 10 with the release of Goldfinger in 1964, you could say I was…
It Rains... You Get Wet 