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The RunPee James Bond Hub; Spies, Spoofs, And Speculation

October 10, 2022

Let’s face it, the man’s an icon. Since the mid-fifties, when the original novel was written, James Bond has been the epitome of cool, class, and creepiness, depending on when you want to look at him. Over the years he’s spawned copycats, clones, and parodies. If you want to kill an hour or two, just […]

Casino Royale – 1967 vs 2006

October 6, 2022

Two films forty years apart but based on the same source novel. It’s not Sherlock Holmes, A Christmas Carol, or even La Planète Des Singes but this story has a few twists in the story of getting it from paper to celluloid. It is Casino Royale: the first Bond novel written and, subject to debate, […]

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JB, Or Not JB, That Is The Question

April 12, 2022

Imagine if Ian Fleming had been a US Marine rather than British Naval Intelligence. Furthermore, imagine if he’d written about a secret agent operating in the dying embers of the Cold War rather than during the whitest of white hot parts. Let’s just say, imagine if he was Robert Ludlum rather than Ian Fleming. So […]

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Movie Rewatch: Austin Powers 3 – Goldmember

October 21, 2021

Just as it took less than a hundred years to go from the first powered flight to flying being an everyday method of commuting like the bus or a train, I wonder if we’ll ever see the day when time travel goes from being the latest technological miracle to something we use to fix trivial […]

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No Time To Die Again: Views Following A Bond 25 Re-Watch

October 18, 2021

Elsewhere there are my initial thoughts on No Time To Die as well as Dan’s first impressions. Maybe because we had slightly different views on Daniel Craig’s final outing as Bond I thought I’d go back and take another look. This wasn’t a hardship to me in the slightest; I knew it would be a […]

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The Giant James Bond Rewatch – Climax! Casino Royale (1954)

October 14, 2021

During the course of doing my bit of the Giant James Bond Rewatch, there were references to Climax! Casino Royale which is the very first screen outing for Bond; an episode of Climax! from 1954, less than three years after the novel was written. Seeing as how it was a television episode from the other […]

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The Giant James Bond Rewatch – The World Is Not Enough (1999)

October 5, 2021

The World Is Not Enough was one of my first choices when we were going through the exercise of divvying up the Bond films for one main reason… Robert Carlyle. The first time I saw him was in Priest back at the end of the last millennium. At the time, the big draw was Linus Roache in […]

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The Giant James Bond Rewatch – The Living Daylights (1987)

October 4, 2021

Whenever a new Bond film is released there’s always a fair amount of kerfuffle and The Living Daylights was no different. That amount increases exponentially when a new Bond actor is also unveiled. The audience is usually divided between those who think the new guy is a great choice, the ones who think that there couldn’t possibly […]

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Movie Review – No Time to Die

October 2, 2021

I’ve already gone on record here at RunPee about how I have enjoyed Daniel Craig’s tenure as Bond, how I’ve liked the story arc throughout the films, and how much I’ve been looking forward to seeing No Time To Die. I may as well tell you at the start about my disappointment… there wasn’t any! […]

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The Giant James Bond Rewatch – Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

October 1, 2021

Of all the things that Tomorrow Never Dies has going for it something that, perhaps, doesn’t spring immediately to mind is the sheer weight of originality. This is the first film in the franchise to have no relationship with anything written by Ian Fleming outside of the character names. Licence To Kill was a virtual pick and mix […]

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