James Bond

  • John Ostrander’s Writing Class: Our Characters, Our Selves

    I’ve had a chance recently to catch some, not all, of Showtime’s series, Penny Dreadful, and I’ve enjoyed it quite a bit. It takes the same concept of Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (combine genre characters from the Victorian Age into a single story) and uses it with mostly horror and supernatural characters and…

  • Gerry Anderson’s Gemini Force 1 Heads To Kickstarter

    Based on concepts and story written by Gerry Anderson, a new adventure series from the creator of Thunderbirds and Space: 1999 will be funded by his fans via a Kickstarter campaign starting September 5th. Gemini Force One (or GF1) is, as the Anderson Estate describes it, “the story of a secret organization involved in rescues…

  • REVIEW: Skyfall

    Skyfall, now out on home video from MGM, is a sheer delight, holding my attention for the entire 2:23 running time, long for a Bond film but it felt just right. The four year financially-mandated layoff between the so-so Quantum of Solace and Skyfall is barely noticeable but the passage of time is an unspoken…

  • Volunteers to Assemble Skyfall Care Packages Next Week

    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment are partnering with Operation Gratitude to launch the care package initiative “Operation Skyfall” in honor of the February 12 Blu-ray and DVD release of 007’s latest adventure. Beginning at 10:00 a.m. Feb. 12 at the Army National Guard armory in Van Nuys, California, volunteers including military families,…

  • RANKING THE JAMES BOND FILMS, PART 3: THE TOP 3!

    So today we finish up my rankings of all 23 of the Eon Productions JAMES BOND films, with the TOP THREE overall. We looked at numbers 23-14 here and at numbers 13-4 here.Remember, folks–stuff like this is entirely subjective.  We’re (mostly) talking my favorites, not the “greatest” or “highest grossing” or whatever.  This…