Many of the headquarters and homes of the bad guys in the James Bond movies are fantastically overwhelming to say the least, but have you ever given any thought as to how they were built? As Bond-like super-villain Dr Cruelty reveals, their construction was not an easy process by any means:
I had my island [...]

The 1963 version of The Pink Panther, which I happened to see for the first time over the Christmas break on DVD, features in Smashing Magazine’s list of 30 Unforgettable Title Sequences.
We all know that first impressions are important, right? Well, the same goes for film. The opening title sequence of a film is that [...]

In much the same way that Star Trek characters wearing uniforms consisting of a red shirt bear a greater risk of seeing their Starfleet careers abruptly truncated, a similar danger also applies to Bond girls wearing bikinis…
Based on my extraordinarily scientific research, out of 11 Bond girls who had “bikini moments,” to borrow the terminology [...]

We’re heading along to the movies to see the new Bond flick Quantum Of Solace in a day or three. The title started me thinking just how much solace a character such as the latter day dark, broody, and edgy 007 might actually expect to extract though.
According to Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, in his book Great [...]

Pay attention 007, here’s a selection of 15 of the coolest Bond gadgets.
There is a definite bond between secret agents and gadgets. From the Geiger counter in Dr No, James Bond has been bedecked with hardware that has ranged from the plausible to the fantastical. The current Bond (Daniel Craig, starring in The Quantum of [...]

Roger Moore, in addition to being the oldest person so far to portray British secret agent James Bond, was in my humble opinion, the most dapper of the 007s.
And unlike other the actors who have played Bond, Moore took a somewhat lighthearted approach to the role:
To me, the Bond situations are so ridiculous, so [...]

I think I’d prefer to find work with British secret service agency MI6 through Facebook, rather than by way of “a tap on the shoulder” at uni, which sounds just a little too… ominous for my liking.
Before 2006 most recruits joined after getting a tap on the shoulder while studying at a leading university. But [...]

Click image to visit Amazon page for Casino Royale.
Day 20, and there it is; the BIG two-oh! And on an occasion as auspicious as this, the twentieth day of 2007, I thought it was time for a quick review of a couple of movies I’ve managed to get out and see. Yep, despite it being [...]