A certain standard was set over the first 11 outings in the James Bond franchise, even if the character himself had already been portrayed by three different actors. There would be a big brassy theme ...

It's no secret that the James Bond films have, on more than one occasion, dipped so far into absurdity that the camp factor often eclipsed the hero of the film. 1979's Moonraker, the eleventh entry in ...

It’s the James Bond movie in which Roger Moore’s 007 has sex in zero gravity, in outer space, while the Queen watches back home via a satellite transmission. “My God, what is Bond doing?” M splutters.

The César-winning actor appeared in films by François Truffaut and Alain Resnais, and played religious figures in Of Gods and Men and The Name of the Rose Michael Lonsdale, the French-British actor ...

I’m a massive fan of the James Bond films. I have seen them all multiple times, written essays about them for other publications, done commentaries on all the films for fun, and have schooled my ...

Although the designs for the space shuttles in Moonraker matched what NASA was doing at the time, the Moonraker shuttles weren’t actually built by the government in the film’s storyline. Instead, they ...

Following 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me, the end credits promised that James Bond would return in For Your Eyes Only. However, after the incredible success of Star Wars that year, 007 producers Cubby ...

Well, we’ve come a long, long way since From Russia With Love. Moonraker: a film that redefined the possibilities of the James Bond franchise if only by sheer scale of stupidity. The space bits are ...

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