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Jamaica, the birthplace of James Bond

2010-09-30 07:59:02-04
Jamaica is probably the country that should be associated with 007; it is at his house there named Goldeneye that Ian Fleming wrote all the James Bond stories.
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Quantum of Solace

2010-10-01 13:48:03-04
Download article as PDF Shooting started on 2nd January 2008 in Pinewood and London, and continued to Panama and Chile during February and March. After shooting in Italy and Austria, [...]
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Casino Royale

2010-10-01 13:52:58-04
Download article as PDF Casino Royale was finally unveiled to the world on Tuesday 14 November at the Royal Premier at Leicester Square in London. 4,200 people packed into Leicester Square’s three cinemas [...]
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Dr No

2010-10-02 06:14:54-04
Download article as PDF To the soundtrack of a low but almost screeching percussive arpeggio, a fast moving succession of white dots moves across a black background, pausing centre-screen [...]
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From Russia With Love

2010-10-02 06:17:40-04
Download article as PDF An assassin pulls a length of wire from his watch and silently approaches James Bond from behind. Looping the wire around Bond’s neck, the assassin pulls it tight and holds it there until Bond gasps his last breath. From [...]
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Goldfinger

2010-10-02 06:20:46-04
Download article as PDF "’Do you expect me to talk?’ ‘No Mr Bond. I expect you to die.’" Above all else Goldfinger is iconic, and this surely is the reason that it is regularly cited as people’s favourite James Bond film. It [...]
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Thunderball

2010-10-02 06:27:20-04
Download article as PDF Following on from Goldfinger, Thunderball was bigger in every respect. Shot mainly in the Bahamas, the underwater sequences are pure James Bond, although the gadgets start to take [...]
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You Only Live Twice

2010-10-02 06:36:46-04
Download article as PDF You Only Live Twice marks a turning point in the series, as it is the first James Bond film that was not based on an Ian Fleming story. While Fleming’s novel of the same name is setin Japan and features Blofeld, little else remains apart from [...]
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On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

2010-10-02 06:43:49-04
Download article as PDF On Her Majesty’s Secret Service marks a return to James Bond’s roots in that it closely follows Ian Fleming’s story, but is let down by the casting [...]
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Diamonds Are Forever

2010-10-02 06:47:27-04
Download article as PDF Sean Connery James Bond Jill St. John Tiffany [...]
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The Man With The Golden Gun

2010-10-02 06:58:39-04
Download article as PDF I’ll start off by saying that I am biased; The Man With The Golden Gun is the very first Bond film I saw (at the cinema, before they had even showed Dr No on television) and so it will always [...]
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The Spy Who Loved Me

2010-10-02 07:01:15-04
Download article as PDF Roger Moore James Bond Barbara [...]
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Moonraker

2010-10-02 07:03:24-04
Download article as PDF Roger Moore James Bond Lois [...]
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For Your Eyes Only

2010-10-02 07:10:12-04
Download article as PDF Roger Moore James Bond Carole [...]
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Octopussy

2010-10-02 07:17:45-04
Download article as PDF Another disastrous outing for 007. The plot is confused, the villain is weak, Roger is getting just too old, and why on earth would good old Q be sent to work in the field. And more – the link between [...]
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A View To A Kill

2010-10-02 07:22:47-04
Download article as PDF Roger Moore James Bond Christopher [...]
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The Living Daylights

2010-10-02 07:35:59-04
Download article as PDF Timothy Dalton’s first outing as James Bond demonstrates a return to par that had sadly been lacking for much of Roger Moore’s reign. Although not entirely without unnecessary gadgets,the juvenile humour that is so evident in the Moore era is [...]
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Licence To Kill

2010-10-02 07:39:41-04
Download article as PDF Timothy Dalton James Bond Carey Lowell Pam Bouvier Robert [...]
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Goldeneye

2010-10-02 08:07:08-04
Download article as PDF Pierce Brosnan James Bond Sean [...]
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Tomorrow Never Dies

2010-10-02 08:10:47-04
Download article as PDF Pierce Brosnan James Bond Jonathan [...]
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The World Is Not Enough

2010-10-02 08:13:06-04
Download article as PDF Pierce Brosnan James Bond Sophie [...]
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Die Another Day

2010-10-02 08:16:38-04
Download article as PDF The 20th official James Bond film, Die Another Day, marked the 40th anniversary of 007 on the big screen with its cinematic release, and now marks the 50th anniversary of Ian Fleming’s original Bond novel, Casino Royale, with [...]
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Icahn Buys MGM Studios’ Debt, Presses for a Lions Gate Merger [WSJ.com]

2010-10-04 08:02:45-04
Download article as PDF First nothing seems to be moving to resolve the crisis at MGM and then it all happens at once. First of all, Spyglass signed a letter of intent to take over the running of the studio; then Sahara entered the picture, with a bid that was rumoured [...]
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Live And Let Die

2010-10-04 08:08:48-04
Download article as PDF Lets get it straight out right away; Live And Let Die is a confused mish-mash of Bond meets Shaft. It doesn’t know what it wants to be or where it wants to go and the result is terrible. The CIA, in both Rosie Carver [...]
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