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Casino Royale was first published on April 13, 1953, only thirty-three days before Pierce Brosnan was born in Ireland. At this point, we all probably know about Brosnan’s long and winding road to becoming the fifth official Bond actor: his experience watching Goldfinger aged 11, how he lost the role in 1986 during his Remington Steele time, his marriage with For Your Eyes Only actress Cassandra Harris, and other things. But considering we have celebrated the 70th anniversary of both Brosnan and ...

 

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The first minutes of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One will take you to the interior of a Russian submarine, the Sevastopol, navigating through the unforgiving depths of the Bering Sea. If you are old enough, nostalgia will soon kick in and you’ll be transported to the long-forgotten worlds of The Hunt For Red October, Tomorrow Never Dies, Crimson Tide or The Spy Who Loved Me. “They don’t do them like that anymore,” you probably said when rewatching those on Blu-ray or ...

As a kid, when I was barely discovering what James Bond was –I say "what" instead of "who", because I'm referring to the phenomenon, not just the character–, I remember many adults speaking a great deal about Sean Connery or Roger Moore, just when these two actors were about to turn 70. Today... it is my Bond who celebrates its 70th birthday. So, in the name of the generation who grew up seeing him walking through the gunbarrel (or at least many of them), I wanted to dedicate a few words to the ...

It's too late to say "Happy New Year", but considering this is my first post of the year over here... well, Happy New Year!

After a stressful move and very difficult December and months to establish myself in my new home, I started working on an updated edition for The Bond of The Millennium. Expect new chapters, one dealing with how Casino Royale with Pierce Brosnan would have been, a restructuring of the original book with new information I have added and analyzed, and a couple of photos in col...

There are plenty of reasons to like or dislike Die Another Day, Pierce Brosnan���s unexpected and involuntary swan song to the franchise. Scroll into a couple of forums and you���ll find all the reasons to dislike it, most of the justifications use the words ���invisible car��� or ���CGI��� quite a lot. This is why, as if my books Beyond The Ice: The Case For and Against Die Another Day and a couple of articles weren���t enough, I have decided to write this article. Let���s be honest ��� the mos...

There are plenty of reasons to like or dislike Die Another Day, Pierce Brosnan’s unexpected and involuntary swan song to the franchise. Scroll into a couple of forums and you’ll find all the reasons to dislike it, most of the justifications use the words “invisible car” or “CGI” quite a lot. This is why, as if my books Beyond The Ice: The Case For and Against Die Another Day and a couple of articles weren’t enough, I have decided to write this article. Let’s be honest – the most obvious excuse i...

When cameras first rolled on Pierce Brosnan���s James Bond film debut GoldenEye on 16 January 1995, little did people imagine that this film would save the franchise at a time when many doubted Ian Fleming���s spy would survive the 1990s. But they were even less aware that, at that precise moment, the foundation stone was cast for a video game that would revolutionize the industry in unexpected ways.

Twenty-five years after its release, GoldenEye 007 is still regarded not only as the best Bond vi...

When cameras first rolled on Pierce Brosnan’s James Bond film debut GoldenEye on 16 January 1995, little did people imagine that this film would save the franchise at a time when many doubted Ian Fleming’s spy would survive the 1990s. But they were even less aware that, at that precise moment, the foundation stone was cast for a video game that would revolutionize the industry in unexpected ways.

Twenty-five years after its release, GoldenEye 007 is still regarded not only as the best Bond video ...

Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane died last Friday at the age of 72 and millions of Harry Potter fans waved goodbye to the corpulent man who incarnated Rubeus Hagrid in the big-screen adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s novels. However, for action movie fans, Coltrane will be best remembered as ex-KGB agent and arms dealer Valentin Zukovsky in two James Bond films starring Pierce Brosnan: GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough. 

Released in 1995, GoldenEye marked Brosnan’s long-awaited debut as Ian Fleming’...

Many things happened in my life during the period separating SPECTRE from No Time To Die. Six years where I left a job I wasn't comfortable with, lived the worst financial crisis of my life, moved to a particularly small house, endured all the lockdowns imposed by the pandemic, and was hit by the unexpected passing of two people I held deep in my heart – both associated to James Bond in plenty of ways. One was my dad, the man who told me who 007 was and took me to watch all the films: the new on...