As Superspy Sunday segues into Music Monday, let’s have something that covers both…

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it was great! Campest villain ever, but great. The only thing missing really was a David Arnold score (Newman's score was better than I expected, but not as good as DA). Dunno about all this "old" stuff re DC's Bond - he's the same age as me!

Roughly one-third of Adele's Skyfall theme... Classic Bond sound, you can hear the Bond theme melody in it. The rest of it goes live on the official site at 0:07 AM on Friday ( Read more... )

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Actually longer and with more detail than the IMAX trailer...

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"Mommy was naughty"?

The opening ceremony was mostly pretty good, with this being the highlight:


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Right, time for the one-a-week Bond-athon to take us up to Skyfall... Which means tonight it's Dr No. This is one that gets better with each viewing, perhaps because if (like me) you first saw it aged about 6, you probably started off disappointed by the lack of shootouts and explosions. But if you're older than 6, it's a treat with a wonderful ( Read more... )

will be writing the next James Bond novel.

Wow. One of my and sweetheartwhale's favourite thriller writers (tied with Dean Koontz, I guess ( Read more... )

After reading Thunderball/OHMSS/YOLT , just blazed through Robert Crais' The Two Minute Rule, which was fantastic except for giving in to the temptation for a happy ending to a certain plot thread which would have been way more interesting if it had turned out badly.

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