The debate around which movie in the James Bond franchise is technically "the best" has been ongoing for decades, with fans ...
In Casino Royale, James Bond doesn’t just order a drink — he takes control of the room. The famous Vesper Martini scene ...
This year marks the 70th anniversary of Casino Royale, the first literary adventure for James Bond, 007. Ian Fleming’s debut novel, initially dismissed by its creator as “adolescent tripe,” introduced ...
Aled Owen is a writer and filmmaker born in Carmarthen, Wales. He acted onstage from a young age and even won third place in 2012's Britain's Got Talent as part of Only Boys Aloud, a traditional Welsh ...
Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...
Ian Fleming’s first-ever installment in the James Bond series, published in 1953, establishes what would become standard tropes in the 007 books and film adaptations for decades to come, including ...
The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. With these opening words, Ian Fleming (1908-64) introduced us to the gritty, glamorous world of James Bond. Fleming’s ...
It started in January 1952, when a hard-drinking, chain-smoking 43-year-old man sat down at a typewriter in his house in Jamaica and at a frenetic 2,000 words a day, banged out a novel that began, ...