Posts Tagged ‘James Bond’

Bond Beauty

There is increasing speculation (probably generated by publicists) about the possibility of a 100-1 outsider taking up the reins of the 23rd James Bond outing. When will it be out? What will it be called? We don’t know, but we do know who many of the big names in the business are touting as the director – step forward, Mr Sam Mendes. Yes, the director of such movies as American Beauty (1999) and Road to Perdition (2002) is an obvious choice to handle a Bond film. Still, if he gets the gig, there’s likely to be a bit more work going Kevin Spacey’s way. Perhaps he could reprise his role as Lex Luthor in a Bond/Superman crossover. Remember folks – you heard it here first!

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Ah, the joy of finally using Picturenose as a bag to swing around my head, as others frequently do with their own blogs (we’re a website, actually, but the point stands) – namely, to bang on about something that has got on my wick, big time.

I am talking about the Daily Mail, or, more precisely, its sister paper The Mail on Sunday, as published on 2 November 2008 – now, the reasons as to why these Nazi-tastic print abominations should be removed from God’s Earth would fill the BBC’s website, but I am here today only to take issue with one of their cinema ‘writers’, Matthew Bond, and his thoughts on a certain film.

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Quantum leaps

So, that’s it then. With this movie review, Picturenose lays its cards on the table. Long live the new king – Daniel Craig, in just two portrayals, has wrested the ‘Best James Bond Ever’ title from one Sir Sean Connery (remember him?) and, in Quantum of Solace (2008), director Marc Forster and writers Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade have delivered the first direct Bond sequel. Boy, have they delivered…

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It’s that magical time again – since star Daniel Craig and director Martin Campbell blew their genuinely Ian Fleming-style Bond into the 21st century, with the simply marvellous franchise reboot that was Casino Royale (2006), 007-ites the world over have been waiting, with expectations understandably heightened, for Quantum of Solace (2008), the first Bond sequel ever (and it’s also the shortest film in the series to date, at a mere one hour 46 minutes).

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Bourne loser

It’s official, then – everyone’s out of step but me. Now, don’t get me wrong – I had no intention of being deliberately reactionary about Paul Greengrass’s The Bourne Ultimatum, and I’m aware that it has been cited by many critics as the cynosure of big-screen action.

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