Happy Birthday George Lazenby!

CommanderBond.net would like to wish George Lazenby, the second James Bond, a very Happy Birthday. He turns 73 today.

Radio Times does Bond!

The latest issue of the Radio Times is attempting to resolve one of the fiercest debates in cinema history this week: Who is the greatest ever James Bond?  Film buffs Barry Norman, Mark Kermode, Simon Mayo and Andrew Collins attempt to settle the matter once and for all. That’s not all, as Kermode and Mayo celebrate 50 years of the iconic spy by indulging in a bit of fancy dress. Simon Mayo as Bond, and the good Doctor taking on the role of Blofeld, in a brilliant photo shoot that is certain to give you all a laugh.

Also, Radio Times is giving you the chance to win the Bond50 Blu Ray set, by simply emailing in and telling them who your favourite James Bond is and why you like him.

The latest issue of the Radio Times is on the shelves now, for £1.40.

Daniel Craig talks ‘Skyfall’, Mendes and the allure of Bond.

Speaking with the latest issue of Esquire,  The 44 year old actor, who is returning to the role of James Bond for a third time next month, has agreed to talk all things Bond.

“I think what’s always fantastic about the Bond stories is that there’s always a darkness involved, but it’s a darkness with a sense of humour. A black humour. It’s about danger, but a good danger, because you’re in the hands of somebody who’s saying ‘F**k you’ to risk, ‘F**k you’ to dying.”

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New Skyfall Stills Released

As James Bond is set to return next month for the first time in 4 years, new stills have appeared online showcasing Daniel Craig in ‘Skyfall’

Special thanks to Vsuch.com.

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Incredible Suit covers ‘Casino Royale’ concept art and pumps Kleinman for more

Today Neil Alcock’s movie blog The Incredible Suit startles the Bond-sphere with a vast collection of early concept art for the main title sequence of ‘Casino Royale’. His article sports over twenty images, most of which will be entirely new to the public. In addition to this, The Incredible Suit did an interview with Daniel Kleinman himself, questioning him about his work for ‘Casino Royale’ and the titles of the upcoming ‘Skyfall’.

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Bond50 – A Look Inside the Blu Ray Set

As the Bond50 Blu Ray set draws ever closer, HMV have teased us even more with a look inside the boxset. The pages, taken from the exclusive Blu Ray case, shows pages from ‘Octopussy’ right up to Bonds last outing, ‘Quantum of Solace’.

The page can be viewed here. The official Bond50 Blu Ray set will be available on the 24th September.

Special thanks to ‘lechero’ for the alert.

James Bond Unmasked: A review.

James Bond Unmasked is a book that I was greatly anticipating after I had read about it. A book that promises interviews from all six James Bond actors.

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CBn caught the bullet – and reviews it

Having people everywhere is a lot of fun, especially when it entails getting one’s hands on stuff ordinary mortals will only be able to read on Monday. Just ask Jim, who was tasked with reviewing Mark O’Connell’s ‘Catching Bullets’ and evidently encountered a fully operative time machine…

CATCHING BULLETS

Q: What does A View to a Kill mean?
A: Well, it’s just Goldfinger wrapped in a neon snood, yeah?

 

 

It is 1984.

 

 

Actually, stuff that and it’s 2012. One gapes at the ongoing massdebate about the design and packaging of the latest boxsetting attempt to resell us 22 films we all already own with a shakenheadedness betraying either a ) early onset of dementia or b ) and hopefully far more likely, the experience of a Wacadayed generation who would have never have dreamt of such sybaritic foolishness during their efforts to videorecord ITV’s latest butchered Bank Holiday offering of The Man with the Golden Gun, their crosslegged manual finger-tense timing of the pauses to miss adverts boasting the capabilities of the Austin Montego 1.6L interrupted by the regretfully whacked-back earslobber of a dying Labrador and aunts being vaguely cakey and talking over the beyond-one’s-comprehension-darkness of the really-quite-troubling Maud Adams lost-and-despairing-soul-Eurotrash-sex-slavery bits.

 

 

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Worth another shot… in August

Image by Jeremy Mates

And another new thing from CommanderBond.net (May flowers? August corn!). ‘Worth another shot’ from now on is going to wrap up the past month, with everything that didn’t make it on the main page but should have. Or did make it and merits another shot. What it says, actually. We do as yet not know where exactly this is going to take us. For the time being it will be a couple of links, revisits, thoughts and notes, nothing too pretentious. Could be in some months it’s going to centre upon a particular theme or event. But I promise it won’t stoop to publishing anybody’s shopping list. Well, Bond’s perhaps, but that’s another story.

Oh, and of course it’s entirely a subjective opinion piece. Meaning whoever is doing it is speaking entirely for himself. You may have your own shot.

So what was it this August that kept our minds busy, what was – nearly – forgotten, and what should perhaps better have been?

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Kermode and Mayo – James Bond Special

Popular film reviewers Kermode and Mayo have announced plans for a James Bond special on September 14th. Mark Kermode, most famous for his scathing Quantum of Solace review within the Bond community, will join Simon Mayo to celebrate the musical mastery of the Bond films with the BBC Philharmonic. Tickets can be booked here.

Step back in time and listen to Marks reviews for Casino Royale and  Quantum of Solace….