Learner’s permit to kill: Remembering the espionage RPGs of my youth
Sometimes nothing takes you back to your past faster than a book. Or in my case, two books. These books have me reminiscing about the days when I was one...
Category: James Bond
Remembering Ken Adam
Spotted this book just as I was taking my seat at the Palatine Public Library. RIP Ken Adam, who made Bond’s world a fantastic one.
Was there a 007-sided die?
Reading about role-playing games has me nostalgic about the spy RPGs of my youth, especially this one. Anyone want to play? Look for a blog post soon on my Tumb...
What I’m Reading: ‘Some Kind of Hero’
Tackling this bad boy. Don’t know if you can see the bookmark, but I’m about halfway through this mammoth history of the 007 films. I’m on the A View to a Kill ...
What I’m watching: ‘Spy’
Finally caught up with the Melissa McCarthy comedy Spy, directed by Paul Feig. It’s pretty damned good. I wish some of the recent Bond movies had as solid a plo...
#ExplainA(Bond)FilmPlotBadly
I have never had so much fun on Twitter. All the Bond movie plots, badly explained: Maimed rocket scientist invites Englishman to dinner. #ExplainAFilmPlotBadly...
Book review: ‘Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born’
After Andrew Lycett’s exhaustive biography of Ian Fleming (which is 20 years old, believe it or not), you may wonder what is left to learn of James Bond’...
My Seven Wishes for the Next James Bond Movie
I enjoyed SPECTRE, I really did. I have seen it three times so far and it improves with every viewing. SPECTRE gave me many things I had wanted to see in a Bond...
JBR Profile: Jeffrey Westhoff – Fleming and Me – James Bond Radio
JBR Profile: Jeffrey Westhoff – Fleming and Me – James Bond Radio The website for the terrific James Bond Radio podcast graciously allowed me to wri...
Film review: ‘SPECTRE’
SPECTRE, the latest James Bond movie and the fourth to star Daniel Craig as 007, offers many pleasures, especially a sense of fun missing from Bond movies for...