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’...
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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...
Creating Larissa, or Trying to Think Like a Teenage Girl
My teen spy novel, The Boy Who Knew Too Much, is out. It has been for a while, since June 1. It has, thankfully, been garnering a lot of praise. Of all t...
Book review: Catching up with ‘Catching Bullets’
The first thing I noticed when I saw the cover to Mark O’Connell’s book Catching Bullets was its subtitle: Memoirs of a Bond Fan. I thought, You can do t...
Movie review — ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’
Kingsman: The Secret Service is a confounding experience. Much of it is an enjoyable throwback to breezy action movies of yore, while some of it is as loathso...
Dedication and Acknowledgements
I may not be able to reveal the cover for The Boy Who Knew Too Much yet, but I don’t see why I can’t offer a sneak preview at the dedication and acknowledgement...
FIRST LOOK AT SPECTRE
FIRST LOOK AT SPECTRE It looks like SPECTRE will have a definite OHMSS vibe.
Bond is back, but what about Blofeld?
In two days — Thursday, Dec. 4 — it will be confirmed that Christoph Waltz will appear in the next James Bond film, still called just Bond 24, but its title wil...
Introducing ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’
On Oct. 14 (Roger Moore’s birthday) I hosted two screenings of The Spy Who Loved Me at the Elk Grove Theatre in Elk Grove Village, Ill. The event was part of th...