Goldeneye arrived on Home Video this week in 1996, after a November 16th, 1995 theatrical release.Right as James Bond was dying. Not in a dramatic shaken-not-stirred type cliffhanger, but more of a slow, embarrassing, nobody’s-returning-calls kind of way. Moore had turned him into a cartoon but the overcorrection for Dalton had left 007 as someone … Read more
Everybody has their first Bond. Roger Moore was mine, and I wasn’t about to shake off that sentiment overnight when Timothy Dalton was introduced in 1987’s The Living Daylights. In fact, I first discovered 007 by way of Cannonball Run, where Moore was playing a satire of a satire of himself – but I was … Read more
The Bond That Set My 00 Standard You never forget your first Bond. This was the first NEW James Bond after I discovered the franchise through a late night Bondathon around the time of Octopussy’s release. With a scorching air-drum-inducing theme song by then-hottest band in my record collection, Duran Duran, the movie felt like … Read more