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On His Majesty’s Secret Service: The Brief
Charlie Higson's On His Majesty's Secret Service in 100 words: a Roger Moore era Bond novel with a political bite.
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Hurricane Room Review: The Payoff Is Real
A quick take on Kim Sherwood’s Hurricane Room, the standout finale to her female-forward 007 trilogy.
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Amazon Just Made the Case for a Brown James Bond
Amazon’s Bait starring Riz Ahmed is a sharp, layered argument for a multicultural Bond. Here’s why it’s almost perfect.
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Books Are Mirrors: 5 Stories That Might Change How You See Your Life
Some books entertain us. Some unsettle us. And a rare few hold up a mirror so clear that we walk away seeing ourselves and the world differently. Lately I have been drawn to books that do exactly that. Different genres. Different voices. Different worlds. But all circling the same human questions about belonging, truth, power,…
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Dr No. – Percival Everett review
Rating – M for Masterclass Frivolity at its best The smartest Bond villain, be that John Sill or Wala Kitu might be a parody of the very idea of Bond itself, and that’s where Percival Everett has the most fun. 2022’s Dr No isn’t trying to be a great Bond story. It’s something stranger and…
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007 Road to A Million – Season 2 Review
007: Road To A Million’s Season 2 delivers big wins but is slowed by its own ambitions. A good friend of mine once lambasted me for using Pitchfork’s x.x system to grade an album. He called it nonsense, hipster for the sake of it. I argued it was “a vibe that I could build upon”,…
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Villaneuve – Dune to 007
Speculating on what Villaneuve at the helm of the next 007 film will mean. More Skyfall, please The single biggest shift I expect from a director like Villaneuve is to give us a bigger epic. To set off a broader arc and to intimate audiences more to Bond than ever before. If Dune is anything…
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Amazon’s Bold Move: What It Means for James Bond
I’ve had some time to digest the news: Amazon is taking over creative control of James Bond. We’ve been given producer names, prospective release dates…And guess what, kids? Daddy’s excited. I’m sauntering around the kitchen, tending to a four-hour Bolognese that is set to feed the family in an hour. I’ve got a Costa coffee…
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No One is Ruining James Bond (Except You)
The internet is rife with young incels and boomers blathering on about woke James Bond, Chinese James Bond, woke Star Wars—and so on. Maybe I’d be the same if I were an afterthought. Oh, wait. I have been. My entire life. Maybe it’s the passive-aggressive 7:55 PM Slack message from a colleague who thinks he’s…
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An Exercise in Point of View – A Book Review of James by Percival Everett
Human beings ‘can be awful cruel to one another.’ Huck’s quote from the original Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has held true throughout time– especially since the novel’s original 1884 publish date Percival Everett takes us straight into the heart of the matter in his novel retelling the classic story from Jim’s perspective. “James” (his preferred…
