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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…