Posts tagged spy movie
Review: No Time to Die (2021)
Review: No Time to Die (2021)

No Time to Die is pulled in too many directions by the trends and tastes of the moment, displaying a less sure vision of who Bond is in the second decade of the 21st century.

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Reviews, The Current: In TheatresAnton BergstromJames Bond 007, action film, spy movie, Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Léa Seydoux, Lashana Lynch, Ana de Armas, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, Ralph Fiennes, Cary Fukunaga, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Phoebe Waller-BridgeComment
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

The Star Wars anthology film Rogue One brings a focus to sacrifice, heroism, and the cost of war, with a rousing and entertaining exploration of the backstory to A New Hope.

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Star Wars, Reviews, Overlooked and Under-AppreciatedAnders BergstromRogue One: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars, Star Wars Retrospective, Disney, Gareth Edwards, Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Ben Mendelsohn, Riz Ahmed, Mads Mikkelsen, prequel, Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, action, war, spy movieComment
James Bond 007: The Living Daylights (1987)
James Bond 007: The Living Daylights (1987)

Consider Dalton an injection of energy.

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Reviews, James Bond 007, Overlooked and Under-AppreciatedAnton Bergstrom1980s, action, action adventure, action movie, Afghanistan, Andres Wisniewski, arms dealing, Art Malik, Caroline Bliss, Cold War, colonialism, Czechoslovakia, defection, Desmond, espionage thriller, Euro-thriller, Geoffrey Keen, Ian Fleming, James Bond, James Bond 007, James Bond 007 Retrospective, Jeroen Krabbé, Joe Don Baker, John Glen, John Rhys-Davies, Maryam d'Abo, Michael G- Wilson, Richard Maibaum, Robert Brown, sniper, spy movie, The Living Daylights, Thomas Wheatley, Timothy Dalton, USSR, Walter Gotell Comment
Roundtable: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)
Roundtable: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)

The 3 Brothers discuss the fifth and possibly best installment in the franchise.

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RoundtablesAnton Bergstromaction, action cinema, action film, action movie, Alec Baldwin, America vs- Britain, blockbuster, car chase, Casablanca, Christopher McQuarrie, female characters, fun, James Bond, Jeremy Renner, Mission: Impossible, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, motorbike chase, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris, Simon Pegg, spy movie, summer, Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames Comment
James Bond 007: You Only Live Twice (1967)
James Bond 007: You Only Live Twice (1967)

The most average of the first five Bond films.

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Flash Back, Reviews, James Bond 007Anton Bergstromaction, action thriller, adventure, Akiko Wakabayashi, Bernard Lee, Charles Gray, Desmond Llewelyn, Donald Pleasence, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, espionage thriller, Iam Fleming, invade the villain's lair, James Bond, James Bond 007 Retrospective, Japan, Karin Dor, Lois Maxwell, Mie Hama, misogyny, Nancy Sinatra, racism, Roald Dahl, Sean Connery, setting, spaceship, SPECTRE, spy movie, spy thriller, Teru Shimada, Tetsuro Tamba, thriller, You Only Live Twice Comments
James Bond 007: From Russia with Love (1963)
James Bond 007: From Russia with Love (1963)

Sharp and bare, structurally and psychologically.

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Flash Back, Reviews, James Bond 007Anton Bergstromaction, Bernard Lee, character psychology, class tension, Cold War, Daniela Bianchi, dry humour, England, Eunice Gayson, From Russia with Love, Ian Fleming, Istanbul, James Bond, James Bond 007, James Bond 007 Retrospective, Lois Maxwell, Lotte Lenya, Pedro Armendariz, Robert Shaw, Russia, Sean Connery, self-reflexivity, sequel, spy movie, spy thriller, suspense, Terence Young, train sequence, Venice Comments