It must have been a challenge for Frank Cottrell Boyce to write a sequel . After all, there are two Chitty Chitty Bang Bangs. There's t...

I saw the film Cornered the other day. It's an old film – released in 1945 – and stars Dick Powell as Laurence Gerard, a demobbed pilot ...

How many James Bond have there been? There are the film Bonds, of course, and there have been six of those (seven if you count David Niven i...

I recently read I*n Fl*m*ng's Alligator . This is the James Bond parody published by the Harvard Lampoon in 1962. In the book, J*mes B...

As I was flicking through Previous Convictions , Cyril Connelly's collection of essays and short articles, to find his Bond parody, ...

In the 1970s and '80s, the same names appeared in newspapers in connection with the role of James Bond. The part seemed to be up for gra...

Have you noticed that the theme song that accompanies a new Bond film sounds a little bit like the song that preceded it? The rule is not an...