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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – The Living Daylights Now here is the serious spy thriller Bond that was teased by For Your Eyes Only before Roger Moore spent his final two instalments back in comic-strip territory. Timothy Dalton is here at last to reinvent Bond (a few years too early, mind you) and reinvent he…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Octopussy Let us consider, if you will, a climactic action scene from the film Octopussy. Roger Moore’s Agent 007, having tumbled from a train while chasing down the villains, has rushed across Germany by hitchhiking and stealing cars. Upon finally reaching the military base that is soon to be obliterated…