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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – A View to a Kill And so Roger Moore’s long and tempestuous tenure as James Bond comes to an end with, in my opinion, the best of his seven outings, though not by too wide a margin. A View to a Kill isn’t redefining the formula by any means –…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – For Your Eyes Only Much as I love the elevated tone and casual irreverence of most of the Bond films so far, watching one suddenly take itself completely seriously was a real eye-opener, especially right after the series reached the absolute pinnacle of camp fun with Moonraker. For Your Eyes…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Before we get into this week’s reviews, I’d like to point you in the direction of another piece I wrote recently for the wonderful UCC Film Writers Blog. Have you ever wondered what the deal is with the Wachowski Sisters? Good news! I’ve slapped together 3000 words of a whirlwind beginners guide…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – Liar Liar, Rear Window and Airplane! While Jim Carrey has often proved perfectly capable of giving grounded, dialled-back performances when the film called for it, this is an interesting beast – a perfectly ordinary, straightforwardly sentimental story that Carrey plays to the absolute maximum of his comic buffoonery. It’s as…
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by Oscar O’Sullivan Monday – The Man With The Golden Gun Fun fact if you weren’t already aware – not only was Christopher Lee the first choice of author Ian Fleming for the role of Bond, he was also Fleming’s cousin and one of the real-life inspirations for the character. Lee served as an intelligence…
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