From the very outset of the James Bond film franchise, it was abundantly clear that one of the films’ selling points was the promise that the protagonist, British secret agent James Bond 007, would travel the many foreign, exotic, romantic and dangerous locales around the globe. From the more familiar yet legendary European cities, such …
I hate being wrong. Really hate it. The only thing I hate more than being wrong is publicly admitting I’m wrong. And, man, when it comes to how 2012 played out at the movies matched up against what I’d predicted in my end-of-2011 box office wrap-up, I couldn’t have been more wrong. “Want a prediction …
It is important, in any series, that an instalment does not forget where it came from, but in Skyfall’s attempts to celebrate its roots, does it ultimately undermine them? The title theme sounds quintessentially Bond, a custom absent in the last three films, for better or worse. It is also the first of the Daniel …
Continuing with our month long James Bond marathon, comes a documentary celebrating the franchise’s 50th birthday: Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007, from director Stevan Riley, looks at the history of James Bond, and what surprisingly emerges, is a movie-industry bromance, between Albert “Cubby” Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. Riley chooses to illustrate his …
Quantum of Solace Written by Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis and Robert Wade Directed by Marc Forster UK, 2008 On the Mousterpiece Cinema podcast, Josh and I frequently joke about our “Island Films” by which we don’t mean the films that we would hypothetically take to a desert island, but the films that we are alone on an island in …
The Tumblr round-up is a compilation of images, links, posters, stories, videos and so on, taken from the Sound On Sight Tumblr account. We simply do not have the man power nor time to write articles on every interesting movie related goody we find, so this is our way of still promoting some of the …
Skyfall Composed by Thomas Newman Sony Classical November 6th 2012 It’s been 25 years since John Barry scored The Living Daylights, his final Bond movie, and since then, every composer who’s tackled a Bond score has tried to step out of his shadow, with varying degrees of success. David Arnold racked up 5 Bond movies …
After the void that was Quantum of Solace, Bond is back to his best in Skyfall. In Daniel Craig’s third outing as Bond, he is shot by friendly fire in a vital mission to retrieve a hard drive full of classified information about undercover agents all over the world.