Last night, we went to see the restored ‘Goldfinger’ at the Cinema (an Odeon). There is talk of releasing ‘Thunderball’ and ‘From Russia with Love’ on the big screen too. The retouching was done very well, the film looked sharp and crisp – thankfully they resisted the urge to tamper. Goldfinger is the quintessential Bond [...]
On Wednesday we finally got to see ‘Casino Royale’ (thank you, ‘Orange’) This film lived up to the hype. Before we went in, we ranked the Bonds as follows: Connery Dalton Brosnan (perhaps controversial to put Dalton ahead. Brosnan was a more natural Bond, but the films were getting way too silly – and I [...]
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