Showing posts with label Bond. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bond. Show all posts

Friday, 28 January 2022

Top Ten Bond Pre-Titles Sequences

Every James Bond film since 1963's From Russia With Love has opened with a teaser sequence before the titles that has been sometimes intrinsic to the plot of the film, sometimes not even slightly. I watched the beginnings of all of the films up to and including Spectre and ranked them, then I wrote this article about the top ten. I would love to have had the time to watch the full films, but I have a toddler and so needed to watch these snippets while he napped. 


There's no No Time To Die, because I hadn't seen it and this was written to tie into the the ever-changing release date of the film. I'll have to watch No Time To Die again to decide where the pre-titles sequence might fit.


Maybe I'll post the full ranking when the next Bond film comes out, but in the mean time here's a top ten.

Friday, 31 December 2021

My 2021

It's been another weird year.

I can confirm that looking after a two year old, is much more difficult than looking after a one year old. This rate of mathematical progression does not fill me with confidence in light of my impending duty to look after a three year old.

As far as I am aware I did not not get Covid, but instead I did get two vaccine doses and booster, which was pretty incredible given where we were this time last year.  


Outside In Wants To Believe was published containing my article, You Say Goodbye, And I Say Hello.

Spatial Anomaly published Big Damn Heroics episode guides about the Firefly episodes: Serenity: The Pilot, The Train Job, Bushwhacked, Shindig, Safe, Our Mrs Reynolds, Jaynestown, Out of Gas, Ariel, War Stories, Trash, The Message, Heart of Gold and Objects in Space, as well as The R. Tam Sessions 416 Second excerpt, 1 and 22.

While there were articles that were exclusive to patrons about the deleted scenes from Serenity: The Pilot, Our Mrs Reynolds and Objects in Space. episode orders, opening narrations, character profiles of Badger, Niska, Saffron and the Hands of Blue, A History of the 'verse Part One & Two, Top Ten Firefly Flashbacks, Screentime, Top Ten Death Tolls and an analysis of the opening titles

Spatial Anomaly was neglected in the second half of the year, but I'm planning on continuing it in the new year.

There was also a top secret project that took up any free time that I had. I'll let you know what it was as soon as I can...

Thursday, 31 December 2020

My 2020

What a year we've had.

I haven't been as prolific as in previous years, but I have been looking after a one year old, which for the record is much more difficult than looking after a baby. With 'the terrible two's' just around the corner I'm not expecting it to get any easier any time soon, but I refuse to give myself a hard time over it.

2020 has undeniably been a challenge for all of us. Just getting through it seems like an achievement in itself.

I conceived of a documentary about the effects of the Covid 19 lockdown on a small Yorkshire village that became Carleton In Lockdown.


I managed to write some articles for Hero Collector, but so far only four have seen the light of day: Aliens: A History In Comics, Predator Comics Crossovers, James Bond: Top Ten Car Chases and 2021: The Year Ahead. I have some others are due to be published later.
Outside In Trusts No One was published containing my article, Neighborhood Watch.


I've written for several future Outside In volumes and a couple of comics collections, but more news on those as and when they are published.

I also have a new project which begins the day after tomorrow, but more news on that the day after tomorrow...

Thursday, 19 November 2020

The Car's The Star

Car chases are an important part of the James Bond winning formula. Some are gadget-laden, others are rawer. Despite No Time To Die showing no sign of appearing any time soon, I wrote this article about ten of my favourite car chases that featured in the previous James Bond films.


What are your favourite? Find out if we agree at James Bond: Top Ten Car Chases.

Tuesday, 10 November 2020

Twitter Twatter #90

The second half of September 2020 on Twitter:

Saturday, 22 August 2020

Twitter Twatter #85

First half of July 2020:

Sunday, 12 July 2020

Twitter Twatter #84

June 2020 on the Twitter: