Confirming a few years’ worth of hints, rumors, and even the occasional outright statement, BBC News reports tonight that Danny Boyle has been officially confirmed as the director of the next Daniel Craig-starring James Bond movie.
Though it doesn’t come up much in casual conversations about “the best Bond movie,” 007 diehards will parachute from airplanes, somersault off ski jumps, and fly into you with goofy little jetpacks to defend On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. The 1969 entry is most often remembered as a footnote in decades of spy…
There have been plenty of rumblings about who could take on the next Bond installment now that Sam Mendes has “retired” from the franchise. Danny Boyle and Yann Demange’s names were batted around last month, but with insiders informing Variety that MGM is looking for a “big name” to helm the new chapter, the Steve…
Welcome to Stream And Stream Again, a monthly column highlighting films and TV series new to streaming catalogs that are of special interest to The A.V. Club’s staff—and hopefully to you, our readers. Here are five new titles streaming this March.
Typically, when cinephiles start speculating about the endlessly unkillable James Bond franchise, it’s with an eye on who might next take on the role of the world-famous superspy. The franchise’s directorial choices tend to come under a little less scrutiny, but with the recent departure of Sam Mendes—who helmed the…
Though he’s a fictional character, James Bond is a man with very famous tastes. He likes his martinis shaken and not stirred, he like his swimming trunks very small and tight, and he likes his cars to be Aston Martins—unless he happens to have a product placement deal with, say, BMW. Sadly, most normal people don’t…
The James Bond film series is very good, but in this hectic modern world of ours it’s also just too long. Who has time, between scrolling mindlessly through multiple social media feeds or lovingly placing dog noses on their selfies just so, to sit down and watch decades of films that demand our undivided attention for…
Back during the summer, it was revealed that the producers of the James Bond franchise had been courting three potential directors to helm the next film in the series. One was David MacKenzie, the under-appreciated Scottish director of Young Adam and Starred Up, whose career has experienced a jolt after the critical…
With more than 5.5 million articles, Wikipedia is an invaluable resource, whether you’re throwing a term paper together at the last minute, or trying to figure out how to find that 15-minute window when a pear is neither rock-hard nor complete mush. We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 5,504,719-week series, …
You can tell a lot about a person based on the usernames they pick, whether it’s their favorite sports team, their favorite Star Wars character, or even just their real name. Apparently, though, you can sometimes tell a lot more about a person based on their password, at least if that person is former Trump campaign…
Dumber and less stylish than its predecessor, Kingsman: The Secret Service, the cartoonish secret-agent pastiche Kingsman: The Golden Circle is also even more of an incoherent right-wing text, an exaggeration of the James Bond movies’ violence, fashion sense, and sex that keeps trying to pass off its ham-fisted…
One of the most heated debates circling The A.V. Club offices at the moment is whether to see Kingsman: The Golden Circle, the sequel to 2015’s Kingsman: The Secret Service premiering this weekend. Our own film editor, A.A. Dowd: not a fan of the original. But some of the rest of us either think it’s a great movie,…
Lucasfilm recently had an opportunity to bring a female director into the Star Wars fold when Colin Trevorrow was fired from Episode IX, but the studio went with J.J. Abrams instead. Meanwhile, MGM and Eon Productions are readying the next James Bond movie, and with no director attached yet, people are wondering if…
Back in April, we reported that pretty much every major studio in Hollywood—and a few smaller ones—were fighting over the distribution rights to the next James Bond movie, despite the fact that we knew literally nothing about the film at the time. The impetus for the bidding war had nothing to do with hope for the…
In the end, it turned out that Daniel Craig really did give a fuck after all; after years of dodging, shrugging, and claiming that, if he came back to the part, it would only be “for the money,” Craig confirmed tonight on Late Show With Stephen Colbert that he’ll be back for at least one more turn as international…
Buying a “complete” DVD box set of a movie series that might never end, like the Marvel Cinematic Universe or Star Wars, is kind of a weird idea, but you’d at least expect a “complete” box set to include everything that had been released up until this point. That’s the assumption a woman named Mary Johnson made when…
With A History Of Violence, Tom Breihan picks the most important action movie of every year, starting with the genre’s birth and moving right up to whatever Vin Diesel’s doing this very minute.
British thespian and renowned lack-of-fucks giver Daniel Craig has been very vocal about his desire to be done with the role of James Bond. Despite reports that he was being offered $150 million to sign on for two more films, Craig has stressed that playing the world’s most famous spy is just not really his spot of…
In a statement released to Variety, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Eon Productions say that the next James Bond film, the 25th in the series, will debut on November 8, 2019. That gives the studio a little more than two years to figure out what to call the movie, or what happens in it, or who’s going to direct it, or who’s…
Sir Roger Moore, the British actor best known for his seven-movie run as James Bond in films like Live And Let Die and The Spy Who Loved Me, has died. His family confirmed the news with a statement released on Twitter saying Moore had died after a brief battle with cancer. He was 89.