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By Daniel D'Addario 1/31/11 8:44pm

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Is Javier Bardem Bound for Bond?

Javier Bardem, new father and Oscar nominee, may just have gotten even busier. Deadline reports that Bardem has been offered the villain role in next year's James Bond movie, a spot most recently occupied by French actor Mathieu Amalric. Evidently, post-Heath Ledger Oscar and after long budgetary delays, Bond's producers have decided that a Read More

By Christopher Rosen 6/30/10 1:02pm

Five MGM Movies That Need Saving

Unless you're Nikki Finke and/or Mike Fleming, keeping track of how the floundering MGM continues to flounder while it's up for sale is probably low on your list of concerns. But as savvy pop culture devourers, it might be a good idea to start getting a bit riled up. In fact, the list of Read More

By Azi Paybarah 10/26/07 1:20pm

Simcha Felder on the Era of Governor No

The other day, I asked City Council member Simcha Felder of Brooklyn what's happening with a modest bill he has proposed that would ban unwanted flyers from being delivered to people's homes.

Here's his explanation of how it has fallen victim to the James Bond-like atmosphere in Albany, which (I think) is a reference to the Read More

By Rex Reed 11/27/06 12:00am

Jackman Belly-Flops Into Shallow Fountain

Not much to give thanks for this Thanksgiving, but it’s a good time to play catch-up. Whatever you do this holiday season, if anyone recommends a dirge called The Fountain, take them off your Christmas list. I don’t care what a movie is about, but I have one rule that never changes: It has to Read More

By Andrew Sarris 11/27/06 12:00am

New Bond’s Stormy Virility Trumps Connery and Moore

Martin Campbell’s Casino Royale, from a screenplay by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Paul Haggis, based on the novel by Ian Fleming, happens to be the 21st James Bond movie, as well as the very first that I would seriously consider placing on my own yearly 10-best list. Furthermore, I consider Daniel Craig to be Read More

By Andrew Sarris 11/27/06 12:00am

New Bond’s Stormy Virility Trumps Connery and Moore

Martin Campbell’s Casino Royale, from a screenplay by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Paul Haggis, based on the novel by Ian Fleming, happens to be the 21st James Bond movie, as well as the very first that I would seriously consider placing on my own yearly 10-best list. Furthermore, I consider Daniel Craig to be Read More

By Charles Taylor 9/25/06 12:00am

Two Queens, Dreamgirls, And Craig Attempts Bond

Despite some attempts to set the record straight, the story persists that Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, starring Kirsten Dunst as the Austrian girl who becomes the Queen of France, was generally despised at this past spring’s Cannes Film Festival, and that the French particularly hated it. The movie did draw some scattered boos at the Read More

By Charles Taylor 9/25/06 12:00am

Brando, Sturges, Samurai; Don’t Miss Pre-Code, Old Bond

“Using every threat, contract, and influence I could muster”: That’s John Huston in his 1980 autobiography, An Open Book, on how he fought Warner Bros. to release his 1967 adaptation of Carson McCullers’ novella, Reflections in a Golden Eye, in a diffuse amber wash that would give the film a golden tint. Warner agreed to Read More

By Charles Taylor 9/25/06 12:00am

Two Queens, Dreamgirls, And Craig Attempts Bond

Despite some attempts to set the record straight, the story persists that Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, starring Kirsten Dunst as the Austrian girl who becomes the Queen of France, was generally despised at this past spring’s Cannes Film Festival, and that the French particularly hated it. The movie did draw some scattered boos at the Read More