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James Bond Retrospective: For Your Eyes Only (1981)

1 May 2012 3:23 PM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »

To mark the 50th Anniversary of one of the most successful movie franchises of all time and with filming almost complete on James Bond’s 23rd official outing in Skyfall due for release later this year, I have been tasked with taking a retrospective look at the films that turned author Ian Fleming’s creation into one of the most recognised and iconic characters in film history.

Following on from Bond’s previous mission into outer space for Moonraker, which although it was a huge success at the box office provided some of the worst excesses of the series so far preferring a more humorous approach over the serious spy thrills of the early days in the character’s long history. The film had also proved to be a costly exercise requiring co-financing from the French wing of United Artists to cover the budget. Series producer Albert R. Broccoli wisely »

- Chris Wright

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Smash Recap: The Church of St. Gummer

27 March 2012 1:59 PM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »

Here in the winter of our discontent, as we gather around our communal hearths in our shabby overcoats, warming our chilblain-stricken fingertips over the last sputtering embers of the Golden Age of Television, there is one program that stands alone. A program that shows us the creative process in all its glory, heartbreak, and disillusionment; that fearlessly lays bare the hypocrisy of our gilded, media-driven age; a show that so fiercely interrogates the contradictions of human nature that it seems to turn its gimlet gaze on the unsolvable puzzle of our own personalities, on the mystery of existence itself. But Mad Men is on Sunday nights. Snap! Girl, this is Smash! Ah aaaah! (To be sung to the tune of “Flash’s Theme” from Flash Gordon. Flash Gordon, starring Topol.)Our story begins in the carnage-strewn Gotterdammerung that is the aftermath of every exploratory Equity showcase. Einsatzgruppen units of zombies »

- Rachel Shukert

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