Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Season 2
TV Season
“Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. returns for a dynamic, action-packed second season,” reads the...
The Living Daylights (1987)
Movie Watch
Fifteenth film in Eon's James Bond series and Timothy Dalton's first in the role. (Pierce Brosnan...
Licence To Kill (1989)
Movie Watch
Sixteenth Bond movie. Bond and Felix Leiter, en route to Leiter's wedding, capture drug baron Franz...
The name's Bond - James Bond
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Season 4
TV Season Watch
Following on from the disastrous events of season 3, Coulson and the team have found Daisy but...
The Rolls-Royce Silver Wraith: Celebrating 70 Years of the First Post-War Rolls-Royce
Book
This book is a celebration, in its 70th Anniversary year, of the first Rolls-Royce motor car to...
David McK (3204 KP) rated Casino Royale Vintage 007 in Books
Jan 30, 2019
And that's the crux of this book: British (not-so) secret Agent James Bond is chosen to go undercover to bankrupt Le Chiffre in gambling at the Casino Royale of the title.
THis Bond is also quite 'hard', more akin to the Bond of the Dalton or Craig era of the films than to that of (say) the Moore era or - my favourite - the Brosnan era. As the first novel in the series, this also highlights to Bond just how cold the spy game an be, with the inclusion of Vesper Lynd: one of only two female's in his (literary) life who have such an impact on him.
While the prose does flow well enough, and the novel is short enough not to out-stay it's welcome, it none-the-less failed to ignite any desire in me to hunt down any other of Ian Fleming's Bond novels: I'm not going to avoid them (or say no if I come across them), but neither I am going to actively hunt them out.
Mike Wilder (20 KP) rated Road House (1989) in Movies
May 30, 2018
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D
TV Show Watch
Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg, reprising his role from "The Avengers" and "Iron Man" ) heads an elite...
Beyond the Dark
Book
Malaki James knows the darkest recesses of life – knows the terrors lurking there. He’d fled the...
Dark Contemporary Romance
LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Hot Fuzz (2007) in Movies
Aug 3, 2019
It's funny, it's crude, it's gory, it's just plain ridiculous at times, and it's very British...
Anyone who lives here in England can confirm - this country is full of little villages and towns where something just seems a bit...off. just like the films village, Sandford.
As Sgt. Angel starts to uncover a sinister conspiracy underneath the idyllic town, Hot Fuzz effortlessly weaves quick humour, with a creeping sense of dread, just like it's predecessor, Shaun of the Dead.
The fantastic trio of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and director Edgar Wright hit all the right comedic notes once again, and the film is riddled with famous faces from the British comedy scene.
It evens features once-James-Bond Timothy Dalton, just being generally awesome and villainous.
The climatic battle, (that likes fun at the silliness of the action genre) is good fun, but it doesn't quite hit the mark that Shaun of the Dead does.
It's still a great film though, I'd implore anyone to give it a go.