Raritania

Robbie Collin penned one of the more interesting of the recent pieces about the Daniel Craig era in the Bond films' history, noting, am...

New York: Bantam, 1992, pp. 376. Heir to the Empire concluded with the heroes repulsing Thrawn's attempt to grab a sizable portion of...

I first encountered Golgo 13 as the protagonist of the old NES video game, Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode. The game does not seem to be discus...

Daniel Craig's criticisms of his own character and movie are, predictably, still much in the news. Indeed, the Toronto Star 's Vinay...

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD While there was always an important element of continuity between James Bond's adventures in Ian Fleming's...

Kingsley Amis wrote of James Bond as a "semi-aristocrat," with even that aspect of the character smuggled in by the backdoor rathe...

In a piece for Forbes earlier this year, Scott Mendelson took on the question of whether there are "too many comic book movies." ...

In Britain and Her Army, 1509-1870 , Corelli Barnett lamented what he saw as the failure of the English people to accept an efficiently run ...

Umberto Eco, while favorably disposed toward Fleming, specifically used that label in reference to him in his classic essay, "Narrative...

Where most of the series' writers (including Ian Fleming) tended to fudge the issue of James Bond's age, having him miss the passage...

In his essay "Masscult and Midcult," Dwight Macdonald offered a picture of a cultural hierarchy and its evolution over time. There...

The James Bond series is often criticized for representing outmoded, backward attitudes. Contemporary politics being what they are, most cri...

I continue to be struck by how many people come across my blog looking for word about a new Dirk Pitt movie--and the strong feelings that so...

George Lucas' Star Wars (1977) is one of that handful of mid-'70s films celebrated, and attacked, as giving us the contemporary blo...

The military techno-thriller is more British in its origins than anything else. Even overlooking the tradition of the "invasion story...