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Updates
Note: New essays or articles are only listed; minor updates or editiorial changes are not necessarily noted.
| 12/08/14 | Spectre: The First Press Conference |
| 11/26/14 | John Barry on the Moon |
| 09/08/14 | Skyfall: Blu-ray Review |
| 12/23/13 | Carte Blanche: Book Review |
| 12/23/13 | Goldeneye Pinot Noir - Wine Notes |
Essays
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The Short Stories
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Casino Royale
Analysis of the novel is included in the film review.
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Live and Let Die: Terrors from the Caribbean Gothic
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The Dialectic of Doctor No
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Reflections on a Bottle of Taittinger
- Part 1: Solemnizations
- Part 2: Tasting Notes
- Part 3: À la Recherche d'un Temps Passé
- Part 4: The Last Count of Champagne
Benson and the Spirit of Pulp
On the Centenary
- May 27, 2008 - License To Last: One Hundred Years of Fleming
- June 1, 2008 - Devil May Care: Capsule Review
- June 8, 2008 - Devil May Care: One Tribute, One Centenary, One Book
Carte Blanche: Autumn Notes on a Winter Reading from Last Year
Goldeneye Pinot Noir - Wine Notes
Film Commentary-
On the Three Best Bond Films
Licence To Kill: Dalton's End
Casino Royale (2006)
Quantum Of Solace (2008)
- Notes on the 22nd Bond film
- Analysis of the Ian Fleming short story
- On Marc Forster
- Thoughts on the Trailer
- The Song Remains Horrendous: "Another Way To Die"
- Quantum Of Solace: First Look
- Consider the Chaos
Reflections on the troubled script for Quantum Of Solace - A Travesty of Bond
007 races across continents, traveling from absurdity to kitsch - Quantum Of Solace: Blu-ray Review
Skyfall (2012)
- On Peter Morgan
- Droning On
Thoughts on the announcement of director Sam Mendes and other recent news - An Attempt at a Panegyric to the Mendes Filmography
- L'affaire MGM
- Lights Out: Meditations on the afterglow of 007
- If it's Tuesday, it must be John Logan
- What will be left of you, James?
- How do you like it?
- The End of Something or Other
With the blandness of the Skyfall teaser poster and trailer, the road to ruin gets shorter - Shakespeare and the Quartermaster
- Some Remarks on the Trailer, the Title Song, and other Untimely Observations
More Untimely Meditations:
Spectre (2015)