Eoghan Lyng
Review: Ian Fleming’s Seven Deadlier Sins
July 21st, 2020 by Eoghan Lyng
Eoghan Lyng reviews a short collection of essays inspired by Ian Fleming. It feels both reductive and redundant to refer to this collation as timely, but in the eyes of many readers, that is how it will appear. Chasing the waves No Time To Die started, the book ponders the imponderable aspects of 007’s social […]
>> read articleBond vs Bond reviewed
March 17th, 2020 by Eoghan Lyng
This latest edition of Bond vs Bond is reviewed by Eoghan Lyng. This Coronavirus is a bugger. It’s buggered up the workplace, the shopping trips, even the Bond series. In fifty years, no one has proven bigger or stronger than Bond. Then an invisible disease arrives to scurry the film into an undisclosed corner for […]
>> read articleReview: The Many Lives of James Bond
November 27th, 2019 by Eoghan Lyng
Eoghan Lyng reviews The Many Lives of James Bond by Mark Edlitz. Roger Moore was louche, George Lazenby brittle, two brilliant men with very different attitudes, philosophies and approaches to how James Bond could and should be presented. In a part deliciously malleable, many men have taken to playing him on and off screen and many […]
>> read articleReview of Thunderbook: The World of Bond According to Smersh Pod
November 5th, 2019 by Eoghan Lyng
Eoghan Lyng take a look at the forthcoming Thunderbook: The World of Bond According to Smersh Pod. George Lazenby’s making a splash in the audio world, Daniel Craig’s making a splash in the cinematic world, Smershpod’s John Rain is making a name for himself in the literary world. Cruising the twenty five film podcast (he […]
>> read articleReview: He Disagreed With Something That Ate Him
March 28th, 2019 by Eoghan Lyng
Eoghan Lyng reviews a book looking at Timothy Dalton’s two outings as 007. Finally, someone gets the Timothy Dalton films. Through Cary Edwards’ monograph, readers are invited on a methodological study through the narratives, strengths, virtues and zeitgeists presented throughout the two Dalton films. Sharply written, sharply presented, sharply edited, it sharply delves into the […]
>> read articleCasino Royale: The Film That Saved A Franchise
August 28th, 2015 by Eoghan LyngDesigning 007: field report from Madrid
July 8th, 2015 by Eoghan LyngTimothy Dalton: The Problem Eliminator
April 21st, 2015 by Eoghan Lyng
There is a beautiful moment during The Living Daylights (1987). Georgie Koskov delivers a certain diatribe about his senior’s admiration for a more autonomical style of rule, much to M’s chagrin. Following such a melodramatic performance, Timothy Dalton swiftly blows a ring from his cigarette. The symbolism is obvious; James Bond can see Koskov is […]
>> read articleDismissing the James Bond code name theory
February 18th, 2015 by Eoghan Lyng
Eoghan Lyng takes a look at why the theory held by some fans that “James Bond” is just a code name used by a number of different agents over the years just doesn’t hold water. Image: from cover art of Bond 50 22 film Blu-Ray box set, available from Amazon UK and Amazon.com. Some people have too much […]
>> read articleHello Mr Bonds. We’ve Been Expecting You!
December 12th, 2014 by Eoghan Lyng
There are few things on this earth that merit celebration. There is the birth of a baby, the fall of The Berlin Wall, the introduction of a new Bond actor. Hell, there have only been six of those in, what, fifty years? To call it an event is an understatement, heresy even! Here, I am […]
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