A View To A Kill

Tanya Roberts has died after collapsing on Christmas Eve. On Monday night Tanya Roberts, who played Stacey Sutton in A View to a Kill (1985), died in hospital after collapsing at home the day before Christmas. She was just 65. As well as her role in Roger Moore’s final outing as 007, she also had […]

Issue #57 of the full-colour James Bond magazine MI6 Confidential is now shipping worldwide. The 1980s provided fans five 007 adventures and two different James Bond’s – tied as the most productive decade with the 1960s. Starting with the crossbow-wielding Melina set out on a mission of revenge, and ending with Pam’s strong-willed CIA pilot, […]

The latest episode of James Bond & Friends is now available on Apple Podcasts and elsewhere. Join us as we watch 1985’s A View To A Kill together as a group experience. For this episode, don your velour tracksuit, grab a quiche, and cue up your copy of A View To A Kill as the […]

It was one hot Saturday afternoon in August 1975 when I got my first taste of James Bond on the big screen. The Man With The Golden Gun had been released in December the previous year, but this was my first opportunity to see it. Hard as it is to imagine today, it took months […]

By the time A View To A Kill was released in 1985 I was over 007. The last James Bond movie I’d seen on the big screen was For Your Eyes Only (1981) and by the time Octopussy came out two years later I decided to stick with the Connery films and the books. Available from […]

Today we received the sad news that Patrick Macnee, who appeared alongside Roger Moore in A View To A Kill (1985), has died at the age of 93. Macnee is best remembered for the role of John Steed in British TV show The Avengers, but it is as Sir Godfrey Tibbett that many Bond fans will […]

Its high-speed vehicle of choice is an airship. Its breaks between the action “hits” run a little longer than we’re generally accustomed. Its woman of choice is decidedly out of her depth in this espionage world. So, it would seem, is our seasoned James Bond, as the crazed villain of the piece helpfully reminds us. […]

Two men were among the few to play cinema’s most iconic spy. Two men broke unimaginable box office records. Both of these became pop culture icons, one of the sixties, one of the seventies. But where Sean Connery would forever be lauded as the epitome of British Cool and the perennial favourite of Timothy Dalton, […]

The United States seems to have held a particular fascination for Ian Fleming and was certainly not as familiar a destination for British readers when he was writing the James Bond books as it is today. These were the years just after the Second World War that are considered to be a golden age for […]