Movie Review: Diamonds Are Forever

Wikipedia: To avenge his wife’s murder, James Bond – agent 007 – pursues Ernst Stavro Blofeld. At a facility where Blofeld lookalikes are being created through plastic surgery, Bond kills a test subject and later the “real” Blofeld. While assassins Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd kill people in a diamond-smuggling…

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Movie Review: You Only Live Twice

Wikipedia Summary: American NASA spacecraft Jupiter 16 is hijacked from orbit by an unidentified spaceship. The United States suspects it to be the work of the Soviet Union, but the British suspect Japanese involvement since the spacecraft landed in the Sea of Japan. To investigate, MI6 operative James Bond is…

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Movie Review: Thunderball

Wikipedia Plot: SPECTRE operative Emilio Largo devises a plan to hold NATO to ransom by hijacking two atomic bombs from a RAF Avro Vulcan bomber during a training exercise. While staying at the Shrublands health resort, SPECTRE operative Count Lippe has French Air Force pilot François Derval murdered and replaced…

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Movie Review: Goldfinger

Wikipedia plot: MI6 Agent James Bond destroys a drug laboratory and electrocutes an unnamed antagonist in the bath in Latin America. Bond then heads to Miami Beach, where his superior M via CIA agent Felix Leiter directs Bond to observe bullion dealer Auric Goldfinger at the hotel in Miami Beach.…

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Movie Review: From Russia With Love

It’s been a long time since I saw this one.  Wikipedia summary it is.  Followed by my thoughts. International criminal organisation SPECTRE seeks revenge against MI6 agent James Bond for the death of their agent Dr. No in Jamaica.[Notes 1] SPECTRE’s chief planner, Czechoslovak chess grandmaster Kronsteen, devises a plan…

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