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Inside James Bond's 58 years of scandal and drama
Diamonds are forever — and so is drama. In August 2018, just two months before the long-awaited 25th James Bond film was set to start filming, Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle...
How whiney Daniel Craig killed James Bond
At the start of the 1973 James Bond film “Live and Let Die,” there is a funeral march through New Orleans. Mourners weep and a band blares sad gospel music...
'The Son' lacks ample drama in move from book to TV
The 1989 miniseries “Lonesome Dove” set the bar high for TV Westerns. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Larry McMurtry, it had the landscape, characters and enough poetry to...
Pierce Brosnan is a budding Picasso
Pierce Brosnan has come full circle. The Irish-born actor, who launched his acting career in America in 1982 as the debonair con man of “Remington Steele,” returns to TV on...
Somebody needs to troubleshoot the new movie 'I.T.'
John Moore’s somewhat diverting thriller is the old “psycho threatens a good man’s family” plot, retrofitted for the age of the smart house. Three quarters of the diversion comes from...
Owen Wilson brings end-of-summer heat with ‘No Escape’
For an American (Owen Wilson) in a dirty Southeast Asian city, things are looking grim: On the most desperate days of his life he will be forced to eat dog...
CIA thriller 'The November Man' is DOA
Two veterans of the James Bond franchise — Pierce Brosnan and “Quantum of Solace” star Olga Kurylenko — star in the Eastern European spy thriller “The November Man,” but this...
Brosnan still hot 15 years after he was the 'sexiest man alive'
The spy thriller “The November Man,” out Wednesday, finds Pierce Brosnan playing an ex-CIA agent named Peter Devereaux, because Pierce Brosnan is apparently required by law to play characters with...
Suicide comedy 'A Long Way Down' is dead on arrival
Among group-suicide movies, “A Long Way Down” may prove uniquely inspirational: It’s bound to make audience members want to kill themselves. It might be the only summer movie during which...
Unfunny 'Love Punch' is beneath stars Brosnan and Thompson
A long-divorced couple plots a jewel heist on the French Riviera in “The Love Punch’’ — which manages to be excruciatingly unfunny despite the presence of Pierce Brosnan and Emma...
Stars who can sing... and those who should zip it
Yes, Emma Thompson can sing — and she proved it Wednesday night, when she made her New York debut with the New York Philharmonic, no less, in its concert version...