The 27th Day

It's not often that one gets a little extra thought with his or her sci-fi B-movie, and it's even less often that such low-key profundity is executed rather well in a film of this kind. The 27th Day came out in the Golden Age of low-budget ...

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Thunderball

The recent James Bond picture Quantum of Solace arrived to a chorus of jeers from many fans. These critics complained that the film lakced fun; that the filmmakers tried to imitate more modern action heroes instead of allowing Bond to be his usual ...

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Tomorrow Never Dies

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) is one of the few James Bond movies that little is heard about. Dr. No, Goldfinger and even Casino Royale have been talked about to death, but this one, featuring Pierce Brosnan as 007 and the great Jonathan Pryce as his ...

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Trio

W. Somerset Maugham recently got a high-profile boost with the Edward Norton-starring adaptation of The Painted Veil. But this isn't the first time that the cinema has taken to the author's works, as a trilogy of anthology films based upon ...

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