Tag Archives: Daniel Craig

Paul Newman’s Farewell (film: Road to Perdition – Sam Mendes, 2002)

Posted on April 14, 2024 by admin

The tradition of big Hollywood actors playing the roles of crime family bosses is well entrenched in the history of American cinema. About halfway between Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro we have Paul Newman, one of the most impressive … Continue reading →

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21st century Bond (film: NoTime to Die – Cary Joji Fukunaga, 2021)

Posted on October 4, 2021 by admin

One of my guilty pleasures as a moviegoer is watching James Bond movies and I have no intention of apologising for that. Thus, I watched as soon as I had the opportunity ‘No Time to Die‘ directed by Cary Joji … Continue reading →

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the next Daniel Craig series? (film: Knives Out – Rian Johnson, 2019)

Posted on May 2, 2020 by admin

‘Knives Out‘ uses the ‘whodunit’ formula that enjoyed great success about half a century ago: complex police intrigues based on novels written by Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie or in the style of the British masters of the detective genre, … Continue reading →

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007 – overcome by events (Film: Spectre – James Bond, 2015)

Posted on November 26, 2015 by admin

Action films have a problem this fall. The reality of the crazy world we live in is not only rapidly closing in the horrors and destruction imagined by script authors, but it is overcoming it also at some moments. ‘Spectre’ … Continue reading →

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a remake worth being made, but … (Film: The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo – Daniel Craig, 2011)

Posted on September 20, 2015 by admin

When I wrote about the Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo a few years ago I ended with a remark that I am concerned about the news of an American Hollywood version of the film. I still … Continue reading →

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heroic view of the Bielski brothers story (Film: Defiance – Edward Zwick, 2008)

Posted on October 11, 2013 by admin

Defiance tells about one of the lesser known episodes of World War II in which a group of Polish Jews saved themselves from the ghettos and the executions by the German occupiers and their local collaborators and formed a partisans … Continue reading →

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21st century Bond (Film: Skyfall – James Bond, 2012)

Posted on November 24, 2012 by admin

The century is the 21st according to one of the popular counting methods and ‘Bond, James Bond’ is still spoken from the screen by a man dressed in a tuxedo with a glass of a selected cocktail in hand. Yet, … Continue reading →

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