The Dossing Times

Part 1
Today I try to tie together a narrative on the state of movies as I saw it in 2008 and pay some attention to the people and components of movies that marked the year. Monday brings the Top 10 of the year. Due to the level of gushing from what follows, you should have [...]

Mild Spoilers
Suitably suave in black tie, an event to launch a global media network, escorted to a backroom by henchmen, Pierce Brosnan as James Bond, disposed mercilessly of the last man standing with a single sharp blow to his head using a nearby glass ash tray.
There are the slick lunacies of the plans of Bond [...]

So no quickly cobbled together Halloween trivia or the like for todays list, we come close to the end of ‘James Bond’ week and offer up 6 references to Bond from Simpsons episodes. There are countless choices that could be included, from entire episodes to coy one liners. Bond at its best demands a willing [...]

A long lasting bitter feud emerged during Sean Connery’s term as 007, so that he continues to be on bad terms with the series producers. The most obvious statement of this was the 1983 movie ‘Never Say Never Again’, a movie often considered part of the Bond canon, which is however an unofficial entry, with [...]

First up, we have 3 Bond movie themes as selected by us Dossing Times boys, then John Barrys classic James Bond theme, followed by Mobys remix, released with ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’
Simon’s choice, ‘All the Time in the World’, from ‘On Her Majestys Secret Service’

I think the OHMSS opening titles deserve a look, watch them here
Tuathals’ [...]

We’ve committed a lot of blog space and discussions of post ideas on Bond. I still remember losing/using a whole afteroon putting together a selection of alternative Bond themes – we discovered one and were going to include it among a list of Bond trivia to mark Ian Flemings birth, then we discovered 5 more [...]

I remember standing in Madame Tussaud’s in London shortly after ‘Goldeneye’ was released and of course was in my element in the movie/actor section – on one side was Pierce Brosnan surrounded by the ‘Opening Sequence’ roving gun barrel, with Tina Turner belting out ‘Goldeneye’ (the last good Bond theme in this writers opinion) – [...]

We’re fans of Bond here at the Dossing Times and to celebrate what is always an event movie, the release of ‘Quantum of Solace’, we’re going to attempt to put together a week of posts on all things Bond. I can’t really comment beyond that, what the posts will comprise is still not finalised, you [...]