James-Bond

Book Review: Love, Death, the Beatles, and James Bond — Britain, for Better or Worse

February 7, 2023
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There’s no question the Beatles come out of John Higgs’ superb book Love and Let Die looking far better than James Bond. Love tends to play better than death and it’s easier to root for working class underdogs than Establishment snobs.

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Film Review: “No Time to Die” — A Miraculous Bond Redux

October 3, 2021
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No Time to Die could only be a product of the Trump era.

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Theater News: James Bond Meets Hamlet, Hilariously

June 3, 2013
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“From Denmark with Love” is playwright John J. King’s amusing mash-up of Shakespeare’s Danish tragedy and Ian Fleming’s Secret Agent 007.

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Theater Review: Geriatric Espionage

September 23, 2007
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by Bill Marx The schizophrenia is instructive if somewhat dizzying. At the Calderwood Pavilion, the Huntington Theatre Company kicks off its season with “The Atheist,” a cynical exercise in scatological anti-heroism about a sleazy reporter who blackmails his way to fame. On its main stage at the Boston University Theater the HTC wallows in PG…

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