James Bond

Actor, Comedian, and Writer Peter McGann joins Alan and Ellen to talk about the first Pierce Brosnan Bond movie, 1995's GoldenEye. You might know Peter better as his unsettling alter-ego Liam Nugent or from the Republic of Telly. Today,…

“Taking Bond back to his roots” is a phrase we hear a lot these days as the producers try to capitalise on the ever reliable appetite for hard, gritty tones in their films. But back in the 80s it was a different story. The phrase was…

"Stop talking about American things and let's watch The Greatest Movie Ever Made,"  - said Alan Partridge of The Spy Who Loved Me to a caravan full of bewildered colleagues, whom he would then berate for their lack of knowledge of the Bond…

It’s a little bizarre that in the broader subconscious this film doesn’t register as strongly with the masses as some of the other Bond’s. Normally Goldfinger and The Spy Who Loved Me are the most well-remembered and quintessential flicks…

The Bond actors always fell into ‘extended family gathering’ archetypes. Lazenby is the aged swinger; fond of telling you about all the women he’s bedded but likely to start crying about his life after a few hours. Craig is your aunt’s new…

They say the best parodies come from a place a true affection, that you can only scathingly send something up if you have real investment in it to start with. This was definitely the case with Austin Powers as Bond had in many ways already…

Casino Royale’s legacy is, ten years on, an impressive and slightly surprising one. I’m not sure anyone fully realised in the immediate pre-Craig era quite how far Bond had fallen as a cultural icon. Sure, Die Another Day was at that point…

I continue to be taken aghast by the amount of people who admit to me that they've never seen a James Bond film. I accept that not all genres appeal to all people, but avoiding the entire Bond series for a lifetime is akin to managing to go…

On Tuesday, #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend trended on Twitter. The tag saw plenty of superhero fans, members of the LGBT community, and general people in favour of a bit of diversity in Hollywood band together to ask the folks over at Marvel…

HeadStuff music editor Dave Hanratty is joined by co-hosts Craig Fitzpatrick of Newstalk and Colm O'Regan of Hot Press magazine for some music-related chatter before the studio is invaded by Joe Panama and Stevie Darragh of the mighty…