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Mark O'Connell
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Writer. Author. Bond Fan.

CATCHING BULLETS - MEMOIRS OF A BOND FAN (Prelude by Barbara Broccoli)

WATCHING SKIES - STAR WARS SPIELBERG AND US

Rep'd by Vivienne Clore

#JamesBond #CatchingBullets #WatchingSkies #Bond26

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · Mar 22
Welcome to a veritable Double-O show of 007 related missions, interviews, curios and exclusive insight. The best MI6 office for CATCHING BULLETS' video treats, insights and interviews is on YouTube so subscribe another day with love...

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#JamesBond #Bond26 #IanFleming
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SPINRAKER as the expanded soundtrack to BOND '79 gets a vinyl overhaul! A year since @lalalandrecords.bsky.social published their great MOONRAKER soundtrack release they've now issued a limited vinyl release!
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#Moonraker #JohnBarry #JamesBond #ShirleyBassey #vinyl
November 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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To mark DARKER THAN THE SUN - AN ATLAS OF JAMES BOND MOVIE LOCATIONS, authors Matthew Field & Ajay Chowdhury are hosting an event at Stanford's London store with various geo-pins of Bond talent taking part...

For tickets:
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#DarkerThanTheSun #JamesBond
Celebrate - Darker Than The Sun: An Atlas of James Bond Movie Locations
This is a Stanfords, London event
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November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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'Always be original. Never duplicate what you’ve seen another actor do. Be true to the character that you’ve been given, and the rest will come easy.’

ONCE A BOND WARRIOR - RIP Lee Tamahori...
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#RIPLeeTamahori #JamesBond #DieAnotherDay
November 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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This GREMLINS obsessed sky kid promises to now never eat after midnight or turn on a bright light until Nov 19th 2027, but the real news of GREMLINS 3 directed by Chris Columbus & produced by Spielberg does get me a bit wet...

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#Gremlins #Gremlins3 #WatchingSkies
November 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Following rather aptly in the footsteps of Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, 007's newest producer Amy Pascal will receive the PGA's David O. Selznick Award for Producing in February 2026.
#PGA #AmyPascal #DavidHeyman #DavidOSelznickAward #Bond26 #JamesBond #AmazonMGMStudios
November 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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PLANES, TRAINS AND BOND AUTOMOBILES as bespoke publishing house Assouline park up their third 007 coffee table epic in the road-worthy guise of the slick JAMES BOND CARS by Chris Corbould...

JAMES BOND CARS
by Chris Corbould
Assouline
£100

#JamesBondCars #Assouline #JamesBond
November 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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'Things were about to turn video nasty!'
- Timothy Dalton, LICENCE TO KILL / 1989

HAPPY HALLOWEEN to all Bond agents, allies and pals!

#Halloween #JamesBond
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October 31, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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To help launch a brilliant new London arts space and venue in Hampstead, Bond composer David Arnold is showcasing an intimate event celebrating his work...

DAVID ARNOLD - SCORES & STORIES: THE ART OF FILM MUSIC
The Circle & Star Theatre
Fri 12th Dec / £30

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October 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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'Field and Chowdhury have crafted both a vital satnav and historical compass to the global choices of a spy.'

MAPPING BOND’S WANDERLUST – Reviewing DARKER THAN THE SUN – AN ATLAS OF JAMES BOND MOVIES...

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#DarkerThanTheSun #JamesBond #AjayChowdhury #MatthewField
October 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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REY OF FIRST LIGHT as a music world rumour suggests Lana Del Rey might be performing the next Bond title anthem.

With Bond game 007 FIRST LIGHT readying itself on the starter grid for its March 2026 launch, might Rey be finally getting her Bond song mission?!

#LanaDelRey #007FirstLight #JamesBond
October 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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With a pop-culture wink at more than just Bond, Ian Fleming Publications reveal the title of the second instalment in their imminent THE Q MYSTERIES series by author @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social to be THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN COMPASS!
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#TheQMysteries #VaseemKhan
October 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Remembering my childhood hero, my childhood fashion guru & my childhood Bond on what would have been his 98th birthday.

The world is still a bit less fun, a bit less charming & a bit less sauve without Sir Roger Moore.

Art/Siegfried Groß.

#RogerMoore #JamesBond #SirRogerMoore #TheSpyWhoLovedMe
October 14, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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As we recognise her centenary today, this happy, thriving & very inalienable gay is delighted and thankful that vicious, withered witch has been rotting dead in her grave for the same twelve years she told me & my childhood we had no future, rights or place in society.
#MargaretThatcher100
#LGBTQ 🏳️‍🌈
October 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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THE EXPERIENCE OF CUTTING – Catching GREY FLANNEL, Bond's London tailoring and GOLDENEYE at 30:
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#GoldenEye #GoldenEye #GreyFlannel #JamesBond
October 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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HURRICANE KIM!

Mindful of unused movie poster art concepts for OHMSS (1969), Bond world author Kim Sherwood reveals the US cover art for the third adventure in her DOUBLE O trilogy, HURRICANE ROOM.

#HurricaneRoom #KimSherwood #DoubleO #JamesBond #JamesBondIsAlive #ASpyLikeMe #DoubleOrNothing
October 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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'Oh, I travel - a kind of licensed trouble-shooter'

As Bond's jet-pack & jet-set glory THUNDERBALL marks its 60th anniversary, the travel-minded agents at GLOBE-TROTTER have created a bespoke, rather delicious collection of BOND '65 luggage:
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#Thunderball #JamesBond
October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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JAMES BOND'S STATESIDE COMPANION - Catching RAYMOND BENSON & THE HOOK AN THE EYE as 007's newest novel becomes a paperback leiter via a London launch night & a celebration of Fleming's right hand man...

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#FelixLeiter #TheHookandtheEye #RaymondBenson @raymondbenson.bsky.social
JAMES BOND'S STATESIDE COMPANION - Catching RAYMOND BENSON & THE HOOK AND THE EYE
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October 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Whilst I can't get the sign-of-the-cross making vicar from FOR YOUR EYES ONLY out of my head, this bullet catcher is now on TikTok and really needs to see some familiar and maybe new faces! Say hi and let's all avoid being dropped down a cyber chimney!

www.tiktok.com/@markoconnel...

#JamesBond
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October 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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This bullet catcher also has a James Bond minded YouTube channel so shake and stir that subscription box and join in on a veritable Double-O Show of films, treats, insights and Bond perspective...
youtube.com/@catchingbul...
#Bond26 #JamesBond #MarkOConnell #IanFleming
CATCHING BULLETS & James Bond with Mark O'Connell
Welcome to a Double-O show of James Bond related missions, interviews, curios and exclusive insight from the author, film journalist and pop-culture commentator Mark O'Connell (CATCHING BULLETS - MEMO...
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October 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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New Bond.
New Mission.
New Bullets.

Mark O'Connell Will Return / 2026

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#JamesBond #IanFleming #Bond26 #2026 #007 #MarkOConnell
New Bond. New Mission. New Bullets.
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October 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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'You have a nasty habit of surviving.'
'Well, you know what they say about the fittest.'

Happy JAMES BOND DAY to all Bond fans, agents and allies across the world! New bullet-catching things are happening and JAMES BOND WILL RETURN.

#JamesBond #JamesBondDay #Bond26 #AmazonMGMStudios #IanFleming
October 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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'As important to one movie generation as GOLDFINGER (1964) was to the 1960s and as much of a producers’ gamble as THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1977) was to the 1970s, 1995’s GOLDENEYE marked a crucial return, reboot & revival for 007.'

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#GoldenEye30 #GoldenEye #JamesBond
'GoldenEye' at 25: The silver legacy of Bond's most important reboot
As it reaches its twenty-fifth anniversary, what is the franchise legacy and movie consequence of GoldenEye?
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October 4, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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It's Your Seventy-fifth Birthday, Charlie Brown!

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#Snoopy #CharlieBrown #Peanuts #Peanuts75 #CharlesMSchulz
October 2, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Happy ninetieth birthday to the only singing nun from Walton-On-Thames who got a John Barry scored Maurice Binder title sequence!

#JulieAndrews #JulieAndrews90 #JohnBarry #TheTamarindSeed
October 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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'My golden gun against your Walther PPK.'

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN CHUMS as this gilded bullet catcher is birthday gifted his own powerful weapon - and it is indeed a thing of Bond beauty that is easily worth a million a shot.

#TheManWithTheGoldenGun #JamesBond #Scaramanga
September 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM