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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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'Whilst CASINO ROYALE is regarded as the leaping Bond reboot of record, it is Brosnan’s debut that was the franchise’s real guarantor.'

As GOLDENEYE hits thirty years old today, I explore its successes and achievements...
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#GoldenEye30 #PierceBrosnan #JamesBond
November 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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The year is 30 years ago. Mothers would give their student offspring BT GOLDENEYE 'phonecards' hoping they'd walk to a glass box in the street, step inside & insert a Brosnan card into a machine, lift a plastic receiver & make a phone call to mother
#GoldenEye30 #GoldenEye #PierceBrosnan #JamesBond
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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With Ian Fleming Publications enjoying a great new era of Bond world stories, publications & merch glories, IPF have just given a slick makeover to their own cyber 'hurricane room' - and all bullet catchers should report for duty immediately...

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#IanFleming #JamesBond
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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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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'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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'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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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
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The next Bond will be lesser known, a British man, as forged by Fleming & cast when Denis Villeneuve has completed DUNE - PART 3. Whilst it is speculation, Baz Bamigboye keeps an ear close to the Bond ground & some ideas make reset sense...
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#JamesBond #Bond26 #IanFleming
September 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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A big well done to the team at Ian Fleming Publications and top bullet-catching ally and all round Bond mind Mr. Mark Gatiss for being shortlisted for the The Speakies for his audio book narration of FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE!
#TheSpeakies #MarkGatiss #FromRussiawithLove #IanFleming
September 18, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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As 007 enters a fascinating new era across new technologies, this bullet catching agent is most interested to dive into this new Bond work, SEX FOR DINNER, DEATH FOR BREAKFAST - JAMES BOND AND THE BODY by Brian A. Dixon.

Coming soon from Fourth Horseman Press.

#JamesBond #JamesBondandtheBody
September 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM