TIMOTHY DALTON SEEKS REVENGE WITHOUT HIS 'LICENSE TO KILL'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-fCLmLklAyqoN9AvLjeUqxJ8P2DAN6iDhv8W6kWM1VUl1zEhsoBtBptwIpJ0ERKdTXweh_nSAkKQI95u7vyG4ZO7alHdaSEXQ2cvCUq-mwe6DGQJjFdRbVpPfdR4LjvVCtovma2m-2WNjOCp1mTGW9novGTLDv8rcrxkWToqg9WQCkcW_B6R8VZy2NQ/s1456/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-12%20at%202.33.04%20AM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="838" data-original-width="1456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-fCLmLklAyqoN9AvLjeUqxJ8P2DAN6iDhv8W6kWM1VUl1zEhsoBtBptwIpJ0ERKdTXweh_nSAkKQI95u7vyG4ZO7alHdaSEXQ2cvCUq-mwe6DGQJjFdRbVpPfdR4LjvVCtovma2m-2WNjOCp1mTGW9novGTLDv8rcrxkWToqg9WQCkcW_B6R8VZy2NQ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-12%20at%202.33.04%20AM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Timothy Dalton in LICENSE TO KILL Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A gritty and severe revenge plot makes Timothy Dalton's second of two James Bond vehicles, LICENSE TO KILL, a kind of standalone with built-in irony from the title since, after Roger Moore-era Felix Leiter is mangled and his new wife killed, the vengeful Bond's deadly License is taken away...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Because the charming spy from The Queen's Secret Service is making more like an American Action Movie Hero under a balmy, drug-dealing, hidden-coke-packaging MIAMI VICE influence... </p><p><span></span></p>

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TIMOTHY DALTON SEEKS REVENGE WITHOUT HIS 'LICENSE TO KILL'

Timothy Dalton in LICENSE TO KILL Year: 1989 Rating: ***1/2 A gritty and severe revenge plot makes Timothy Dalton's second of two James ...

TIMOTHY DALTON PLAYS JAMES BOND IN 'THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheshQiKmyrG5Ci2DUt6dPEh4fg-k7WQQF_E7YHasvKoOhSxr57Sv8PMnH9oG1zyJd9RDF0Qr44mpE0kT3JmdHaHp9vT4575Nsmj3DOjjY22F5M01xNO_dW43KbRqoMssnTn6cqx1ktct_EueoxS_1EwIrmQKjUrysorONOnr2PKfkKtORwcXEJ7dWJSw/s2279/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-11%20at%2011.26.07%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="934" data-original-width="2279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheshQiKmyrG5Ci2DUt6dPEh4fg-k7WQQF_E7YHasvKoOhSxr57Sv8PMnH9oG1zyJd9RDF0Qr44mpE0kT3JmdHaHp9vT4575Nsmj3DOjjY22F5M01xNO_dW43KbRqoMssnTn6cqx1ktct_EueoxS_1EwIrmQKjUrysorONOnr2PKfkKtORwcXEJ7dWJSw/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202022-06-11%20at%2011.26.07%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Timothy Dalton in THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS Year: 1987 Rating: **** </u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>While Timothy Dalton seemed more like another cool spy that James Bond would work with, and might even turn into a villain with such an unpredictable temperament and sneaky demeanor, he was the one James Bond where personality didn't matter, making it all about the mission...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Beginning with his first of two features that, despite the trendy outcry over the past decade's excessive use of gadgetry, still kept plenty of leftover attributes from the Roger Moore era including the same actors for M and of course Q, here providing car with a built-in laser, torpedo rockets, and wheels that become skis...</p><p><span></span></p>

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TIMOTHY DALTON PLAYS JAMES BOND IN 'THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS'

Timothy Dalton in THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS Year: 1987 Rating: **** While Timothy Dalton seemed more like another cool spy that James Bond would ...

EDGAR WRIGHT & SIMON PEGG'S BUDDY COP HOMAGE 'HOT FUZZ'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjInrVZYBgF3BsIazIaIM8lMo5_PEAE_qyA7tlQxYczAKPJnSKUi4_9FyB6FehAQVbWdjJgjYi75T4gfRhljNu4Wy6BnQsb9LdI5cTGe0S_MEt9LB7MYviGEZYldGqOA8ammYtkMSm3WJofUIqhbPyRJv27CiTG_Zq4Yp8atTKIMlAlE_qp0hSUfcksyA/s1713/0.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="737" data-original-width="1713" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjInrVZYBgF3BsIazIaIM8lMo5_PEAE_qyA7tlQxYczAKPJnSKUi4_9FyB6FehAQVbWdjJgjYi75T4gfRhljNu4Wy6BnQsb9LdI5cTGe0S_MEt9LB7MYviGEZYldGqOA8ammYtkMSm3WJofUIqhbPyRJv27CiTG_Zq4Yp8atTKIMlAlE_qp0hSUfcksyA/s16000/0.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Edgar Wright's HOT FUZZ Year: 2007 Rating: *****</u><br></td></tr></tbody></table><p>After British director Edgar Wright and his leading man and writing partner Simon Pegg scored with the zombie comedy SHAUN OF THE DEAD, it was time for straight-out action that, while also loaded with hijinks, takes the cop genre more seriously, especially Pegg's against-type performance as a tough guy instead of the usual shrugging slacker from DEAD and before that he and Wright's pop-culture-referencing sit-com, SPACED...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And there are even more nostalgic homages here as HOT FUZZ is a mega-satire on mainstream American buddy-cop flicks ranging from LETHAL WEAPON to POINT BREAK... and for the British it's loaded with iconic cult actors of that country's more cerebral crime genre past...</p><p><span></span></p>

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EDGAR WRIGHT & SIMON PEGG'S BUDDY COP HOMAGE 'HOT FUZZ'

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost in Edgar Wright's HOT FUZZ Year: 2007 Rating: ***** After British director Edgar Wright and his leading man an...

THE TOURIST

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir6vzKYcMhJvwrs0ZbXV1OBjfyW2OloJMS_kJAuGE0H2j0sn-w9rWZi_vVd4eJIUj9eWrH6995bBcI6obRQx7v7ujnxBIzNO023_b1O77TBPyvtt5o1xldqdZ7BYd2CjiZDoraFqXFDrI/s1600/the-tourist-2010--00-300-75.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610772107286695986" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir6vzKYcMhJvwrs0ZbXV1OBjfyW2OloJMS_kJAuGE0H2j0sn-w9rWZi_vVd4eJIUj9eWrH6995bBcI6obRQx7v7ujnxBIzNO023_b1O77TBPyvtt5o1xldqdZ7BYd2CjiZDoraFqXFDrI/s200/the-tourist-2010--00-300-75.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 120px; height: 200px;" /></a><div><span style="font-weight: bold;">title: </span>THE TOURIST</div><span style="font-weight: bold;">year: </span>2010 <span style="font-weight: bold;">cast:</span> Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Steven Berkoff, Timothy Dalton <span style="font-weight: bold;">rating:</span> ** <div></div>In one scene, Angelina Jolie, as a British secret agent, glides into a lush Italian hotel bedroom, and Johnny Depp, as a timid American math teacher, after having second thoughts of joining her, sits on a couch and starts reading an espionage novel. That’s what this movie feels like – watching one thing when you’d be better off reading another. The plot has Jolie choosing train-riding tourist Depp (resembling Billy Crystal with a grunge Beethoven pompadour) as a red herring: knowing the government has their eyes on her every move.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwILkza-O9Qd9I8R5thZHiCZFutuFhw6M0wLpXTMhfHfDzAy7VgF59X6V7RW5hR445Jteop7vCDr_oomxz5T1cjteDZg7upbCzCEIOuFCV2qFpRX-srs56lEUhIM0KzPe2MEzZkBlfGbc/s1600/eee.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610771965647738562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwILkza-O9Qd9I8R5thZHiCZFutuFhw6M0wLpXTMhfHfDzAy7VgF59X6V7RW5hR445Jteop7vCDr_oomxz5T1cjteDZg7upbCzCEIOuFCV2qFpRX-srs56lEUhIM0KzPe2MEzZkBlfGbc/s200/eee.jpg" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 99px; height: 200px;" /></a> They’re waiting for her to connect with a mystery man wanted for stealing billions from a billionaire. So the agents sweat behind computer monitors, trying to keep villainous Steven Berkoff, who wants his money back, from killing her. There are only a few quick action scenes, the chemistry between the sleepwalking leads is nonexistent, and the twist ending is not only predictable, but delivers one of the dumbest final bouts of dialog (during the last twenty seconds) in cinematic history.

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THE TOURIST

title: THE TOURIST year: 2010 cast: Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Steven Berkoff, Timothy Dalton rating: ** In one scene, Angelina Jolie, ...

SUMMARY ARCHIVE REVIEW OF CULT CLASSIC 'FLASH GORDON'

<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUMsUHmAsmjSXq9hWjdQy8XHb-Z8YFqhAxnD3dSohjasZy0l-K61KYlXMW2Hk1eJ4C-qnX8pcvFQcUdg6Y5OGpP9K6bDK0PFR5MaXL58n41UI1yDY20S6KJx4NSg18ucvOhgS8QogF6G_l_BzbEISjQORJj-ze9n6YHRRUWs7XWuQdtpe9iMvorWx6iw/s1060/Screen%20Shot%202023-03-08%20at%2011.10.22%20PM.jpeg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="780" data-original-width="1060" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUMsUHmAsmjSXq9hWjdQy8XHb-Z8YFqhAxnD3dSohjasZy0l-K61KYlXMW2Hk1eJ4C-qnX8pcvFQcUdg6Y5OGpP9K6bDK0PFR5MaXL58n41UI1yDY20S6KJx4NSg18ucvOhgS8QogF6G_l_BzbEISjQORJj-ze9n6YHRRUWs7XWuQdtpe9iMvorWx6iw/s320/Screen%20Shot%202023-03-08%20at%2011.10.22%20PM.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1980 Rating: ****</u><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>A classic in every way, FLASH GORDON has only one "drawback": the title is somewhat misleading, being that our square-jawed hero, a perfectly-cast Sam J. Jones, has allies equally as important: Brian Blessed as Prince Vultan the hawk man, Timothy Dalton as Prince Barin, Melody Anderson as the beautiful ingenue Dale Arden, Ornella Muti as the seductive Princess Auri, and Topol as Dr. Zarkov, the wily scientist responsible for getting Gordon into space to save the Earth from Ming the Merciless, played by wickedly dependable Max Von Sydow. The way Flash goes from one doomed situation to the next, thrust into the primal customs of each race, is as perfect as the Queen soundtrack: cutting through the action like a machete. A man-to-man battle involving Gordon and Barin (Dalton) on a revolving spiked sphere is a standout. Director Mike Hodges and producer Dino De Laurentiis create a world that not only resembles a gloriously conceived comic book, but<span style="font-style: italic;"> reads </span>like one as well.

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SUMMARY ARCHIVE REVIEW OF CULT CLASSIC 'FLASH GORDON'

Year: 1980 Rating: **** A classic in every way, FLASH GORDON has only one "drawback": the title is somewhat misleading, being that...