Highlights from 94 Years of Oscars

The first Academy Awards were handed out back in 1929. The “show” looked decidedly different then – it was in fact a dinner, the ceremony itself took 15 minutes and…

A View to a Kill

James Bond (Roger Moore) realizes that an American industrialist (Christopher Walken) plans to destroy Silicon Valley in order to gain control of the world’s microchip market. Bond flick nr. 14…

Octopussy 

Agent 009 is murdered and the only clue is a Fabergé egg; it leads James Bond (Roger Moore) to a collector (Louis Jourdan) in league with a dangerous Soviet general…

For Your Eyes Only 

A spy ship containing a communications device critical to British intelligence sinks off the coast of Albania; James Bond (Roger Moore) must retrieve it before the KGB do. The twelfth…

Moonraker

James Bond (Roger Moore) tries to find out what happened to a missing space shuttle and the traces lead to an industrialist (Michael Lonsdale) who is planning to start a…

The Spy Who Loved Me: Baby, You’re the Best

Roger Moore and Barbara Bach. Photo: United Artists There are many reasons why this tenth chapter is my favorite of the James Bond movies, along with Goldfinger (1964). One of…

The Man With the Golden Gun 

James Bond (Roger Moore) learns that Scaramanga (Christopher Lee), the world’s greatest hit man, has been paid to assassinate him; Bond goes after this man who kills with a golden…

Live and Let Die

James Bond (Roger Moore) investigates several murders that lead him to New York and dr. Kananga (Yaphet Kotto) who is planning to destroy the U.S. by flooding it with heroin.…