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Shardlake

"Yes Considerably"

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Shardlake
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Favourite Fleming Novel
Casino Royale
Favourite Bond Film
On Her Majestys Secret Service
Favourite Bond Actor
Daniel Craig
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  • You Know My Name is the best Bond theme since The Living Daylights.
  • I had no problem with the Teaser very intriguing despite some wanting more but this TV spot certainly teases some great action and that "Bond.. James Bond" from Craig is his best yet and probably one of the all time best of the series.
  • Well if he does get the job it shows a complete lack of imagination and just an example of wanting loads of radio play rather than a song that will suit the film. That voice has no right doing a Bond theme, hopefully this will be the only negativ…
  • 1864 Only 2 episodes to go but Denmark's epic series 1864 has been an extraordinary watch. As epic and vivid as any series that depicts the brutality and futility of war. Regulars from The Killing, Borgen & The Legacy deliver brilliant perfor…
  • AM will deliver a much better suited theme to the Craig era than Florence and her washing machine could ever do. Poor man's Kate Bush, can't see what all the fuss is about but then again not much new music has excited me for years. As for Muse li…
  • DrGorner wrote: » The Game on BBC 2, =D> can't praise this 70s spy show enough. Plenty of Twists in the story, double agents etc. Brilliant, I do hope they make a second series, although as with British TV , a series is only six episodes. …
  • Still Craig, I couldn't see CR with Dalton despite him being my no. 3 Bond and being a big advocate of him during his tenure and throughout Brosnan's. Craig's just got something I just don't see in Dalton, Craig can be dangerous but also sardonic…
  • It's OK to have an opinion and clearly this stage of Bond is not to your liking but I hated the Brosnan era but I'd foolish to say it wasn't successful. Whether I liked it or not has no bearing on blatant fact that Pierce was very well received and …
  • I'm pretty convinced he's just here to wind us all up, it's probably best not to take the bait, he still thinks Craig's era hasn't been a success. I'm sure is medication is probably due.
  • I'm sure there are more extreme cases of miscasting but Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon is got to be up there. Nothing like the character that was written, I must confess to reading both A&D & The Da vinci not my proudest moment but I will sa…
  • I'm warming to Hanks as I get older, I've always thought he's overrated, that consecutive years best actor winner has always rubbed me up the wrong way but I though he put sterling work in Captain Phillips (I prefer A Hijacking still though). Pos…
  • Arctics or Depeche Mode is fine by me, glad that Adele isn't returning. We need a song that can live outside of the credits like the classic Barry collabs. Both AM & DM would easily do that, I'm think the Arctics are a safer bet than DM th…
  • The Game The final 2 episodes bought an exciting close to this series. This show has mostly echoed Tinker Tailor but the climax went a bit Bond and a little silly and far fetched but I'll forgive it and gladly sign up for a 2nd series. Great Br…
  • M_Balje wrote: » Tom Hughes looks like more Henchman material. If there cast Matthew Goode as lead villian with Hughes next to him as friend ''brother''/henchman. Bollocks!
  • bondjames wrote: » I don't know anything about Hughes, but from a quick google search, he has a bit of a Cillian Murphy thing going on in my opinion. A little quirky looking for Bond, no? My Wife remarked he was good looking she likes Craig…
  • I'm throwing Tom Hughes name into the ring, he's doing a fine job in The Game, got the last 2 episodes to watch tomorrow night and have been thoroughly enjoying it. Remember Craig was in Archangel a year before CR and had been popping up on TV qu…
  • doubleoego wrote: » Shardlake wrote: » Easily the best episode of Season 5 and one of the best of the series full stop. The best way I would characterise it is as Helms Deep meets the Waking Dead. We are now completely off book and we've g…
  • Easily the best episode of Season 5 and one of the best of the series full stop. The best way I would characterise it is as Helms Deep meets the Waking Dead. We are now completely off book and we've got the pivotal episode 9 to go, wonder what n…
  • The Game (2014) Apparently our American friends have already seen this but BBC2 started showing it 5 weeks ago here in the UK. My Wife and I have just tucked into the first 2 episodes and I'm impressed so far. The Tinker Tailor comparisons ar…
  • Murdock wrote: » Ludovico wrote: » And even if they are considered better... They were done a long time ago. We may have Dame Shirley Bassey for the Bond song, but that is very unlikely. More likely that it is a contemporary artist and since A…
  • I really hope it isn't Adele again SF is OK and great on the titles but the best Bond theme yet? I suggest you get your ears syringed when you have the likes of Barry & Nancy on the sublime YOLT or Barry & Bassey on DAF. LALD, Nobody Does…
  • If Bond had carried down the path it was taking with the PB era it would have died not long after, we as fans can say it wasn't necessary but we are looking at these films far with too much in detail, the general public couldn't give a stuff for a g…
  • DarthDimi wrote: » @Shardlake, that post is itself worth five stars out of five! Well done! :-) @DarthDimi Thank you very much, I enjoyed writing it and to have it appreciated is most heart warming.
  • Goodfellas (1990) What can be said about this film that hasn't already been said before and why a review now you ask? Well in case you didn't know this has very recently undergone a long overdue 4K restoration supervised by Scorcese himself obvi…
  • @Creasy47, to me that is the way to make a big blockbuster use the SFX to enhance it not take over and Fury Road certainly did that, the fact that I wasn't really much a fan of the original films I'm certainly ready for more films to follow. It'…
  • Mad Max Fury Road 2015 In a post apocalyptic future, road warrior Max (Hardy) ends up being plunged into reluctantly helping Furiosa (Theron) escape from Immortan Joe (Keays-Byrne) as she has stolen his breeding brides and is looking to return to…
  • Sark wrote: » I think people should restrict their title song hopes to people who are hot now. If they haven't had a hit in 5 years they're not getting the nod. The song is important for marketing the movie, so they want someone who is relevant no…
  • Why not British? We've only had one British artist in the whole Craig era. This film needs a male voice, I'm still pinning my hopes on The Arctic Monkeys or Depeche Mode.
  • Thunderfinger wrote: » Dragonpol wrote: » The unrivaled depravity of an element of the hardline socialists/anarchists rarely surprises me any more. And on a more general note historically this tendency of the left to rewrite history with th…
  • Dragonpol wrote: » Gustav_Graves wrote: » Thepastykid wrote: » JCRendle wrote: » On several social media platforms and comment sections, (since the result was called) I have seen a lot of anti-Conservative posts, and hardly anything po…