New Bond, New Aston Martin: The Making of the V8 Chase in The Living Daylights
On 5 October 1986, in Vienna, Timothy Dalton was introduced to the world as James Bond. He stood alongside Maryam d’Abo — his Bond girl,…
Making Miniatures Look Massive: Looking Back At EEG’s Special Photographic Effects On ‘Blade Runner’
A combination of lighting and atmospheric effects, the right film stock, and a proprietary motion-controlled camera system called the “Ice-Box” turned Blade Runner’s miniatures an…
Weaponized Elegance: Engineering the Goldfinger Aston Martin DB5
“Beautiful on the outside, vicious on the inside — that was already becoming part of the formula.” — Ken Adam, production designer, Goldfinger It was…
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Burton’s Batmobile: Inside the Creation of Batman’s Iconic Supercar
When the Burton Batmobile reappeared in 2023’s The Flash, it didn’t race through Gotham or fire its afterburners. It just sat in the Bat Cave…
Over the Edge: The Making of Moonraker’s Amazon Boat Chase
John Richardson hangs beneath a helicopter over Iguaçu Falls when he hears the stitching in his harness begin to go. Ping. Ping. Ping. Ping. Below…
The Bondola: Slapstick Takes the Wheel in Moonraker’s Venice Gondola Chase
A Venetian Gondola that transforms into a speed boat then a hovercraft — nicknamed ‘the Bondola’ — earned its title as Bond’s most ridiculed gadget…
Liam Neeson, Not Sean Bean, Was Pierce Brosnan’s Biggest Rival for James Bond
Sean Bean almost became James Bond. Or at least, that’s the story that has followed the actor for decades after GoldenEye reinvented 007 for the…
Aston Martin DB5 with Goldfinger Gadgets Offered by Tom Hartley Jnr
Prestige dealer Tom Hartley Jnr is currently presenting a 1964 Aston Martin DB5 that leans unapologetically into its cinematic legacy. More than just a period-correct…
How Scream Saved Horror by Explaining — and Subverting — the Rules
By the mid-1990s the slasher genre had run out of scares. Then a film arrived that did something radical: it explained the rules of horror…
The Camera Moves That Built Hitchcock’s Suspense Machine
Few filmmakers understood the psychology of the camera as well as Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock believed suspense was not created by plot twists alone, but by…
