Before it became the lethal extension of a cinematic super-spy, the Aston Martin DB5 was a masterclass in Italian-inspired British engineering produced by a company…
In the history of cinematic aquatic action, the boat chase in Live and Let Die (1973) stands as a massive mechanical upgrade to the daylight…
In the vast archive of unmade cinema, most “lost” films are merely fragments—a pitch on a napkin or a half-finished outline. But Forever and a…
In front of the camera, the Mission: Impossible team was a well-oiled machine: a group of elite specialists working in perfect harmony under a cool,…
Everyone remembers GoldenEye for its bungee jump. It is the stunt that introduced Pierce Brosnan as James Bond: a sheer concrete dam, a silent fall,…
The motorbike BASE jump executed by Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning was promoted by both Paramount and the media as “the biggest…
Few films have achieved the level of consensus enjoyed by Jaws. It is widely regarded as the perfect blockbuster, and it may even be the…
Steven Spielberg borrowed the underwater POV shots from the 1950s Universal monster movie but eclipsed them with confident and beautiful cinematography–and masterful pacing. Chrissie Watkins,…
How did a B-movie-type monster movie become a genre-defining blockbuster that changed modern film-making? On June 20, 1975, Jaws opened across North America and changed…
The boat chase in From Russia with Love turned into one of the most dangerous shoots in early Bond history. Real boats were blown apart….