GoldenEye’s Forgotten Motorbike BASE Jump Deserves More Respect
Everyone remembers GoldenEye for its bungee jump. It is the stunt that introduced Pierce Brosnan...
Author: Daniel Rennie
Dead Reckoning’s Motorbike Jump: How 13,000 Jumps, 500 Skydives, Computer Simulation, and an Engineered Ramp Created Cinema’s “Biggest Stunt”
The motorbike BASE jump executed by Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning was...
Estuary Attack: Would Jaws’ Infamous Deleted Scene Ruined A Horror Classic?
Few films have achieved the level of consensus enjoyed by Jaws. It is widely regarded...
Shark POV: How ‘Jaws’ Improved On The POV Shot Used In ‘The Creature From The Black Lagoon’
Steven Spielberg borrowed the underwater POV shots from the 1950s Universal monster movie but eclipsed...
‘Jaws’: The Monster Movie That Invented The Summer Blockbuster
How did a B-movie-type monster movie become a genre-defining blockbuster that changed modern film-making? On...
From Russia With Flames: The Making of the Boat Chase That Nearly Killed Its Director
The boat chase in From Russia with Love turned into one of the most dangerous...
The Encor Series I: A Modern Esprit S4 Wearing Bond’s Most Iconic Disguise
The Encor Series I is built on the chassis of a Lotus Esprit S4, but...
Tom Sims, Apocalypse Snow — and the James Bond Stunt That Transformed Snowboarding
Before 1985, few people had heard of snowboarding. Then out came A View To A...
How Goldfinger Predicted the Future of Laser Technology
The 1964 Bond scene that foresaw the laser’s role as a precision industrial and medical...
How Bond’s Lotus Esprit Submarine Inspired the Real-Life Rinspeed sQuba
When The Spy Who Loved Me hit theaters in 1977, the sight of a Lotus...