Before 1985, few people had heard of snowboarding. Then out came A View To A Kill, featuring James Bond shredding down a mountainside in Siberia….
The 1964 Bond scene that foresaw the laser’s role as a precision industrial and medical tool. When Goldfinger hit cinemas in 1964, most people had…
When The Spy Who Loved Me hit theaters in 1977, the sight of a Lotus Esprit diving into the sea and transforming into a submarine…
Frank M. Rinderknecht has built a career out of transforming cinematic fantasy into physical engineering. Few designers have embraced the playful, futuristic spirit of James…
Ah, James Bond films—the pinnacle of espionage entertainment, filled with ingenious gadgets, and villains who monologue like they’re auditioning for Shakespeare as they outline their…
In the heart-stopping opening sequence of 1979’s Moonraker, James Bond is pushed out of a plane without a parachute. This is long before CGI, long…
In a seismic shift for one of cinema’s most enduring franchises, Amazon MGM Studios has officially tapped David Heyman and Amy Pascal as the new…
British agent James Bond, the spy who knows almost everything on any subject does sometimes get it wrong. Or at least his screenwriter does. In…
The James Bond novels—and the films they inspired—are not exactly known for their realism, but creator Ian Fleming often took inspiration from real life. Ernst…
In May 1964, Bill Suitor was about to become famous. Soon he’d make a legendary flight in a real-life jetpack for the latest James Bond…