James Bond

Has James Bond ever fit in?

Skyfall drags 007's psyche through the interrogation process

Arron Afflalo winds up on Stiffs list after Nuggets' awful loss to Hornets

Denver blog posts want to have your baby. On his latest "Stiffs List," Denver Stiffs' Nate includes Arron Afflalo and plenty of others. Ooof. Colorado Pols: Sal Pace's well-funded Scott Tipton challenge. Denver Egotist shares an alleged letter from Sean Connery to Steve Jobs featuring the line, " ... More >>

Vodka: a shaken, but not stirred, history of the spirit on screen

​Vodka's rise to popularity wasn't just a matter of taste. As outlined in "Clear Thinking," this week's cover story, brilliant marketing also had a lot to do with the spirit's growth. And that marketing included placements in both movies and television shows -- sometimes purchased, sometimes j ... More >>

Fish and a foul happy hour at Oceanaire

​Happy Place: Oceanaire Seafood Room, 1400 Arapahoe Street, 303-991-2277. The Hours: Sunday through Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. to close. The Deals: $3 draft beer; $4 wines by the glass; $5 specialty cocktails; $6 martinis; $5-$8 small plates. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out ... More >>

James Bond's top five elaborate death scenarios

​Among the most instantly recognizable and enduringly popular scenes from the James Bond movie franchise are the elaborate death traps put into place for the protagonist by a seemingly endless array of antiheroes. The sadistic and convoluted plot devices create dramatic tension, or at least am ... More >>

On the 22nd anniversary of License to Kill, here's to you, Timothy Dalton

​The '80s were not a kind time to James Bond. Always an actor-driven franchise, it rolled into the decade in the waning years of Roger Moore, who would from The Spy Who Loved Me on through Octopussy and A View to Kill, his last entry, see declining profitability in the franchise as people lost ... More >>

Bond, James Bond

A close opening weekend at the box office for two really shitty movies

An actual scene from a movie that somehow made money.​As the summer blockbuster season winds down to its weakest dregs, two terrible movies -- one about James Bond as a cowboy battling aliens with a wristwatch that shoots lasers, the other about a group of zany blue anthropomorphic creatures w ... More >>

Reader: "'Any" Connery Bond? Even 'Never Say Never Again?'"

​There are some movies you'll watch on TV no matter how many times you've seen them before. Yesterday, I called these "catnip movies" and unloaded my list of flicks that grab my attention and keep it, commercials and all. Among the movies on my list were Westerns with Clint Eastwood, either G ... More >>

Ten movies you'll watch no matter how many times you've seen them before

​For my dad, it's Some Like it Hot. For me, it's The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. They're catnip movies: the films you'll watch when they come on TV no matter how many times you've seen them before. Commercials? Yes. Edited scenes? Yes. I don't care. Hand me a bowl of popcorn and keep the remot ... More >>

ThunderCats's new look: Why so serious, Lion-O?

​Once upon a time, cartoons were silly. Consider the original Batman series of the 1960s, a show so jokey it had villains named both The Laugher and The Giggler and starred a not-exactly-ripped-but-still-wearing-spandex Adam West playing the world's most block-headed straight man -- even Tim B ... More >>

Irvin Kershner's ten best films: RoboCop2 and Star Wars among them

Image via towerofyouth.orgIrv Kershner​Rest in peace, Irvin Kershner, you director of RoboCop 2 and some film called The Empire Strikes Back. Born in 1923, he died over the weekend at the age of 87 and left behind an oeuvre of great filmmaking -- including no small number of sequels. So it ma ... More >>

OSS 117: Lost in Rio

Denver-based DigitalGlobe can see your house -- and it's making a mint doing it

DigitalGlobe When you want to stalk someone but Facebook and parking outside their house for hours with binoculars just aren't doing it for you, how about buying high-resolution images of their neighborhood as taken by satellites? Sure, you could just get an image off of Google Maps, but if you wan ... More >>

Parkour videos? Yes, please!

As we note in this week's cover story, "Colorado's Parkour Pioneers are Running With It," the discipline of parkour is best described not through words, but through videos. With that in mind, we've collected a variety of parkour movies, from locally filmed Colorado Parkour clips like the one above ... More >>

Quantum of Solace

Marc Forster has a license to confuse and bore in Quantum of Solace

DNC vs. RNC: Denver's stars kicked ass, St. Paul's not so much

Cake or Death

Eddie Izzard takes the Paramount Theatre stage.

Culinary Cruising: The Bored Millionaire

Beyond Playlist: Henry Butler and More

Wii the People

Video games have grown up. I haven’t.

Your Royal Spyness

Channel Agent 007 at a Dairy Center for the Arts fundraiser.

Champagne Dreams

Champagne Dreams

Loving Lupin

Shoot 'Em Up

This film proves that its star could have been a killer Bond.

Body Snatchin' Body Snatchers. Again.

Franchise Player

Casino Royale

The Bond franchise takes a gamble on a new guy -- and comes up aces.

Busted!

Our undercover critic gets outed.

12 Cents for Marvin

Change (Umo Productions)

Supergrass

Road to Rouen (Capitol)

Club Scout

Manny's Smokehouse

Bite Me

Eyes on the Prize

Cowboy Justice

They ran the toughest cellblock in the most dangerous prison in the state. It was the perfect place to beat inmates.

Think Distinct

This summer's movies could withstand the drought.

Drink of the Week

Indigo Martini

Hit Pick

Scam

Nobody Does It Better

Blending free jazz with film lore, Sex Mob reworks old James Bond soundtracks for a sound that's shaken and stirred.

Spies Unlike Us

Boorman and Le Carré bombard Panama with lies and lust but only a modicum of laughter.

Best New Bar

Funky Buddha Lounge

Goldfrapp

Felt Mountain (Mute)

Big Wheels

Spending $250,000 on a car may not make you happy. But among Denver's rich and famous, it's one way of keeping score.

The Final Frontier

Sci-fi conventions are where movie stars go to burn brightly one more time.

Birth of the Cool

The World Is Not Enough

007 by the Numbers

Clear as Crystal

Bursting With Good Actors

HOW SWELL IT IS

DENVER'S LOUNGE LIZARDS WERE ALL DRESSED UP WITH NO PLACE TO GO. ENTER THE KIT KAT CLUB.LET'S DO LOUNGE SINATRA SONGS, COCKTAIL PARTY CLOTHES AND CHAT GALORE--THEY'LL DRINK TO THAT.