The BBC America miniseries on the 007 author makes for a enjoyable ride through the backstory of the man who created -- and really wanted to be -- James Bond. By Tim Goodman Fleming: The Man Who Would ...
Fleming — Ian Fleming — has become the subject of a biographical miniseries, “Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond.” Commencing Wednesday on BBC America, it mainly concerns the wartime adventures of the ...
It may come as a surprise to many of our viewers that I happen to be a massive James Bond fan. After all, while the movies have given us an incredible range of beautiful scenery, beautiful people, and ...
Who’s your favourite Bond? Is it pouting block of man-granite Daniel Craig? Living seaside postcard Roger Moore? Or maybe it’s Alex Salmond’s Speyside spirit guide, Sean Connery? It doesn’t really ...
I’ve avoided using the phrase ‘licence to thrill’ while reviewing Fleming. Partly because it’s a cliché so lazy that you can lick it and stick it to anything remotely to do with 007, but mostly ...
Shaken but not particularly stirring, “Fleming: The Man Who Would be Bond” is a better title than a miniseries — a fact-based story (albeit fudged, as the disclaimer notes) that never quite takes ...