Barnaby Turner

WHAT I LIKED: Fritz Lang's 'M,' is widely regarded as the blueprint for serial killer movies everywhere, and yet most of all it's a portrait of societal panic and the potential abandonment of our values and norms when faced with great fear. Yes, w... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Timothy Dalton did a great job as the gritty, determined Bond in 'The Living Daylights,' only there his motivations weren't always a match for his resolve. In his second and final film 'License to Kill,' though, they couldn't be stro... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: It was clear towards the end of Moore's tenure as Bond that John Glen and the folks at Eon Productions were trying to bring us into Bond's character by placing him in more difficult scenarios, and in order to up the anti and add some... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: 'The Green Mile,' is a classic example of fantasy storytelling being used to work through real-life thematic questions. A mysterious prisoner John comes to death row possessing a power to heal and harm, and with both he and the priso... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Moore's last hoorah as 007 'A View to a Kill,' largely carries on in the vein of its predecessor 'Octopussy,' with a high-stakes story that sends Bond on a wild goose chase in which Moore looks a whole lot more desperate and dishevel... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: By this point in the series, Roger Moore had slowly gone from a cold and breezy 007 to the gentleman's Bond who you can't help loving and rooting for, but in Octopussy we see his feathers ruffled far more than usual. Indeed despite b... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: It's common in the Bond canon that after getting extremely big and expensive, the series takes a left-turn to ground itself in something a little smaller, and such a case can be seen in 'For Your Eyes Only.' Indeed rather than sendin... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: The so-called 'Fallen Trilogy,' as it's become known has been rather hit and miss. The first film was big dumb fun, whilst the second film lacked the gritty direction and Gerard Butler-isms to make up for the sloppy, nationalist stor... Read the full review »