 Die Another Day 2002  PG-13, 115 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Lee Tamahori
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Toby Stephens, Rosamund Pike, Rick Yune, John Cleese, Judi Dench, Michael Madsen, Will Yun Lee, Samantha Bond, Kenneth Tsang, Emilio Echevarria, Mikhail Gorevoy, Lawrence Makoare, Colin Salmon
James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) travels the world–from the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, to Hong Kong, Cuba, London, and Iceland–seeking revenge against his enemies. His trek begins when he is released from prison in North Korea and sets off to track down terrorist Zao (Rick Yune) in Cuba. While in Cuba, Bond meets fellow spy Jinx (Halle Berry) and then he heads to London where he encounters millionaire Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens) who has his own devious plans and invites Bond to Iceland. Bond and Jinx work as a team and try to put an end to the evil deeds of Zao, Graves, and other villains.
|  | |
Emma 1996 TV, 107 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Diarmid Lawrence
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Bernard Hepton, Mark Strong, Samantha Bond, James Hazeldine, Dominic Rowan, Samantha Morton, Prunella Scales, Sylvia Barter, Olivia Williams, Guy Henry, Dido Miles, Raymond Coulthard, Lucy Robinson, Peter Howell
This made-for-TV retelling of Jane Austen's comedy of manners stars Kate Beckinsale, who does a good job in her role of Emma. Set in the early 1800s, it is the story of the clever Emma who routinely gets into the affairs of others–especially matchmaking–and stays so busy fixing up others that she just might fail to realize that she is falling in love herself.
| | |
Erik the Viking 1989  PG-13, 106 min.
Genre: Comedy / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Terry Jones
Cast: Tim Robbins, John Cleese, Mickey Rooney, Eartha Kitt, Terry Jones, Imogen Stubbs, Antony Sher, Freddie Jones, John Gordon Sinclair, Tsutomu Sekine, Gary Cady, Tim McInnerny, Samantha Bond
Eric (Tim Robbins) is tired of the Age of Ragnarok with its raping and pillaging. To find an alternative, he sets off on a journey to the end of the world accompanied by an unlikely bunch of groupies.
| | |
 GoldenEye 1995  PG-13, 130 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Martin Campbell
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Robbie Coltrane, Judi Dench, Joe Don Baker, Tcheky Karyo, Famke Janssen, Samantha Bond, Desmond Llewelyn, Gottfried John, Alan Cumming, Michael Kitchen, Serena Gordon, Simon Kunz
It has been six years since the last James Bond film entry. GoldenEye is named after Ian Fleming's Jamaican estate, and Agent 007 (Pierce Brosnan in his debut as James Bond) is back in business with lots of gadgets, beautiful ladies, and location filming in Monte Carlo, the Caribbean, and St. Petersburg. In this film, 1990s' Russia is chaotic and filled with scheming military officers and an underworld syndicate. Great scene alert: Bond rolling a tank over St. Petersburg's cars.
| | |
 Tomorrow Never Dies 1997 PG-13, 119 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher, Gotz Otto, Judi Dench, Desmond Llewelyn, Samantha Bond, Joe Don Baker, Vincent Schiavelli, Ricky Jay, Colin Salmon, Geoffrey Palmer, Julian Fellowes, Terence Rigby
This top-flight James Bond adventure stars Pierce Brosnan as Agent 007 battling media baron Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) who will stop at nothing to boost his ratings–even starting World War III as he and his cohorts plot to sink a British naval ship and then place the blame on China. Bond teams up with Chinese External Security Force agent Wai Lin (Michelle Yeoh) to bring an end to Carver's madness. Carver is married to Paris (Teri Hatcher) who just happens to be one of Bond's former lovers, and his superior, M (Judi Dench), ensures that the past relationship is exploited as Bond and Wai Lin go after the ruthless Carver.
| | |
 The World Is Not Enough 1999 PG-13, 128 min.
Genre: Action / Thriller / Adventure
Director: Michael Apted
Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Denise Richards, Robert Carlyle, Robbie Coltrane, Judi Dench, Samantha Bond, Desmond Llewelyn, John Cleese, Serena Scott Thomas, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Michael Kitchen, Colin Salmon, Goldie, David Calder
Pierce Brosnan takes on the James Bond role for the third time in this action-filled thriller. After Bond's friend Sir Robert King (David Calder) is killed at M16 headquarters, Bond takes on the mission of protecting King's daughter Electra (Sophie Marceau) who has inherited his oil rights. Bond teams up with nuclear weapons expert Dr. Christmas Jones (Denise Richards), and they investigate the plot of international terrorist Renard (Robert Carlyle) who feels no pain because a bullet lodged in his brain is robbing him of his senses. Renard has been instrumental in sabotaging a new King pipeline that is under construction, and Bond and Jones set out to stop his devious actions that could result in destroying Europe.
| | |
Yes 2004 R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Sally Potter
Cast: Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam Neill, Shirley Henderson, Stephanie Leonidas, Samantha Bond, Sheila Hancock, Gary Lewis, Raymond Waring, George Yiasoumi
Speaking in rhymes throughout this story, an Irish American woman (Joan Allen) and a Lebanese man (Simon Abkarian) meet at a party, embark on a torrid affair, and then go their separate ways.
| | |
| 1. Die Another Day (2002)
2. Emma (1996)
3. Erik the Viking (1989)
4. GoldenEye (1995)
5. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
6. The World Is Not Enough (1999)
7. Yes (2004)
In The News
|
