It apes the James
Bond series with its gadgets, «The Prisoner» television show with its remote island locale and gallery of grotesques, and «The Avengers» with its tits - and - ass while demonstrating all the sleek cool of, say, The Love Bug.
Not exact matches
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Series I savings
bonds (I -
bonds for short) are guaranteed to keep up
with inflation and are easy to buy and relatively easy to gift.
It occurred rather because in 2015 there was a
series of debt transactions (mainly provincial
bond swaps aimed at reducing debt - servicing costs and extending maturities) that extinguished debt that had been included in the TSF category and replaced it
with debt not included in TSF.
Citi blames the discount on a
series of scandals in recent years — from Enron and Worldcom to last year's «knuckleheaded»
bond trade that got it into trouble
with European financial regulators.
The following chart, taken from the paper, compares the stock -
bond correlation (blue), the credit spread (green) and the federal funds target rate (red) over the entire sample period,
with the latter two
series scaled up by a factor of ten to facilitate comparison.
Are stock and
bond markets mutually reinforcing
with respect to time
series (intrinsic or absolute return) momentum?
«He» is the relatively abstract common feature of the sequence of states (or selves or experiences) that fit together in a succession that begins
with conception and ends in death.7 Moreover, the primary
bond that binds these states together into a distinctive
series is that of sympathetic feeling, of which the two chief expressions are memory and anticipation.
A weary
Bonds waved away reporters after his one and only game in New York this season — he missed the first two games of the
series with a sinus infection — having no desire to resume his stream - of - consciousness monologue.
Perhaps it is
with good reason, for Vic Denny, a conservative and successful investment banker
with carefully combed, thinning hair, seems about as radical offhand as a
Series E government
bond.
After the first installment in the
series aired, Twitter was in a frenzy
with many users expressing that Turner has the looks and the acting chops to slay it as the next
Bond.
In the first of this three - part
series, guest contributor Dr. Amanda Gummer, a research psychologist who specializes in child development, provides informational and practical tips for
bonding with your newborn baby.
Why Mom of 11 Kids is a Top Mom Blog: Busy mothers will adore this blog's» «Make Time for»»
series of posts, which offers up ideas for quick, fun
bonding activities
with the whole family.
Bonding is a
series of steps in your lifelong growing together
with your child.»
Moody «s Investors Service Inc. confirmed the double - A rating assigned to Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago general obligation
bonds in connection
with the district «s offering of $ 200 million of capital improvement
bonds,
series of June 1991.
To become a super-rubber, however, individual resilin proteins must form a
series of specific molecular
bonds with each other.
In a separate study, the substitution of peptide
bond carbonyl (CO) groups
with imino (C = NH) groups has been taken into consideration and a
series of amidine - containing FC131 analogues (9 - 15), in which each peptide
bond was replaced
with the amidine substructure, have been designed (Table 1)[70, 77].
Best of British is a tribute to British lifestyle, pursuits and pastimes, showcasing bowler hats by Lock & Co, umbrellas by Fulton Umbrellas and wellington boots by Hunter - while James
Bond will be honoured
with a
series of designs by Thresher and Glenny, Gieves & Hawkes and Henry Poole.
Filmmaker Laurent has infused Breathe
with a gritty, slice - of - life feel that's heightened by a
series of natural performances,
with the various actors effectively transforming their characters into believable, three - dimensional figures worth rooting for -
with the movie's watchable atmosphere perpetuated by Laurent's admittedly impressive sense of style (eg there's a captivating montage of the aforementioned protagonists»
bond developing).
Baby Boomers can never hear that phrase, used by the inept agent when caught in a ridiculous situation, without recalling this
series (co-created by Mel Brooks), which is filled
with James
Bond - style capers featuring Smart; his sexy partner, Agent 99, at the C.O.N.T.R.O.L. agency; and K.A.O.S., the sinister organization they battled, invariably
with chaotic results.
It is amazing and exciting and leave me wondering if the
series can continue after it i for one would be ok if the
series ended but on the other hand if the writes could think of a way to continue on james
bond will return
with daniel
The screenplay by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and Reynolds simultaneously want us to take this development seriously — giving us multiple scenes of Wade trying to reunite
with Vanessa in the afterlife — and to laugh at it — giving us a James
Bond - like credit sequence that calls the screenwriters «the real villains,» after offering a
series of tongue - in - cheek statements of disbelief about what has transpired.
While this has kept the
Bond series as a whole firmly in the realms of fantasy, it has allowed individual entries in the
series to push for something more gritty or realistic; if it works, it's embraced and carried forward, and if not the
series reverts to type
with very few tears.
Blofeld's inclusion in
Bond 24 has been rumoured since last year, when EON Productions reached a deal
with the estate of Kevin McClory, paving the way for the character to reappear in the spy
series.
Suffice to say that the unveiling of SPECTRE cues a modern - day rewrite of classic
Bond mythos, teasing the audience
with wry winks to
series - affiliated imagery and gimmickry dating back to the Sean Connery era, from white cats to ejector seats.
With it previously having looked as if they'd completed their work on the
Bond series after five movies, screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade are apparently back on board to take a pass at John Logan's screenplay.
The
Bond series already had two films under its belt by the time 007 matched wits
with Gert Fröbe's precious - metal obsessive, but the third time was the charm.
For every moment that bluntly reveals the distance between these characters, there's one that implies
bonds too strong to be broken: Danny sitting at a piano
with his daughter, knocking out a gentle duet they wrote together; a heart - to - heart that comes to blows, under the influence of competing drugs; a
series of painfully public addresses that demonstrate how, strangely enough, mutual animosity toward a parent can bring siblings closer together.
Moonraker, the worst film in the
series, opened
with a spectacular skydiving sequence that will probably never be bettered; GoldenEye's opening, in which
Bond sailed after, and caught, a pilotless plane, was at least a worthy contender.
And yet, Daniel Craig's
Bond films have also been marked by an undeniable tension
with the
series» own history.
Studio head Harvey Weinstein, as he did in the past
with «The King's Speech» and the documentary «Bully,» turned the ratings decision into a political and promotional battle, enlisting Dench to film a video assuming the character she played in the
Bond series, MI5 Chief M.
Early on in the
series, Winslet's Mildred identifies in her daughter a «pride or nobility I thought I had» and we glimpse the complexity and closeness of her
bond with Veda.
Having played their characters over multiple films the cast have clearly
bonded with their on screen counterparts, but now that the
series is over what did Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Sam Claflin and the rest admire most about the likes of Gale, Peeta and Finnick?
Watching as the apes and humans interact
with one another, we witness
bonding between them in a
series of scenes lyrical in their naturalistic elegance and grace, but more prominently we witness their capacity to fear the other race.
A
series of increasingly dull, repetitive set pieces (
with only the opening,
Bond - inspired set piece and another set on a mountainside tram)-- odd, discomforting tonal shifts, and it's difficult, if not impossible, to imagine why anyone, aside from Vaughan, Goldman, and their producers, would want to reenter the Kingsman universe a third or fourth time.
Add to that — or rather subtract from that — a
series of increasingly dull, repetitive set pieces (
with only the opening,
Bond - inspired set piece and another set on a mountainside tram)-- odd, discomforting tonal shifts, and it's difficult, if not impossible, to imagine why anyone, aside from Vaughan, Goldman, and their producers, would want to reenter the Kingsman universe a third or fourth time.
Folks like Winstead, Caplan, and Miller have long resumes and at least some experience
with action, while Sigman portrayed a
Bond girl in Spectre, starred on the FX drama
series The Bridge, and stars on the Netflix
series Narcos.
With the exception of the
Bond and possibly the Indiana Jones
series, nothing has matched Cruise and the Mission: Impossible franchise, but not for wont of trying.
As the films follow him from one woman to the next, they chronicle his male
bonding with a
series of accomplices.
The industry is in a better place
with movies like the Bourne
series (or
Bond series) in rotation.
Playing a little more like an entry in the Bourne
series than the
Bond series, not only
with its «rogue agent who can't trust his organization» story, but also its hyperkinetic way of editing the sometimes brutal action sequences, Quantum of Solace falls a bit from star Daniel Craig's debut due to the fact that impressively choreographed hand - to - hand combat fails to impress when the action and stunts are this grandiose.
Martin Campbell (The Legend of Zorro, Vertical Limit) returns as director of a 007 adventure, and this is his second time dealing
with a new
Bond, as well as a new direction for the
series,
with his last venture being Pierce Brosnan's debut, GoldenEye, arguably the best post-Connery
Bond film (I'd give a nod to The Spy Who Loved Me).
Directed by Guy Hamilton (the man behind several James
Bond films including Goldfinger and Live and Let Die) from a script by Christopher Wood, it's based on characters from the Destroyer
series of pulp actioners, of which the first volume was released in 1971,
with new titles released up to the present day.
Continuing his witty live - action adaptation of Michael
Bond's
series of whimsical children's books, writer / director Paul King, teaming
with co-writer Simon Farnaby, carry on the elaborately endearing slapstick silliness, replete
with imaginative interludes and inventive, colorful sets.
The
Bond series really was on it's knees when Brosnan stepped into the shoes of the British secret agent
with the rubbish jokes and a penchant for girly drinks.
The November Man feels like a film that might have been more of interest to the general public had it come out about a decade earlier, in the middle of the Bourne
series, and after Brosnan had finished
with his popular run as James
Bond.
The almost 2 - minute long trailer opens
with showcasing the sisterly
bond between Katniss and Prim and increases to the action and drama filled climax and conclusion of the
series.
At this point I wish they'd just reboot
Bond with someone we've not talked about yet,
with a new director — Christopher Nolan is game — and start a whole new
series.
Paddington is derived from Michael
Bond's
series of children's books
with the same ursine central character.
Click here for our exclusive interview
with the
Bond film
series producers, Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson.