The release of the new James Bond, film’s favourite super spy, is more significant than ever
The icon has arrived in a two-door with a shorter wheel-base
Aston Martin has priced its initial public offering at £19 per share in the middle of its stated range
SA’s listeria epidemic is over. Take a look at the detectives who traced the epidemic’s source in this feature from our archives.
SA’s listeria epidemic is over. Take a look at the detectives who traced the epidemic’s source in this feature from our archives.
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/ 26 January 2018
As deaths mount, take an inside look at the detectives working around the clock to solve the country’s medical mystery.
The British actor played James Bond in more films than any other man.
Every Bond film since the 1970s has promised to revolutionise the Bond girl and bring something new to the table. They haven’t yet.
James Bond author makes a statement after being criticised for telling the Daily Mail that Idris Elba should not play Bond.
Roger Moore has denied making racist comments about Idris Elba’s chances of replacing Daniel Craig as James Bond.
We look at Julius Malema’s court case and giant sleep-over (aka night vigil), Angola banning Islam and Radovan Krejcir’s James Bond movie-style life.
The latest James Bond novel ‘Solo’ sees the world’s most famous fictional spy go on an unauthorised mission at the height of the Cold War.
As perhaps the most amenable of the actors who played James Bond, Roger Moore gets the job of writing the text for this commemorative book.
As Skyfall opens on the big screen, Richard Williams remembers
Ian Fleming’s ambitious gamble in The Spy Who Loved Me.
This year is the 50th anniversary of the James Bond movie franchise, which began with Dr No in 1962.
The 50th anniversary of the big-screen Bond is the right time to pull off something big.
The new Bond film hits South African cinemas on November 30.We headed to the premiere and chatted to the latest Bond girl, Berenice Marlohe.
The Nkandla fire rages on, the battle in the Gaza Strip flares up and the new Bond film is set to hit cinemas with a bang. Stay in the know, watch Weekend 101.
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/ 31 January 2011
British composer John Barry, who won five Oscars and is best known for creating music for the James Bond movies, has died. He was 77.
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/ 31 January 2011
British composer John Barry, who won five Oscars and is best known for creating music for the James Bond movies, has died. He was 77.
As far as we know, James Bond never had children. Though he often found himself tied up, he always managed to avoid getting tied down.
James Bond always went to Q to keep one step ahead of the enemy and now the real-life British spies of MI5 are to get their own technology mastermind.
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/ 21 November 2008
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews the latest James Bond film, <i>Quantum of Solace</i>.
Alicia Keys and Jack White have recorded the theme song for the new James Bond film, Quantum of Solace, producers said this week.
Since the death of Ian Fleming in 1964 his estate has authorised 32 novels about James Bond by other authors.
A stuntman was seriously injured in an accident on the Italian set of the latest James Bond movie, the production company said. It was the second accident in the last few days near Lake Garda, northern Italy, where scenes from the 22nd installment in the Bond franchise called Quantum of Solace are being shot.
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/ 21 February 2008
At the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi al-Fayed, Britain’s royals were branded the ”Dracula family” and a former spy chief was made to sweat in the witness box, pledging that assassinations were not part of the ethos of Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
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/ 15 January 2008
Hollywood star Wesley Snipes used a novel interpretation of United States tax laws to avoid paying anything on the -million he earned from blockbusters including Blade and Demolition Man. When investigators closed in on the actor he allegedly fled to South Africa on a false passport.
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/ 19 December 2007
After 45 years, 21 films and countless vodka martinis, Hollywood’s longest-running action hero — James Bond — is in rude health, according to the actor who knows 007 best: Roger Moore. Afficionados might argue that nobody did it better than Sean Connery; but where history is concerned, nobody did it more often than Moore.
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/ 28 November 2007
The Golden Compass, a -million picture based on Philip Pullman’s acclaimed novel Northern Lights, is caught between a United States Catholic group that has called for a boycott of what it sees as an attack on religion and Pullman purists who do not want the original watered down.
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/ 26 November 2007
In the James Bond novels and films, it fell to technical expert Q to invent the gizmos and cunningly concealed weapons that helped the British spy cheat death and save the world. From a biometric keyboard to blast-proof curtains, the inventions on display in the real world this month came from five technology firms in the final round of the Global Security Challenge.
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/ 17 November 2007
In the first big-screen casualty of the Hollywood writers strike, Columbia Pictures said on Friday it had postponed production on Angels & Demons, a prequel to its box-office hit The Da Vinci Code starring Tom Hanks. The Sony-owned film distributor said the planned release date for the thriller has been pushed back to 2009.