26 h. ago ‘Underrated’ James Bond film fans say is ‘absolute dynamite’ on ITV today

While many think of Casino Royale or Skyfall when ranking the great modern Bonds, a legion of fans are heaping praise on a separate Pierce Brosnan classic with a killer soundtrack

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39 h. ago As his debut film Once Were Warriors showed, Lee Tamahori was a director of guts and flair

Tamahori was the outstanding director of Along Came a Spider and Die Another Day – but his first film was his greatest workIn 1994, the New Zealand film-maker Lee Tamahori made one of the biggest debuts of the decade, firing on all six cylinders with his gut-wrenching social-realist melodrama Once Were Warriors. The Mekes are a working-class Maori family in South Auckland: Temuera Morrison is the boozing, brawling, bragging alpha-male welfare claimant Jake, who comes home from drinking in the pub with his pathetic sycophant mates to terrorise and assault his wife Beth, played by Rena Owen, and their five children. He is entirely indifferent to the fate of his two elder sons who have drifted into gangland culture and crime, as well as his sensitive daughter Grace, who has talent as a writer. One son gets gang tattoos; the other is taken to a juvenile reformatory where he is at least tutored in the ways of Maori culture – the haka and the taiaha warrior spear – and learns dignity and ...

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40 h. ago James Bond film director Lee Tamahori who also worked with Alec Baldwin and Melanie Griffith dies at 75 after long illness

His feature directorial debut, Once Were Warriors, was a widespread critical and commercial success, and is considered one of the greatest New Zealand films ever made.

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41 h. ago Lee Tamahori, director of Once Were Warriors and James Bond movie Die Another Day, dies aged 75

New Zealand film-maker became a Hollywood fixture in the 90s and 00s, including making Pierce Brosnan’s last 007 movie, before returning to his home country Lee Tamahori, the New Zealand director of Once Were Warriors and Die Another Day, has died aged 75.In a statement to Radio New Zealand, Tamahori’s family said he had Parkinson’s and died “peacefully at home”. Continue reading...

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47 h. ago James Bond legend dies after glittering Hollywood career as family pay tribute

Die Another Day director Lee Tamahori has died at home at the age of 75 after battling Parkinson's disease, with his family confirming his passing in a heartfelt statement

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60 h. ago Celebrity Traitors fans praise final challenge as 'absolute cinema' and 'the campest action sequence in history' as stars race to win cash on moving train before it EXPLODES

Celebrity Traitors fans have heaped praise on the finale episode's 'cinematic' challenge, as they compared it to James Bond and a Michael Bay film.

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4 d. ago ‘I thought ‘Bond girl’ was such a demeaning term’: Famke Janssen on acting, ambition and Woody Allen

She came to prominence as a model, before starring as Xenia Onatopp opposite Pierce Brosnan’s 007. Then, instead of pursuing glamorous roles, she got gritty. She discusses sexism, success and why she won’t be stripping off on social mediaFamke Janssen is dressed for her photoshoot at the Covent Garden hotel exactly as her character, Betty, would dress in the new Netflix crime drama Amsterdam Empire – lacy and floral but tailored and mini, with long school socks. Is the look sexy in a sardonic way, or irony expressed through fashion? We spend a lot of time, one way or another, talking about objectification, the beauty myths of the patriarchy, the collateral damage of the self – sexism, basically. Janssen has been in more than 60 films across a 30-year career, and before that, she was a model. There’s a lot to talk about.So it hardly seems the time to mention how smoking she looks; her face as flawless and cheekboney at 60 as it was nearly 30 years ago, in the 1995 James Bond film Gol...

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4 d. ago New James Bond Latest: These are the 13 stars now in the frame to play 007

The odds have shifted again as we get ever-closer to knowing who will be taking on one of the biggest jobs in cinema.

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1 week ago New Bond Girl Leading Contenders: Here are the 10 actresses in the running for the new James Bond film

The casting is expected to be announced in the coming weeks.

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1 week ago Who will be the next James Bond? Latest odds as Sydney Sweeney declares interest in role

Sydney Sweeney has hinted she has her eyes on the latest 007 role. But what do the bookies think?

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1 week ago New James Bond Leading Contenders: Here are the 11 actors still in the running to play 007

There’s still a small chance that we could see the first Scottish James Bond since Sean Connery.

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2 w. ago Film fans full of praise for movie that 'landed Daniel Craig role of James Bond'

James Bond fans believe they have found the film that convinced producers to cast Daniel Craig in the titular role, with his turn as a crime syndicate member winning him the role

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last month James Bond fans say one theme song is 'better than the movie it was made for'

One James Bond theme song has been singled out by fans of the franchise, with the track believed to be far better than the movie it was written for, though some suggested that wasn't hard

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