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How a cinema-obsessed Raymond Chandler fan from Humber invented a genre – then fell apart
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How a cinema-obsessed Raymond Chandler fan from Humber invented a genre – then fell apart
Before The Lazarus Project or The Matrix, Joanne Lumley and David McCallum bent reality and terrified the nation – at a fraction of the cost
It ditched Fleming in favour of absurd stunts and puns. Yet it's easy to see why this was Roger Moore’s – and Alan Partridge’s – favourite
The 1997 blockbuster was gloriously tasteless, absurdly funny, and disowned by John Cusack. And there will never be another movie like it
Roger Moore's second 007 film – now back in cinemas – tanked at the box office. Yet its stunts, location and villain set a gold standard