James Bond

Bee Quammie: Ian Fleming created Bond in Jamaica, and romanticized the country. Did he ever reckon with its realities?

On the eve of Bond 25, Brian D. Johnson looks back at how 007 has changed with the times—from Connery’s droll menace to Craig’s tortured thuggery—while always remaining invincible and immune to any style but his own

Since becoming full-fledged producers, the Broccoli family has kept as much control over the franchise as possible

Lashana Lynch’s character may not be replacing James Bond, but the new female agent is more of a Bond equal than a Bond girl

Scott Gilmore: Eventually all our heroes become villains, and so will we

Sir Roger Moore has died at 89. In 2012, he spoke to Maclean’s about his long-lived portrayal of James Bond, champagne on set, and much more

The Irish actor-activist-painter on Donald Trump, working with The Black Panthers and the possibility of a trans James Bond

Gender-flipping genre films can have huge appeal—if they get past the clichés.

There’s something uneven about the new James Bond movie, Skyfall, though not in a bad way, and I think it has to do with the juxtaposition of luxury and austerity. Near the start of the movie, when 007 has dropped out of sight, he’s shown boozing at a low-rent beach bar. Near the end, when he needs to make a final stand, he retreats to a derelict stone manor glowering over the starkest of Scottish countrysides. So the story is bracketed by evidence of Bond’s ultimate need for little or nothing. Yet in between our eyes are treated, of course, to the usual black ties and backless dresses, luxury yachts and elite suites.

Show and Tell: 50 years of Bond … James Bond. (As represented in graph … bar graph)

Movember jewelery, discovery at McMaster & Instagram

007 hasn’t been so cool since the 1960s