Thunderball (Young, 1965): Prince Charles Cinema, 3pm
The Prince Charles Cinema continues its full 007 Retrospective showing every James Bond movie over the coming months. You can see all the details of the screenings here. Thunderball is also being screened on February 24th. Full details here.
Time Out review:
Following up Goldfinger was no picnic, but Sean Connery’s
fourth outing demonstrated the series’ durability, cementing a brash
formula that yielded huge box office (it’s still the highest-grossing
Bond, when adjusted for inflation). Return to it now, and the effort is
painfully obvious: Yes, we love spooky underwater sequences involving
the conveyance of stolen A-bombs, but must there be endless minutes of
them? Regardless, there's some essential stuff here: the electric chair
that incinerates an underperforming villain at a meeting, the swimming
pool with sharks, the widescreen luxury.
Joshua Rothkopf
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