Few film franchises are as thoroughly iconic as the James Bond saga. Having kicked off in 1962, the ongoing adventures of Ian Fleming's 007, licensed to kill, has helped define pop culture for close to 60 years. With the release of the 25th movie in the cycle, No Time to Die, we see the long-awaited climax of Bond as depicted by Daniel Craig. Before his departure kicks off yet another conversation about who should next play Bond, it’s worth looking back at the past and considering which actor did this part the best.

The Bond saga is a curious one in that it is at its best when it’s reflective of the changing era it embodies, yet it all too often failed to do so. The producers had to tread a fine line between keeping the franchise fresh and adhering to tradition, and that tension created mixed results. Do you stick to Ian Fleming's work, even as you run out of source material to directly adapt? Or do you go your own way and risk deviating from what made the character so alluring in the first place? It's a conundrum that has weighed down heavily on the shoulders of the six men who have played the role over the course of the franchise (and that doesn't even count actors who have played him in other mediums, like radio plays, audiobooks and so on). The shifting expectations of critics and fans alike make the job a veritable minefield, yet one that, if you do it well, can pay off handsomely.

Thus, ranking our Bonds from worst to best is an evidently subjective topic, one we've tried to structure with some caveats. Did the actor succeed on the terms set for them by their films, the era in which they played the role and the changes made to the character? We’re focusing on the six actors in the official series and not including the likes of David Niven from the comedic version of Casino Royale, or Barry Nelson, who played Bond on the television anthology series Climax!

6. George Lazenby

The Australian actor George Lazenby had only acted in commercials when he was cast to replace Sean Connery. He was young, dapper, physically right for the role, but could he act? He infamously only appeared in one Bond film, 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service, before deciding he didn't want to continue, something that did not go over well with his producers or co-stars. While some critics have slated his performance as a total write-off, that doesn't seem especially fair. He's not half bad, it's just that he never did anything more than that one movie. 

In fairness, that one movie is a real peak in the franchise, an often-cynical tale with one hell of an emotional punch. It's not hard to see why Christopher Nolan and Steven Soderbergh love it. Lazenby could have been great, but his one movie means his status as the worst Bond is kind of a default at this point in time.

Best appearance as Bond: Well, we only have On Her Majesty's Secret Service to choose from, alas.

5. Pierce Brosnan

Let’s be clear: Brosnan is low on this list, but that doesn’t make him a bad Bond. He was dapper, he could crack a one-liner like nobody else and you never doubted his prowess with the ladies. In terms of sheer aesthetics, Brosnan was on the money. The issue is more with the material he was given and how it ended up crushing all of his charisma in favor of a trite kind of slickness that ultimately killed the franchise for several years. 

Remember, this is the part in the Bond series where he gets an invisible car. By the end of his tenure, Brosnan’s Bond had become a parody, not through any fault of him, although he does seem to have checked out by Die Another Day. We can’t exactly blame him. The writing had begun to lean too hard on the quips, the gadgets and product placement. Even his seductions felt kind of gross, with some of his one-liners verging into the kind of territory we would expect from a Carry On movie. He became, we shudder to say it out loud, too Hollywood.

Best appearance as Bond: Brosnan was at his peak in GoldenEye, with the material to match.

4. Roger Moore

Over the course of seven films, Roger Moore was certainly put through the wringer as Bond. He went into space, he defused nuclear bombs, he fought on top of the Golden Gate Bridge and he even fought off some crocodiles. Moore’s era was definitely one of retro cheese, the kind of giddy silliness that thrived on big stunts, high concepts and not much plot. 

His willingness to be kind of daft brought some much-needed levity to proceedings, but it soon overwhelmed the original point of the character. By the end of his run, Moore was a bit too old and it was weird to see him fighting so slowly and charming women young enough to be his daughter. Still, as an exemplification of the '70s and the Bond that decade demanded, you couldn't beat Moore.

Best appearance as Bond: The Man with the Golden Gun gave Moore his greatest adversary in the form of Christopher Lee’s Scaramanga, but for sheer fun, we have to go with Live and Let Die.

3. Timothy Dalton

If ever there was an actor who was severely short-changed by his experiences as Bond, it’s Timothy Dalton. Given only two films to show his stuff — The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill — Dalton helped to ground Bond in reality once more after many years of over-the-top showboating. 

In a 2008 interview, Dalton explained his approach to the character: "He's not a superman; you can't identify with a superman. You can identify with the James Bond of the books. He's a tarnished man, really. I wanted to capture that occasional sense of vulnerability." 

He certainly did that. Many Bond fans consider Dalton's brief tenure to be the most accurate take on Fleming's novels, thanks to that mixture of charm, sleaze and a bubbling darkness underneath the dapper exterior. Some critics had issues with the lack of humor, especially in The Living Daylights, but that works to Dalton’s strength. This is a man whose weariness with the job is evident. Sadly, his run was cut short due to legal issues, and his contract soon expired.

Best appearance as Bond: Easily The Living Daylights, which remains an underrated peak in Bond lore.

2. Sean Connery

What is there to say about Sean Connery as James Bond that hasn't been rhapsodized from the rooftops for the past several decades? He pioneered the character, created what many consider to be the quintessential Bond. His sense of humor was as dry as his martinis and his unabashed macho sensibilities, at the time, a breath of fresh air. Most importantly, he was just so dang cool as Bond too. 

You never doubted that this guy could save the day, play a royal flush at poker then get the girl in the same day. Even with all of the elements of the franchise that have not aged well — and there are lots — Connery's charisma has remained wholly undiluted by time. How do you beat Connery in Goldfinger, the perfect meeting of actor, character and story? It took decades for anyone to even come close.

Best appearance as Bond: There’s a reason Dr. No was such a big deal when it premiered, but we also love Connery in Thunderball.

1. Daniel Craig

It's easy to forget just how invigorating Craig's presence was when the Bond films returned to our screens following Brosnan's departure. He just seemed so left-field a choice, one that had many fans creating protest websites and petitions. He quickly proved the cynics wrong. 

Craig is the best Bond. He was the right blend of dry humor, physicality, stoicism and genuine ego, all topped off with a hefty dose of trauma. There's real grit to his performance that hints at the character's genuine unsuitability for a role like this. It helped that, over the course of his five films, Craig was allowed to evolve from that cocky upstart to the broken-down shadow of his former self and right back to the powerhouse of MI6.

Following the death of Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale, you can see the pain of that loss etched onto his face in Quantum of Solace. Craig was notoriously uninterested in romanticizing Bond, calling out his misogyny in interviews, and that helped to make his performance so sharp and thoroughly believable. The films didn't always give him the arc he deserved — sorry, Spectre — but you always buy what Craig is selling. 

Best appearance as Bond: Casino Royale and Skyfall are his peaks as Bond, showing both sides of the coin that made him so fascinating. He's going to be a tough act to follow.

Sean Connery — the original James Bond and prolific actor whose on-screen work spanned more than 50 years — has died at age 90.

Mostly retired over the last 15 years or so, his most recent film character was Alan Quartermain in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. But it was his original take on 007 that made him a household name, starting with Dr. No in 1962. That followed with From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, Diamonds are Forever, and the offshoot Never Say Never Again.

Connery played other iconic roles over the years, including Marko Ramius in The Hunt For Red October, Professor Henry Jones in the third Indiana Jones installment, and 

His death was reported on Oct. 31, 2020.

Connery's body of work is extensive, but here are some of our favorites:

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

In a pre-Avengers world (not to be confused with 1998's The Avengers, also staring co-Connery), we saw some of history's favorite fictional characters come together to stop the Big Bad. It was a fun watch, though not a great one.

Entrapment (1999)

There's nothing overtly stellar about this movie, save for Catherine Zeta Jones, perhaps. The backdrop of Kuala Lumpur stands out more than the plot itself, and the twists aren't unexpected. Still, this heist caper this is one you watch whenever it's on.

The Rock (1996)

Before Michael Bay became a meme and Nick Cage became, well, whatever he is today, we had this epic action flick. A disillusioned military hero (Ed Harris) is trying to threaten the U.S. government into paying a ransom for Alcatraz and the city of San Francisco, and only Connery's John Patrick Mason — a former inmate on The Rock who managed to escape — can lead a team to stop it. It's good, dumb fun.

Just Cause (1995)

Sean Connery and Lawrence Fishburn, Ed Harris, and Kate Capshaw and Blair Underwood in a film version of the must-read book. It shines a light on the racial injustices of the U.S. justice system and remains as poignant today as it was then.

The Hunt for Red October (1990)

Never mind how bad his actual Russian was, or how much worse the Scottish-Russian accent came through. Connery was a great Marko Ramius in the Tom Clancy book of the same name that launched the military techno-thriller. Alec Baldwin is nearly unrecognizable as Jack Ryan, too, and remains the best of the iterations of that character. Plus, Courtney B. Vance, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill, James Earl Jones, Tim Curry, Stellan Skarsgård, Fred Dalton Thompson — "This business will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it!" — round out the best of the Clancy stories played out on screen.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Each of the original Indiana Jones movies was brilliant in its own right, and the series deserves even more credit today for that feat. And it only got better when it brought in Connery as Professor Henry Jones — Indiana's father and namesake — in the search for the Cup of Christ. Watch it again and see Harrison Ford straight up when he's addressed by his father for the first time in the Austrian castle. It's a testament to how good those two were together.

The Untouchables (1987)

If this movie isn't on any list of gangster films you might run across, just put that list away. Connery as James Malone alongside Kevin Costner, Andy Garcia and Robert De Niro remains one of those movies you just have to watch. Connery won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for this role.

Highlander (1986)

Look, there's a lot of cheese in this movie. It was the height of the 1980s. But you can't beat the fun idea of an immortal Scotsman with a sword and a killer soundtrack from Queen. It's just fun. And in the end, there can be only one. Connery played Juan Sanchez-Villalobos Ramirez, an immortal who serves as mentor to Christopher Lambert's Connor MacLeod.

Dr. No (1962)

I'd put every Connery James Bond film on this list, but for the sake of brevity I'll stick the one that start it all. Connery is the original Bond. There have been other greats, but there wouldn't have been the opportunity for any others had Connery not led the way. 

Cult fantasy adventure, Highlander, returns fully restored in 4k this summer.

To mark the 30th anniversary of the time travelling action fantasy favourite, Highlander, starring Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert, StudioCanal are releasing the cult classic restored in 4K on DVD and Blu-ray alongside a limited cinema re-release.

It's 1985 in New York City an the the Battle to end all battles is about to begin. The last remaining Immortals gather together to fight to the death: decapitation alone can kill them, and the victor alone can lay claim to 'The Prize'. Amongst the contestants is Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert), who fought his first battle in 1536 on the highlands of Scotland, swordsman Ramirez (Sean Connery) who mentored MacLeod and taught him the ways of the immortals, and the evil and brutal barbarian Victor Kruger (Clancy Brown)…

Directed by Russell Mulcahy and featuring an original score by Michael Kamen and Queen, Highlander went onto inspire four sequels and a TVseries. Restored by Deluxe London, based on a 4K scan of the original camera negative, and with the approval of director Russell Mulcahy, the StudioCanal release (out Monday 11 July) features new interviews with Mulcahy and Lambert, deleted scenes, a four-part 'Making Of' documentary, and an audio commentary with Mulcahy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT13a8KzBRM

Zardoz, director John Boorman’s eerily dystopian sci-fi tale, gets a Blu-ray release in the UK from Arrow presented in a brand new 4k transfer. Released in 1974, not long after Deliverance, Zardoz saw director Boorman team up with Sean Connery, three years after his final official appearance as James Bond.

SYNOPSIS

The year is 2293. Society as we know it has broken down centuries ago with the Earth’s population split into three classes: the Brutals, who work the land and are forbidden from reproducing; their overseers, the Executioners; and the highly-civilised Eternals, who are protected from the outside world by a force-field. But when an Executioner, Zed (Sean Connery, light years from James Bond), smuggles himself into their isolated paradise, he risks unbalancing the system and threatening the status quo…

Zardoz is out on Blu-ray from Arrow in the UK, and features a wealth of bonus including interviews with the cast and crew and an audio commentary by writer-producer-director John Boorman. Zardoz mega-fan Ben Wheatley (Kill List, A Field in England) also provides an on-camera appreciation recorded especially for Arrow Video.

The 50th anniversary of the release of Dr No, the first James Bond film, is marked by Everything or Nothing, an entertaining documentary account of the larger-than-life personalities behind the launch of a franchise that’s racked up gazillions of dollars around the globe from over two-score movies - Skyfall, the 23rd ‘official’ Bond film comes out later this month.

The first of Bond’s begetters is, of course, Ian Fleming, who partly modelled his fictional hero on the intrepid characters he met while conjuring up daring commando missions for British naval intelligence during World War Two but drew equally on a romanticised version of his own womanising Old Etonian self.

To bring Bond to the big screen, however, required the chutzpah and drive of a pair of old school movie moguls, producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, whose company name Eon was the acronym for their do-or-die motto - ‘Everything or Nothing’.

Then there are the six men to have played Bond on screen - Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and the role’s present incarnation, Daniel Craig. All of them contribute to the documentary, with the exception of Connery, whose eventual falling out with the producers is chronicled at length here.

The other Bonds range from the wittily self-deprecating (Moore) to the good-humouredly regretful (Lazenby), but it’s archive footage of Connery that provides the documentary’s best, if somewhat unfair, barb. Asked on US TV to name the first Bond villain, he replies ‘Cubby Broccoli’.

In selected Odeon cinemas from Friday 5th October.

Skyfall will be released in the UK on October 26th. Read our review.

Bond: That's pretty potent. Not the cork. Your after-shave. Strong enough to bury anything. But the wine is quite excellent. Although for such a grand meal, I would have expected a claret. Wint: Of course. But unfortunately, our cellars have run out of clarets. Bond: Mouton Rothschild is a claret. And I've smelt that after-shave before, and both times I smelled a rat. Diamond are Forever (1971)

Diamonds Are Forever is one of 9 James Bond films available on Blu-ray for the first time ever in the new Bond 50 Collection, which includes all 22 James Bond feature films from Dr. No to Quantum of Solace and more than 130 hours of bonus features including never-before-seen content from the Bond archives, and more.

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It doesn't matter how famous a Hollywood actor you are, if the accent ain't right, it's just plain obvious. Our guest writer Sabrina Dougall from London shares her top 10 worst accent imitations in cinema:

1. Dick van Dyke (Bert/Mr. Dawes Senior) - Mary Poppins

http://youtube.com/v/B_rVzBt20N0

2. Meryl Streep (Lindy Chamberlain) – A Cry in the Dark

Convincing emotional drama? Yes. Convincing Australian accent? Definitely not.

http://youtube.com/v/-LG3_1AlLWg

3. Brad Pitt (Heinrich Harrer) – 7 Years in Tibet

‘Nuff said. Did Brad really expect to get away with this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ22unS_zdk&fs=1

4. Sean Connery (Jimmy Malone) – The Untouchables

That supposedly Irish-American accent done by a Scotsman was never going to pan out well… No cigar, Connery.

http://youtube.com/v/xIF_WdPUBFo

5. Josh Hartnett (Brian Allen) – Blow Dry

Offensive to the ear - that California accent was painfully evident in Paddy Breathnach's frisseur romcom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RGPc4Lpr-A&fs=1

6. Natalie Portman (Queen Amidala/Padmé) – Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace

The Black Swan star starts off here with a British accent as Queen Amidala, then blunders into an American one when she’s Padmé…oh dear…

http://youtube.com/v/Fo--sWDK_nU

7. Paris Themmen (Mike TeeVee) – the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Begins well as a bratty kid from Arizona, but admits that he was messed up by hanging out with the other British actors. “Am I coming in clear?” was the unfortunate and ironically memorable line.

http://youtube.com/v/peqzq3V2WAw

8. Leonardo DiCaprio (Danny Archer) – Blood Diamond

You tried, you failed. Better luck next time.

http://youtube.com/v/62h0mZ7m8zw

9. Hugh Jackman (Logan/Wolverine) – X-Men

Supposed to be a Canadian accent. Did you get that? Neither did we. Born in Sydney of English parentage, the H-man didn’t really stand much of a chance.

http://youtube.com/v/JqbLLYh-j3g

10. Jude Law (Inman) – Cold Mountain

The British babe falls just short of the mark with his less-than-convincing Southern accent. Down-Under co-star Kidman (Ada Monroe) also fails to deliver a credible US accent, creating lingual chaos in this Civil War romance.

http://youtube.com/v/uXGtunJ9Jqk

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Watch out tomorrow for our Top 10 Best Fake Accents in Movies, and see if your favourites make the list.

The sci-fi action series featuring the Marvel Comics mutants took a dip with its last two outings, 2006’s sprawling X-Men: Last Stand and 2009’s scrappy Wolverine spin-off, but X-Men: First Class lives up to its title. Smart and spectacular, it’s up there in the top rank of superhero films.

New director Matthew Vaughn and producer Bryan Singer (helmer, of course, of the first two films) have steered the franchise back on course by going back to the beginning. It's the right move. Last Stand’s climax saw the filmmakers killing off major characters with fearless abandon, so it makes sense that the series should now go for an origins story that shows how the mutants got to become X-Men.

The film's emotional core is the relationship between the two pivotal figures in the X-Men universe: Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr, the characters who will grow up to become Professor X and Magneto. We know them as enemies. Here they are friends and allies. The story arc for X-Men: First Class shows how the seeds of their future enmity are sown, beginning with crucial scenes from their respective childhoods.

In a Nazi concentration camp in 1944, young inmate Erik Lensherr discovers his ability to bend metal by violently buckling the camp gate which separates him from his parents (a reprise of the scene that began the first X-Men movie). Fatefully, the feat attracts the attention of sadistic Nazi doctor Schmidt, who will stop at nothing to exploit the boy’s strange power.

Over in New York State, in the very different setting of a Westchester County mansion, privileged Charles Xavier is already aware of his gift for telepathy but learns that he is not the only youngster with mutant abilities when he surprises shape-shifting interloper Raven in his kitchen.

The story then jumps two decades to the early 1960s, the era in which Stan Lee and Jack Kirby first devised the X-Men comic-book series. Xavier (James McAvoy) is now a smoothly confident young Oxford academic, chatting up girls in local pubs with polished bons mots about Darwinian evolution and human mutation.

Erik (Michael Fassbender), meanwhile, has become an anguished avenger, remorselessly tracking down his former Nazi tormentors. ‘Let’s just say I’m Frankenstein’s monster,’ he says to one quarry, cornered in an Argentine bolthole. ‘I’m looking for my creator.’

His Dr Frankenstein is the erstwhile Dr Schmidt (Kevin Bacon), who has somehow acquired mutant superpowers of his own (the film is a bit fuzzy on this point). Now going by the name Sebastian Shaw, he is seeking to provoke nuclear war between America and Russia so that the newly emerging race of mutants (‘children of the atom’) can inherit a post-apocalyptic Earth.

As global tension mounts (we are approaching October 1962, the month of the Cuban Missile Crisis), chipper CIA agent Moira MacTaggert (Rose Byrne) seeks out Xavier and asks for his help. He in turn sets about recruiting fellow mutants to the CIA’s new Division X, the first class of X-Men, including Nicholas Hoult’s geeky scientist Hank (the future Beast), Lucas Till’s cosmic energy master-blaster Havok, Caleb Landry Jones’s sonic screecher Banshee, and Xavier’s childhood friend Raven, soon to be Mystique (played by Winter’s Bone star Jennifer Lawrence).

That's a lot of plot and a lot of characters for a single film to handle, but Vaughn and his co-writers (including Kick-Ass screenwriter Jane Goldman) prove emphatically that they're up to the job. Adeptly juggling the film's separate narrative strands, they manage to introduce the various mutants and their powers without losing sight of the overarching story (a feat that sometimes eluded their predecessors). The result is a well-paced adventure that delivers excitement, humour and pathos, and which steadily builds momentum between the set-piece action scenes without getting unduly sidetracked along the way.

The casting is spot on, too. McAvoy's Xavier is suave, self-possessed and witty, even a little bit mischievous; the gravitas (and hair loss) of Patrick Stewart's Professor X lies some way off in the future. Nor is Fassbender's Erik simply a junior version of Ian McKellen's Magneto. He's an action man, albeit one emotionally scarred by his past. Sound familiar? Fassbender pulls off the derring-do with such panache that he could be laying down his calling card for consideration as a future James Bond, in case Daniel Craig feels tempted any time soon to hang up his tuxedo and shoulder holster.

The Bond vibe is hardly coincidental. With its early-1960s Cold-War setting, megalomaniac villain and lissome babes in (slightly anachronistic) mini-skirts, X-Men: First Class could, in places, pass for a Connery-era 007 spy thriller. Adding to the period feel, the presence of January Jones as Emma Frost, Shaw's icy, voluptuous right-hand woman will cheer Mad Men fans.

Vaughn and his collaborators don't forget, though, that they're making an X-Men movie. But their attitude to the Marvel Comics source is both respectful and playful, as you can see from at least one geek-pleasing cameo. Look out, during the whistle-stop scenes of Xaxier and Erik recruiting mutants to their cause, for the crowd-pleasing moment in which they encounter a familiar bewhiskered figure who sends them packing with a blunt three word dismissal that gets the film's biggest laugh.

X-Men: First Class on general release from 1st June.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrbHykKUfTM

So I have the honour of kicking off a brand new Movie Talk series featuring some of our favourite movie-going memories... A Movie Night to Remember.

And as today is Easter Sunday, I think it only proper that I reminisce about the memorable night I spent at a grand old movie theatre in America's Deep South eating soul food, sipping margaritas and watching Sean Connery getting crucified... Because it's about as close to a religious experience as I'm ever likely to get!

Now, if you've read Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, you'll have an inkling of  what Macon, Georgia is like. As Lee writes of Macon's namesake in her great American novel: 'Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then.'

As it happens the real Macon's still a fairly quiet old town, full of that wonderful faded grandeur that the South excels at, but on the drizzly March day that I drove into town with my best mate on one of our bi-annual US road trips, Macon wasn't all that hot. In fact, it was pretty cold and miserable and after hanging out all day at the Georgia Music Hall of Fame with Otis Redding , we were on the lookout for a  venue to while away the evening before we headed out of town the next day.

And then we stumbled across the Cox Capitol, an old-style movie theatre - which looked like somewhere John Dillinger might have watched Manhattan Melodrama (before getting gunned down by the Feds) - and which served up vintage movies and down-home cuisine. Problem solved, we could stay dry, get entertained and have a two-course meal for only $10 a piece...

At first we were a little disappointed to discover we'd missed a showing of King Creole with Elvis Presley the previous week, and tonight's headliner was John Huston's Kipling classic The Man Who Would Be King starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine.... Somehow a film starring a cockney and a Scot, set in the far-flung reaches of the Afghan desert about a couple of British chancers in the days of the Empire didn't seem as fitting for our soulful American road trip as The King shaking his pelvis and singing about crawfish in N'Awlins...

But funnily enough, after a monster helping of blackened catfish, collard greens and corn bread, not to mention several margaritas, while kicked back in the worn leather armchairs where Georgians for generations had spent their Saturday night, Sean and Mike and their daft, dare-devil antics in the desert seemed remarkably soulful too. Especially when the film reached it's action-packed climax and Sean got battered and beaten by a horde of rebel tribesmen and took a header down a ravine... accompanied by our second helping of key lime pie.

Civilised, satisfying and surprisingly mellow! And an experience that even made Michael Caine's over-acting seem like a thing of beauty. I'd recommend the Cox Capitol if you ever happen to be passing through Macon, Georgia, and John Huston's Empirical Boy's Own Adventure any day, if you happen to have enough margaritas and Southern Fried comfort food on tap.

We’d love from you if you have your own Movie Night to Remember. Have you too seen a film in an unusual setting: The Beach on a beach or Cinema Paradiso in a cinema that was heavenly?  Do let us know.

The title say it all really. Matthew McConaughey plays a serial womaniser in a (somewhat clumsy but watchable)) romcom spin on Charles Dickens' classic festive tale, A Christmas Carol.

Will filmmakers ever tire of adapting this literary classic? Probably not. Check out some other versions here.

You might also want to check out this rogue's gallery of some other movie womanisers.

Such bad boys. But, if you like men, I'll bet you're now drooling over at least one of these pics thinking 'hmm I wouldn't kick him out of bed'. I'm right aren't I?

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past is showing on Sky Movies Premiere Friday 21st May, at 10am and 8pm, and at various times throughout the week

Couch Potato Pickings

On Sky Movies Modern Greats tonight at 10.05pm

http://youtube.com/v/Xzt6zAj7XUM Who is the Best Bond?” Since then, we’ve had an interesting diversity of responses. Currently it looks like Roger Moore and Daniel Craig win out as favourites, but Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan are close behind.

If you haven’t yet joined in the Best Bond debate, then you might want to check out Sky Movies Modern Greats this month. Not only are they showing ten classic Bond movies for the next few weeks, but it’ll be the first time on UK television that you’ll able to see Connery with clarity, Craig with crispness, Brosnan with brilliance and, well, more of Moore. It's Bond in high definition which is  great for everyone lucky enough to have HD TV. Sadly I don’t, but I am lucky enough to have a 007 in my phone number... so there.

Anyway, because I much prefer comedy to action, I personally think that Roger Moore is the best James Bond, and that’s why I’ve chosen today’s film (although unfortunately it's not the best of Moore's Bond appearances). Ah well, you have to watch them all don't you if you're a fan. From Russia With Love is also on today at 8pm.

Which do you think is the quintessential Bond signature song? For me, the best has to be Shirley Bassey’s theatrical Goldfinger.