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Writer. Author. Bond Fan. CATCHING BULLETS - MEMOIRS OF A BOND FAN (Prelude by Barbara Broccoli) WATCHING SKIES - STAR WARS SPIELBERG AND US Rep'd by Vivienne Clore #JamesBond #CatchingBullets #WatchingSkies #Bond26 www.markoconnell.co.uk

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · Mar 22

Welcome to a veritable Double-O show of 007 related missions, interviews, curios and exclusive insight. The best MI6 office for CATCHING BULLETS' video treats, insights and interviews is on YouTube so subscribe another day with love...

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#JamesBond #Bond26 #IanFleming

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · 18h

JAMES BOND'S STATESIDE COMPANION - Catching RAYMOND BENSON & THE HOOK AN THE EYE as 007's newest novel becomes a paperback leiter via a London launch night & a celebration of Fleming's right hand man...

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#FelixLeiter #TheHookandtheEye #RaymondBenson @raymondbenson.bsky.social

JAMES BOND'S STATESIDE COMPANION - Catching RAYMOND BENSON & THE HOOK AND THE EYE

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · 1d

Whilst I can't get the sign-of-the-cross making vicar from FOR YOUR EYES ONLY out of my head, this bullet catcher is now on TikTok and really needs to see some familiar and maybe new faces! Say hi and let's all avoid being dropped down a cyber chimney!

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#JamesBond

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · 2d

This bullet catcher also has a James Bond minded YouTube channel so shake and stir that subscription box and join in on a veritable Double-O Show of films, treats, insights and Bond perspective...
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#Bond26 #JamesBond #MarkOConnell #IanFleming

CATCHING BULLETS & James Bond with Mark O'Connell

Welcome to a Double-O show of James Bond related missions, interviews, curios and exclusive insight from the author, film journalist and pop-culture commentator Mark O'Connell (CATCHING BULLETS - MEMO...

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · 2d

New Bond.
New Mission.
New Bullets.

Mark O'Connell Will Return / 2026

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#JamesBond #IanFleming #Bond26 #2026 #007 #MarkOConnell

New Bond. New Mission. New Bullets.

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · 3d

'You have a nasty habit of surviving.'
'Well, you know what they say about the fittest.'

Happy JAMES BOND DAY to all Bond fans, agents and allies across the world! New bullet-catching things are happening and JAMES BOND WILL RETURN.

#JamesBond #JamesBondDay #Bond26 #AmazonMGMStudios #IanFleming

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · 5d

Agreed.

Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · 5d

'As important to one movie generation as GOLDFINGER (1964) was to the 1960s and as much of a producers’ gamble as THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (1977) was to the 1970s, 1995’s GOLDENEYE marked a crucial return, reboot & revival for 007.'

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#GoldenEye30 #GoldenEye #JamesBond

'GoldenEye' at 25: The silver legacy of Bond's most important reboot

As it reaches its twenty-fifth anniversary, what is the franchise legacy and movie consequence of GoldenEye?

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · 6d

It's Your Seventy-fifth Birthday, Charlie Brown!

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#Snoopy #CharlieBrown #Peanuts #Peanuts75 #CharlesMSchulz

Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · 7d

Happy ninetieth birthday to the only singing nun from Walton-On-Thames who got a John Barry scored Maurice Binder title sequence!

#JulieAndrews #JulieAndrews90 #JohnBarry #TheTamarindSeed

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · 8d

I see what you did there!!

a man and a woman are sitting in a yellow car looking out the window

ALT: a man and a woman are sitting in a yellow car looking out the window

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · 8d

'My golden gun against your Walther PPK.'

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN CHUMS as this gilded bullet catcher is birthday gifted his own powerful weapon - and it is indeed a thing of Bond beauty that is easily worth a million a shot.

#TheManWithTheGoldenGun #JamesBond #Scaramanga

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · 10d

After a pandemic delay put 007 on a theatrical sabbatical, EON Productions' twenty-fifth bullet NO TIME TO DIE finally received its royal world premiere in London four years ago this very night...

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#NoTimetoDie #DanielCraig #JamesBond #BillieEilish

Catching NO TIME TO DIE's World Premiere

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · 14d

The next Bond will be lesser known, a British man, as forged by Fleming & cast when Denis Villeneuve has completed DUNE - PART 3. Whilst it is speculation, Baz Bamigboye keeps an ear close to the Bond ground & some ideas make reset sense...
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#JamesBond #Bond26 #IanFleming

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · 20d

A big well done to the team at Ian Fleming Publications and top bullet-catching ally and all round Bond mind Mr. Mark Gatiss for being shortlisted for the The Speakies for his audio book narration of FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE!
#TheSpeakies #MarkGatiss #FromRussiawithLove #IanFleming

Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · 21d

As 007 enters a fascinating new era across new technologies, this bullet catching agent is most interested to dive into this new Bond work, SEX FOR DINNER, DEATH FOR BREAKFAST - JAMES BOND AND THE BODY by Brian A. Dixon.

Coming soon from Fourth Horseman Press.

#JamesBond #JamesBondandtheBody

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · 21d

A year ago today represented a gilded age for London as Burlington Arcade celebrated sixty years of the Bond film that accelerated everything, 1964's GOLDFINGER....

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#Goldfinger #JamesBond #BurlingtonArcade #IanFleming #The007

Catching THE 007 at London's Burlington Arcade

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · 22d

'As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director.'

Rest in Peace, Sundance. Go find Butch, create the best sting and tell a story as Karen Blixen and Bob Woodward taught you how.

#RIPRobertRedford #RobertRedford #Sundance

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · Sep 8

The make-up legend Stuart Freeborn gifted me mementos from his career. One candid image was a never-seen test shot he took of Peter Sellers for DR. STRANGELOVE. The complicated enigma that played Clouseau, Chance and more would have been 100 today.

#PeterSellers #PeterSellers100

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · Sep 7

'Showing time, James?'

30 years since it relaunched, rebooted, and repointed Bond for another three decades and counting, GOLDENEYE is returning to UK cinemas in October!!

#GoldenEye #PierceBrosnan #JamesBond #Goldeneye30

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · Sep 4

A big congratulatory rev of the DB5's engine to Ajay Chowdhury & Matthew Field for SPY OCTANE : THE VEHICLES OF JAMES BOND - VOLUME ONE being a nominated finalist in the RAC's Motoring Book of the Year 2025!

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#SpyOctane #JamesBond #PorterPress #RAC

Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · Sep 2

The dead are alive. Again.

Directed by Rian Johnson, WAKE UP DEAD MAN marks Daniel Craig and his southern belle anti-hero Benoit Blanc's third murder mystery.

In UK/Ireland cinemas from Nov 28th and globally on Netflix from December 12th!

#KnivesOut #WakeUpDeadMan #DanielCraig

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · Sep 1

Gram. Instagram.

And a whole exported universe of Bond, Bond culture, insight, news and curios...

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#JamesBond #Bond26 #NewJamesBond #IanFleming
#CatchingBullets #WatchingSkies

Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · Sep 1

The days of asking are all gone as LA LA LAND RECORDS announce a two-disc dive into the unreleased cues and alternate songs of THUNDERBALL! With only 5000 copies available, go break your turntable's heart without regret...
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#Thunderball #JohnBarry #JamesBond

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · Aug 31

A BREW TO A KILL!!

Now, does anyone else want to drop out... and grab a Bond villain beer?

Meet 'Zorin' - a brand new ale from a new brewing venture with a villainous kick [box], a blond head, and more power than your beer!

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#Bearwood #Zorin #AViewtoaKill

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Mark O'Connell @markoconnell.bsky.social · Aug 31

Maybe he shouldn't be, but he's STILL LIVING THERE!

#Taffin #TheThursdayMurderClub
#PierceBrosnan

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