Coming Attractions

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 Well, gang, it's Sunday afternoon here in my nook of Florida, and the weather outside is nice and spring-like. It's 77 degrees Fahrenheit, and the skies above are mostly cloudy. Perfect day for lazing about with a good book and a cool drink!



I was going to write a review of my latest Blu-ray find, The James Bond Collection, a 2016 box set from MGM and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment that has all of the existing official James Bond films, starting with 1962's Dr. No  and ending with 2015's Spectre. That's 24 feature films in one set, which for me is a record-setting purchase, at least when sheer number of movies is concerned. (Cost-wise it was on par with buying the 2011 Star Wars: The Complete Saga; I paid $86.60 - $79.96 plus Florida sales taxes - for the James Bond Blu-ray set, which is pretty much what I paid for the 6-film Star Wars set). But I got up late this morning, and I rarely start writing at 1 PM, so I think I'll take the rest of the day off and rest up for tomorrow.

I usually don't plan my blog posts ahead of schedule since they are mostly reviews and not necessarily topic-driven. But I usually review stuff that's new to me, so you can expect to see posts about The James Bond Collection and maybe some of the Bond movies later this week.

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