Goldfinger (1964)
1964 Guy Hamilton Bond film with Sean Connery facing gold-obsessed Auric Goldfinger and silent assassin Oddjob. Fort Knox plot.
Sean Connery
This archive collects the films featuring Sean Connery reviewed at Master of Worlds — 14 titles spanning “Diamonds Are Forever (1971)”, “Dr. No (1962)”, “From Russia with Love (1963)”, “Goldfinger (1964)”, “Highlander (1986)”, “Never Say Never Again (1983)”, “The Hill (1965)”, “The Indiana Jones Trilogy (1981, 1984, 1989)”, “The Man Who Would Be King (1975)”, “The Name of the Rose (1986)”, “The Untouchables (1987)”, “Thunderball (1965)”, “Time Bandits (1981)”, and “You Only Live Twice (1967)”. Seen together they form a substantial cross-section of Sean Connery’s screen work, and the reviews approach them as storytelling first. The questions are consistent — what the performance asks of the audience, how it serves the structure of the film, and what holds up on a second or third viewing. Watching one actor across this many roles makes the craft legible in a way a single film cannot: the recurring instincts, the range, the choices that separate a memorable performance from a forgettable one. The collection is curated rather than exhaustive, built from films reviewed in depth at Master of Worlds, and it grows as further titles are added.
Highlander (1986)
Highlander is one of the strangest mainstream studio films of the 1980s and one of the most influential fantasy films of the decade. Russell Mulcahy…
The Indiana Jones Trilogy (1981, 1984, 1989) — Review
The first three Indiana Jones films are the best adventure trilogy ever made. Nothing else comes close. Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981, Temple of Doom in 1984, and The Last Crusade in 1989 form a complete trilogy that arrived before Hollywood started planning trilogies as franchise products. The…
Time Bandits (1981) — Review
Terry Gilliam’s droll British time travel fantasy. Six dwarves with stolen map of holes in time. Sean Connery as Agamemnon, John Cleese as Robin Hood. 8.5/10.