Spectre: A Pension of Nightmares

Off to the cinema to see Spectre, a terrific new action thriller starring Daniel Craig as James Bond, a swave and deboner British spy of mixed Scottish-English-Irish extraction who is ninety years old. Women love him, even when they pretend not to; some men wish they could be him; other men try to kill him; he kills them instead. It's a simple life. The Bond films are simple. Their appeal is