The trilogy of Daniel Craig Bond movies are a guilty pleasure of mine, and I have a series of coincidental associations with each one of them. For Skyfall I happened to be in Istanbul just as it was being released, and all anyone could still talk about there was what a pain it had been when they shot the (awesome) opening sequence in the Grand Bazaar. And then there was the couple in the hotel room next to mine who kept blasting the theme song by Adele over and over again, into the wee hours. Sam Mendes does a cracking job with Skyfall, and he keeps things interesting with plenty of inventive action sequences and and things going "boom!" plus a good old-fashioned shoot-out at the end. But the movie would be nothing without its sublime roster of actors: Daniel Craig, keeping things sexy; Javier Bardem, chewing scenery with abandon; Ben Whishaw, snappy and whip-smart as the new Q; and of course Judi Dench, elevating every scene she's in. Here's hoping that the rumors of Chiwetel Ejiofor as the next Bond villain turn out to be true too.