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THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT

April 19, 2022 By Leave a Comment

THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT

Having starred in a deliciously odd self-portrait by and of Charlie Kaufman, ADAPTATION, Nicolas Cage has waited two decades to take the surreal meta-plunge again and waiting for just the right script has paid off for him and for us. In THE UNBEARABLE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT, he plays a fictionalized version of himself, hamstrung… Read More »

Tagged With: acid trip, CIA, egregious product placement, kidnapping, Majorca, meta story, parody, superfan

THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME

August 4, 2018 By Leave a Comment

THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME

There is much that is very right with THE SPY WHO DUMPED ME. There is also much that is very wrong with it. It makes for an irksome cinematic experience in which one finds oneself rooting for the flick to pull itself together before the final credits.  Spoiler alert, it doesn’t happen. The kitschy-coo title… Read More »

Tagged With: being dumped, best friends, CIA, gala ball, MI6, spoof, spy

MARK FELT: THE MAN WHO BROUGHT DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE — Peter Landesman Interview

October 7, 2017 By Leave a Comment

MARK FELT: THE MAN WHO BROUGHT DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE — Peter Landesman Interview

I loved that Peter Landesman  had the same reaction that I did when Deep Throat was finally revealed. That would be “Who’s that?”  Bob Woodward’s source for the reporting that eventually brought down the Nixon administration was Mark Felt, an FBI man who kept a low profile while violating his personal code of ethics in… Read More »

Tagged With: CIA, Deep Throat, FBI, Mark Felt, obstruction of justice, Richard Nixon, Watergate

OPERATION AVALANCHE — Matt Johnson & Matt Miller Interview

September 23, 2016 By Leave a Comment

OPERATION AVALANCHE — Matt Johnson & Matt Miller Interview

After seeing OPERATION AVALANCHE, a whipsmart found-footage faux-documentary about how we didn’t land on the moon in 1969, it came as no surprise that its director/co-star/co-writer Matt Johnson and producer Matt Miller were so erudite and so witty. When we spoke on September 19, 2016, my first question was about why we love conspiracy theories so… Read More »

Tagged With: Apollo Program, CIA, conspiracy theories, Dr. Strangelove, JFK, Men in Black, Mission Control, moon landing, NASA, Oliver Stone, Stanley Kubrick, The Manchurian Candidate, York University

OPERATION AVALANCHE

September 16, 2016 By Leave a Comment

OPERATION AVALANCHE

There is something irresistible about a well-constructed conspiracy theory.  The juxtaposition between the secret hands behind the scenes pulling the strings that control our destiny, and the peculiar sense of security that the world is not just a series of random events, that there is an order to it even if he have no collective… Read More »

Tagged With: CIA, cold war, conspiracy theory, covert operation, espionage, moon landing, NASA, Stanley Kubrick

ZERO DAYS — Alex Gibney, Eric Chien & Liam O’Murchu

July 6, 2016 By Leave a Comment

ZERO DAYS — Alex Gibney, Eric Chien & Liam O’Murchu

Liam O’Murchu was the first person at Symantec to see the STUXnet code, and, as he told me when we talked on May 11, 2016, red flags went off about the elegant coding and suspicious dearth of bugs. I was interviewing him along with his colleague, Eric Chien and with Alex Gibney, the documentarian who… Read More »

Tagged With: autonomous code, bugs, centrifuge, CIA, computer security, computer virus, cybercrime, deliberate misinformation, digital certificates, Edward Snowdon, Homeland Security, informant, internet, Iran, Iranian nuclear program, Israel, malicious software, malware, Michael Hayden, Mossad, National Security Agency, NSA, STUXNet, Symantec, tin foil hat, virtual surveillance, Vodaphone, wiretaps

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

June 26, 2016 By Leave a Comment

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE is everything that the perfect bromance flick should be, starting with the improbable but undeniable chemistry between stars Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson.  Add a script that shows them off to best effect, with its wicked sense of the absurdity and suspense of the situations in which these two find themselves, and what… Read More »

Tagged With: bromance, buddy film, bullying, CIA, espionage, forensic accountant, satellite codes, spy, treason

CRIMINAL

April 13, 2016 By 1 Comment

CRIMINAL

CRIMINAL is a trifle of a thriller.  Sure, guns are fired, things explode, and Ryan Reynolds meets a grisly end shortly after the flick begins, but the necessary tension to keep us all on the edge of our seats is noticeably lacking. What we are left with is an intriguing premise, Gary Oldman at his… Read More »

Tagged With: CIA, hacking code, living Tiki idol, memory transfer, poor impulse control, prefrontal cortex, widow, wormhole

13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI

January 18, 2016 By 3 Comments

13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI

With his trademark bombast, Michael Bay addresses the tragedy of Benghazi with great attention to the details of battle, and only the most superficial of attitudes towards everything else.  Based on the book by Mitchell Zuckoff that recounted the 2012 attack by local insurgents on the temporary American embassy and the CIA station in that… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Benghazi, book to screen, CIA, fog of war, Libya

MOONWALKERS

January 14, 2016 By 1 Comment

MOONWALKERS

It’s not that I believe every conspiracy theory that comes along, it’s just that I have a serious weakness for the imagination that goes into some of them. And so it is with the theory that while Apollo 11 may or may not have actually landed on the moon in 1969, the footage that we… Read More »

Tagged With: 1960s, 1969, Apollo 11, CIA, fake footage, moon walk, Stanley Kubrick

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