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NO TIME TO DIE

October 8, 2021 By 1 Comment

NO TIME TO DIE

And so we have come to the end of Daniel Craig’s tenure as 007. NO TIME TO DIE provides both him and us, with a veritable cornucopia of Bond-ness, from a supervillain’s lair on a remote island, to the finely honed quip we’ve come to expect as James takes out a minion with yet another… Read More »

Tagged With: espionage, nano-robots, save the world, SPECTRE, spy, supervillain, Tux

ANNA

June 25, 2019 By Leave a Comment

ANNA

There is in Luc Besson’s ANNA fully one-third of a very good movie.  That third is a finely drawn satire, cartoonishly violent in its sublimation of female rage as it addresses female exploitation in the modern world using the milieus of espionage and modeling as the metaphor. The other two-thirds is a plodding retread of… Read More »

Tagged With: assassin, espionage, flashback, Moscow, Paris, Skill Set

RED JOAN

April 28, 2019 By Leave a Comment

RED JOAN

Science is pure.  A hypothesis is either true or it isn’t and the scientific method can be used, unfailingly, to prove it.  Politics and human emotions are another story, as we learn in RED JOAN, a drama of that most potent mixture, love and politics. Based on a true story, it considers questions of loyalty… Read More »

Tagged With: atomic secrets, based on a true story, Cambridge, espionage, Official Secrets Act, World War II

THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT — Ross Adam Interview

September 29, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT — Ross Adam Interview

Rob Cannan was stuck in London traffic as my phone interview time with him and his filmmaker partner, Ross Adam began, but Adam did a terrific job doing double-duty, as it were, talking about their stranger-than-fiction documentary, THE LOVERS AND THE DESPOT. The two spent years pursuing the movie rights to one of the most… Read More »

Tagged With: Choi Eun-hee, documentary, espionage, film industry, kidnapping, Kim Jung Il, North Korea, Shin Sang-ok, South Korea

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

JASON BOURNE

July 30, 2016 By Leave a Comment

JASON BOURNE

I’m put in mind of tea leaves.  Good quality tea leaves that have rendered such a wonderful cup of tea that you wonder if maybe, just maybe, there’s enough of their essential, unique quality left to take one more infusion to make a cup as good as that first one.  And so it is with… Read More »

Tagged With: boxing, cybersecurity, digital privacy, driving angry, espionage, franchise, Las Vegas chase scene, sequel

OUR KIND OF TRAITOR

July 2, 2016 By Leave a Comment

OUR KIND OF TRAITOR

John le Carré writes espionage stories in which the action is cerebral and the suspense comes from a keen observation of each protagonist’s character. Thus, the stakes in OUR KIND OF TRAITOR involve much more than the list of names that will topple those in power. They involve the people caught up in the intrigue… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, British Government, espionage, John le Carré, Marrakech, MI6, spies, unlikely allies

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

Gary Oldman on Inspiration, Stillness, and Bedroom Acting.

April 13, 2016 By 1 Comment

Gary Oldman on Inspiration, Stillness, and Bedroom Acting.

Click here to listen to the interview. Gary Oldman is an actor known for disappearing into his roles, and playing George Smiley, a spymaster known for being able to disappear into the background is a tour de force for him. When I spoke to him on November 16, 2011, I was most interested in asking… Read More »

Tagged With: book to film, cold war, espionage, remake

SPECTRE

November 5, 2015 By Leave a Comment

SPECTRE

There are very specific things we want in a James Bond film. Great action, dastardly villains who are larger than life and twice as buggy, and Bond girls who have evolved over the years to be a bit more than merely a pulchritudinous interlude.  In Bond, as incarnated by Daniel Craig, we want a steely… Read More »

Tagged With: cabals, covert surveillance, espionage, franchise, intrigue, James Bond, sequel, spy

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