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Jun 19, 2022 · With Season 4 of FP’s podcast I Spy in full swing, we thought it was time to revisit some of our best reads on the art of espionage.. In this collection of stories, we dive into the history of ...
Apr 2, 2012 · So how close are real spies to the Bournes and the Bonds? Peter Taylor looks at the world of the modern day secret agent. From James Bond to Spooks, from Jason Bourne to Tinker Tailor, spying is ...
- The Bourne Trilogy
- Burn After Reading
- Argo
- Spy Game
- Red Sparrow
- Kingsman: The Golden Circle
- Munich
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Mission: Impossible III - Mission: Impossible Fallout
Any list of the best modern spy films would be incomplete without the first three Bourne films, which redefined the spy genre for modern audiences and cemented Matt Damonas an A-list leading man. Executed with a tight balance of character, action and intrigue, the trilogy honors its roots in the espionage thriller while fulfilling all the explosive...
Nobody explores the monsters behind the mask of civilized humanity with quite the sharp wit and cynical edge the Coen brother's bring to the table, and Burn After Reading is all about the antics that flourish when social contracts breaks down. Along with that razor-sharp edge, the 2008 satire boasts all the technical excellence we've come to expect...
Based on a true story, the 2013 Best Picture winner follows the rescue of six US Embassy employees loose in the streets of Iran during the 1972 uprising by the Tehran revolutionists led by Ben Affleck's CIA agent Tony Mendez. Affleck, who also directed the picture plays his spy as quietly efficient and confident, but with a lived-in quality that hi...
Billed as a two-hander between Robert Redfordand Brad Pitt, Spy Gameis really Redford's show – a fine return to the genre for the iconic star of Three Days of the Condor. Told through a series of flashbacks,Spy Gameexplores the mentor-mentee relationship between two master spies, Nathan Muir (Redford) and Tom Bishop (Pitt); one on the eve of his re...
Red Sparrow is a shockingly grim film, made with a sizable studio budget and a bonafide movie star cast featuring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, and freaking Charlotte Rampling. But don't walk in expecting an adventurous romp through the action-packed life of a superspy, Red Sparrowis a darker, more dangerous film that boils down to a character ...
Kingsmanis the shock and awe approach to the spy genre. It's rowdy, raunchy, occasionally tasteless pure spectacle that wears a veneer of the gentleman spy's elegance as an embellishment on a machismo shockfest. It's the sort of irreverent self-referential filmmaking that can only happen after a genre has taken such a firm foothold in the cultural ...
On the surface, Steven Spielberg's Munichis about the aftermath of Black September, a terrorist attack on the 1972 Olympics that left 11 Israelis dead. Beyond the surface story, the Best Picture-nominated film dives deeper to examine relative truth, failure to communicate, and the cost of waging an unwinnable, eternal war. Munich follows a team of ...
Not since To Catch a Thief has a romp through the gorgeous antiquities of Europe been so stylish, breezy and downright delicious.Guy Ritchie's criminally underrated spy caper The Man from U.N.C.L.E.has found a proud foothold (and a loud demand for a sequel) in the three years since it landed in theaters, and it's a well-deserved rallying for a film...
A super-condensed adaptation of John le Carre's expansive 1974 novel of the same name (John Irvin's essential 1979 mini-series barely managed to capture it all in seven episodes), the 2011 espionage drama Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy stars Gary Oldmanin an impeccable performance as George Smiley; the iconic, taciturn MI6 agent who's tasked with uncove...
The Mission Impossible franchise has been a mainstay of the American superspy market for more than two decades, and over the years, Ethan Hunt has joined the ranks of James Bond and Jason Bourne as name-brand agents of espionage – the tippy top of the spy trade A-list. And somehow these movies just keep staying excellent. Brian De Palma's 1996 orig...
Modern Spies TV-PG 2012 1 Season Documentary List Reviews Avg. Tomatometer Avg. Audience Score The fictional world of spying is a world of danger and deception, glamour and lies.
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Feb 8, 2022 · TRUE SPIES: STUDYING AND UNDERSTANDING MODERN ESPIONAGE. Amy Zegart , Genevieve Lester February 8, 2022 2 min read. Admit it. In your most self-aggrandizing dreams you’re as charming as Sydney Bristow, as lethal as Jason Bourne, and as intuitive and intellectual as Jack Ryan. If Austin Powers was anywhere in that mix you might want to keep ...
Modern Espionage. " Modern Espionage " is the eleventh episode of the sixth season of the television sitcom Community. It was written by Mark Stegemann, and directed by Rob Schrab. It is the 108th episode overall and was first released on Yahoo! Screen in the United States on May 19, 2015. The episode is the third "paintball episode" of the ...
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