Category: Movies, Etc
From James Bond to Jason Bourne, Hitchcock classics to Mr. & Mrs. Smith, spies have long sparked the imagination of movie makers. The trend shows no sign of letting up, with a steady stream of new Bond movies as well as one-offs, parodies like Austin Powers, revivals like Get Smart and kid-oriented flicks like Spy Kids. Not to mention wildly popular TV shows (think 24) and a slew of video games. Where to keep track of it all? Right here – your source for spy entertainment intel.
Eastern European Spy Films Take Cen...
A film festival concentrating solely on espionage cinema is now underway at Zeughaus Kino in Berlin. “The Celluloid Curtain: Europe’s Cold War in Film” presents rare and widely unknown spy films from Iron Curtain countries. The festival was created by Claudia Amthor-Croft of the Goethe Institute’s London chapter as a means to observe the 50th anniversary …
New AMC Spy Show: Seriously Smart S...
If you’re on the prowl for a new action-packed, fast-paced spy series, this is not the one for you. However, if you’re curious about what sort of person, with what sort of past and psychology, goes into the spy line of work anyhow, AMC’s Rubicon might just be up your alley.
A word of caution: The …
New spies for film “Knockout”
The latest in spy movie news is all about the star-studded cast of Steven Soderbergh’s new revenge espionage flick “Knockout.” The film, which starts shooting next month, is about a spy who works for a security contractor not...
Cruise and Diaz start filming new s...
Looking for the next big blockbuster spy film? Well, 2010’s got a couple coming your way. First, there’s Salt, in which a CIA agent played by the sultry Angelina Jolie is accused of being a Russian spy and has to jump through...
New spy show to air on FX
Don’t expect another typical spy show here, folks. "Archer," an animated half-hour comedy launching this fall on FX, may be set at an international spy agency (ISIS), but you’ll find it’s more about the relationships between the agents than the spy missions. It seems that when global...
Spy school: girls only!
Alright, ladies, this is it – your chance to pick up the skills that’ll leave you as seductive and spy-tastic as any of the Bond girls. The Stiletto Spy School, with training sessions in New York and Vegas, plus custom events if...
Guinea pig spy flick flops
G-Force reviews are out and the consensus is: cool idea, great visual execution, star-studded cast, but the movie falls short of real innovation and interest. Just in case you’re not familiar with the concept: A team of three guinea pigs plus one mole are trained as federal spies. They are given...
S. Korea spy agency launches educat...
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) in South Korea has decided it’s time to educate the country’s youth about the Northern spies in their midst. And the ‘spot the spy’ flash video game is how they plan to do it. The game marks the 59th anniversary of the start of...
New spy drama: The Spy and the Spar...
Here’s something of note – an espionage thriller that doesn’t have the stamp of Hollywood all over it. The Spy and the Sparrow, part spy movie part intense family drama, premiered recently at the Seattle International Film Festival, which makes sense...
Spy flick to feature Chanel head de...
It's not often that folks mention spies and haute couture in the same sentence, but here it is: Haute Couture icon Karl Lagerfeld (the designer at the helm of the fashion house Chanel) has agreed to voice for one of the characters in...
New Chinese Spy Museum: No Foreigne...
China’s just opened a new spy museum, but it shouldn’t be on any foreign tourist’s agenda. Why? Because all foreigners are barred entry, lest the spying secrets on display...
Russia Accuses U.S. Base of Spying
This Friday, April 3, the United States was accused by the Russian state television channel Rossiya of using its only air base in Central Asia as a cover for a big espionage operation whose focus is China and Russia. The accusation came with the teaser of a documentary about U.S. intelligence ops at Manas base in …
Real Spies: The Champagne Spy Docum...
We all love the thrill of James Bond, but if your fascination for the world of espionage extends beyond the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, you’ll want to check out the Israeli Academy Award winning documentary – The Champagne Spy. It was released in Israel in 2007, but it was just screened in Montreal for …
New 007 Museum Opens in April
Starting next month, diehard James Bond fans will have good reason to pay a visit to the legendary spy’s home country. On April 5, 2009, the Bond Museum – situated in England’s lush Lake District – will open its doors for the first time.
It was avid James Bond paraphernalia collector Peter Nelson who came up …
Dan Gordon Thriller Author Haggai C...
Upon the release of the third installment in the Dan Gordon Intelligence Thriller series, Israeli American author and international lawyer Haggai Carmon is scheduled to speak this Thursday, March 26 in Long Island, New York. He will be discussing not only his new novel, The Chameleon Conspiracy, but also the two decades of undercover adventures …