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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 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...

Cruise and DiazLooking 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...

Guinea pig spy flick flops

G-Force guinea pig spyG-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...

New spy drama: The Spy and the Spar...

David Rasche in the Spy and the SparrowHere’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...

karl_lagerfeldIt'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...

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 …

Brad Pitt to Produce Spy Thriller

This just in: Turns out Angelina’s role in spy thriller Salt (to be released in 2010) may be inspiring husband Brad to take a stab at the espionage movie genre from a production side. News on the street has Pitt’s production company, Plan B, teaming up with Paramount to adapt author John LeCarre’s spy novel The

CIA Spy Angelina Jolie Spotted in N...

Nothing quite like spotting sexy Angelina Jolie pretending to be an undercover agent on the streets of Manhattan. Last week, the actress was seen dangling, barefoot and a little bloody, from the side of an apartment building in Washington Heights, New York.

Of course, she was in the middle of filming for the new spy flick …

Boyle to Direct Next Bond?!

The movieland rumor mill has been turning at warp speed yet again, this time getting every Slumdog Millionaire fan out there (and heavens knows there are a lot of us) signing up to purchase über-advanced tickets to the next 007 flick.

That’s right, tabloids and e-zines on both sides of the Atlantic had British director Danny …

Angelina Jolie to Play CIA Agent / ...

Can’t get enough of those CIA agent spy dramas? Well, you’ve already got something to look forward to in 2010, when Columbia Pictures’ espionage thriller Salt is due to hit the big screen. There’s already been a lot of chatter about this movie, and it hasn’t even started shooting. Filming’s due to begin on Long Island, …

Feb/March Spy Movie Roundup

Push

Don’t be put off by the title – this film has nothing to do with giving birth. It’s Summit Entertainment’s latest action thriller starring Chris Evans and Dakota Fanning; it opened in theaters Friday 6, 2009.

Quickie Summary: Paranormal agents touting powers like telekinesis, predicting the future, creating alternate dimensions and eliminating rivals without so …