Tag: Spy
Cary Joji Fukunaga Named New James Bond Director
The martini shaker has been passed to a new filmmaker, as Cary Joji Fukunaga has been named the new director of the next James Bond movie, tentatively called Bond 25. Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, and actor Daniel Craig, made the announcement today, almost a month after Danny Boy...
Read MoreREVIEW: Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan Season 1
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan is the second true reboot of the Clancy character, after 2014’s Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit. This time around, the analyst-turned field operative is played by John Krasinski, four years into his tenure at the CIA. Ryan has been looking into a possible terrorist cell, led by ...
Read MoreYou Should Be Watching: The Living Daylights (1987)
“You were fantastic. We’re free.” “Kara, we’re inside a Russian airbase in the middle of Afghanistan.” Welcome back to You Should Be Watching, where I discuss movies and TV series that deserve more love. This week we’re globetrotting with 007 himself in 1987’s The Living Dayl...
Read MoreDanny Boyle Quits Bond 25
Hot on the heels of the Idris Elba/Antoine Fuqua fake news, James Bond series producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson – as well as current 007 Daniel Craig – have announced that director Danny Boyle will no longer be helming the 25th movie in the legendary spy franchise. Almost three mo...
Read MoreKingsman 3 Filming in Early 2019
I’m a massive fan of both Kingsman films. Kingsman: The Secret Service was an incredibly well made, superbly directed, funny, and thrilling spy film that came out in the same year as SPECTRE and blew it out of the water. Kingsman: The Golden Circle was a slightly inferior, but insanely entertainin...
Read MoreREVIEW: Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
I’ve been a fan of the Mission: Impossible franchise since I was introduced to it as a child with Mission: Impossible 2. I’ve always been fascinated by action cinema; how the movies are made, the pure craft that goes into every set piece. I thought this series had hit its peak with Mission: Impo...
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