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The Avengers: High Kicks and High Jinks with the Original Spy-Fi Icons (TV retrospective).
Imagine a world where bowler hats and leather boots are the height of spy fashion, and the line between a charming English gentleman…
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December 2023
ReviewScifi
A Blanket Of Steel (Rise Of Oceania book 6) by Timothy S. Johnston (book review).
The primary goal for Truman ‘Mac’ McClusky, his sister Meg and their allies has always been independence. Now, in ‘A Blanket Of Steel’…
November 2023
ReviewBooks
Spycraft: Inside The CIA’s Top Secret Spy Lab by Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton (book review).
I’ve been holding onto ‘Spycraft: Inside The CIA’s Top Secret Spy Lab’ by Robert Wallace and H. Keith Melton for several years. Melton,…
TrailerFilms
Role Play: new Amazon Prime spy-fy movie (trailer).
Ah, the suburbs of New Jersey: land of manicured lawns, soccer moms, and… deadly assassins? Apparently so, in the upcoming spy-fy thriller Role…
TrailerSpy-Fy
Slow Horses gallops into a 3rd season (Apple spy-fy TV series: trailer).
Get ready to trot back into the world of espionage with Season 3 of Slow Horses, the series where Britain’s least graceful spies…
September 2023
NewsSpy-Fy
David McCallum passes at 90: from U.N.C.L.E. agent to Interdimensional Operative (tribute).
The curtains have drawn, and the spotlight dims on the illustrious career of David McCallum, the Scottish-born actor whose presence graced both the…
TrailerFilms
Operation Napoleon: decoding a WWII enigma under the ice (film trailer).
Slated for release on August 11th, 2023, Operation Napoleon weaves a narrative that melds the intrigue of international conspiracy with the thrill of unexpected…
TrailerSpy-Fy
Argylle: Apple+ spy-fy movie (trailer).
In the whimsically adventurous “Argylle“, coming soon to theaters and Apple TV+, we find ourselves gallivanting alongside introverted spy novelist Elly Conway (the…
NewsFilms
The Avengers 1998: Brolly hell, a weather forecast of cinematic doom? (video article)
The Avengers, the 1998 film that makes you wonder what James Bond, Austin Powers, and a dash of Monty Python would look like…
ReviewBooks
Joe 90: Project 90 Technical Operations Manual by Chris Thompson & Jack Knoll, illustrated by Chris Thompson (book review).
The book “Joe 90: Project 90 Technical Operations Manual” delves into the World Intelligence Network’s most unique agent and the equipment he employs.…
ReviewComics
The Best Of Jane Bond by Mike Hubbard (graphic novel review).
With all the chatter about the possibility of the next James Bond being female, it’s worth noting that this concept was explored as…
August 2023
NewsFilms
Die Another Day: the spy who froze me? (spy-fy movie retrospective).
Die Another Day, the 2002 spy film, is the one where James Bond, played by the ever-suave Pierce Brosnan, decides he’s had enough…