The spy movie is dying, despite efforts to reform it in recent years. In this episode we examine Argylle, the...

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Continuing our vaguely Gary Devore-related explorations, in this month’s subscribercast we look at two unconventional bank heist films where the...

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Kevin Gosztola joins us to talk about his new Medium publication The Wide Shot, a film review and industry analysis...

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What does a military movie with no heroes look like?  It looks like Buffalo Soldiers, a tale of bored, criminally...

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It isn’t often that you get a long-term inside view of a government propaganda office, but that’s what I’ve got...

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Apocalypse Now and Francis Ford Coppola were rejected by the Pentagon when they asked for production support. A decade later...

The post ClandesTime 263 – Gardens of Stone first appeared on Spy Culture.

15 years after podcasts first became a popular medium, the CIA has cottoned onto the value of pre-recorded audio content....

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Two years on from my investigation into over 3000 pages of Bureau of Prisons files on Jeffrey Epstein we return...

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Dying of the Light. Dark. The Card Counter. Aside from all being written and directed by Paul Schrader, what do...

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In this month’s subscriber-only podcast we tackle the final season of The Shield, and do so head on.  In this...

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