Films about torture are often exploitative and sadistic, and even more so when they are state sponsored. In this episode...

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In the first of several subscriber-only podcasts we look at season one of the unique and award-winning cop drama The...

The post Subscribercast #73 – The Shield Season One first appeared on Spy Culture.

The CIA-sponsored streaming wars hit a new high recently, when Netflix premiered The Recruit and within days Amazon released the...

The post ClandesTime 242 – Jack Ryan vs The Recruit first appeared on Spy Culture.

In this quick podcast I review the biographical moral drama Worth (2020) a.k.a. What is Life Worth?. It tells the...

The post Subscribercast #72 – What is Life Worth? first appeared on Spy Culture.

In early 1977 a retired NATO general put together a team of elite military officers to write a report on...

The post ClandesTime 241 – World War III first appeared on Spy Culture.

The invasion and occupation of Afghanistan was America’s longest war. In this episode we take an overview of the war...

The post ClandesTime 240 – The Cinema of the War in Afghanistan first appeared on Spy Culture.

The CIA recently launched a new outreach effort – its own podcast.  In this subscribercast I review and analyse The...

The post Subscribercast #71 – The Langley Files first appeared on Spy Culture.

Football is the world’s biggest sport, and perhaps the most state-sponsored sport. In this episode we take a critical look...

The post ClandesTime Special – State Sponsored Football and the Qatar World Cup first appeared on Spy Culture.

Imagine a world where secret government agencies used deep fakes to create evidence of events that never happened, and used...

The post Subscribercast #70 – Deep Fakes and The Capture first appeared on Spy Culture.

Somehow, in the midst of all the identity politics and culture war noise, the fact that Captain Marvel was the...

The post ClandesTime 239 – Captain Marvel and Space Force first appeared on Spy Culture.