Lone Survivor. Black Hawk Down. Kandahar. Stick them in a blender and you get this episode’s movie – Land of...

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What connects the Glazer family, owners of Manchester United football club, and the CIA?  Three companies: the Zapata Corporation, founded...

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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...

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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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