Agents Scott and Cam welcome author Robert Sellers to the show to reveal the secrets behind writing his controversial 2007 book The Battle for Bond! He also discusses the complicated and surprising history of the 1965 Bond adventure Thunderball.

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Agents Scott and Cam, along with guest operative John Rain from Smersh Pod, cry out for Tabasco sauce while decoding Roger Moore's second Bond adventure, The Man with the Golden Gun.

Directed by Guy Hamilton. Starring Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams, Hervé Villechaize, Clifton James, Richard Loo and Soon-Tek Oh.

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Agents Scott and Cam put on fancy dresses and crawl into a doghouse while taking on the 1948 Red Skelton Civil War spy comedy A Southern Yankee.

Directed by Edward Sedgwick. Starring Red Skelton, Brian Donlevy, Arlene Dahl, George Coulouris, Lloyd Gough and John Ireland.

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Agents Scott and Cam welcome screenwriter Richard Wenk to the show to reveal the secrets behind creating The Equalizer trilogy. He also shares stories about writing The Mechanic remake, The Protégé, and more!

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Agents Scott and Cam clock in for a very bloody shift at Home Mart while tackling the 2014 Denzel Washington action-thriller The Equalizer.

Directed by Antoine Fuqua. Starring Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloë Grace Moretz, David Harbour, Haley Bennett, Bill Pullman, Melissa Leo and David Meunier.

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Agent Scott and guest operative Tom Butler from The James Bond A-Z Podcast have their nighttime swims explosively disrupted while delivering a DECLASSIFIED review of the new Rami Malek spy thriller The Amateur.

Directed by James Hawes. Starring Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe, Michael Stuhlbarg, Laurence Fishburne, Holt McCallany, Julianne Nicholson, Danny Sapani and Jon Bernthal. 

The Amateur is now in theatres.

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Agents Scott and Cam, along with guest operative Scott McCrea, author of Targets West, learn about the importance of tradecraft in father/son bonding while decoding the 1985 Gene Hackman & Matt Dillon spy drama Target.

Directed by Arthur Penn. Starring Gene Hackman, Matt Dillon, Gayle Hunnicutt, Josef Summer, Guy Boyd, Viktoriya Fyodorova, Herbert Berghof and Ilona Grübel.

Make sure to purchase Targets West on Amazon, and check out more of Scott's work at his website. 

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Agents Scott and Cam push it real good with Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz while tackling the 2025 spy action-comedy Back in Action.

Directed by Seth Gordon. Starring Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, Kyle Chandler, Glenn Close, McKenna Roberts, Rylan Jackson, Jamie Demetriou, Fola Evans-Akingbola and Andrew Scott.

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Agents Scott and Cam welcome writer/director Shane Black to the show to reveal the secrets behind writing the 1996 spy action film The Long Kiss Goodnight. He also shares stories about working on The Hunt for Red October, Predator and Lethal Weapon, as well as discusses his favourite spy literature.

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Agent Scott and guest operative Hannah Hughes introduce a little espionage into their relationship while serving up a DECLASSIFIED review of the new Steven Soderbergh spy caper Black Bag.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Starring Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Marisa Abela, Tom Burke, Naomie Harris, Regé-Jean Page and Pierce Brosnan.

Black Bag is in theatres now.

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