Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
The Numbers Station (2013) - In disgrace, a CIA black-ops agent gets sent to a secret broadcast station in England as punishment. When the other team assigned to facility is killed, life gets complicated. Directed by Kasper Barfoed Starring John Cusack, Malin Åkerman, Liam Cunningham Why I Liked It - A good cast makes the most they can... Continue Reading →
The Catcher Was A Spy (2018) - Based loosely on the life of major league baseball catcher Moe Berg. It’s the story of an intelligent, well-read baseball oddball who goes to work for American intelligence during World War II, including an assignment to assassinate the head of the Nazi atomic bomb program.Directed by Ben LewinStarring... Continue Reading →
Three Days of the Condor (1975) - A CIA researcher working in a quiet little office goes out to pick up lunch for everyone. When he comes back, everyone has been murdered and the hit team is after him as well. On the run, he kidnaps a woman and tries to get a straight answer... Continue Reading →
The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) Boyhood friends decide to take control of their lives by selling both national security secrets and cocaine. Based on a true story. Directed by John Schlesinger Starring Timothy Hutton, Sean... Continue Reading →
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965) - A British agent is sent to East Germany on an undercover mission to disrupt the German intelligence service. Directed by Martin Ritt Starring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom,... Continue Reading →
Topaz (1969) - A French secret service agent does a favor for American intelligence that leads him back to a Soviet spy in the French government. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Starring John Forsyth, Frederick Stafford, John Vernon This movie would seem to... Continue Reading →
Ministry of Fear (1944) - Stephen Neale (Milland) has just been released from an asylum during World War 2 in England when he stumbles on a deadly Nazi spy plot by accident and tries to stop it. Directed by Fritz Lang ... Continue Reading →
Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers (1903) - A young clerk from the English Foreign Office is invited to join a half-forgotten friend from his University days for some sailing in the Baltic Sea. What begins as a break from his boredom in London leads to a plot that puts his nation's safety at... Continue Reading →
Had the opportunity to do some trans-Atlantic flying, which is always a good time to catch up on recent movies I've missed. I saw three on this trip. Kingsman - The Secret Service (2014) - Her Majesty's most secret service is looking to fill a vacancy in their elite force just as a new international... Continue Reading →
A Most Wanted Man (2014) - A young Chechen man arrives in Hamburg and immediately comes to the attention of the anti-terrorist forces in Germany. He will be caught up in in post-9/11 paranoia, anti-Islamic suspicions and departmental conflict while his young attorney tries to "normalize" his stay. It has been my practice here NOT... Continue Reading →
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