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Spy and Espionage related posts from Graeme Shimmin.
A Legacy of Spies is a John le Carré novel published in 2017. It’s a parallel story to The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, within a…
Kingsman: The Golden Circle released in September 2017, starring Taron Egerton, and directed by Matthew Vaughn, is an espionage-comedy-thriller sequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service. It follows the continuing…
American Assassin released in September 2017, starring Dylan O’Brien, and directed by Michael Cuesta, is an espionage thriller about a man who joins a CIA black ops unit, seeking revenge…
Charade staring Cary Grant as Peter Joshua, and Audrey Hepburn as Reggie Lampert, directed by Stanley Donen, and released in 1963, is a good example of a romantic-comedy-espionage-thriller, a genre crossover…
Olivia Joules, written by Helen Fielding, the author of the Bridget Jones novels, and published in 2004, is a comedy-romance-spy-thriller about a journalist who suspects a millionaire businessman may also…
American Made released in August 2017, starring Tom Cruise and directed by Doug Liman, is a black-comedy-thriller about a pilot who gets mixed up with the CIA and drug-smuggling, against…
Deutschland 83, created by Anna and Jörg Winger and released in 2015, is a spy thriller about a young East German agent in West Germany. It stars Jonas…
Atomic Blonde, released in August 2017, starring Charlize Theron and James McAvoy and directed by David Leitch, is a super-stylish and action-packed spy thriller with a convoluted plot. It’s set in…
The Orwell game is a counter-terrorist-themed, surveillance and document analysis game, sometimes described as ‘Facebook stalking: the game”, which is not entirely inaccurate. The player has to examine surveillance footage and…
Bulldog Drummond was written by ‘Sapper’ (a pseudonym of Cyril McNeile) and published in 1920 to great commercial success. It spawned a long-running franchise of novels and movies that lasted into the…