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WATCH: Keri Russell Is A KGB Spy
- Keri Russell is a Russian spy? Felicity sure has come a long way. In the trailer for FX's new Cold War drama, "The Americans," Russell goes toe-to-toe with her spy husba...
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Bond at 50: Skyfall's Notable Premiere Harkens Back to Bond's Late Imperial Beginnings
- Tuesday night's world premiere of Skyfall in London was a major touchstone of the James Bond film series' beginnings 50 years ago. Held at the Royal Albert Hall, featuri...
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Bond at 50: Dr. No Is a Time Capsule From the Early Mad Men Era
- "The carrier wave is still established." -- MI6 communications specialist in London reporting to his boss on the mysterious loss of contact with Station J Jamaica, desp...
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Forget the Film Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: See the BBC Original
- Writing about films is not something I often do, but as an old Cold Warrior who has covered intelligence matters for decades and been involved in a few, the thrilling b...
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Ken Kesey Rides Again In Magic Trip
- Directors Alex Gibney and Allison Ellwood. Portrait by Leslie Hassler. Why won't our parents shut up already about the Sixties? Here's your chance to live it for two h...
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ReThink Review: Countdown to Zero -- How I Learned to Start Worrying
- Countdown to Zero, the new documentary about nuclear weapons from director Lucy Walker and An Inconvenient Truth super-producer Lawrence Bender (see my ReThink Interview...
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Exclusive: French Director Carion Bids Farewell to Russian Spy
- Hot Russian spies fill our news media and infiltrate our movie screens. From Anna Fermanova or Chapman in the real world to Angelina Jolie in Salt (about a Russian agent...
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HuffPost Review: Farewell
- Christian Carion's Farewell is that rare surprise -- a political thriller that's more about the emotional components and consequences of espionage than it is about the a...
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The Red Dawn Remake: The Chinese Are Coming! The Chinese Are Coming!
- Red Dawn was one of my favorite movies as a kid. It starred my girlhood crush, C. Thomas Howell. It was released in 1984, a year after The Outsiders, and it reunited t...
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Rethinking the Fog of War: McNamara, the Movie, the Monster
- The Vietnam War had ended before I was born, so I never directly felt its impact on my life. I never saw Robert McNamara on TV with his charts and know-it-all attitude e...
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``Cold War'' documents the personal experiences of many individuals who were affected by the great political and social tensions generated by post-WWII Super Powers during 1945-1991.