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Spies

Those are words I never dreamed I’d ever say, and yet I did – more than once (albeit silently to myself – while watching the latest big-screen incarnation of the Townsend Agency’s iconic trio of sleut…
Octogenarian Judi Dench can do it all. She can play smart, fierce and sexy (see her in the more recent James Bond films). She can be a queen (a number of films). She can be a creeper (oh, yes, No…
Tom Cruise's special agent Ethan Hunt is back for another seemingly impossible mission—that of course turns out to be impossibly possible, in no small part to his loyal IMF crew (including Simon Pegg …
Hours before the Berlin Wall topples as a result of the thawing Cold War, it's spy vs. spy vs. spy vs. spy in this smoking hot, stylish, violent, and enjoyably baffling comic book movie. Atomic Blond…
I'm pretty sure that moviegoers of all persuasions and sexes have a collective cinematic crush on Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Shoot, how could you not? A towering, handsome guy with blinding white teet…

Spy

Need more? Melissa McCarthy cements her status as a cinematic force to be reckoned with in this super- fun action-comedy from writer-director Paul Feig. In it, she stars as Susan Cooper, a mild- mann…
Now, it is not a good sign when I'm sitting there watching action scene after action scene, but am distracted by some pretty simple questions. Coming from the background of, well, no background with t…
That is not to say that Spielberg doesn't know how to make an entertaining historical film. Bridge of Spies, after an exceptionally sluggish first half hour or so, is indeed entertaining. Set in the C…
Here I was, looking forward to a Tom Cruise movie! After his highly enjoyable sci-fi flick Edge of Tomorrow, and the equally impressive Mission: Impossible IV (aka Ghost Protocol), I actually wasn't a…
The mission of this film lies in the impossible stunts and effects, not in Ethan Hunt's (Cruise's) assignment to save humanity from a killer virus. Indeed, you'd have thought that only anime could pro…
So, now that you know the "plot", here are my comments: I'd like to thank director J.J. Abrams. Not for this movie. Not for Lost or Alias. But for one of the greatest shows ever, Felicity. Thank you.…
In this parallel universe to Mr. Bond, there is a British Secret Service called the Kingsman. It is so secret that its headquarters are access via a secret entrance in a men's tailoring shop in London…
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