Sentences with phrase «spy movies»

If you've watched any number of spy movies and action blockbusters, you'll know that the ultra sneaky characters always use pre-paid cellphones for their secretive agendas.

Another path harkens back to Hollywood spy movies: Pretend to be somebody who has security clearance.

Obviously it's only supposed to listen when you issue a command, but in dystopian Big Brother nightmares, turning up the volume as you see in so many spy movies won't be enough to stop Google Home from hearing what you're saying; it is specifically designed to beam from and hear you!

Siri can also understand when multiple topics are included in a single command, such as «Show me spy movies from the 1960s» or «Show me high school comedies from the 90s.»

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The Vita's Metal Gear Solid HD Collection includes remakes of Metal Gear Solid 2, the reigning king of mind - bending post-modern video games, and Metal Gear Solid 3, a brutal satire of the Cold War spy movies that inspired Metal Gear.

I never intended to write a series based on popular spy movies.

«Kingsman» shows characters discussing spy movies and deciding what about their present circumstances is and isn't like a James Bond picture.

A riff on British spy movies, it stars Firth as Harry, who is asked by his leader — Michael Caine, of course — to find a potential recruit to replenish their ranks.

The film is an interesting take on CIA conspiracy theory movies, even the music is reminiscent of spy movies.

The film isn't a full - on spoof of spy movies in the way of the «Austin Powers» pictures or the many other riffs on James Bond.

It's hard not to gush over Legends» visual design; the game is beautifully rendered and each world is a treat to go through as you visit areas inspired by fairy tales, 60's spy movies and ancient Greece.

Spy movies can get bogged down, and boy does Vaughn let that happen here.

Kingsman is a riff on spy movies that goes in one direction, while Spy goes in the exact opposite, focusing on the ridiculous stereotypes and cliches that usually make spy movies so entertaining.

A lighthearted play with spy movies, erotica, and storytelling from 1967, Trans - Europ - Express is the director's second directorial effort and his most popular success and audience - friendly production.

Many people are going to be quick to compare «Kingsman» to «Kick - Ass,» but while the former boasts the same punk - rock attitude, dark plot twists, and kinetic, no - holds - barred action sequences (including an extremely violent set piece inside of a church that rivals Hit - Girl's blood - soaked exploits), «Kingsman» feels less like a satire of an entire genre than the product of a filmmaker who grew up loving spy movies.

But even as we are appreciating what is successful, starting with the impeccable work of Irons, Rampling and Schoenaerts, it's hard not to notice that the level of intensity, intelligence and involvement here does not reach the level of classic all - in spy movies like the Bourne films or Tomas Alfredson's «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy» and Anton Corbijn's «A Most Wanted Man,» both based on novels by the genre's master, John le Carré.

Given the roster of entertainments to come, we may be facing in 2018 what 1968 was to spy movies: a complete saturation, structures so big that they can't be topped.

Summary Capsule: A parody of WWII spy movies in which an American rock and roll singer becomes involved in a Resistance plot to rescue a scientist imprisoned in East Germany.

On the surface, there are variations on set pieces of action and even spy movies to appeal to the black experiences, including some great jokes about wigs and footwear.

«Assassin's Bullet» is one of those spy movies where Eastern European femme fatales arrange mysterious late - night meetings with gullible American men, parting with a fervent «No qvestions.»

Kingsman: The Secret Service is a cheeky revamping of spy movies of old.

He and Harry have a good talk about their shared love for spy movies and all the clichés within them.

Spy movies typically fall into one of three categories: action (Bourne), flashy / stylish (Bond), or detailed and twisty (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy).

There were no short supply of spy movies this year but none topped the edgy, hysterical, badass spy movie throwback Kingsman: The Secret Service, though Steven Spielberg's taut, old - fashion and elegant Bridge of Spies and Guy Ritchie's super smooth, super spy caper The Man From U.N.C.L.E both gave it a run for its money.

In a cinematic world where James Bond and Jason Bourne are the current standard bearers for spy movies, something like «Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy» should have come as a nice breath of fresh air... a low tech and character based look at the type of material that usually involves shootouts and explosions.

The Bourne boom is still in full effect in Hollywood right now, as studios continue to set the wheels in motion on more spy movies and espionage - themed thrillers.

Metal Gear Solid 3's story is the tightest and most thrilling of the bunch, using a pastiche of 1960s spy movies to tell the origin of just about every single narrative thread in the series.

One of the best spy movies ever.

Spy movies have a tendency to feel constricting and demure.

Even before Doug Liman started directing spy movies, duplicity was always his preferred game.

Successful spy movies have certainly been built on less, but «xXx: Return of Xander Cage» has one clear agenda, and that's to make Vin Diesel a star in a movie that has neither «Fast» nor «Furious» in the title.

Correction, the first spoof Friedberg / Seltzer are involved was Spy Hard in 1996 that spoofed spy movies starring Leslie Nielsen.

That, at least, would have pitted a female president against a strong female villain (an over-generous way of describing Poppy, who's like one of the perky Red Lobster zombies from Robin Comisar's twisted «Great Choice» short), whereas this is just bonkers and might actually serve best as a send - up of past spy movies.

However, Vaughn's action lacks the grittiness of spy movies like Bourne, meaning they look spectacular, but are surprisingly hollow.

Lastly the entire movie is pretty predictable as it copy so many elements from previous spy movies.

Essentially variations on one joke, a spoof of»60s spy movies, the»60s themselves and, by extension, the»90s, the series began to run out of steam mid-way through this second installment but it certainly has its charms, notably the opening musical sequence.

Having displayed his penchant for tinkering with the conventions of Euro - spy movies and silent films, Michel Hazanavicius takes on the horrors of war in this remake of Fred Zinnemann's 1948 film The Search.

Developed separately from the Millar - penned comic on which it's loosely based, Vaughn's film improves on that version in just about every way, delivering a smarter (but no less absurd) take on Cold War - era spy movies that embraces as many genre conventions as it breaks.

An intermittently amusing riff on British spy movies, starring Colin Firth as a secret agent who takes a novice under his wing, «Kingsman» collapses into outlandish absurdity in its second half, sloppily careening from silliness to sentimentality.

The problem with Red Sparrow, as in many other spy movies that rely on multiple levels of deception, is that there is no firm ground.

It's like watching an incredibly violent version of one of those spoof spy movies from the 1960s — the ones that spoofed James Bond because they knew they could never match it — a novelty movie in which the novelty quickly wears thin.

Like most spy movies, this list contains information on undercover agents.

Mission: Impossible «Your mission, should you chose to accept it, is to watch and be enthralled by one of the all time classic spy movies, presented on a fine DVD.»

Mike Myers's second extravagant comic pastiche of the Sixties spy movies starring Myers as a wild cross between the womanising upper - class Bond and the hornrim - spectacled Harry Palmer, with a touch of the dandyish TV detective Jason Love and the fashion photographer from Blow - Up.

Atomic Blonde has some similar pacing issues that can often be found in spy movies.

Star Melissa McCarthy and writer - director Paul Feig explore their unique (James) bond in this hilarious pastiche of spy movies

Spy has all of those fun trademarks from various spy movies: gadgets, double agents, secret identities, twists and turns, and a fun James Bond - inspired opening credit theme song called «Who Can You Trust» by Ivy Levan.

It's much more real than other spy movies.

This French comedy fondly lampoons both the popular French spy movies adapted from Jean Bruce's novels in the 1950s and»60s and the colonialist era they were set in.