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David Leitch talks Atomic Blonde & Deadpool 2 The crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton (Theron) is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission.

HIs version of Batman reminds me of the classic Jim Aparo years, even if he's modeled on the Frank Miller end - of - career take; this Batman is equally adept at spycraft as he is at beating in faces, and this Bruce Wayne feels like an adventurer and a bit of a scoundrel.

The Tourist is fast, slick, and gratifying... Though violations of rudimentary spycraft will drive some readers crazy, sometimes a story is so good at granting you an alternative look at your own world that you tug and pull to make it fit just right.

Based on the book by spycraft maestro John le Carré from a script by Hossein Amini (Drive) and directed by Sussana White (Generation Kill), Our Kind of Traitor stars Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris as a couple on holiday in Marrakech who befriend a charming man named Dima (Stellan Skarsgard) who also happens to be a money launderer for the Russian mafia.

So there I was, innocently puttering around the e.politics bunker last night with the Military Channel on in the background (a show on CIA spycraft!

Covert psychological operations (psyops) techniques from hideously honed spycraft in the past, combined with widespread dissemination via social media with cascading amplification of messages has shifted balances of power allowing for the control of many by the few, without the many even knowing.

After a sequence that rivals James Bond for spycraft and mayhem, he fails — because an American mercenary, known by the nickname Eric Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) saves Klaue for his own reasons (namely to challenge T'Challa for the throne).

Where are the scenes of the Sparrows actually learning spycraft, so we can see how mentally and physically grueling it all is?

But I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the FX show The Americans and point out that its writers have set the gold standard for portraying sympathetic Russian - agent characters and highly complicated spycraft techniques — and its seduction scenes are never haphazard.

Excellent series for espionage buffs, threading new Berlin tech and culture with old Berlin spycraft.

Filmed in Berlin and Spain's Canary Islands, Berlin Station has the right look and feel of a great spycraft series, but it lacks the drive or urgency of a show like Homeland, or even The Night Manager.

With the Bond series firmly committed to reinventing 007's mythos in a contemporary setting, Guy Ritchie is going back to where our fascination with spycraft began — the «60s, when the coolest spy on the small screen was The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Then again, if this mash - up of spycraft sophistication and gumshoe grime looked even remotely more polished, it would simply feel wrong — all slickness, no soul.

Also, while I realize that sexual trading and the exploitation of libidinal pressure points is part of true - life spycraft, some of it here feels like little more than highlighted metaphor.

The context of «RED 2» merely, meagerly mimics «Mr. and Mrs. Smith» and «True Lies,» using spycraft as a springboard to rekindled romantic sparks.

It's a subtle way to set a tone of unease in a spy thriller that effectively keeps us guessing — but what follows involves hard - edged spycraft of a sort usually avoided in this often well - mannered, even courtly genre.

He's a bureaucrat who wants to refit British intelligence for the digital era: drones in place of agents and the end of the 00 program, which made spycraft hands - on.

The film's politics are often glib and reductive — it doesn't have a keen interest in the Lebanese people or the history of the region — but, if you like spycraft stories in the vein of John le Carré's work, this is a briskly paced, occasionally clever thriller featuring a winning performance from Hamm, who has struggled to find the right star vehicle since the end of Mad Men.

The deviating family melodrama has, thankfully, been replaced by shrewd spycraft.

2006's Casino Royale was supposed to mark a fresh start, with a new, 21st - century - ready Bond in the form of Daniel Craig, plus a back - to - basics approach to big - screen spycraft.

«Chadwick Boseman follows up a memorable «Captain America: Civil War» appearance as African ruler T'Challa (and his masked warrior alter ego) with a roaring solo adventure that unleashes James Bond - style spycraft, geopolitics galore and tribal intrigue a la «Game of Thrones.»

Otherwise, the spy plot seems like a rough draft of something John le Carré tossed in his reject pile; there's more exciting spycraft in 10 minutes of The Americans than you'll find in the entirety of this turgid twaddle.

If you like edge - of - your seat action, exotic locations, realistic spycraft, steamy sex, and protagonists who are «the stuff great characters are made of» (Entertainment Weekly), you've come to the right place...

«The key to this design was to capture the sensory nature of the title and the book, placing it in a neutral environment that is almost reminiscent of Cold War spycraft.»

These contemporary artists go beyond voyeurism and the documentary into spycraft, surveillance, and forensics.

The crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton (Theron) is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission.

These violations of rudimentary spycraft will drive some readers crazy, preventing them from suspending their disbelief.

Director Francis Lawrence's adaptation of Matthews's novel must be the dumbed - down version, the one the bureau won't be celebrating for its grasp of the nuances of spycraft.

So she turns to an uncle, heavily involved in the Russian government, and finds herself enmeshed in spycraft.

Surely there's more to spycraft than knowing the perfect spot to caress on a target's thigh, or how delicately to whisper into his ear.

In one particularly juicy storyline, featuring Dylan Baker as a laconic KGB scientist, the secret development of chemical weapons by the Russians places even more life - and - death pressure on Philip and Elizabeth, now tasked with a branch of spycraft that, if mishandled, could result in thousands of deaths.

During the international cat - and - mouse game that ensues, he teams up with old flame Isobel (Jackson), a Viennese widow who is herself no stranger to spycraft.

Following on from yesterday's clip and poster, Universal Pictures has released a new one - sheet for the action thriller Atomic Blonde featuring Charlize Theron as MI - 6 assassin Lorraine Broughton; check it out here... The crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to -LSB-...]

Practically the opposite of last year's «80s - set throwback, Atomic Blonde — spycraft / tradecraft takes precedence over stunt - heavy action — Red Sparrow follows Dominika undergoes rough treatment, often bordering on the sadomasochistic (a possible trend given Lawrence's performance last year in Darren Aronofsky's divisive mother!)

The old Stone wouldn't let us forget how today's spycraft has evolved into a scary playground for ethics - free nerds.

He was a lockjawed Oxbridge toff dishing out beatdowns while passing along the finer points of tailoring and spycraft to his street - kid protegé, Eggsy (Taron Egerton).

The crown jewel of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission.

When she's sent on a covert mission into Cold War Berlin, she must use all of the spycraft, sensuality and savagery she has to stay alive in the ticking time bomb of a city simmering with revolution and double - crossing hives of traitors.

Ruth thinks her mother has gone crazy, but as she slowly absorbs her story — the details on how Eva was trained in spycraft are fascinating — she begins to think it might be true.