Sentences with word «spymaster»

Maybe that's why the Australian actress» return to her career - making, Oscar - nominated role doesn't seem quite the event Working Title would like it to be, even with Geoffrey Rush reprising his performance as spymaster Walsingham and India's Shekhar Kapur back behind the camera.
But Dudley hasn't been brought back for this sequel, unlike the wily spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham, played by Geoffrey Rush, who has returned for more Olympic - standard skulduggery.
In spymaster Alan Furst's most electrifying thriller to date, Hungarian aristocrat Nicholas Morath becomes embroiled in a daring and perilous effort to halt the Nazi war machine in eastern Europe.
The battle between the Prime Minister and the former spymasters got so intense that Netanyahu ordered an investigation into leaks about an impending Israeli attack on Iran, which he believed had been perpetrated by the retired spooks.
Besides Raleigh, there is a contentious, almost father - daughter relationship with her aging spymaster Walsingham, still ably played by Geoffrey Rush but with unfortunately not enough to do, and her reliance on her spiritual advisor Doctor Dee (David Threlfall), one of the few areas of the film that works completely in and of itself.
Witty wordplay and a wealth of European accents feature in this sensuous, page - turning romp, the tale of famed French spy Annique Villers and British spymaster Robert Grey.
Speaking with their natural voices, Iannucci's players deliver a host of amusing performances, the standouts being Jason Isaacs as a brusque military man, Steve Buscemi as a put - upon Nikita Khrushchev, and Simon Russell Beale as the trigger - happy spymaster.
In A Legacy of Spies, espionage - fiction novelist John le Carré revisits the past, bringing back the mysterious spymaster George Smiley and, as reluctant protagonist, one of Smiley's protégés more
In A Legacy of Spies, espionage - fiction novelist John le Carré revisits the past, bringing back the mysterious spymaster George Smiley and, as reluctant protagonist, one of Smiley's protégés
But he lets his guard down with Guillam as he explains his one encounter with Soviet spymaster nemesis Karla, a chance interrogation in which he let slip his own personal Kryptonite; his devotion to his perpetually unfaithful (and in a neat directorial touch, unseen) wife Anne.
Action you wish you could take back: Turning down an offer from the top spymaster in Britain to join the secret service.
In spymaster Alan Furst's most electrifying thriller to date, Hungarian aristocrat Nicholas Morath — a hugely charismatic hero — becomes embroiled in a daring and perilous effort to halt the Nazi war machine in eastern Europe.
Unlike the novel, it is this character — played by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman — who leads us through procedures, his heavy - breathing spymaster who rattles the ice around his whiskey tumbler as obsessively as he investigates the refugee providing A MOST WANTED MAN with its calibre.
The actress who plays spymaster M doesn't yet know where director Sam Mendes» awaited sequel will begin principal photography.
He reads like a character from a John le Carré novel and now Henry Hemming has written a fascinating biography M Maxwell Knight, MI5's Greatest Spymaster (Preface Publishing).
She wrote dossiers for her Czech State Security spymasters and went on special missions.
Putin, the ole» KGB spymaster, lectured Bill on the US cops rumming amuck, arresting the alleged spies.
Ifans will continue to pop up during the course of the two hours - plus, more or less playing the stock spymaster - in - hat - and - suit performed for Stone in conspiracy films past by Max von Sydow and Donald Sutherland, and looking sillier with each appearance.
There's a very svelte and sinister - looking Matthias Schoenaerts as Dominka's spymaster uncle Ivan — he's the one who lures her into the espionage business.
Michael York is serious business as Basil Exposition, the British spymaster assigned to bring Powers up to date.
He plays the German spymaster Günther Bachmann, a heavy - drinking chain smoker whose painstaking attempts to root out an illicit Muslim terrorist ring are stymied by other agencies slavering to swoop in and score.
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed that Samuel L Jackson will return as S.H.I.E.L.D. spymaster Nick Fury, but this time, «he will have two eyes.»
He believes he can build one, with or without his team; he's supported by spymaster Stewart Menzies (Mark Strong) and opposed by traditionalist Commander Deniston (Charles Dance).
Playing CIA spymaster Nathan Muir, Robert Redford debriefs his best agent Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt) atop a building in Cold War Berlin.
The comic book writer Mark Millar tells a nice story about his part in transforming spymaster and all - around badass Nick Fury from a white cigar - chomping second world war veteran to the African - American version portrayed by Samuel L Jackson in the movies.
Continuously we are told that Dominika doesn't have a choice; that she must be in the employ of cruel and sadistic spymasters.
I'm obsessed with Halle Berry's whole look here and so goddamned excited that Halle Berry was cast as a tech nerd spymaster.
Nick Fury has been off the grid since we last saw him in Avengers: Age of Ultron, but Samuel L. Jackson's one - eyed spymaster will be returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Captain Marvel.
A disaster ensues, and stern buttoned - up spymaster Marke (Toni Collette, here probably earning more to merely maintain an erect posture than she usually does when she's actually being an incredible actor) calls a meeting at an appropriately eerily - lit CIA boardroom.
The movie opens with Samuel L. Jackson as the outré spymaster Augustus Gibbons, sitting at a Chinese restaurant trying to convince real - life soccer sensation Neymar to join the XXX team.
Flamboyant, brilliant, witty Noel Coward used his photographic memory and playboy persona to mask his clandestine fieldwork of observation and reporting on Nazi intelligence to his Canadian - born spymaster Sir William Stephenson, code - named «Intrepid» during the early part of the war.
The Queen's spymaster turns to a brilliant young Cambridge student to untangle the plot: Chrisopher Marlowe.
Spymaster James Kirkland's dark and violent career prompted a young and innocent Laurel to head for the hills, but a fateful meeting may be enough to rekindle their passion for one another.
From acclaimed author Karen Brooks comes this intriguing novel rich in historical detail and drama as it tells the unforgettable story of Queen Elizabeth's daring, ruthless spymaster and his female...
So, yes, she has all the background needed to turn out rich, complex tales filled with action, espionage tradecraft, and intrigue, such as Masquerade, The Coil, The Last Spymaster, and The Book of Spies.
Spymasters give one word clues to help players make contact with all of their agents while players try to guess their identities.
The new Spymaster, a social reboot of PlayRaven's debut release, is currently being rolled out in test regions.
Spymaster Phil, who talks in email code that only the team understands, is sleeping quietly.
That is why, from a decade marked by its greedy bankers, venal politicians, compromised spymasters and failed generals, Lord Bingham will be remembered as the most admirable and virtuous figure of his time.»
It wasn't just # 20k bling headphones to be found at the Harrods Technology 2.0 showcase, as Spymaster - best known for its security devices - had something altogether cooler and far pricier on show: a mock - up of a $ 2 - million private submarine.
Since retiring last year, the former spymaster has been a relentless critic of the president.
s players deliver a host of amusing performances, the standouts being Jason Isaacs as a brusque military man, Steve Buscemi as a put - upon Nikita Khrushchev, and Simon Russell Beale as the trigger - happy spymaster.
This was followed by The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) and Smiley's People (1979); these three books are often known as the Karla trilogy for the Soviet spymaster, Karla, who features prominently in the books.
«I was willing to let you die,» she adds, still grief - stricken for sending her lover on a suicide mission to assassinate Iran's top spymaster.
The massive leak has already led to one spymaster's resignation and pulled back the curtain on espionage in the iPhone age.
The same thematic dynamic goes for the fierce and protective General Okoye (Danai Gurira), who lends a voice to preserve Wakanda's secrets, and her counterpart Nakia (Lupita Nyong» o), Wakanda's spymaster and a strong advocate for the outside world.
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