Spies Like Us Podcast

Miss Sloane (2016) Part Two

Part 2 of 2.  Miss Sloane is not a traditional spy film by any measure, but the Tradecraft is Real in the psychological game of move and countermove depicted in this oh-so-dirty! depiction of Washington politics.  Know your enemy and know what cards they have in their hand.  Music and SFX used under CCA license https://www.spieslikeus.net/attributions for details. 

Miss Sloane (2016) Part One

Part 1 of 2.  Miss Sloane is not a traditional spy film by any measure, but the Tradecraft is Real in the psychological game of move and countermove depicted in this oh-so-dirty! depiction of Washington politics.  Know your enemy and know what cards they have in their hand.  Music and SFX used under CCA license https://www.spieslikeus.net/attributions for details. 

Munich (2005) Part Two

Part 2 of 2.  Intelligence agency Mossad takes center stage in this Spielberg film about operation Wrath of God.  Our Israeli heroes wrestle with troubling questions about the thin line between legitimate counter-terrorism and revenge, as they pursue the perpetrators of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.  Music and SFX used under CCA license https://www.spieslikeus.net/attributions for details. 

Munich (2005) Part One

Intelligence agency Mossad takes center stage in this Spielberg film about operation Wrath of God.  Our Israeli heroes wrestle with troubling questions about where the line lies between legitimate counter-terrorism and revenge as they pursue the perpetrators of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.  Music and SFX used under CCA license https://www.spieslikeus.net/attributions for details. 

Samurai Spy (1965)

You like Ninjas?  We got Ninjas.  Samurai Spy deals with an important transitional moment in feudal Japan’s history, but is also deeply informed by the Cold War paranoia that infected the age in which the movie was made.  Who are the good guys, who are the bad guys?  We will have to travel into the fog to find out.   Music and SFX used under CCA license https://www.spieslikeus.net/attributions for details. 

Our Man Flint (1966)

The ‘Bond Effect’ is in full swing by the mid-sixties.  It seems like everyone is scrambling to cash in on the spy craze in movies and television.  A lot of serious spy movies are launched here but there is no shortage of silliness. We tackle one of the most immediate and direct Bond parodies here.  Music and SFX used under CCA license https://www.spieslikeus.net/attributions for details. 

From Russia With Love (1963)

James Bond is probably the most recognizable movie character of all time, and most certainly the granddaddy of all spy heroes.  Does the King deserve to keep wearing that crown 50+ years later? Tod and Dave have their doubts, and we discuss them in depth.   Music and SFX used under CCA license https://www.spieslikeus.net/attributions for details. 

The Man Who Knew Too Little (1997)

Bill Murray plays the ‘everyman’ drawn into the world of intrigue, but with a comedic twist.  In this chess game, the ‘pawn’ is so ignorant of what is going on around him that he inadvertently flips the entire table over.  It’s time for us to take a look at how the spy genre is fundamentally open to parody. Music and SFX used under CCA license https://www.spieslikeus.net/attributions for details. 

A Most Wanted Man (2014)

Tod and Dave tackle a bit of Le Carre in one of his first post-Cold War novels.  Let’s take a look at how Intelligence actually operates within a bureaucratic scale, and the human toll that it involves. Given that all spy operations are only truly understood in hindsight, this is about as close of an observation that we might expect.  Music and SFX used under CCA license https://www.spieslikeus.net/attributions for details. 

La Femme Nikita (1990)

Tod and Dave tackle their first ‘action movie’ variant of the spy genre here.  Do assassination movies qualify as spy movies? Maybe not all of them do, but we had to put this one in here.  We’ll argue that this is a genre-defining moment in cinematic history. Seriously, we think this is a game-changer.  Music and SFX used under CCA license https://www.spieslikeus.net/attributions for details.