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‘Skyfall’ – James Bond faces his past on Prime Video and Paramount+

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007 gets a backstory and Judi Dench gets her hands dirty as M in the 23rd official Bond movie, directed with high style by Sam Mendes.

Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Jim Sturgess, Doona Bae, Ben Whishaw, and others star in the film by Lana and Lilly (formerly Andy) Wachowski and Tom Tykwer

‘Cloud Atlas’ – storytelling across centuries on Netflix and HBO Max

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Lana and Lilly Wachowski collaborate with Tom Tykwer on this sprawling film that jumps between six distinctive stories in six different eras.

Ben Whishaw meets a ‘London Spy’

!Featured, British TV, DVD, Limited Series, Netflix, spies and espionage 03/21/2021 Sean Axmaker

There is indeed a spy in London Spy (2015) but this BBC mini-series is not a traditional espionage drama. Danny (Ben Whishaw) is a club-culture young gay man with a dreary day job who meets the closeted, emotionally suppressed Alex (Edward Holcroft), a genius with numbers but awkward with people. He’s an investment banker who […]

‘Bridge of Spies’ – Spielberg and Hanks in the Cold War

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Mark Rylance won an Oscar playing Soviet spy Rudolph Abel in this drama of Cold War espionage and idealism based on a true story.

‘Spectre’ on Amazon Prime and Hulu

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Streaming Movies 10/22/2016 Sean Axmaker

Spectre (2015), the 24th James Bond film and the fourth starring Daniel Craig, continues to explore the origins of 007. The opening scene, set in Mexico City in the midst of the Day of the Dead celebrations, is one of the best in the series, and we get the fun of Bond once again going rogue, […]