Tag: Spy

The Pigeon Tunnel Trailer Puts John le Carré in the Hot Seat

Walk a bit more briskly past dark alleys because AppleTV has released a trailer for The Pigeon Tunnel. Named after – but not quite based on – the autobiography of legendary spy novelist John le Carré, The Pigeon Tunnel is “the final interview” le Carré conducted before his death in 2020. T...

REVIEW: Heart of Stone (2023)

What is the ratio of times you’ve really enjoyed a Netflix movie vs. times you’ve cursed yourself for starting one? It’s got to be around 1:100, right? I mean, on the good side, there’s The Irishman, both Extractions, and The Gray Man until the last ten or fifteen minutes destroyed it. The b...

Julia Roberts Was Almost in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One almost had even more star power – one of the biggest movie stars of all time, in fact. In an interview on Empire’s podcast The Empire Spoiler Special (which is only for paid subscribers, but Slash Film has the details), director Christopher McQuarr...

REVIEW: Secret Invasion: Season 1, Episode 6, “Home”

“Home” is the kind of finale I probably should have expected from Secret Invasion. Like seemingly all of the Marvel Disney+ shows, it started with a lot of promise and devolved into a grating screed on left-wing politics that got bogged down in a mess of plots and subplots and diminished a great...

REVIEW: Secret Invasion – Season 1, Episode 5, “Harvest”

“Harvest” is the point in a story where you kind of just want it to end. I enjoyed most of Secret Invasion in the beginning, but this episode makes it clear that the setup is not going to have a satisfying payoff. There are too many story strands to tie up in a week, too …

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REVIEW: Secret Invasion – Season 1, Episode 4, “Beloved”

“Beloved” is, for the most part, a return to form for Secret Invasion, an episode more in line with the first two, which were good spy thrillers, than last week’s “Betrayed,” which mixed some decent elements with another blatant Disney character assassination. There are some inconsistencie...