Argylle

Argylle

A popular spy novelist discovers that her new novel might not exactly be fiction in Argylle. Elly Conway (Bryce Dallas Howard) is the author of a successful series of spy novels about Agent Argylle (Henry Cavill) and his partners Wyatt (John Cena) and Keira (Ariana DeBose). Elly suffers from writer’s block coming up with the…

no-time-to-die

No Time to Die

A retired James Bond is pulled back into action by a new global threat in No Time to Die. James Bond (Daniel Craig) has left MI6 for a life in Italy with Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux), though a sudden attack by the criminal organization SPECTRE, somehow run from behind bars by Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Christoph Waltz),…

Tenet

Tenet

A CIA agent becomes involved with an organization intent on stopping time inverting weapons in Tenet. The Protagonist (John David Washington) is a CIA agent, who after surviving a botched undercover operation in Kyiv is recruited into a top-secret organization known only by the code name “Tenet.” The Protagonist learns of the existence of weapons…

Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Mission: Impossible – Fallout

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team faces their most impossible mission in Mission: Impossible – Fallout. Following the capture of Solomon Lane (Sean Harris), a new shadowy organization known as The Apostles have formed out of the remains of The Syndicate. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team of Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) and Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames)…

Becoming Bond

Becoming Bond

George Lazenby tells the story of how he became the only man to play James Bond just once in Becoming Bond. George Lazenby (played in reenactments by Josh Lawson) was born in a small town in Australian and after failing to graduate from school seemed destined for a life as a mechanic and car salesman. However,…

Central Intelligence

Central Intelligence

An accountant reunites with an old high school acquaintance, who turns out to be a CIA agent in Central Intelligence. In 1996, Calvin Joyner (Kevin Hart) was voted most likely to succeed at his high school. He was also the only one to show kindness to overweight and bullied kid Robbie Weirdicht (Dwayne Johnson). Twenty years later,…

Spectre

Spectre

Agent 007 faces his greatest adversary in Spectre. Going against orders from MI6, James Bond (Daniel Craig) tracks down a criminal organization, whose members wear rings with the insignia of an octopus. Bond finds that this organization, known as SPECTRE, is lead by Franz Oberhauser (Christoph Waltz), a presumed dead man from Bond’s past. Bond tracks…

Citizenfour

Citizenfour

Documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras completes her trilogy about post-9/11 America with this film about the man who blew the whistle on wiretapping and information collection done by the NSA.  In January 2013, Laura Poitras receives a series of encrypted e-mail from a man calling himself “citizen four.”  The contact is ready and willing to blow…

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

I delayed my list of my favourite films of 2011 as I went out to see some last-minute possible contenders.  I saw War Horse on Sunday and I now I went to see Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy today. The film is an old school Cold War spy thriller in which a British spy named George Smiley (Gary…

Quantum of Solace

Quantum of Solace

I guess it can agreed that the James Bond series would seem a little dated with newer action-packed spy films like the Jason Bourne films showing up. However, I never expected the producers to try and combine the two. There are many times throughout the film that seems to borrow from the Bourne films (including…