Raging Fire

Donnie Yen ponders honor and guilt in this top tier cop thriller

"...This ambiguity is crucial to the film’s success. Raging Fire bears a striking..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Mank

Corruption, lies, and credits on the set of Citizen Kane

"...internal memos instead of seedy tabloid rags and declassified CIA documents, he'd have written Mank. It took Fincher to..."

Nov. 20, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

"...The CIA's MKUltra mind control project was so highly classified that..."

Oct. 23, 2020 Column by Mr. Smarty Pants

Coup 53

Documentary unpacks America's involvement in the coup that wrecked Iran

"...some of the surviving orchestrators, unearthed secreted caches of CIA and MI6 documents that definitively prove both countries collusion..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

6 Underground

Michael Bay proves again that he's no James Cameron

"...Bay. Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Mélanie Laurent, Adria Arjona, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Corey Hawkins, Ben Hardy, Dave Franco, Lior Raz and..."

Dec. 13, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott

Who runs the world? Secretaries, spies, and survivors in Lara Prescott's debut novel

"...novel is made up of the perpetually overlooked and underappreciated: the secretaries in the CIA's typing pool. Their memories..."

Sept. 13, 2019 Arts Review by Rosalind Faires

Cold Case Hammarskjöld

An assassination, a conspiracy, and decades of secrets unlocked in this chilling documentary

"...spooks and mercenaries – among them the NSA and CIA, natch – who quite possibly committed a horrific, headline-grabbing..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

Something something family something. The unkillable franchise lumbers on.

"...Security Service agent Luke Hobbs (Johnson) and former British special forces officer Deckard Shaw (Statham) lead two very different..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Anna

International ass-kickery with a strong but beautiful female lead? Luc Besson, back on his sh*t again.

"...little luck – and the help of a vengeful CIA agent (Murphy) – Anna might survive to enjoy an..."

June 28, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Ruben Brandt, Collector

Pop-art animated heist flick puts collection obsession on display

"...delusions are the result of subliminal programming by the CIA(!), but to say any more about that particular plot..."

March 22, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Viper Club

Susan Sarandon and the murky world of paying kidnappers

"...model of stoic rectitude. When the FBI and the CIA warn her that any attempt on her part to..."

Nov. 2, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Beirut

John Hamm sweats stylishly in gritty, grim spy thriller.

"...in a febrile subplot involving Whigham's embassy staffer, Norris' CIA station chief, Pike's case officer, and their supposed friends..."

April 6, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Black Panther

High drama and high action as Marvel gives Wakanda life.

"...chose this week, of all weeks, to unveil his official presidential portrait? Kehinde Wiley has used fine art as..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

All the Money in the World

Christopher Plummer mesmerizes as the greediest man alive

"...teenage Paul and his kidnapping in Rome, and the ex-CIA operative and Getty’s goon Friday-cum-amanuensis Fletcher Chase (Wahlberg). The..."

Dec. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Operation Avalanche

Two CIA agents come to believe the moon landing was faked

"...Madison. Not reviewed at press time. In 1967, two CIA agents pose as documentary filmmakers and infiltrate NASA looking..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

SXSW Film Review: Operation Avalanche

Sixties Cold War caper is a tribute to Dr. Strangelove

"...tribute, a found-footage Sixties caper wherein a team of CIA spooks infiltrate NASA and fake a moon landing to..."

March 15, 2016 Screens Post by Michael Agresta

From the Archive: The Charlie Kaufman Canon

As Anomalisa opens in Austin, we revisit interviews and reviews

"...“Worry not, for the time being, about the definition, pronunciation, or meaning of ‘synecdoche.’ For the purposes of this..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Michael Bay lends his firepower to this war that's not really a war

"...are a cobbled-together team tasked with protecting a not-very-clandestine CIA site along with another four mercs – one of..."

Jan. 15, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Top 10 Lege Stories

"...as the ranking Demo­crat on House Appropriations; and Sen. Leti­cia Van de Putte, who made a failed run for..."

Jan. 1, 2016 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared

A bestselling Swedish novel jumps to screen with inevitable Forrest Gump comparisons

"...to a gulag, becomes a double agent for the CIA during the Cold War, confers with Ronald Reagan, etc...."

June 5, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The AggreGAYtor: May 12

What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.

"...Guys, coming out as trans in the CIA was bad but it’s getting better, and the Times..."

May 12, 2015 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

DVDanger: Advice to Young Journalists

What cinema tells us about what we expect from the news

"...reporting confirmed many of the suspected links among the CIA, the Nicaraguan Contras, and the influx of crack into..."

Feb. 14, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: Disgusting Fruitcake

10 bon mots from 2014

"...by seeing the unadulterated original. In fact, replacing a crucial vowel with an asterisk in a potentially offensive word..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Column by The Luv Doc

3 Days to Kill

Kevin Costner stars in this snappy but contrived mix of international espionage and paternal redemption.

"...And as for Heard’s dragon-lady performance as the red-lipped CIA operative running the show, the less the said the..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Writers on Kennedy

What we think about when we think about JFK

"...First, of course, was the theory that the CIA helped kill Kennedy. More florid claims have followed. The..."

Nov. 22, 2013 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

International Day Of Peace

"...people chosen from a "kill list" compiled by the CIA and approved by the president. There is no evidence..."

Sept. 17, 2013 Postmarks

Letters at 3AM: Obama's May 23 Speech

Obama deftly weaves vagueness, misdirection, and a few outright lies

"...the enormous State Department presence? Not to mention the CIA...."

May 31, 2013 Column by Michael Ventura

Food-O-File

Paul Qui returns to Austin, and other top chef updates

"...refurbished and decorated with dynamic murals by local punk musician Peelander-Yellow. Look for some old and new East Side..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

Letters at 3AM: A Big Picture and a Long Game

A U.S. military powered by biofuels could be a game-changer that ends the oil wars

"...those seven decades. According to the Central Intelligence Agency (www.cia.gov), China is the No. 1 trading partner of Australia,..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Column by Michael Ventura

Food-O-File

The Culinary Institute of America brings Latin flavors to American kitchens

"...the Culinary Institute of America in San Antonio. The CIA presents this annual conference to let restaurateurs from around..."

Oct. 12, 2012 Food Column by Virginia B. Wood

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