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'Hellbrew of Hate': The New Relevance of Cold War Anti-Communist Movies

A New Wave of Espionage Adaptations

Read the original post on Flickering Myth here: A New Wave of Espionage Adaptations Chris Connor on a new wave of espionage adaptations… Espionage fiction on the page is truly thri...

Readers Write In #984: Berlin Express: An Anti-War Spy Thriller

By Vijay Ramanathan Jacques Tourneur is perhaps better known for the noir classic, Out of the Past. But Berlin Express, his 1948 spy film set in the aftermath of World War II and a...

Declassified: The 1968 plot against Karamanlis’ life

The 2024 biopic on Italian communist leader Enrico Berlinguer, “The Great Ambition,” revived the discussion about the role played by Eastern bloc secret services during the Cold Wa...

4 Great Thrillers Released in 2000 Not Enough People Talk About (But Still Hold Up)

There’s just something about 2000s movies, isn’t there? Even though filmmaking has become much more polished and technically advanced in many ways, that decade just seemed to know...

What to Watch Now, International Edition: Z (1969)

Story/Mood:  More than half a century after it was made, Costa-Gavras’s Z is still considered one of the greatest political thrillers of all time. With no extra padding or layers o...

A Sense of Dread

Director Michael Peter Bolus creates a government conspiracy about an experiment on our brave and somewhat desperate veterans. A Sense of Dread... The post A Sense of Dread first a...

10 Stylish Thrillers You Need to See

Read the original post on Flickering Myth here: 10 Stylish Thrillers You Need to See You can’t beat a thriller that oozes style and the might of a director expressing themselves, s...

Midnight Patriots

From the glamour of Hollywood to the brink of the Atomic Age, Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin must outwit Nazi assassins racing toward a deadly rendezvous aboard the Santa Fe S...

‘Cosy competency porn’: why The Post is my feelgood movie

A reminder of Steven Spielberg’s prowess and speed in the latest in our series of writers highlighting their go-to comfort watchesSteven Spielberg was never much of a radical. Whil...

‘Atropia’ Takes on the War on Terror

For a movie set 20 years ago, it has a surprising amount to say about today’s wars in the Middle East.

5 Great Thrillers Hidden on Netflix Right Now

Not every thriller needs to be big, complex, or full of twists to work. Some of the best examples of the genre are on Netflix and do the exact opposite: movies with very basic idea...

Pakula's Paranoia Trilogy Then and Now: Breaking and Entering the American Style

David Griffith on going for truth.

The Anti-Communist Film Festival: 'Stalin’s Apostles'

Why Man From UNCLE's Russian Agent Was Accepted By U.S. Audiences During The Cold War

Despite following the heels of the Cold War, the Russian spy from "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." won Americans over and had fans rushing to their TVs each week.

Continuing the late TOM CLANCY’s Jack Ryan series, WARD LARSEN pens a twisty thriller

Rules Of Engagement is both a rollicking good yarn and a chilling look at global conflict in the age of AI and autonomous drones. The post Continuing the late TOM CLANCY’s Jack Ry...

Pretty in Pinko: The Brat Pack And the Anti-Communist Film Festival

Films for hot weather

Ice Station Zebra.

10 Brilliant Thrillers Set in the Near Future

Reading slump be damned! Here are ten, page-turning, edge of your seat, near-ish future thrillers that span the gambit of tastes. We’ve got recent releases and oldie but goodies, s...

3 exciting Netflix thrillers to watch this week (June 29-July 5)

Alan Ritchson takes on a machine in one of our Netflix thrillers to stream.

ICARUS 17

Cumming’s Box 88 series is notable for its focus on both the professional and personal life of its protagonist, agent Lachlan Kite, and for its strong impression of authenticity. T...

The Man Who Stopped WW3 | Cuban Missile Crisis | Cold War History

Remember When We Used to Take World War III Seriously? 

In the 1980s, serious people feared World War III and acted to prevent it. Today, our slouch toward World War III is being orchestrated by egotistical sociopaths. ...

MAYDAY Trailer Throws Ryan Reynolds Into a Cold War Escape With Kenneth Branagh and It Looks Like a Blast!