This is not about elections, steel dossiers, or FBI reports I will never read. This is all about how sexy, crazy, cool, and dangerous those Russians can be on screen and off.
Movies with actors doing Russian Things:
- Vanessa Angel from Spies Like Us
- Viggo Mortenson from that one killer movie, Eastern Promises
- Everyone in White Nights. Even Gregory Hines, a defector from the U.S. Mikhail Baryshnikov, Helen Mirren, and Isabella Rossellini
- Salt - Angelina Jolie
Red Sparrow is a film, starring Jennifer Lawrence, about a young ballerina recruited into an elite organization of spies who use sex, not guns as a weapon.
- Red Sparrow opened at the wrong time of the #metoo movement, or was it just in time to justify the cause?
This, That and Other News
- The case of Sergei and Anna Chapman.
- Maria Butina who sales couches and US gun toting charm.
- This guy fakes his own death to elude an assassination plot.
- Sex coaches offer up the goods, America doesn't bite.
- The Cold War scare. Even in the early eighties, we had to prepare for a potential bomb scare/ nuclear fallout. Duck and cover.
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