ClandesTime
Podcast series with Tom Secker featuring film and book reviews and discussions and investigations into military and intelligence involvement in popular culture.
Episodes
For this end-of-year subscriber podcast I take a look at the 1990s cult classic Point Break. A simple tale of...
The post Subscribercast #95 – Point Break first appeared on Spy Culture.
Over the last decade, data has become the new resource or commodity underpinning the failing global economy. In this episode...
The post ClandesTime 277 – How Big Data is Ruining Football (and possibly the planet) first appeared on Spy Culture.
The murders of Biggie and Tupac remain unsolved. In this episode we examine the film City of Lies, which ties...
The post ClandesTime 276 – City of Lies first appeared on Spy Culture.
Netflix’s The Diplomat is cutting edge State Department propaganda, as well as being a Homeland replacement set in and around...
The post Subscribercast #94 – The Diplomat Season Two first appeared on Spy Culture.
The Union is the latest big spy film to hit streaming and has proven a success despite being a 10...
The post ClandesTime 275 – The Union first appeared on Spy Culture.
The topic of Israel and Hollywood tends to attract racists and conspiracy theorists but for this month’s subscribercast I put...
The post Subscribercast #93 – Israel and Hollywood first appeared on Spy Culture.
I hate reality TV but it’s cheap, nasty and has taken over the TV entertainment industry. In this episode we...
The post ClandesTime 274 – The US Military and Reality TV first appeared on Spy Culture.
Most of you will have read or heard some of the coverage of the relationship between the military and video...
The post Subscribercast #92 – The US Military and Video Games first appeared on Spy Culture.
The government involvement in Hollywood marches on so in today’s episode we examine two films that were released this year,...
The post ClandesTime 273 – The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare vs My Spy: The Eternal City first appeared on Spy Culture.
In the many years I’ve been doing this I’ve got a lot of suggestions and recommendations from listeners. In this...
The post Subscribercast #91 – Listener Recommendations first appeared on Spy Culture.
When you specialise in an area of research you tend to be asked the same questions, or the same kinds...
The post ClandesTime 272 – FAQs first appeared on Spy Culture.
Why did the US military support a film about a drunken, abusive husband and father who is a textbook narcissist?...
The post ClandesTime 271 – The Great Santini first appeared on Spy Culture.
Gangster finds God, with the help of a non-linear storyline. In this month’s subscriber-only episode I have a long, rambling...
The post Subscribercast #90 – Pulp Fiction first appeared on Spy Culture.
The original TV series of Mission: Impossible was inspired by the life and work of CIA contract agent Robert Maheu,...
The post ClandesTime 270 – The CIA and Mission: Impossible first appeared on Spy Culture.
Gary Webb is one of the journalists who inspired me, and his Dark Alliance series on the CIA complicity in...
The post Subscribercast #89 – Gary Webb, the CIA and Cocaine first appeared on Spy Culture.
Very few major films have been made about the wars in Yugoslavia, but two are certainly worth examining. In this...
The post ClandesTime 269 – The Balkan Line vs Behind Enemy Lines first appeared on Spy Culture.
What connects Kris Kristofferson, Willem Dafoe, Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman? They have all starred in Iran-Contra themed movies. In...
The post ClandesTime 268 – The Cinema of Iran-Contra: Part II first appeared on Spy Culture.
Lone Survivor. Black Hawk Down. Kandahar. Stick them in a blender and you get this episode’s movie – Land of...
The post ClandesTime 267 – Land of Bad first appeared on Spy Culture.
What connects the Glazer family, owners of Manchester United football club, and the CIA? Three companies: the Zapata Corporation, founded...
The post Subscribercast #88 – The Glazers, Manchester United and the CIA first appeared on Spy Culture.
The spy movie is dying, despite efforts to reform it in recent years. In this episode we examine Argylle, the...
The post ClandesTime 266 – Argylle first appeared on Spy Culture.
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