SpyHards - A Spy Movie Podcast

SpyHards - A Spy Movie Podcast

A weekly film podcast decoding classic spy cinema. Hosted by Agent Scott & Cam the Provocateur. Featuring the likes of James Bond, Jason Bourne, Derek Flint, Austin Powers, Johnny English, George Smiley and Harry Palmer, plus all your favourite secret agent franchises including Mission: Impossible, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Kingsman, Taken and many more. Which films will make the prestigious N.O.C. List, and cement their place in the canon of all-time cloak and dagger greats? Subscribe today and don’t get left out in the cold as your intrepid agents track down cinema’s very best spy adventures!

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May 5, 2025 103 mins

Agents Scott and Cam welcome author Robert Sellers to the show to reveal the secrets behind writing his controversial 2007 book The Battle for Bond! He also discusses the complicated and surprising history of the 1965 Bond adventure Thunderball.

You can purchase When Harry Met Cubby and The Search for Bond on Amazon.

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Agents Scott and Cam, along with guest operative John Rain from Smersh Pod, cry out for Tabasco sauce while decoding Roger Moore's second Bond adventure, The Man with the Golden Gun.

Directed by Guy Hamilton. Starring Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams, Hervé Villechaize, Clifton James, Richard Loo and Soon-Tek Oh.

Check out Smersh Pod wherever you get your podcasts. 

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April 21, 2025 84 mins

Agents Scott and Cam put on fancy dresses and crawl into a doghouse while taking on the 1948 Red Skelton Civil War spy comedy A Southern Yankee.

Directed by Edward Sedgwick. Starring Red Skelton, Brian Donlevy, Arlene Dahl, George Coulouris, Lloyd Gough and John Ireland.

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Agents Scott and Cam welcome screenwriter Richard Wenk to the show to reveal the secrets behind creating The Equalizer trilogy. He also shares stories about writing The Mechanic remake, The Protégé, and more!

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April 15, 2025 92 mins

Agents Scott and Cam clock in for a very bloody shift at Home Mart while tackling the 2014 Denzel Washington action-thriller The Equalizer.

Directed by Antoine Fuqua. Starring Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloë Grace Moretz, David Harbour, Haley Bennett, Bill Pullman, Melissa Leo and David Meunier.

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Agent Scott and guest operative Tom Butler from The James Bond A-Z Podcast have their nighttime swims explosively disrupted while delivering a DECLASSIFIED review of the new Rami Malek spy thriller The Amateur.

Directed by James Hawes. Starring Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe, Michael Stuhlbarg, Laurence Fishburne, Holt McCallany, Julianne Nicholson, Danny Sapani and Jon Bernthal. 

The Amateur is now in theatres.

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Agents Scott and Cam, along with guest operative Scott McCrea, author of Targets West, learn about the importance of tradecraft in father/son bonding while decoding the 1985 Gene Hackman & Matt Dillon spy drama Target.

Directed by Arthur Penn. Starring Gene Hackman, Matt Dillon, Gayle Hunnicutt, Josef Summer, Guy Boyd, Viktoriya Fyodorova, Herbert Berghof and Ilona Grübel.

Make sure to purchase Targets West on Amazon, and chec...

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March 31, 2025 87 mins

Agents Scott and Cam push it real good with Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz while tackling the 2025 spy action-comedy Back in Action.

Directed by Seth Gordon. Starring Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, Kyle Chandler, Glenn Close, McKenna Roberts, Rylan Jackson, Jamie Demetriou, Fola Evans-Akingbola and Andrew Scott.

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Agents Scott and Cam welcome writer/director Shane Black to the show to reveal the secrets behind writing the 1996 spy action film The Long Kiss Goodnight. He also shares stories about working on The Hunt for Red October, Predator and Lethal Weapon, as well as discusses his favourite spy literature.

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Agent Scott and guest operative Hannah Hughes introduce a little espionage into their relationship while serving up a DECLASSIFIED review of the new Steven Soderbergh spy caper Black Bag.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Starring Cate Blanchett, Michael Fassbender, Marisa Abela, Tom Burke, Naomie Harris, Regé-Jean Page and Pierce Brosnan.

Black Bag is in theatres now.

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March 17, 2025 89 mins

Agents Scott and Cam become groomsmen at a chaotic Italian shotgun wedding while decoding the fifth Man from U.N.C.L.E. film The Spy in the Green Hat.

Directed by Joseph Sargent. Starring Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Jack Palance, Janet Leigh, Letícia Román, Eduardo Ciannelli, Allen Jenkins, Jack La Rue, Leo G. Carroll, Joan Blondell and Will Kuluva.

Make sure to check out Bill Koenig's The Man from U.N.C.L.E. episode guide.

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Agent Scott welcomes actress Martina Gedeck to the show to discuss her powerful work as Christa-Maria Sieland in 2006's The Lives of Others. She also shares stories about working on the Robert De Niro-helmed CIA drama The Good Shepherd.

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March 10, 2025 99 mins

Agents Scott and Cam bug each other's homes while celebrating 200 episodes with the 2006 Oscar-winning spy drama The Lives of Others.

Directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Starring Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur, Thomas Thieme, Hans-Uwe Bauer, Volkmar Kleinert and Matthias Brenner.

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Agents Scott and Cam welcome director Jack Cocker to the show to reveal the secrets behind making the 2024 documentary From Roger Moore with Love. He also shares his favourite spy films of all time.

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Agents Scott and Cam proudly present an unreleased 2018 conversation between Mark A. Altman, co-author of Nobody Does It Better: The Complete Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of James Bond, and Live and Let Die star Yaphet Kotto. In addition to behind-the-scenes intel about playing Kananga in the 1973 Bond adventure, Mr. Kotto also reminisces about Alien and reveals why he turned down Star Trek: The Next Generation.

You can p...

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Agents Scott and Cam, along with guest operative Mark A. Altman, co-author of Nobody Does It Better: The Complete Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of James Bond, leap over snapping crocodiles while tackling 1973's debut Roger Moore 007 adventure, Live and Let Die.

Directed by Guy Hamilton. Starring Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James, Julius Harris, Geoffrey Holder, David Hedison, Gloria Hendry, Bernard Lee...

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Agents Scott and Cam, along with guest operatives Philip Dethlefts, DPA journalist and broadcaster, Dr. Lisa Funnell, 007 scholar, author and media educator, Bill Koenig from The Spy Command blog and David Lowbridge-Ellis of the Licence to Queer blog, convene to discuss the positively shocking future of 007 at Amazon. 

Read all about the game-changing James Bond news at Variety.

You can follow Philip on Bluesky, X and Instagram.

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February 17, 2025 86 mins

Agents Scott and Cam heartily sing Rule, Britannia! with James Mason while decoding the 1943 WWII espionage thriller Candlelight in Algeria.

Directed by George King. Starring James Mason, Carla Lehmann, Raymond Lovell, Enid Stamp-Taylor, Walter Rilla and Pamela Stirling.

You can stream Candlelight in Algeria on YouTube.

Also, make sure to sign the petition to save the Prince Charles Cinema!

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Agents Scott and Cam get injected with Super-Soldier Serum while tackling Marvel's 2011 WWII superhero origin story Captain America: The First Avenger.

Directed by Joe Johnston. Starring Chris Evans, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Dominic Cooper, Toby Jones, Neal McDonough, Derek Luke and Stanley Tucci.

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Agents Scott and Cam, along with guest operative Neil Alcock, author of Hitchology, investigate a suspicious chocolate factory while decoding the 1936 Alfred Hitchcock spy thriller Secret Agent.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Starring John Gielgud, Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young, Peter Lorre, Percy Marmont, Florence Kahn and Charles Carson.

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