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Netflix recently ordered a 10-episode first series of Q-Force, the world’s first animated LGBTQ spy series.  Pitched as a ‘gay...

Iran-Contra is in many ways the definitive government conspiracy – involving guns, drugs, anti-communism and black operations, it went all...

Greta is able to see what other people cannot see.  She can see carbon dioxide with the naked eye. She sees how it flows out of chimneys and and changes the atmosphere in a landfill.
— Malena Ernman, Scenes from the heart. Our life for the climate (mother of Greta Thunberg),May 3, 2019

If you want to be more ecologically minded, good for you. But don’t be under the bizarre American illusion that your individual action is a substitute for collective action, for systemic change.
— Umair Haque, Medium, May 2019

1988’s The Presidio wanted to film at the real Presidio in San Francisco, an Army installation.  As per usual this...

Monster movies are one of the most beloved and distinctive genres in cinema, featuring a winning combination of exotic spectacle,...

Among the close supporters of Julian Assange is Canadian actor Pamela Anderson, who recently visited him in prison in super-max Belmarsh Prison in southeast London.


JessumGuy invited me on to his new podcast to discuss my two books, Esoteric Hollywood 1 and 2. We cover the origins of the camera and propaganda, the origins of intelligence services in connection to films and the usage of various techniques that would later be a central aspect of advertising and then 007 and the Bond series. Support his new podcast here.

In a guest article for Spy Culture my good friend and co-author of National Security Cinema Matt Alford reviews Ben...



On this month’s subscriber-only podcast I review one of my favourite films of all time – Starship Troopers. I discuss...