A not-great film with some spectacular casting, 2001′s “Charlotte Gray” tells a story of a Scot SOE dame played by Cate Blanchett who joins the infamous unit after her pilot boyfriend is shot down over France. When we first meet Charlotte, she is a returning from her native Scotland to London where she is employed. [...]
Tzipi Livni
Interesting news coming out of the Holy Land, one in the form that the current Foreign Minister of Israel, and likely future Prime Minister of the Land, is a former Mossad Agent. Tzipi Livni (1958-) is the daughter of militant Israeli activists (both parents were arrested at one time or another for terrorism). After serving [...]
Gracie Hart
Before I lambast this movie into the great hereafter, this Agent must make a confession: she laughed her hiny off when first she saw it…at the dollar show. And in retrospect, I think I want my dollar back. Sandra Bullock plays Gracie Hart, a foul and unkempt FBI agent amongst a group of Frat-Pack FBI [...]
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) is most often recognized for her skillful navigation of the Underground Railroad, but too few people seem to know that she was also a highly successful Union spy. What is a long and worthy life story to know is unfortunately going to get the Reader’s Digest treatment here and then I’m going [...]
Cpl. Barbara Lauwers
Let me just start by saying that Cpl. Barbara Lauwers had the best job ever. Seriously, only a broad could think of a weapon so simple, so elegant as a mind game of this nature. I am, of course, speaking of the one and only OSS Lonely Hearts Club. Sigh. Makes my young heart go [...]
Aeon Flux
Of all the Sexed-Up-Killer-Fembots out there, Aeon Flux has to be this agent’s favorite. Launched as a series of short animated films on the infamous MTV show “Liquid Television” in 1991, Aeon immediately garnered a twisted and cultish fan base (as twisted and cultish as the anime I suppose). The run down on Aeon is [...]
