Oh, boy. Here we ago again. The fourth reiteration of “Nikita”, a juvenile delinquent taken into the folds of a secret government agency and turned into a cold-blooded assassin extraordinaire! has premiered on television…again… Of course, the 1990 original (and best) has already been covered, and I refuse, absolutely refuse, to discuss the 1993 American [...]
Parts Per Billion
I received a heads up from a reader (thanks, 2blake2) regarding a Spy Conference being held in Raleigh, NC next March and I admit, I eagerly clicked the link to take a look. So let me now just say how utterly disappointed I am. Yes, I realize, the organizers are using sex to sell their [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Bionic Woman
“We can rebuild her. We have the technology.We can make her better than she was before: better, stronger, faster.” And so begins the career of Jaime Sommers, The Bionic Woman (1976-1978). A tennis pro nearly killed in a skydiving accident, she is rebuilt and becomes an agent for the Office of Scientific Intelligence a fictional [...]
The Bond Girls
Oh, what is there to write about the Bond Girls that hasn’t already been written? After many, many years of Ian Fleming’s 007, some patterns begin to develop with regards to all girls Bond: Some are spies, most are not. They enjoy 15 minutes of fame in one film and then disappear. They have wildly [...]
Fiona Glenanne
If you’re not watching “Burn Notice” you best get to it. Gabrielle Anwar as a former IRA guerilla who specializes in bomb making and selling light weaponry on the side makes me all weepy for The Old Sod. Season 1, Episode 3: Fiona is guarding a witness to a crime when she receives a phone [...]
Nikita
Anne Parillaud in the 1990 movie classic “La Femme Nikita”, never opened a can of whoop-ass on someone she didn’t like. A junkie slated for execution for her part in a robbery gone wrong, “Nikita” is given a last minute reprieve, provided she agrees to become a trained assassin for French government. All of which [...]
Irina Derevko
It’s a toss up for me as to whether I like Irina or Sidney better on TV’s “ALIAS”, but since Sidney came first with the teeth thing, Irina has to settle for second. The terrifically eeeeevil Irina Derevko, a KGB spy and Sidney’s mammasita, was all trouble and no brownies. First she’s dead, then she’s [...]
Sidney Bristow
The TV show “ALIAS” had me at first tooth pull. Tied to a chair, drugged out of her gourd and about to be tortured by having her chompers yanked by a Chinese agent, “Sidney” sasses her torturer by asking if he could “start with the back?”. Teeth that is. And he obliges. One aerial chair [...]
