I’m not sure I have fully processed this movie about a genetically engineered super-soldier in the form of a teenage girl locked inside one damn twisted fairy-tale-esque nightmare, but here we go… The movie opens with a young girl in the Arctic tundra stalking an elk (or was it caribou?). She nabs her prey only [...]
Lana Kane “Archer”
I cannot believe I am about to blog about Lana Kane, aka sex-bomb super-agent of Archer‘s fictional spy-outfit “Isis”, but here we go… If you haven’t seen the anachronistic FX animated Series “Archer”, then you’re in for a treat. The show is snappy, dirty, raucous (great word – don’t get to use it very often), [...]
Lisbeth Salander “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”
A pint-sized hacker with a photographic memory and a dark past is the standout character is Stieg Larrson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and fills out a trio of books called The Millenium Trilogy (in the US anyway, in Sweden it is referred to as The Men Who Hate Women trilogy). Salander copes daily [...]
Abby Sciuto “NCIS”
Okay, I’m sooo late to the game on this one, but after a recent weekend spent on the couch with a lame back, a friend loaned me seasons 1-4 of NCIS, and now, I hate to admit, I’m hooked. The upside is that I feel like I have gotten my proverbial blogging mojo back. And [...]
Fiona Glenanne 2.0
Because we’ve now got two seasons of Burn Notice under our belts and because, also, I am devoting this month’s entries to ladies of the trade of Irish descent, I think it’s time to re-visit our old friend Fiona Glenanne. As I mentioned before, I like this character because there is a focus on trade-craft, [...]
Bond Babes Part Deux
Since the new 007 film, Quantum of Solace, opened during finals it took me sometime to properly recover to see the movie in my right mind. Having seen the latest installment, it’s time to re-visit an old topic: Bond Girls. Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy, where to begin? Let’s start with Camille, the supposed [...]
‘E’ Mode
If you have children, nieces or nephews, or just really loud neighbors kids living next door, you are probably familiar with the the 2004 Pixar movie The Incredibles. A terrifically silly film about a family of superheroes trying to juggle their abilities and their relationships while maintaining a new identity after the government forced all [...]
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 [...]
Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992): not a spy. Famous movie actress, known for portraying spies on screen, Dietrich has had the girl-spy myth floating around her head forever now, so let’s be absolutely clear on this: a USO Dolly does not a spy-girl make. Not that she didn’t offer her services, but then that’s a whole other [...]
Kate Burroughs
Laura Linney portrays the character Kate Burroughs, an FBI agent hunting the mole, Robert Hanssen, in the 2007 film “Breach”. Robert Hanssen, less you forgot, is considered the most treacherous spy in the history of the US. He was arrested in 2001 after 16 illustrious years of espionage for the former Soviet Union. Now whether [...]
