ClandesTime
Film
Podcast series with Tom Secker featuring film and book reviews and discussions and investigations into military and intelligence involvement in popular culture.
Location:
United Kingdom
Description:
Podcast series with Tom Secker featuring film and book reviews and discussions and investigations into military and intelligence involvement in popular culture.
Language:
English
Website:
http://www.spyculture.com/
Email:
tom@spyculture.com
Episodes
Subscribercast #90 – Pulp Fiction
7/20/2024
Gangster finds God, with the help of a non-linear storyline. In this month’s subscriber-only episode I have a long, rambling...
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Duration:00:47:08
ClandesTime 270 – The CIA and Mission: Impossible
7/9/2024
The original TV series of Mission: Impossible was inspired by the life and work of CIA contract agent Robert Maheu,...
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Duration:01:18:14
Subscribercast #89 – Gary Webb, the CIA and Cocaine
6/23/2024
Gary Webb is one of the journalists who inspired me, and his Dark Alliance series on the CIA complicity in...
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Duration:00:43:13
ClandesTime 269 – The Balkan Line vs Behind Enemy Lines
6/12/2024
Very few major films have been made about the wars in Yugoslavia, but two are certainly worth examining. In this...
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ClandesTime 268 – The Cinema of Iran-Contra: Part II
6/3/2024
What connects Kris Kristofferson, Willem Dafoe, Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman? They have all starred in Iran-Contra themed movies. In...
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Duration:02:04:42
ClandesTime 267 – Land of Bad
5/26/2024
Lone Survivor. Black Hawk Down. Kandahar. Stick them in a blender and you get this episode’s movie – Land of...
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Duration:00:49:58
Subscribercast #88 – The Glazers, Manchester United and the CIA
5/19/2024
What connects the Glazer family, owners of Manchester United football club, and the CIA? Three companies: the Zapata Corporation, founded...
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Duration:00:42:31
ClandesTime 266 – Argylle
5/6/2024
The spy movie is dying, despite efforts to reform it in recent years. In this episode we examine Argylle, the...
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Duration:00:53:39
Subscribercast #87 – The Bank Job vs Inside Man
4/28/2024
Continuing our vaguely Gary Devore-related explorations, in this month’s subscribercast we look at two unconventional bank heist films where the...
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Duration:00:35:21
ClandesTime 265 – The Wide Shot, David Robb and Phil Strub
4/7/2024
Kevin Gosztola joins us to talk about his new Medium publication The Wide Shot, a film review and industry analysis...
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Duration:01:28:51
Subscribercast #86 – Buffalo Soldiers, etc.
3/31/2024
What does a military movie with no heroes look like? It looks like Buffalo Soldiers, a tale of bored, criminally...
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Duration:00:18:20
ClandesTime 264 – The US Marine Corps in Hollywood: 1974 to 1982
3/29/2024
It isn’t often that you get a long-term inside view of a government propaganda office, but that’s what I’ve got...
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Duration:01:53:46
ClandesTime 263 – Gardens of Stone
3/18/2024
Apocalypse Now and Francis Ford Coppola were rejected by the Pentagon when they asked for production support. A decade later...
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Duration:00:52:05
ClandesTime 262 – The CIA and Podcasts Decoded
3/10/2024
15 years after podcasts first became a popular medium, the CIA has cottoned onto the value of pre-recorded audio content....
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Subscribercast #85 – The Epstein-Maxwell Cover-Up
3/3/2024
Two years on from my investigation into over 3000 pages of Bureau of Prisons files on Jeffrey Epstein we return...
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Duration:00:32:19
ClandesTime 261 – A Paul Schrader Trilogy
1/29/2024
Dying of the Light. Dark. The Card Counter. Aside from all being written and directed by Paul Schrader, what do...
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Duration:00:59:41
Subscribercast #84 – The Shield Season Seven
1/28/2024
In this month’s subscriber-only podcast we tackle the final season of The Shield, and do so head on. In this...
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Duration:00:45:19
ClandesTime 260 – The Diplomat
1/3/2024
Netflix’s The Diplomat marks the first time that the British Foreign Office and the US State Department have made a...
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Duration:00:59:04
Subscribercast #83 – Back to the Future
12/24/2023
For this Christmastime subscribercast we welcome back Henri to discuss the 1980s sci-fi comedy classic Back to the Future. We...
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Duration:01:22:04
ClandesTime 259 – The OSS in Popular Culture
12/10/2023
Between 2018 and 2022, three major OSS spies have been canonised in film and TV – Julia Child, Moe Berg...
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Duration:01:16:20