#espionage movie

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Guy Ritchie's Directorial Triumph: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes 45 seconds Introduction: “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare,” directed by Guy Ritchie, is a thrilling wartime action film that delves into the covert operations of an elite British task force during World War II. With a stellar cast including Henry Cavill, Eiza González, and Alan Ritchson, the film offers a gripping narrative filled with espionage, daring…

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Michael Cera is tutor Bjorn Lund in Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, in theaters for a limited time May 30th, with a wide expansion release June 6th.

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💳🐻THE BEARNELLI FRAUD FILES: A TRAGICOMEDY IN FIVE ACTS 📱🚔

based on information from those two Fast and the Curious interviews

Act I: The Heist

okay so picture this: ollie and kimi. teen karting prodigies. menaces to society. for some reason they have access to ollie’s trainer’s credit card (???) and instead of doing literally anything else, they decide to swipe that thing like it’s Black Friday and they’re divorced wine aunts at a Sephora.
No hesitation. No guilt. Just ✨"what if we swiped it and didn't get caught?"✨

Act II: What did they even buy?

Excellent question. Both claim they “don’t remember”. According to the group chat, the shopping list probably included:

A full sim rig worth more than my rent

Headsets with ✨RGB lighting✨

A premium Crunchyroll subscription

Kimi’s body weight in Monster and protein bars from a petrol station at midnight

One (1) anime figurine that neither will confess to ordering

Matching Crocs. Jibbitz included.

Act III: “There Is No Escape”

Did they stop at fraud? Of Course Not. These little karting gremlins also stole their trainer’s ID card- meaning he couldn’t leave the track
This poor guy was literally being held hostage at a motorsport event by two teenagers with too much free time and no fear of God.

Ollie: “lol where’s your pass?”
Kimi: “we took it. stay.”

Act IV: Ollie the Security Breach

Funnily enough, the trainer no longer works with Ollie, instead working with Gabriel Bortoleto and, in a horrifying twist, OLLIE IS NOW VOLUNTARILY LEAKING HIS INFO.

Ollie, in an actual interview with The Fast and The Curious, with zero shame:

“I know his phone password (how???). I know where he keeps his ID. I’m gonna tell Gabriel.”
This is how crime syndicates start. Someone needs to check on their poor victim.

(It’s also important to note that this same interview involved Ollie literally calling Esteban Ocon boring because he wouldn’t commit white collar crimes with him)

Act V: Conclusion

This isn’t friendship. This is Bonnie and Clyde with matching helmets.

They didn’t just trauma-bond. They created a criminal organisation.

Gabriel doesn’t even know he’s the next chosen one.

Bearnelli is passing the torch. And the Crunchyroll login.

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𝙈𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙄𝙢𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 1996

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The cinematography !!!

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anyone have any recs for anything that has the same vibe as mission impossible??

i just binged all of the mi movies that are out rn and i am feeling an obsession with spy thrillers coming on so now need more stuff like that 🙏

(the only thing i can think of is alex rider which i read in middle school lol)

books, shows, other movies, literally anything tysm 🙏

[pianokantzart]

Might be big brain thought so I was wondering how Boswer would escape after the movie and remembered that power ups are temporary until you get hit right? So Bowser can just hit or hurt himself enough for the mini mushroom’s effects to wear off and boom no longer trapped in glass jar🫙

I'm of the opinion that you have to get hit hard enough to be injured to dispel a powerup– that instead of getting a severe concussion or a broken bone, you just lose the power. In that way, powerups double as shields that help you survive a little longer (like in the games.)

So my theory is that Bowser is far too sturdy to slam himself against the wall of his jar/cage hard enough to hypothetically injure himself, thus dispelling the powerup. That, or there's some sort of unwritten rule that self-inflicted damage has no effect.

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Review: The Amateur (2025) — The Quiet Evolution of a Realist Action Hero

The Amateur is the kind of movie critics love to mislabel. You’ll hear stuff like “doesn’t offer a fresh perspective” or “too grounded for its own good”—which is basically code for “this didn’t have enough explosions to keep my ADHD in check.” But if you actually watch it, really watch it, what you’ll find is something way more powerful than a typical espionage thriller. What you’ll find is an…

[wrldofmyown]

i went to the movies yesterday because even when i’m drowning in work from monday to friday, i deserve to relax on weekends 🥲. anyways, a few of you have known me for years before even xander was created and know my first born OC was a kin.gsm.an so imagine how i felt while i was watching this movie and my man i went to the movies for was looking like this

like… uGhHhHhh. i missed him so much 😔

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Catch Michael Cera in Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, releasing in theaters for a limited time May 30th. Wide expansion release June 6th.

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𝗧 𝗘 𝗡 𝗘 𝗧 2020

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Taking Lives (2004)

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Wang Yibo as Mr. Ye | Hidden Blade (2023)

Bonus:

Cute Yibo behind the scenes

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Steven Knight on what the movie will be about:

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The Phoenician Scheme (2025) review

Can we just stop and appreciate the legend that is Bryan Cranston. Within this one week he’s had brief appearances in both this and Apple TV+’s The Studio season finale, and even though in both his roles are so short, he fully commits to the comedy showing everyone again why he is the GOAT! He really is the one that knocks!!

Plot: Wealthy businessman, Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists, and determined assassins.

The Wes Anderson fan base is a highly divisive one. Though there are some movies in his filmography that are mostly unanimously agreed to be fantastic such as The Grand Budapest Hotel and Rushmore, for the most part the rest of his films are liked/disliked based on individual responses. I sat in a screening of Asteroid City where it was such a baffling experience where others (including my friend) were laughing and I was not. With The French Dispatch I never found Wes Anderson to be more pretentious, and it truly felt like the guy enjoyed the smell of his own farts, but in spite of my own opinions on Letterboxd one user couldn’t stop banging on about being enamoured with one 5-min sequence of Owen Wilson riding his silly little bicycle. So what do I know. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou -  I absolutely adore its zany, messy and crazily melancholic presentation, or Fantastic Mr Fox - one of the most impressive examples of stop motion animation ever put to screen. Nonetheless with both of the latter examples I have also seen negative responses to by others. 

I’d say that Wes Anderson in my eyes is at his best when he’s delving into his tragi-comic sensibilities rather than full blown quirky wackiness. The Royal Tenenbaums works due to, though being really funny, dealing with exploring family relationships, loss, regret, and the complexities of human connection. As such  in my eyes since hitting his peak with The Grand Budapest Hotel, Anderson has not evolved as a filmmaker. The repetition can feel redundant, where Anderson has gotten so obsessed with his own technique of symmetry and colours, thus his style overtaking any possibility of a fulfilling narrative substance. For me all his recent outings from Isle of Dogs onwards have felt extremely artificial and formulaic. Except for his Netflix Roald Dahl shorts, those are genuinely adorable and I’m still holding out hope that The Criterion Collection boxes those up into one nifty little physical set.

As for his new film The Phoenician Scheme, it is unfortunately in similar vain as recent offerings. At no point any part of the story touched me on an emotional level, and the main plot (as loose as it is) involves the three main characters going to different places and meeting various cartoony characters one after the other in caper fashion. It’s a very mechanical Wes Anderson film, and outside of the fun scheming and a surface level exploration of the absence of religion in a dishonest man’s life, there isn’t much to dig into here. To be fair, even the Anderson visual palette is blander than usual, with most of the set pieces looking really plain and dull. Exception to those B&W afterlife scenes that invoked the surreal mise-en-scene techniques of Luis Buñuel - more of that please Wesley!

It’s great to finally see Benicio del Toro in a lead role, though playing a fairly unliveable character, while Mia Threapleton and especially Michael Cera steal the show from a robust ensemble of terrific actors. Hanks, Johansson, Dafoe, Murray, Wright, Ayoade, Cumberbatch... they’re all here doing a good honest day’s work for that easy pay check. But yes, it’s genuinely baffling how Michael Cera hasn’t appeared in a Wes Anderson picture before, as he fully fits into the pace and delivery of Anderson’s dialogue and absurdist direction.

The Phoenician Scheme is fine. If you enjoy Wes Anderson films you’ll find some level of enjoyment, whilst newcomers most likely won’t be swayed by this one. However I do really miss the old school Wes Anderson, where he still had his signature style, yet managed to deliver genuine and earnest stories with real emotion and tenderness. Now unfortunately it’s all about the style and no substance. This is the cinematic equivalent of a quaint man showing you his stamp collection. Yes sure it looks pretty but please for the love of all can we go outside and have some real fun!? Again though, I’m so here for Michael Cera!

Overall score: 5/10

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Mark Wahlberg, Halle Berry, and Jessica De Gouw in The Union (2024)

Dir.Julian Farino

Construction worker Mike is thrust into the world of espionage when his high school sweetheart, Roxanne, recruits him for a high-stakes intelligence mission.

*From September 19 to October 4, 2022, filming took over the picturesque seaside town of Piran, Slovenia. Contracts with the town for lodging, blocked streets, and set-up for a cast and crew of 300 members were kept secret until a few days prior to arrival.