Tag: MI5
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A Spy Among Friends Brings Cold War to New Generation
“Russia Has Never Been More Topical” by Stephen Schaefer | Boston Herald | March 12, 2023 “A Spy Among Friends,†streaming Sunday on MGM+, reflects on a key chapter in post-WWII espionage history when the Cambridge Five, a quintet of Cambridge University graduates, were exposed as Russian spies. The most notorious and most damaging, guilty…
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VIDEO: Damian Lewis Takes the Spy Gadget Test
Spy Gadgets of the Cold War: Real or Fake? by MGM+Â | Twitter | March 8, 2023 Damian, Alex Cary, Anna Maxwell-Martin and Nick Murphy take the ultimate spy gadget test. Are these spy gadgets of the Cold War real or fake? Poison dart umbrella? Lipstick pistol? Poison cigarette? Camera clad pigeon? https://twitter.com/mgmplus/status/1633588583251714048?s=20 A Spy…
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VIDEO: Panel Discussion of A Spy Among Friends at New York Premiere
Damian Grapples with Friendship, Betrayal and Producing in MGM+ Drama by Charna Flam and Katie Reul | Variety | March 10, 2023 Following Sony’s “A Spy Among Friends†premiere and red carpet in New York, the cast and crew of “A Spy Among Friends†took to the stage to discuss the process of differentiating the…
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VIDEO: Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce on the Friendship at the Center of A Spy Among Friends
Who Would Make the Better Secret Agent? by Kate Hahn | TV Insider | March 10, 2023 Damian Lewis, who won an Emmy for playing Marine double agent Nicholas Brody on Homeland, is back in the spy game as a patriot in MGM+‘s A Spy Among Friends, a tense adaptation of Ben Macintyre’s nonfiction bestseller.…
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Loyalty and Affection is Threatened in A Spy Among Friends
A Show That Makes You Question All Your Relationships by Mark Kennedy | Washington Post | March 10, 2023 NEW YORK (AP) — A main character in “A Spy Among Friends†is one of the Soviet Union’s most notorious double agents. But you don’t need to know anything about him — or really about spying…
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MGM+’s A Spy Among Friends Is a Patient, Magisterial Addition to the Spy Pantheon
A Tremendous Restraint and Delicacy to Lewis’ Performance by Shane Ryan | Paste Magazine | March 10, 2023 If you are, like me, intermittently obsessed with the business of espionage, the name Kim Philby holds a sort of ineffable mystique in the darkest corners of your brain. Philby was the most notorious of the Cambridge…
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A Spy Among Friends Review: Guy Pearce as Kim Philby
A Nuanced, Finely Acted Cold War Series on MGM+ by John Anderson | Wall Street Journal | March 9, 2023 The six-part espionage drama “A Spy Among Friends†opens with a well-known quote from novelist E.M. Forster, which blooms enigmatic as the series rolls out: “If I had to choose between betraying my country and…
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A Spy Among Friends Review: An Elegant Cold War Thriller
A Talky Espionage Caper by Manuel Betancourt | AV Club | March 8, 2023 The title for A Spy Among Friends, last year’s British thriller that makes its MGM+ premiere on March 12, intentionally flirts with the glaring tension its narrative rests on. The spy genre, after all, depends on a timeless mantra—“trust no oneâ€â€”that…