Growing up, this writer’s mother often lamented that if one spent as much time poring over textbooks as one did perusing the collective works of Frederick Forsyth, one might have amounted to something worth writing about—instead of writing about worthless things. Tautologies, masquerading as jokes aside, Britain too has long mastered the art of making […]
Tom Cruise in ‘Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’. Tom Cruise is a bonafide movie star, probably the last of a dying breed. Whether he is gifting the famous white chocolate coconut Bundt cake in the holiday season to his loved ones, or standing on top of London’s BFI IMAX Cinema, or doing a charming […]
The Agency, based on the Eric Rochant’s popular French show Le Bureau des Légendes, is a spiritual sibling of The Day of the Jackal. It is all deception and ‘legends’. Unlike James Bond — never mind what cover story M and the gang come up with — these intelligence operatives work in the shadows, immersing […]
