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August 21, 2015
BRIDGET'S SPY SONG PLAYLIST
PROPELLERHEADS-SPYBREAK!
August 19, 2015
BRIDGET'S GALLERY OF GIRL SPIES THROUGH THE AGES
MARY QUINN
There seem to be more books about mysterious spy schools that recruit and train directionless young people into becoming hyper-competent espionage operatives than there are actual mysterious spy schools. Y.S Lee's The Agency series features another such mysterious temple of education, the difference being these books are set in Victorian London. Dark, smelly, poverty-stricken, disease-ridden Victorian London.
Mary Quinn is plucked from the petty thievery by The Agency and given the tools to function as a spy in this world where the gulf separating rich and poor is vast and insurmountable. The first book in the series, A Spy In The House, sees her infiltrating the world of the wealthy in order to obtain important intel.
August 17, 2015
BRIDGET'S NETFLIX QUEUE OF SPY MOVIES AND TV SHOWS
SPY KIDS
Robert Rodriguez's movies are like exploding kitchen sinks: every idea he's ever had, whether awesome or atrocious, gets hurled onto the screen. This approach doesn't always pay off but in the case of Spy Kids, every idea he had was exciting, hilarious and bursting with imagination. Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara were perfectly matched as the over-achieving bossy big sister and goofy little brother who have to fight, fly jets and fire weapons in their quest to save their superspy parents, Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino, from the clutches of evil tech wizard Alan Cumming.
In a movie that is pretty much wall-to-wall highlights, the thumb people army, the disappearing floor and "Shi...take mushrooms" are still embedded in the memories of a grateful nation. Also notable for the debut of Danny Trejo Machete character.
August 14, 2015
August 12, 2015
BRIDGET'S GALLERY OF GIRL SPIES THROUGH THE AGES
CAMMIE MORGAN
The central figure of Ally Carter's Gallagher Girls series. Cammie Morgan excels in all the courses offered by the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women--martial arts mayhem, chemical warfare, codebreaking, bone-snapping-- but is reduced to a mumbling ninny when faced with a non-spy-affiliated boy who doesn't know about her espionage background.
August 11, 2015
August 10, 2015
BRIDGET'S NETFLIX QUEUE OF SPY MOVIES AND TV SHOWS
ALIAS
Jennifer Garner's going through a tough time just now, and obviously she has our sympathies, though maybe not our surprise. As much as we sadly identify with her as the wounded victim, there was a time when she was the one doing the wounding and the victimizing. That's when she played Sydney Bristow, woman of a thousand wigs, a million costumes and maybe three convincing foreign accents.
In JJ Abrams' Alias, Garner was a tough, fearless, resourceful spy who lied to protect those she loved and was, in tuen, lied to by her employers, her enemies, her parents and her government.
Alias managed two awesome seasons before it got so confusing even JJ Abrams confessed he was unable to follow the plot.
But when times get bleak, Jennifer Garner, go Netflix an early episode of Alias. Look how much ass you kicked. Look at your vast wig collection. Look at Bradley Cooper, back in the days when he was only cast as dorks, playing your infatuated platonic friend. And look at all the TV reboots happening around you: X-Files, Twn Peaks, Heroes, Prison Break. There's still time--and still an audience-- for another go-round with Sydney Bristow. If nothing else, beating up stuntmen would be a good way to take out your frustrations.
August 7, 2015
BRIDGET'S SPY SONG PLAYLIST
ROCKWELL- SOMEBODY'S WATCHING ME
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