SpyHards - A Spy Movie Podcast
A weekly film podcast decoding classic spy cinema. Hosted by Agent Scott & Cam the Provocateur. Featuring the likes of James Bond, Jason Bourne, Derek Flint, Austin Powers, Johnny English, George Smiley and Harry Palmer, plus all your favourite secret agent franchises including Mission: Impossible, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Kingsman, Taken and many more. Which films will make the prestigious N.O.C. List, and cement their place in the canon of all-time cloak and dagger greats? Subscribe today and don’t get left out in the cold as your intrepid agents track down cinema’s very best spy adventures!
Episodes

Monday Nov 15, 2021
Monday Nov 15, 2021
Agents Scott and Cam, along with guest operative Scott Mendelson, film critic and box office analyst for Forbes, fill out applications for reprogramming while revisiting Alan J. Pakula's 1974 conspiracy thriller The Parallax View.
Directed by Alan J. Pakula. Starring Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels, Paula Prentiss, Walter McGinn, Kelly Thordsen, Jim Davis and Earl Hindman.
Check out more of Scott Mendelson's work at Forbes, or follow him on Twitter.
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View the NOC List and the Disavowed List at Letterboxd.com/spyhards
Podcast artwork by Hannah Hughes.

Monday Nov 08, 2021
Monday Nov 08, 2021
Agents Scott and Cam, along with guest operative Chris Hewitt, associate editor for Empire Magazine and host of the Empire Film Podcast, hop in Little Nellie and take a spin around Blofeld's volcano lair with the 1967 James Bond adventure You Only Live Twice.
Directed by Lewis Gilbert. Starring Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama, Tetsurō Tanba, Teru Shimada, Karin Dor, Donald Pleasence, and Bernard Lee.
Check out more of Chris's work at Empire Online, or find The Empire Film Podcast wherever podcasts are available.
Become a SpyHards Patron and gain access to top secret bonus episodes, movie commentaries and more!
Pick up exclusive SpyHards merch, including the "What Does Vargas Do?" t-shirt by @shaylayy, available only at Redbubble
Social media: @spyhards
View the NOC List and the Disavowed List at Letterboxd.com/spyhards
Podcast artwork by Hannah Hughes.

Thursday Nov 04, 2021
David Franzoni on Jumpin' Jack Flash - SpyMaster Interview #12
Thursday Nov 04, 2021
Thursday Nov 04, 2021
Agents Scott and Cam welcome Jumpin' Jack Flash writer David Franzoni to the show to discuss the 1986 Whoopi Goldberg comedy's fascinating early origins and significant evolution from script to screen. Plus, he reveals behind the scenes intel on writing and producing the 2000 Best Picture winner Gladiator, as well as working with Steven Spielberg on 1997's Amistad.
Pick up exclusive SpyHards merch, including the new "What Does Vargas Do?" t-shirt by @shaylayy, available only at Redbubble
Social media: @spyhards
View the NOC List and the Disavowed List at Letterboxd.com/spyhards
Podcast artwork by Hannah Hughes.

Monday Nov 01, 2021
063. Operation Crossbow (1965)
Monday Nov 01, 2021
Monday Nov 01, 2021
Agents Scott and Cam infiltrate a top secret Nazi rocket facility with the WWII espionage thriller Operation Crossbow.
Directed by Michael Anderson. Starring Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Richard Johnson, Tom Courtenay, Jeremy Kemp and Anthony Quayle.
Check out Bomb Site's interactive map of WWII London Blitz sites.
Pick up exclusive SpyHards merch, including the "What Does Vargas Do?" t-shirt by @shaylayy, available only at Redbubble
Social media: @spyhards
View the NOC List and the Disavowed List at Letterboxd.com/spyhards
Podcast artwork by Hannah Hughes.

Monday Oct 25, 2021
062. Spy Kids (2001)
Monday Oct 25, 2021
Monday Oct 25, 2021
Agents Scott and Cam exclaim "Oh shiitake mushrooms!" while rocketing into adventure with Robert Rodriguez's 2001 family hit Spy Kids.
Directed by Robert Rodriguez. Starring Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara, Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alan Cumming, Tony Shalhoub, Teri Hatcher, Cheech Marin, Robert Patrick and Danny Trejo.
Pick up exclusive SpyHards merch, including the new "What Does Vargas Do?" t-shirt by @shaylayy, available only at Redbubble
Social media: @spyhards
View the NOC List and the Disavowed List at Letterboxd.com/spyhards
Podcast artwork by Hannah Hughes.

Thursday Oct 21, 2021
Matt Charman on Bridge of Spies - SpyMaster Interview #11
Thursday Oct 21, 2021
Thursday Oct 21, 2021
Agents Scott and Cam welcome Oscar-nominated Bridge of Spies writer Matt Charman to the podcast to break down the 2015 film's journey from script to screen. Along the way he shares stories about working with Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and the Coen Brothers, as well as reveals a few details about his upcoming directorial debut The Mothership starring Halle Berry.
Pick up exclusive SpyHards merch, including the new "What Does Vargas Do?" t-shirt by @shaylayy, available only at Redbubble
Social media: @spyhards
View the NOC List and the Disavowed List at Letterboxd.com/spyhards
Podcast artwork by Hannah Hughes.

Monday Oct 18, 2021
061. Bridge of Spies (2015) - Guest: Ian Sanders from Cold War Conversations
Monday Oct 18, 2021
Monday Oct 18, 2021
Agents Scott and Cam, along with guest operative Ian Sanders of the Cold War Conversations Podcast, trail a shivering Tom Hanks through the chilly streets of East Berlin with Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies.
Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Austin Stowell, Alan Alda, Amy Ryan, Eve Hewson, Billy Magnussen, Scott Shepherd, Jesse Plemons, Sebastian Koch and Mikhail Gorevoy.
The Cold War Conversations Podcast is available everywhere.
Pick up exclusive SpyHards merch, including the new "What Does Vargas Do?" t-shirt by @shaylayy, available only at Redbubble
Social media: @spyhards
View the NOC List and the Disavowed List at Letterboxd.com/spyhards
Podcast artwork by Hannah Hughes.

Monday Oct 11, 2021
Monday Oct 11, 2021
Agents Scott and Cam, along with guest operative Jeff Quest of the Spy Write website, race against time to thwart a daring assassination while decoding Fred Zinnemann's 1973 thriller The Day of the Jackal.
Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Starring Edward Fox, Alan Badel, Tony Britton, Cyril Cusack, Michael Lonsdale, Eric Porter and Delphine Seyrig.
Check out Jeff's writing over at Spy Write
You can also listen to him on Barbican Station - A Slough House Podcast and Like the Wolfe - A Nero Wolfe Podcast, available everywhere.
Pick up exclusive SpyHards merch, including the new "What Does Vargas Do?" t-shirt by @shaylayy, available only at Redbubble
Social media: @spyhards
View the NOC List and the Disavowed List at Letterboxd.com/spyhards
Podcast artwork by Hannah Hughes.

SpyHards Podcast
Every week Agent Scott and Cam the Provocateur decode the best and worst spy films to determine if the movie makes the patented NOC list.
The NOC list is the "Need-To-See. Official. Classics" of the SpyHards Podcast.
From Bond to Bourne and Powers to Palmer, if its cloak and dagger cinema, expect to find it on this podcast.
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