Our Kind of Traitor movie review: ordinary everyday spies
Smartly elegant; the fantastic cast makes it worth your time. But it does feel as if it belongs on the small screen spread across six or eight hours.
John le Carre
A Most Wanted Man movie review: intelligence afterscape
A smart, classy, slow-burn thriller made up of the stuff of authentic spy work and plenty of bitter irony about modern geopolitics.
A Most Wanted Man clip: one of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s last performances
Based on a novel by John le Carré, and just debuted at Sundance.
British Film Bloggers Circle announces 2012 awards
The British Film Bloggers Circle — a new organization of which I am a member — has announced the winners our first annual awards…
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (review)
Why does no one ever intone at me and tell me to go to Budapest and wear polyester and smoke cigarettes and get all espionagey, dammit?
