If you’ve never heard about the exploits of the British Cold War spy Greville Maynard Wynne, you’re not alone. Even Dominic Cooke, the director of the new fact-based film about Wynne’s spy exploits, had never heard of Wynne before the script for “The Courier” came his way. “It was interesting that Brits over a certain age knew who he was, but anyone below the age of sixty-five could not recall ... more >
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“THE COURIER,” our interview with director DOMINIC COOKE
The story of an ordinary spy
Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze and James Schofield
Directed by Dominic Cooke
THE IMITATION GAME, a bravura performance, an offering to the Oscars Gods
$7M: that's how much Weinstein paid for the rights to distribute the film
Alexandre Desplat composed the film's score in under three weeks
Directed by Morten Tydlum
Alan Turing was a complex man, a mathematical genius who broke the seemingly unbreakable Enigma code through which the Nazis conducted their war on Europe with encrypted messages. Before that he was a highly gifted student at a public school, years marked by endless bullying and the awakening of homosexual tendencies. At a very young age, he becomes a Fellow at Cambridge University where he ... more >