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PhiloThe true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.
Mark Kermode's film of the weekOfficial Secrets.Rhys Ifans as the Observer’s Ed Vulliamy, with Matthew Goode as Peter Beaumont in Official Secrets. Photograph: Ifc Films/Allstar. Adapted by Hood’s co-writers Gregory and Sara Bernstein from…
Official Secrets shows that spy dramas from real life are very often not action thrillers such as Bond or Bourne or Homeland – or indeed Hood’s last movie, Eye in the Sky, from 2015 – but ... Knightley gives a sympathetic performance as…
But where that movie had a lot of indignant voltage running through it, “Official Secrets,” directed by Gavin Hood from a script by Hood, Gregory Bernstein and Sarah Bernstein (based on a book by Marcia Mitchell and Thomas Mitchell) feels…
