Reviews, usually short, of every movie I see for the first time. Marks are out of ten. Plus assorted non-review posts on film.
30/12/2009
1965: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
This unsentimental look at cold war espionage, chronicling the attempts of the British secret service to infiltrate their East German counterpart, suffers from being decidedly unfilmic - it's mostly conversations in boring-looking rooms. On the upside: the no-nonsense b/w cinematography and the screen presence that was Richard Burton. (6.5)
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