As an author, I loathe asking for blurbs — most of us hate the cringe-making business of approaching your peers for a favour that eats into their precious writing hours — and sometimes struggle to ...

What exactly is cinema for grown-ups? Black Bag offers as compelling an answer as any: it’s Michael Fassbender, in a range of ...

Those going in expectation of action will meet disappointment, while the rest of us will be clamouring for a sequel ...

Michael Caine has been around long enough to know when a film idea has potential, but one particular novel has eluded his attempts at adapting it.

The first of Caine’s five Harry Palmer spy movies was critically acclaimed and a box office success. Meanwhile, it would go ...

Michael Fassbender, Cate Blanchett and Marisa Abela turn up the heat in a smart and sophisticated espionage caper ...

For all the coolly staged set-pieces and stylish European locales, it’s the charged relationship between stars Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender that makes spy thriller Black Bag so alluring, writ ...

Based on Len Deighton’s 1962 novel of the same name, The Ipcress File starred Caine as Harry Palmer, an agent at the Ministry of Defence tasked with investigating the disappearances of some ...

Last week's account in PostScript of the painfully slow horse I bet on at the Epsom Derby back in the Dark Ages prompted a ...