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 ...

The Oscar-winning writer of Steven Soderbergh's hyperlink thriller 'Traffic' directed this sufficiently complex thriller of ...

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.

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

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

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

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 ...

Cerebral rather than action-packed, it’s like a classic le Carré (or, with its Harry Palmer allusions, Len Deighton) thriller, brought bang up to date with stylish direction, outrageously ...