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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children The U.S. government, in its pursuit of so-called monsters, has itself become a monster. This is not a new development, nor is it a revelation. This is a government that has in recent decades unleashed untold horrors upon the world—including its own citizenry—in the name of global conquest, the acquisition of greater wealth, scientific experimentation, and technological advances, all packaged in the guise of the greater good. Mind you, there is no greater good when the government is involved. There is only greater greed for money and power. Unf...

With just one episode left of series six, Line of Duty could theoretically go anywhere. After all, who had sweepstakes at the end of the last series on Kate Fleming finding old camera footage of Dot Cottan tapping out morse code signals with his fingers on his deathbed to reveal more about the arch-villain H? Exactly: absolutely no one. While wild theories are always flying around online – which is half the fun of watching it, really – there are always a couple of out-there ideas as to where the plot will go, or the real life cases that inspired storylines, enabling us to predict the out...

SOMETIME in 2014, I was reading Yvonne Cloetta’s memoir of her life with Graham Greene when I came across a chapter dealing with his relationship with the Soviet spy Kim Philby, who she described as the “one man for whom Graham committed himself totally.” This sparked my interest, as I knew about Greene and I knew about Philby but I didn’t know that they’d been friends, ever since Greene had worked under Philby at MI6 during the war. Or that Greene had been the only person to defend Philby after he defected to Russia in 1963. Or that Greene had been to see him in Moscow in the late ...

PATRICK MARMION: Cold War British spy and Russian double agent Kim Philby was a great lover of cricket.

A Great Reed: A Carol Reed Profile (Part 2) October 28, 2009 by admin Trevor Hogg profiles the career of legendary British filmmaker Carol Reed in the second of a two-part feature… read the first part here. “I don’t think people care what sort of curtains I have,” stated the British filmmaker. “I don’t think they care about the technical people. Stars are the draw. They earn their publicity. It brings people in. But no one would go to see a film because it was directed by Carol Reed.” However, the director also observed that a star-studded cast does not necessarily guaran...