13 Sep 2024

Short-Cuts with Dan Slevin

From Nights, 9:30 pm on 13 September 2024

The name's Slevin, Dan Slevin.

 Nights' resident screen critic is here with some Friday night picks, and he's talking about British Spy Dramas.

Michael Caine's three-film 1960s run as cockney spy Harry Palmer (physical media), Bill Nighy in Page Eight (Netflix), and John Le Carré's Tinket Tailor Soldier Spy, Smiley's People and The Perfect Spy (free streaming)

Page Eight (2011), the first of three films written and directed by David Hare, starring Bill Nighy as the intelligence analyst Johnny Worricker and his discovery of a conspiracy at the heart of the British government

Page Eight (2011), the first of three films written and directed by David Hare, starring Bill Nighy as the intelligence analyst Johnny Worricker and his discovery of a conspiracy at the heart of the British government Photo: Netflix