The Night Manager (2016), a six-part mini-series from the BBC that played on AMC in the U.S., is a riveting adaptation of the John le Carré’s 1993 novel of illegal arms sales and government complicity and updated from the nineties drug wars on Latin America to the contemporary Middle East of the Arab Spring. Tom […]
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‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD
If you are in the nay camp in the split decision over the new James Bond film, try the old-school spy games of The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Guy Ritchie’s big screen revival of the sixties secret agent series. It’s an origin story of sorts—think “When Napoleon met Illya”—with the two agents in a wary partnership, […]