A SPY AMONG FRIENDS: Actress Anna Maxwell Martin on fact-based espionage series – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/10/2023
Anna Maxwell Martin in A SPY AMONG FRIENDS | ©2023 MGM+

A SPY AMONG FRIENDS, the six-part British miniseries premiering Sunday, March 12, on MGM+ (formerly Epix), is based Ben Macintyre’s nonfiction book A SPY AMONG FRIENDS: KIM PHILBY AND THE GREAT BETRAYAL. Harold Adrian Russell “Kim” Philby, as real-life espionage buffs know, was a high-ranking officer in British Intelligence’s MI-6 division (their equivalent of the CIA) during and after World War II. In 1963, it was revealed that Philby was spying for the Russians, causing him to flee to Moscow. Philby’s friend and fellow MI-6 agent Nicholas Elliott was sent to get a full confession while they were both in […]Read On »


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Movie Review: THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 08/28/2020
THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD movie poster | ©2020 Fox Searchlight

Rating: PG Stars: Dev Patel, Jairaj Varsani, Ranveer Jaiswal, Morfydd Clark, Rosalind Eleazar, Darren Boyd, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton, Gwendoline Christie, Peter Capaldi, Bronagh Gallagher, Daisy May Cooper, Ben Whishaw, Benedict Wong, Anna Maxwell Martin, Aneurin Barnard, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Matthew Cottle, Aimee Kelly, Anthony Welsh, Paul Whitehouse Writers: Armando Ianucci & Simon Blackwell, based on the novel DAVID COPPERFIELD by Charles Dickens Director: Armando Ianucci Distributor: Fox Searchlight Release Date: August 28, 2020 THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD is, as its title suggests, an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s 1850 novel DAVID COPPERFIELD. For those wondering about the title, first […]Read On »


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Movie Review: PHILOMENA

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 11/24/2013
PHILOMENA movie poster | ©2013 The Weinstein Company

Rating: PG-13 Stars: Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Mare Winningham, Barbara Jefford, Ruth McCabe, Peter Hermann, Sean Mahon, Anna Maxwell Martin, Michelle Fairley Writers: Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope, based on the book THE LOST CHILD OF PHILOMENA LEE by Martin Sixsmith Director: Stephen Frears Distributor: The Weinstein Company Release Date: November 22, 2013 It’s helpful to go into PHILOMENA knowing that Martin Sixsmith, who wrote the nonfiction book THE LOST CHILD OF PHILOMENA LEE, and Philomena Lee herself are both real people. So (alas) are the conditions young, unmarried pregnant women were forced into in Irish nunneries […]Read On »


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