Mossack Fonseca sounds like the name of a particularly skeezy villain from an 80s B movie

Tie My Money Up in Offshore Accounts, Tie The Authorities Down In Complicated Legal Shit While I Look Into Which Countries Won't Extradite to Spain

Dot from Eastenders was in it? i don't remember her at all!

yes, i agree, i loved how it ended. i didn't particularly buy the love story in the whole thing, though, but the performances were good (by the way, exactly how tall is Elizabeth Debecki? They were trying mightily to make Hiddleston appear to be close in height to her)

there's a whole section of the novel where Pine ends up living in a small town in the middle of nowhere in Quebec. The book's climax takes place on Roper's luxury yacht, and there's a shootout (I can't recall who gets killed, or if Roper is arrested or whatever). Pine and the girl end up living quietly in the same…

For me, there were several contrivances that stretched credibility, but they were forgivable because it's still a spy story, and spy stories generally allow for a bit of silliness. I didn't believe that months later, Roper would actually remember Pine or his name from only a brief visit to that Swiss resort.

Corky saw right through him from the very beginning.
Good old Corks.

i thought olivia colman was great in it

it's brilliant

well said, but i thought that was part of the attraction of the character. a concierge is supposed to be smooth but not overwhelm you with his personality, and i guess the same goes for a spy. but you are right; as good as he was in it, Pine is a bit of a blank slate; Hugh Laurie and Tom Hollander and Olivia Colman…

didn't see that

so the AV Club doesn't even bother to read the press releases properly?

years ago, before the vogue for fantasy had taken firm hold in the zeitgeist, BBC did ab adaptation of Gormenghast. It was okay, not great, but okay, and it wasn't much a ratings success, even though it had been heavily advertised as one of the prestige series of that particular season

what exactly is an 'event series'? How is it different from a miniseries or limited series, or even just a series?

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a superhero film in possession of horrific reviews must be in want of an audience.

This seems a much shorter Random Roles than usual. I would have liked to have heard more about Excalibur, Siesta, Quirke, and also The Riordans, the soap opera he did in Ireland when he was starting off and that made him a heartthrob

Defense of the Realm is an absolute cracker of a film. Byrne, Denholm Elliott, and Greta Scacchi (in one of the few roles where she doesn't get her kit off). it's a paranoid cold war thing and it owes a lot to things like All the Presidents Men, and it's very British in the sense that much of it would not work in any…

It's been many years since I've seen it, but I think Cross of Iron is a pretty good anti-war film

I've always considered Paths of Glory to be a great film, and a great anti-war film, but even more so, a great anti-military film

Tell me you came just as the guy gets shot in the helmet, takes off the helmet, breathes a sigh of relief, then gets shot in the head a split-second later.