James Hawes
‘The Amateur’ Review: Rami Malek Leads Emotional and Engaging Spy Thriller
Charlie Heller is a brilliant CIA decoder whose world comes crashing down when his wife dies in a London terrorist attack. When his supervisors refuse to take action, his intelligence becomes the ulti...
‘The Amateur’ Review: The Born Novice
After Charles Heller, a CIA cryptographer, loses his wife in a London terrorist attack, he realizes his bosses will not act due to conflicting internal priorities. Having blackmailed the agency to tra...
TV Review: Apple’s ‘Slow Horses’ Delivers A Nice Spy Homage
After a botched and publicly embarrassing training mission, British MI5 agent River Cartwright is exiled to Slough House, an administrative purgatory for service rejects. Known as slow horses, Cartwri...