Category: Review
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Saga Magazine Review: A Spy Among Friends
“A Grown Up, Intelligent, Riveting Espionage Tale” by Benjie Goodhart | Saga Magazine | December 2, 2022 A Spy Among Friends – Episode 1/6 – Thursday 8th December – ITVX On the basis of the first episode, A Spy Among Friends is well worth a look. The six-part drama series is based on Ben Macintyre’s…
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REVIEW: A Spy Among Friends on ITVX
Terrific Cast by Nick Curtis | Evening Standard | November 25, 2022 Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce do an awful lot of stiff-upper-lip acting in ITV’s new espionage drama A Spy Among Friends, the latest to explore the actions of the Cambridge Five, Soviet spies who were at the heart of the British Establishment from…
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London Jazz Festival Review: Damian Lewis
Four Out of Five Stars by John Bungey | The Times | November 21, 2022 (★★★★☆) Jazz in all its forms — from funky to free-form, catchy to headscratchy — enjoyed its 30th annual splurge in the capital with 300-plus festival gigs by assorted stars of the genre — and one gatecrashing film star. On…
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Review: A Spy Among Friends – Deadline
Damian Lewis With His Mona Lisa Smirk by Stephanie Bunbury | Deadline | October 7, 2022 Nothing has quite the same screen allure as a secret world. Espionage is so secret, by definition, that we have to take even its existence as a matter of trust; all we know about what goes on behind the…
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Review: A Spy Among Friends – The Telegraph
A Cerebral and Fiendish Remix of the Kim Philby Tale by Jasper Rees | The Telegraph | October 7, 2022 Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce are magnificent in a satisfyingly complex drama which focuses on Philby’s escape to Beirut in 1963. Nothing illustrated the length of the journey made by Kim Philby from West to…
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REVIEW: Damian Lewis Screen Star Celebrates a Mellow Musical Hinterland
Mellow Musical Hinterland by Stephen Dalton | The Times | August 5, 2022 Not many aspiring musicians get to pack a fancy London club to the rafters with hooting fans at their very first gig, but Damian Lewis did arrive at Omeara with a head start in the fame stakes. The Homeland, Billions and Wolf…
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REVIEW: Damian Lewis at Omeara
Passionate Debut by Neil McCormick | The Telegraph | August 4, 2022 “You! Are at … our … very first! Ever! Gig!” proclaimed Damian Lewis, as commandingly as if delivering Shakespeare with a few Pinteresque pauses. He played a double agent in Homeland, an insider trader in Billions and an unusually slender Henry VIII in…