THE COURIER MOVIE REVIEW

Benedict Cumberbatch IS The Courier (aka Greville Wynne), an English businessman in the 60s who was recruited by MI6 to go to Russia on his business trips, meet up with their contact there, Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) and transport information that led to the discovery of the Russian plan to install nuclear missiles in Cuba. For you history buffs out there, that was the Cuban Missile Crisis and one of the closest times our world almost burned in nuclear fire. This true tale of espionage, and the Englishman who initially was in denial about the seriousness of the whole thing only to end up volunteering to go into danger to help his Russian friend, features a larger cast of fantastic actors and actresses, although the focus is all but entirely on Wynne. Maybe a lot more than it needed to be. Listen to Chris, Marina, Brad, and Wright spill secrets.

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DIRECTED BY: Dominic Cooke

STARRING: Benedict Cumberbatch, Rachel Brosnahan, Jessie Buckley, Merab Ninidze, Angus Wright, Keir Hills, Jonathan Harden, Aleksandr Kotjakovs, Olga Koch

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

Christopher Lawrence Cox (Founder, Da Boss)

Born in the wilds of northern Virginia, in 1992 Chris managed to put all of his survival skills to use and barely escaped with his life to Austin Texas, where ever since he’s dabbled in everything from plumber’s assistant to sandwich maker, from band to bar management. An opportunity to see theatrical release films for free by becoming a critic on a local public access show called “The Reel Deal” turned into a full-time job when Chris and his friends decided to take it to the internet. They built the site Spill.com, adding multiple podcasts and animated features, to no small amount of success. During this time, a fortuitous friendship sprung up between Chris and young Brian Salisbury, who was also a local film critic, and they merged their forces of will, and their laundry list of ideas for shows, to eventually build this paradise you see before you. Follow Chris on Twitter and Facebook and check out his Amazon Wish List.

 

Melina Eames (Screener Squad)

Melina first discovered that she carried the nerd gene at the tender age of four following her exposure to a little film called A New Hope. In the twenty-some years that followed, Melina continued to grow into her geek identity through the discovery of Batman, Mst3k, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings and The Mandalorian. But perhaps her most significant discovery came at the age of fourteen when a night of YouTube mining led her to the review site of Spill.com. Melina became a devoted follower whose fandom did not end with the site’s demise. By then, it had worked its dark magic and left her with a love and appreciation for film criticism that she has yet to shrug.

 

 

Bradly Martin (Screener Squad, Eye on the Prize, Breakfast Pub)

Bradly Martin was born in the united states and grew up on a healthy diet of sports, films, and books. A rather shy lad who kept to himself, Bradly soon discovered the best way to know a person was to know what people liked. Through out the years Bradly became a fan of many things and a fanatic of none. From Doctor Dre, to Doctor Strange and the who’s who of Whos. From Playstation to the Dreamcast and Marvel to DC.