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Black Bag Review: A Sleek and Satisfying 90 Minute Thriller

Sometimes when life’s getting hectic and the the winter confines you to your living room (or even better - the cinema), what you need is a tight 90 minute escape served up by a masterful filmmaker. Steven Soderbergh may have released the perfect example of this earlier this year. Michael Fassbender,  Black Bag . Black Bag stars Michael Fassbender as George Woodhouse, a spy tasked with finding the traitor within his intelligence organisation and preventing said defector from releasing the top-secret software programme named “Severus”. Early in the film, George gathers the five suspects at his home for a dinner party. They include Naomi Harris as the in-house Psychiatrist, Zoe, RegĂ©-Jean Page as the newly promoted James, Marisa Abela as the younger, naive Clarissa and Tom Burke as the outspoken Freddie. To make the dinner more interesting, the four guests are made up of two couples and have their relationships scrutinised by George at the table. To make the dinner even more interesti...