Young Philby

Young PhilbyOne midnight in January in the early 1960s, the Russian freighter Domatova quietly slipped out of Beirut harbour. The ship had sailed with a single passenger on board: an Englishman named Harold Adrian Russell Philby, nicknamed Kim. He had fled the Lebanese capital with little more than the clothes on his back. The Englishman had used editions of James Hilton's "Lost Horizon" for enciphering purposes (page, line and letter number) when he communicated

Life just isn't fair

While the town sheriff tries to get to the bottom of the matter

her grumpy grandpop

mesmerizing novel of metamorphosis and self-realization - of looking beyond all that is visible towards the infinite

being aware of our own bias

Isaac Robles

And as we see hallowed ground coughing up bullets at a Civil War battlefield

Riley and her best guy friend

But as they begin to dream the American dream of self-invention

believing he could never hope to give a better performance in a better film

often influential bursts of art and knowledge - to digest

He has little patience with Maxine's prattle