Man on the big screen

A big screen bouquet this week on CW. Editor Dolan Cummings reviews HBO’s latest series, In Treatment, and argues it shows both a profound distrust of old authorities coupled with a palpable desperation for new ones. Mark Carrigan looks at a remake of The edge of darkness and finds it offers a dark new reading of an old theme, constructing a self-doubting detective protagonist who ultimately finds redemption in death rather than through conventional forms of justice. And from detectives to spies, as Madrid’s Robert Latona explores a new Spanish film on the man who (maybe) saved the Allies during WWII, concluding it takes two to make a deception.

Meanwhile, Sharmini Brookes is impressed by the unpatronising opening of the BBC’s world in wonder, which focuses on the demise of the comforting platitudes of Newtonian physics, explaining how chaos exists in the natural world, and was organised at the beginnings of the universe to create life its very self.

4 February 2010